Bird Pictures!

[Chickerdoodle13]

Just wanted to put up some pictures I took today while birdwatching with friends. This time I had a MUCH better camera and I was actually able to get decent pictures of birds! We saw some really neat ones!

Mating bugs

Purple flowers

Mysterious bug with AWESOME colors!

Comorant

Geese

Night Heron (I think that's what he was)

Flying birds

Tern (These guys were sooo tricky to photograph!)

Flying great white egrets

Great white

Some other type of egret

Awesome little merlin we saw

 

[theOEGBman]

Awesome pics, Lauren!

I love the last pic, he looks intrigued, haha.

 

[Tiramisu]

Those pics look good. I like the first two the most, the lights and shadows give depth to the pics. I love bird watching too, but have hardly gone anywhere the last few years. Yesterday we had a yellow rumped warbler, a flock of cedar waxwings, and a woody it was either a flicker or a yellow bellied sap sucker.

 

[Mahonri]

What?

No chicken pics?

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

Thanks everyone! I did find out that the smaller of the two egrets is a snowy egret.

Mohonri, If I was home, you would probably be seeing a LOT more chicken pictures! Here at college, I have no chickens to take pictures of :-( So instead I take pictures of the natural wildlife in our area.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

I was also able to identify the spotted insect above as some type of moth, but the name escapes me at the moment! It is beautiful with it's wings open.

 

[Kanchii]

I love the pics! The last one I imagine him saying "I has a foot!"

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

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is that what kind of heron that is? theres one that hangs out at the creek at the farm, it never stays still long enough for any good pics!

 

[mom2jedi]

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is that what kind of heron that is? theres one that hangs out at the creek at the farm, it never stays still long enough for any good pics!

It's actually a Great Blue Heron. We have tons of those around here. They're beautiful! The night heron is a much more compact bird, more like the snowy egret.

 

[Easter_pink_silkies]

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Oh wow, we probubly have alot around here too, but id like to think its the same bird fishing the creeks every morning, i can never sneak up on him!

Chickerdoodle13, how did you ever get so close to those beautiful birds?