Got any bird pics?

[Wadin' Boot]

Tidal Stilly today

 

[Ernie]

 

[Kilchis]

Great Blue

 

[Bajema]

Went out birding this morning looking for a couple birds and while they weren’t at the first place I went I found them at the second spot.

Short-billed Dowitcher (and a couple killdeer)

Semipalmated Plover

 

[Tim Cottage]

Robin with a praying mantis

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Nighthawks
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Interesting to see those big eyes close to a small slit in daylight.

 

[Cabezon]

I was up in the San Juans around the 4th and managed to capture some nice shots of a pigeon guillemot. Like other alcids, they are hole nesters but can use the infrastructure under docks and WS ferry terminals as pseudo-holes for nest sites.

Here, the bird is scanning below the surface. It is an interesting trick to have eyes that can form sharp images both in water and in air because of the very different refractive indices of water vs. air.


Steve

 

[Cabezon]

Glaucous-winged gulls, the top gull in the Salish Sea. The adults are quite striking.

Steve

 

[adamcu280]

Kittlitz's, Tufted Puffins, Horned Puffins, an eagle with a salmon, and some other stuff.

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Black Legged Kittiwakes and bubble net feeding humpbacks and other stuff.

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[Kilchis]

Red winged blackbird, female.

 

[Cabezon]

This pair of bald eagles patrol the southern end of San Juan Island from Cattle Point to Eagle Point.

They are infamous for stealing rabbits that have been captured by red foxes at the South Beach prairie in American Camp.

These interactions have been photographed at least twice by the "Foxarazzi".
Steve

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

Local immature female eagle

+one for the love of crazy looking immature eagles @Wadin' Boot

 

[Gyrfalcon22]

Waxwing near the currant bush


Another look at the big female eagle. Males don't have a big beak like she does. Serious crunch power on her.

Below: looks like a true "balding" eagle?






Osprey with Largescale sucker (middle) and a Peamouth in other shots I think

 

[Ash]

I came across this male gang-gang cockatoo when out for a run recently. Near Canberra, Australia.

 

[Wadin' Boot]

Near Canberra, Australia.

that's my old stomping grounds...man do I miss the calls of magpies and currawongs.

 

[Jim F.]

that's my old stomping grounds...man do I miss the calls of magpies and currawongs.

Had to look up Currawongs . . . thanks for the education, Boot! Must be Aussie for "Crow" . . . I rather like that version.

 

[Buzzy]

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Local immature female eagle

+one for the love of crazy looking immature eagles @Wadin' Boot

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Amazing pics! Wow, thanks!

 

[SilverFly]

2nd time I've spotted a Kestrel this summer. It was maybe 50' away sitting on a fence post when I first saw it.

 

[Kilchis]

Pacific Golden Plover

 

[tkww]

I've seen Swainson's around town before, and even occasionally cruising the neighborhood. But this is the first time I've seen them come in and land next to water. (This happened with the heat wave several days ago, but has resumed in the last couple days.)

 

[Stonedfish]