ENTER! Misc Av Contest: For The Birds

[auntiehill]

This week's contest is all about birds--any picture of a bird native to your AREA, STATE, CITY, COUNTRY, etc. No art work or media allowed. They can be images from the internet or ones you took yourself. No animated gifs, please.

Standard av rules apply: 150x150 pixels, 140 KB max. The poll will go up on Wednesday, the 20th, or thereabouts.

Here's mine, a bird that I see around my home in South Texas rather frequently--the snowy egret.

 

[Ghost07]

OH! How nice...can't wait to see these entries...

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Here's a shot I took in Central Park, back in February, of a cardinal against a new-fallen snow:

 

[auntiehill]

I love cardinals.

 

[Avro Arrow]

- Blue jay

(I cannot take credit for the photo; I found it online.)

 

[Greylock Crescent]

^ love blue jays ... and, as harsh as the sound might be, I genuinely love their calls, too. Unfortunately, I've yet to get a really great shot of one of them. Maybe someday (I did spend about four years hunting for a good cardinal shot) ...

 

[RJDiogenes]

Egrets? I've had a few.

I've not had much luck with wildlife photography, but I think I can dig something up.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Alcedo atthis - also known as kingfisher.

Not my own photo, had to pull it from the internet.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Egrets? I've had a few.

I hate you.


I'm not much of a photographer, so I had to pull this one from the webs. But it's propably the most common bird around here, I see those every day. On occasion, one of them even strolls into our shop. It's the house sparrow.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana), also known as the "Blue Shanks" for its long blueish-grey legs is a wader which can be found breeding here at the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in Huntington Beach, California, among other marshes and wetlands around North America. It has a very long migratory range from as far north as Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan in Canada to lakes and marshes in the midwest US to the Pacific Coast from Canada down to southern Mexico. Males and females take turns incubating the eggs in the nest, which is usually on an island or bog that's difficult for predators to reach. The young feed themselves from birth with their long curved beaks. The American avocet has had protected status since 1918.

 

[BigJake]

The crow is of course native to many areas and regions, but mine is one of them.

A murder thereof, because why stop at just one.

 

[scotpens]

To paraphrase Brian Wilson, "I wish they all could be California gulls!"

(Sorry about that.)

They're like teenagers -- they like to hang out around shopping malls and they'll eat practically anything.

 

[Greylock Crescent]

The crow is of course native to many areas and regions, but mine is one of them.

A murder thereof, because why stop at just one.

That's a fantastic image.

 

[HIjol]

Egrets? I've had a few.

I've not had much luck with wildlife photography, but I think I can dig something up.

EXcellent! Well played, sir!

I will post shortly. Lovely
Thread idea, auntie !

 

[RJDiogenes]

Egrets? I've had a few.

I hate you.

To paraphrase Brian Wilson, "I wish they all could be California gulls!"

(Sorry about that.)

Welcome to the hate list. Have a seat.

Egrets? I've had a few.

I've not had much luck with wildlife photography, but I think I can dig something up.

EXcellent! Well played, sir!

Thanks.

 

[HIjol]

The Scarlet Tanager

 

[HIjol]

I hope the size of my Tanager is not ill-eagle! It is sometimes a bird-en to get the correct size, but I know that it is a cardinal rule.

Thank you!

I'll be nesting here all week!

 

[Greylock Crescent]

Those puns are, truly, fowl.

 

[HIjol]

Those puns are, truly, fowl.

ha HA!!!...soooooooo...it's true!...toucan play at that game!

Truth to tell, I was just winging it!

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

Here is my entry a picture I took last summer.
One of the bald eagles from Decorah, Iowa.