Bird ID

[grammafreddy]

Male House Finch

Yellow-rumped Warbler

There was also one Canada Goose and a whole herd of Mallards.

Was a great spur-of-the-moment stop on my way home today!

[grammafreddy]

Was out shooting today. Got a couple I don't know for sure what they are.

Cooper's or Sharp-shinned Hawk?

Bird #1

[grammafreddy]

Here's the second bird ... am hoping Dick is monitoring this thread now

Again - a hawk? Juvie (yellow eyes)?? Cooper's or ??

This one was in a patch of weeds close to the ground. It looked snagged in them and was not moving. It's wing looked broken and I thought it was dead. I watched it for quite a while looking just like this before I decided to get a closer look.

It let me get to within 5 feet of it before it broke its stare and turned to look at me. But it didn't fly away until I tried to get a step closer, then it just lifted off easily.

You can see from the air shot that its wing doesn't look right.

[dickcannings]

Grammafreddy: The first hawk is a young red-tailed (they don't have red tails); the second one looks like a young Sharp-shinned. It's obviously lost a few primary feathers on one wing.

[Glacier]

Nice pictures, grammafreddy!

Dick, I enjoyed reading the write-up on you and your son in British Columbia Magazine!

[grammafreddy]

Thanks, Dick. I sure do appreciate your expertise!

How's that young pup of yours doing? He's a very impressive fella!

Was the article in a recent issue of BC Magazine?

[dickcannings]

Yes, the spring issue of British Columbia magazine has a feature on birding in it.

[prairieflower]

Grosbeaks are awesome birds. We get the evening grosebeaks in our yard up in Glenrosa and we enjoy them, but daum do they clean us out of seed. They tend to flock and start with 2 then 4 then double abd triple.

[grammafreddy]

I get both the Evening Grosbeak and the Black-headed Grosbeak up here in Paradise. The BH one is a lot more shy than the Evening ones and there's not so many of them. But yeah, they sure can eat!

[just popping in]

Had my first tiny hummingbird slurping at the feeder today, so beautiful to see!

[Glacier]

I keep seeing this duck couple floating down Vernon Creek. Is the white duck also a mallard?



Also, the other day, I saw these ducks. What kind are they?


another look at two of them:

[grammafreddy]

They look to be domestic ducks rather than wild ones.

I read somewhere that the only original ducks were the Mallard and the Muscovy and that all other breeds came from them. Don't know how true that is but I do know that ducks don't seem too racist and will pair up with just about any other kind. At Chichester there was a Wood Duck drake with a female Mallard who were kinda cute.

[flamingfingers]

Oh sigh... Just saw a bird out in a tree - too far to get a pic but looked at it through the binoculars:

It was about double the size of a robin, had a dull orangey colored head, spots on its breast, dark bars on the back and wings and under the wings there was a tinge of orange. But the striking part was an absolutely coal black V on its throat/chest, almost identical to where the wishbone would be. It formed a completely filled in V-shape from its throat to what would be the beginning of the breast bone (keel bone). Any hints?

[grammafreddy]

Did it look like this?

This is a Northern Flicker - a member of the woodpecker family.

[flamingfingers]

Ah, yes! That is what it is GF. Thanks!