1. Turkey vulture, Carpinteria CA.
2. Pelicans, Carpinteria CA.
3. Red-naped Sapsucker, Great Sand Dunes CO.
4. Raven, Great Sand Dunes CO.
5. Turkey vulture, Rio Grande del Norte NM.

1. Wild turkeys, Great Smoky Mtns TN.
2. Golden eagle, Poison Spider Mesa UT.

I had lots of visitors to my birdfeeder in Virginia which was on the deck. Some days there was a major party going on. Photos were taken through the window (Canon T3i, most are using the 75-200mm zoom lens). Apart from the eagle which was snapped in Whittier, Alaska.

And some more

Your first photo (top left) is great!! Really shows the looong tongue of the northern Flicker. Woodpeckers have astonishingly long tongues, the better to grab bugs & grubs, but you don't see many photos showing them... Well done!

We get 5 different types of woodpecker on the feeders at our lounge window including the big Pileated. Awaiting the return of hummingbirds, orioles, Grosbeaks, Indigo Buntings - and herons and kingfishers in the pond - though they might have got all the fish last year

adding a Pileated and a Titmouse

thanks - it was a complete fluke! I just put the camera on 'burst' setting, hold down the shutter and weed out the best photos.

I think its the most attractive of the birds that visited my deck - even more than the ruby-throated hummingbirds that called. Lovely markings.

I agree about the Flickers. I love their beautiful markings.

I have yet to see a hummingbird, even though I put up the hummingbird feeder a few weeks ago and refill it regularly. Hummingbirds have been reported in my area for a while now. Something is emptying the feeder, but I never manage to see who exactly...LOL! I've been told woodpeckers could be doing it ... with those clever loong tongues of theirs. Also Baltimore orioles--we do have some of those about. Or bees... ?

Next spring I'll move the hummingbird feeder closer to the window.

This is a lovely thread for me.
I go away for the long weekend and come back to find all this.


Birdies !

This Fella turned up in the back yard yesterday. Had him eating out of my hand after he posed here.

Here are a couple of larger birds on the pond down the hill from us. Now that the ice has melted they're back....

Rose Throated Grosbeak back in Michigan after its winter vacation

Bird listening:

I've been hearing a cuckoo the last few days

they've arrived in MI