Post your birds (2)

[nikonpup]

white sandy beach, my tailfeathers.

 

[Kevin H]

Female Cardinal

 

[photogramps]

A Water Rail peeping out from the reeds.





and doing the ice-walk!

 

[Kevin H]

Red-Bellied Woodpecker

 

[Michael J.]

white??

 

[Kevin H]

Male Cardinal

 

[Alan]

Have not been out to shoot for a long time (long story) but did get a few minutes to go to the lake today. Chased this one all around the place.

 

[Alan]

Think this is a Hybrid between a Snow Goose and a Canada Goose.

 

[Kevin H]

Think this is a Hybrid between a Snow Goose and a Canada Goose.


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Called a Blue Goose colour morph of a snow goose

 

[Alan]

Called a Blue Goose colour morph of a snow goose

I thought that was a possibility but the birders on another site are about 85% in favor that it is not because it has the wrong size and color bill and should not have that all white tail. I told them that I thought it was another nice photo for my collection.
Should get a DNA sample.....

 

[Kevin H]

I thought that was a possibility but the birders on another site are about 85% in favor that it is not because it has the wrong size and color bill and should not have that all white tail. I told them that I thought it was another nice photo for my collection.
Should get a DNA sample.....

Peterson's field guide shows point on what you got page 45
Yea it should be a pink bill but might be a juvi

Is it a Canada Goose or a Cackling goose in the pic Snow geese are the same size a a Cackling goose I cant enlarge your pics

Here's Rosses Geese with Canada geese there smaller than Snow geese look how big the mallards look



and a snow goose with Canada's



Might be camera angle making them seem bigger but no doubt its a Blue goose in my mind

 

[PapaST]

A few I caught over the last few days. The shrike is an interesting bird that I didn't know about. Apparently it uses thorns to impale its food.

BM7_3808 by BMalinis, on Flickr

BM7_3758 by BMalinis, on Flickr

BM7_3479 by BMalinis, on Flickr

BM7_3136 by BMalinis, on Flickr

 

[Kevin H]

This guy just loves to have his Pic taken

 

[Marilynne]

Need some shade honey?

 

[RON_RIP]

Is that what they call it now? so hard to keep up when you get old.

 

[oldsalt]

 

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[oldsalt]

Sorry - I should have said - this is a "Wattlebird" - Scientific name "Anthochaera"

 

[Stoshowicz]

I thought that was a possibility but the birders on another site are about 85% in favor that it is not because it has the wrong size and color bill and should not have that all white tail. I told them that I thought it was another nice photo for my collection.
Should get a DNA sample.....

Nifty bird, if you got the DNA that would be neat .... when it comes to hybrids I think folk can get a bit speculative though , Im seeing some pix that look a lot like your bird, barnacle goose x snow , and some variations in blue snow geese that arent considered hybrid, which seem to show little contrast between flanks and the folded wing. So I'd suspect it might be the hybrid they think ,, but It might not be, for one thing , the tail itself doesn't look all white to me,, the size would depend on what that other goose IS, some of the cackling-canada geese can be pretty small ( which is what the other goose appears to be to me ) , I know if I had seen it , I'dve said it was a blue goose. I agree , that's a fun one to keep.