MillieF

Oh thank you Siouxie...I will definitely look at this link. We must be inundated with woodpeckers as I hear them all the time. I do see a number when walking the dog and they aren't at all shy. I see the same one as Bristol, but according to 'The Lone Pine Nature Guide to Atlantic Canada' we only get The Downy Woodpecker, The Black Backed Woodpecker and the Pileated Woodpecker, none of which looks like Bristol's.

MillieF

Thank you too Bristol. We had something that sounded similar and my neighbour told me they were Eastern Kingbirds. I'm really going to try to get to know more about the birds that come through here this year.

BristolUK

I googled those. Too much white, not enough of a body too big for head.

I found something called a ruffed grouse and some of the pictures have the right sort of shape but colouring is not even close.

Teaandtoday5

Thank you Siouxie and Bristol. I will definitely try those!

Piff Poff

Why are there so many geese this year and is it a late migration?

BristolUK

I've heard plenty in the area around our back yard but this is the first Mourning Dove I've seen - it landed on the deck rail just outside the window.

Feathers all ruffled in the wind.

(stock photo - just a coincidence also on deck rails)

Bob

Briarcliff Photography – I primarily photograph birds, wild animals, and other nature scenes in Westchester County, NY.

A friend recently set this site up. Photo's mostly from her back garden, but some fantastic birds.

Stinkypup

Nice photos

I am in the school of don't watermark, it ruins the photos, especially right in the middle of the photo. If someone wants to nab the photo, they will easily do it even if you watermark the photo.

Bob

That was my thought. Just don't put up a high quality image.

As for water marks, all school trick, convert image to lab colours, water mark it, then convert back to RGB or whatever you had it. Watermark won't be visible, but if someone used the image, chances are, they wouldn't have looked for it this way, so if they used it commercially, you could convert back to lab colours and see the watermark as proof it was your image.

Bob

Out and about, caught a couple of Cardinals and a Blue Jay.

Blue Jay, bit of a knob to photo though. I've got some amazing shots of his bottom, as he ducked out of all the great shots.

BristolUK

We've had blue jays swooping across the garden and the black capped chickadees have reappeared.

And the usual crows of course.

bats

The osprey are back

Bob

Managed to catch a pic of a wild turkey and a blue heron earlier today

Times like this though, would have been nice to have a automatic lens for the flying birds. Spot tricky doing everything in manual mode, but the Mamiya lens still rocks, even if it's from the late 60's.

BristolUK

The novelty of Hummingbirds at the hanging basket just the other side of the window has not worn off.

Nice green tint to one just now.

Had a new bird here the other day. White body, black wings with lots of white specks, like flicked paint. Haven't been able to identify it

bats

Any red on it?