post pictures of wild birds that have visited your yard!!!!!!!********

[Bear Foot Farm]

Baby Barn Swallows

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

Great Egret

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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UH-OH!!! You chipped the paint on your nail!

 

[Equest94]

I haven't really seen anything "too cool" at my house. We get plenty of pretty finches, cardinals, blue jays, hummingbirds, etc. We also had some kind of crane and wood ducks in our pond, but unfortunately I was never able to get pictures of any of those.


We did have a family of Canadian Geese that nested on our pond a few summers ago. We named them Gus and Petunia. Of course, like any geese, they were territorial and aggressive, but for some reason they really liked me. Gus would let me sit near Petunia while she was nesting, he'd come over to me and eat bread that I brought them, he would even join me on walks around my yard, but anyone or anything else - he would go after. Everyone joked around and said he was my personal guard/attack goose, lol.

They ended up laying 7 eggs - 3 eggs slipped into the pond during a bad storm and 'froze.' The remaining 4 hatched; however, 3 babies were picked off by what we think were raccoons. One baby did survive and it was the cutest thing ever. Once it hatched I cut off my connection to them, but I did snap a few pictures...unfortunately it was with a film camera and I never got around to scanning those shots in...


Gus and Petunia ended up paying us a visit this past summer:

I called out to them and sure enough Gus came waddling over. I left some bread out for them, but my food-obessed chickens actually shooed them away and ate what was left... lol

 

[fowltemptress]

We have several photos, but the hummingbirds are the only ones who agree to be photogenic.

 

[xxSonja]

ok i couldnt get a picture of the actual bird i saw, but when i was doing some gardening one morning a few years ago when i lived in Cairns, QLD, Australia one of these came walking into our unfenced yard....Its a Cassowary, they get to over 6feet tall, and are so darn scary up close!
again, this isnt my picture but you get the point:

 

[ChOOkens]

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Wow, that would have been scary!
I saw one at a zoo, it was fenced but it was constantly trying to escape towards my direction.
Apparently they are very dangerous birds
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They are aweosme.
I like this thread, especially the hummingbirds! They are just so cute.

 

[blue fire]

xxSonja I believe that might be the scariest kind of bird I have ever seen!

We will get these little green finches here around summer time, don't have pics though. There are just cardinals flying about now. I was at my grandmothers house in Nashville and found two lost baby owls. I took them to a rehab place. I learned that day that Owl poo is the WORST smell in the world

 

[Mattemma]

I have feeders set up by my living room window.Have seen cardinal.blue jay,gold finch,chickadee,nuthatch,titmouse,and various wood pecker.I just have a shot of a wood pecker right now.Unfortunately I get HOSP,starling,and crows too.

 

[lcw]

OK EVERYBODY IT DONT MATTER WHAT KIND OF BIRD IT IS,,,,FINCH,CARDINAL,BLUEJAY,WHAT EVER IT DONT MATTER. THEY CAN BE ORDINARY OR THEY CAN BE SPECTACULAR. POST ALL THE PICTURES YOU GOT, THIS THREAD IS GREAT AND I LOVE TO LOOK AT PICTURES OF WILD BIRDS!!!! POST ALL THE PICTURES YOU WANT. THATS WHAT THIS THREAD IS FOR!!!! HAVE FUN AND GO WILD!!!!!I DONT CARE!!!! THERES NO LIMIT.