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Saturday, September 06, 2008

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:46:43 GMT

The deer that were in our backyard!

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:44:48 GMT

A hawk in our backyard. I don't know what kind it is though.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:54:30 GMT

A mama deer in our backyard.

The fawn.

The antics of a wren.

A squirrel poking his nose out of a hole in a tree.

A goldfinch.

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:53:13 GMT

A movie of a Pileated Woodpecker that I took a while ago. Sorry about the shakiness. :)

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:22:55 GMT

We went up to Grayson County, VA last week, and hiked up in the Grayson Highlands State Park, and went a little bit on the Appalachian Trail. Here are a couple pictures from that.

A Christmas tree farm we walked through. (They were all over the place).

Mountain Laurel.

Rhododendron.

Some sort of bee nest.

The rocks sticking up out of the mountain side.

Petunias (in a pot).

Some sort of dragon fly.

A Vulture.

One of the many wild ponies up there.

A bird's nest. (I think it was a wren).

The eggs!

An Eastern Towhee. (They were all over the place!)

Some mountains off in the distance.

A robin.

A sort of tunnel that we went through along the trail.

A full moon.

A hummingbird on the petunias.

A rabbit.

Pilot Mountain.

A swallowtail butterfly.

And a box turtle.

Friday, June 13, 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:37:29 GMT

Congrats Kent and Alyssa!!! They were married last Saturday. Now I have four sisters! (and a married brother!)

Here are a couple pictures of the birds I saw in Idaho when we went there for the wedding.

A California Quail.

A Rufous-sided Towhee.

See his red eyes?

A female House finch.

Some Canada Geese on the Palouse River.

Another Quail.

A black-chinned hummingbird.

A Rufous-sided Towhee (again).

A Bluebird (western, I think).

A Rufous Hummingbird.

A Robin.

The Palouse River.

A Great-horned owl.

Two white-tailed deer. (A buck and a doe).

The tops of the clouds (taken out the window of the airplane on the trip home).

You can barely see the ground in this picture.

A Magpie.

And another came to join him.

A different Rufous hummingbird.

Another hummingbird.

A female red-winged blackbird.

A Pheasant.

And an Idaho sunset.

I saw a yellow-headed blackbird for the first time too but I didn't have my camera with me so I didn't get a picture of it.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Fri, 30 May 2008 23:10:25 GMT

A rose from my rose bush.

A house finch.

A goldfinch.

I don't know what kind of bird this is. He was just sitting in the middle of the road.

An old, rotten tree. :)

I think this is a brown thrasher, but I'm not sure.

These are the first brown-headed cowbirds I've got a picture of!

A bird (I don't know what kind) with a worm in its mouth.

I don't know what kind of bird this is.

A mockingbird.

I don't know what bird this one is either.

Probably a brown thrasher again.

Don't know about this one.

A goldfinch.

The same magnolia blossom, but opening even further.

A blackberry flower. The tomatoes are getting flowers on them also.

A cardinal.

And another cardinal too.

A squirrel

hunting for nuts.

And another female cardinal.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Thu, 22 May 2008 23:55:55 GMT

I think he's bored.

A female goldfinch.

Three yellow ones. The bottom is a female, the top two are males.

A Canada Goose.

One of the horses on the horse farm.

A Carolina Wren. A couple seconds after I took this pictures, he fluffed up his feathers even more, and whizzed off, looking like a fluffy ball riding through the air.

A different one.

The bird hanging upside down on the bottom of the feeder is a Chickadee.

And now he's eating. (Five birds on the feeder at one time, that's the record). :)

A woodthrush!

The magnolia bud, opening now.

And this is one of the funniest pair of house finches I've seen.

(I think she lost her seed.)

The female flew away, and a male goldfinch came to join the male house finch.

That's all. I'm trying to upload a movie of a Wood thrush singing, and a Pileated woodpecker pecking on a fallen tree, but I don't know if they'll work.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Sun, 18 May 2008 01:40:39 GMT

The bird below is a Tufted titmouse, but I don't know why it doesn't have the tuft.

Here's another woodthrush! I got better pictures of him this time. From the side, not just from below like last time.

Some Canada geese.

All six of them.

A groundhog that I saw in the woods the other day. I saw another snake too, but he ran under a log before I could turn on my camera.

A squirrel running around in the periwinkle.

A cardinal, with his crest looking like an Indian headdress.

A magnolia bud.

An Eastern Phoebe.

"Sorry, I'm nearsighted. Could you do that again?"

Some sort of lizard or salamander.

The irises are blooming!

"I think I'll go check my mail." (A white-breasted nuthatch.)

Friday, May 09, 2008

Fri, 09 May 2008 01:58:55 GMT

I saw a wild Turkey today for the first time around the house!

There were some Canada Geese around too.

Then some more flew over and from the other side of the horse farm.

And they each took turns walking past the Turkey and saying hello.

Each goose in these next pictures is a different one!

This is the first Gray Catbird I've seen, heard or taken pictures of.

The Gray Catbird looks exactly like a mockingbird, except they're a little smaller, and the coloring is different.

You can tell the similarities to the mockingbird best in this pictures. Especially the tail, ends of the wings (the way they poke out instead of folding back tightly on the back) and the beak, at least that's what it looks like to me. :)
And that's all!