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Showing posts with label Hermit Thrush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hermit Thrush. Show all posts

Friday, November 6, 2015

The Wee Little Birds and Some ID Help Needed~


Happy first week in November...
But oh my goodness, where did this year flee so quickly off to?  
Did I miss it? 
I had said that I would be sharing more Cedar Waxwings, as well as I want to share some European Starling images, but this week, I needed to go ahead and squeak these wee little birds through as I don't want too many Autumnal image shares to fall into the Winter starkness and get me all confused,  and befuddled any more than I am ;)
OK, so I know most of these wee birds, but some came to Tingsgrove to pay a quick visit and I want to make sure I have them with their good identification.  
Sparrows and Warblers, they all look so much alike and I get all confused...huge sigh!
Thank you to anyone who can help me with this~

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after you have read the narratives~

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Stewart for:
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Is this not the cutest, sweetest little bird! 
I know it is a Warbler, but just not sure which one.
It may be one that I will try an ID below but I promise I have looked in my NWF Field Guide to Birds and I am just not sure.
UPDATE 11/10/15
I met Brian Davis one day out on a snow covered field looking at some beautiful Snow Buntings that had come for a visit in our area.  He is a fellow birder with a lot more experience with identification than I do and he has identified this beauty as  first year Black-throated Green Warbler.  It just has not developed it's black bib yet~




I think that from the millions of leaves that will fall... I found the perfect one ;)



One day this beauty was flitting around, gathering some nutrition and then gone.  It reminded me of a Tanager that came around before, but it may also be a visiting Warbler, or maybe a real surprise~
I think that both Eileen Wise and Brian Davis got this one for me...
It is a Summer Tanager.  
Thank you both~




  Only these two images were taken of a Black and White Warbler.  
Now that was fairly easy ;)~




OK my best guess for this little one would be Pine Warbler.  If that is what it is, then this would maybe be my first time to see one, not certain~

Eileen Hildt Wise...Viewing nature with Eileen is thinking more on the lines of 
Magnolia Warbler for this little beauty.  If so that is also new for me here.  
Brian Davis agreed totally with Eileen's guess for this little female Magnolia Warbler.
Thank you both~



A Maple tree leaf fell into the grasp of a large Oak tree leaf, and the sun's glow, showed it to me~


The only image of the wee one on the left and I believe the one on the right is the same wee bird that I began this post with~


Not sure about the wee one on the left. other than once again most probably a visiting Warbler.  
As for the one on the right, I am thinking that once the post introduction bird has an ID then that is what this one is too.
Brian Davis has identified these two little beauties.  
The one on the left is a female Black-throated Green Warbler and the one on the right is the male, as seen in top four images as well~


More autumnal colours on my land and I used a touch of HDR with a few, just for fun~


OK, hmm let me guess, the perfect clue...it's rump...a Yellow-Rumped Warbler, sweet~





The wee bird below is really, really small and it is a Ruby Crowned Kinglet, and the third image is certainly wild feather on left~




Thank you wee one for turning your head so I can see that beautiful crown of yours...a Golden Crowned Kinglet
Now these I knew, but had them backwards, but thank you to Brian Davis, for straightening me out ;) ~


This bird was eating Honeysuckle berries and came in and left from behind the bush.  I only got these two images.  Maybe a Thrush, has a light yellowing under the tail feathers.
Update on this little one as well. 
Brian Davis is thinking that this is a Hermit Thrush
Brian, and Eileen, many thanks to each of you for helping me learn about new birds that I have seen~




















Thursday, December 8, 2011

Needing Some Help Here~

Something has gone terribly wrong with my banner image...ugh...it got way small on it's own...I had done nothing to change anything!  I deleted the little image, that had been large until this afternoon, and went to upload it again and I cannot find it in my thousands of images stored.  I then decided to upload another image and have done so several times and they are all way too small...  I went to the "help" pages and I did exactly what they said, but part of what they say should be on the html edit page, is also not there...so I am stuck and have no clue as to how to remedy this situation...

The second thing that I give up on, is trying to ID the last bird in this post.  All of these had come to the same Honeysuckle bush...why...I do not know, for there are only a couple of berries left on it, so they must have come so that I could enjoy their beauty, which I most certainly did.  I then went to my trusty field guide and tried to locate this bird.  It was smaller than a Thrush, it was about the same size as the Dark-eyed Junco. 

 Any help would be most appreciated on one, or both reasons given for this post title~

* Thank you so much Dominic Gendron...a sweet new little bird for me...yeah...

Hermit Thrush