Feeding Wild Birds

[ValerieJ]

Red-winged Blackbird female

Such great photos!!!

 

[R2elk]

Such great photos!!!

Thank you.

 

[alinas2010]

This finch with a really pretty pattern on his head keeps visiting

 

[R2elk]

Uninvited guests

 

[OneMountainAcres]

I wasn't quite sure what this guy was but he made me laugh at work yesterday

 

[sourland]

Uninvited guests

There was a hen colored like the left hand bird running with a wild flock at a beagle club in RI.

 

[R2elk]

There was a hen colored like the left hand bird running with a wild flock at a beagle club in RI.

Narragansetts came from a wild Bronze mutation. There is only one color gene difference between Narragansett turkeys and Bronze turkeys. The Narragansett gene is the only difference.

It is also a sex linked gene in that the hens only have one copy of the gene to cause the results to be displayed. The toms need two copies of the gene to display the trait. You can't look at a Bronze tom and tell if he is carrying the hidden recessive Narragansett gene if he is heterozygous.

 

[ValerieJ]

I wasn't quite sure what this guy was but he made me laugh at work yesterday

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Looks like a crane. Not sure which one.

 

[R2elk]

Looks like a crane. Not sure which one.

My guess is that it is a Cormorant.

 

[ValerieJ]

My guess is that it is a Cormorant.

Oh yeah. Could be. They look a lot like cranes to me. We get blue cranes and cormorants on our river. They all sit on logs and "sun bathe" just like that photo.