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I was initially going to call this post "favourites of mine", but I soon realized that all the animals or birds that I see become favourites of mine. I suppose I glory in nature. I was also going to call it " Sparrows of the Vermilon", but I hold that one until the wild sunflowers, smaller than the domestic variety, in my garden go to seed. They're growing now and will soon be ready. When they're ready, I bait the whole area with seeds and see what shows up. Last year I got a great collection of sparrows, and I hope it works again this year. So that explains my current title.
Having said that here is a selection of sparrows.
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| Tree Sparrow. |
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| Tree Sparrow |
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| White-throated Sparrow. |
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| Whit-throated Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow |
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| Song Sparrow Signing his Heart Out. |
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| Male Goldfinch. |
The Dark-eyed Junco should be with the sparrows as he is actually a sparrow. They've left me now and moved further north to the boreal forest.
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| Dark-eyed Junco |
As I said earlier I have seen more Yellow-rumped Warblers this year, and this fellow is perservering in a wind storm, singing nevertheless.
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler. |
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| Male Purple Finch. |
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| Robin |
I never tire of the Robin who wakes Boom & I in the morning. I think this fellow looks especially majestic.
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Certainly this Grackle looks slightly mad.
The Buffleheads below are new to me. They're named "Bufflehead" Because the male's head is reminiscent of a buffalo head.
I put this post together in the new dashboard format that Blogger/Google is so proud of. It then disappears and I have to go to the old format, post a blank, and call up this post and delete the blank. Isn't Google a marvel??
A Post to WBW @
http://pineriverreview.blogspot.com.
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| Female Bufflehead. |
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| Male Bufflehead. |
they're all beauties. and i love those tree sparrow shots the best!
ReplyDeleteNice post Gary - love the robin and grackle!
ReplyDeleteThe grackle cracks me up. They always look like they carry a grudge against the world.
ReplyDeleteAll great shots. My sparrows are STILL feeding their grown young. Fun to watch since the young make such a racket to be fed even though they are flying to my feeders. Will they ever leave the parents think! LOL
ReplyDeleteGreat shots of all the birds. I have to say, you really know those little guys. I still can't tell the sparrows and warblers apart.
ReplyDeleteVery nice photo series Gary!
ReplyDeleteMy World Bird Wednesday post: Hummingbird Elegance
perfeito!
ReplyDeleteForget the title Gary these wonderful birds and your images of them say it all...
ReplyDelete"Beautiful Wildlife"
They are all wonderful shots. Very nice! You have quite a variety of birds there.
ReplyDeleteAll are wonderful!
ReplyDeleteGreat selection of birds. I like the two of the sparrow best. Good detail. Your other link today did not open for me...
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Very good series!
ReplyDeleteNice shots Gary...I always enjoy the sparrows when they come around my neck of the woods...Glad you got thru the Google trap.
ReplyDeleteLovely bird photos, we have just about all of those birds here in my part on Ontario.
ReplyDeleteGreat post and photos! I love all the different sparrows.
ReplyDeletevery nice series, Gary, I have a few Junco's coming to our camp feeder, (Bigwater campground)
ReplyDeleteclassed as a boreal forest, I believe!
That's a great collection of bird shots, Gary. And I love your opening sentence about each bird and animal you see being your favourite. I think I'm the same...LOL.
ReplyDeletegreat shots Gary. Love the shots of the buffleheads. :)
ReplyDeleteHi there - great set of shots. I like the dark eyed junco - I remember see one in a car park once - I'd have to look up where it was. I had no idea at all what it was. The local birders were helpful - but only after they had stopped laughing!
ReplyDeleteCheers Stewart M - Australia
Great portfolio! The layout makes them look like baseball cards!
ReplyDeleteLoved the buffleheads and the song sparrow living up to his name. Great series.
ReplyDeleteGary, You sure have a diverse number of sparrows in your area. Sweet captures!
ReplyDeleteI don't like the new Blogger Posting Format.:(
Great shots again Gary. That purple finch really stands out in the crowd!
ReplyDeleteA great series of photos. It's interesting to see the variety of sparrows.
ReplyDeleteAll your bird photos are great, but I have to say the tree sparrows are exceptional in their clarity...only if that damn branch wasn't in the way. Oh I know all to well about in-the-way branches and leaves. Well done.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice series of some of your "favorites" Gary! I love to hear the Robin and Song Sparrow.
ReplyDeleteA magnificent collection Gary! I see you have quite the variety of sparrows. That iridescent Grackle is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGreat shots Gary! The detail amazing! ;-)WBW
ReplyDeleteMarvellous series of great variety of birds, Gary!
ReplyDeleteA real treat to see such a variety of "Canadian" birds up close and personal here! Sparrows are such little sweeties, I find, and robins irrepresibly cheerful with their chirping song. I find it a treat to catch sight of golden finches at a certain time of the year here in New Brunswick, flying in to feed and move on elsewhere, I guess. Gackles are seriously under-rated--they are really quite beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYou have such a beautiful variety there!
ReplyDeleteLovely photos!
Wonderful images... I've not seen some of these birds myself but maybe they don't live around here. I'm especially fond of the Tree Sparrow and Yellow-rumped Warbler images... and the Dark-eyed Junco! The last is a bird that visits my garden in winter and I have tried, tried and tried again to get a decent image... VERY hard to capture in my garden! (thanks for dropping by to view my Mallard images, taken while traveling in Sweden)
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that birds by the same name here in the NE are often shaded just a wee bit differently. I noticed you didn't post any shots of my least favorite noise-maker, the English House Sparrow. Pretty but annoyingly chatty.
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