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Trumpeter Swans

Pileated Woodpecker

Great Blue Heron




2&3 are Cedar Hill birds!

The swans are beautiful!!!

But what do you call the 3rd bird??
I think it's a white hueron!!! :p


Weezie

Beautiful shots Bill!

Sorry about the error with the Heron picture... (The red X might have been paying him back for all of my goldfish he dined on last summer!) You should be able to view it now.

A woodpecker is drilling in a tree doesn't necessarily mean the limb is dead! I'm no expert on Woody, but I do know that woodpeckers will drill holes into a live tree intentionally to cause it to bleed sap which in turn attracts bugs which get stuck in the muck. The woodpecker will return regularly to harvest the bugs he's trapped!

Thanx for fixing the last pix....

We have white egrets....huge birdies....had one land in the front yard....cats sure wanted outside when they saw it walking REAL close to the front door.

Thanx for the info on Mr. Woody! Need to trim that limb but sure didn't want to remove the whole thing. We have a type of wood pecker here that carves out holes in the old oak trees and literally stuffs those acorns inside the limb....they will make these holes up and down all the limbs and trunk within 1 inch of each other. After I get my digital I will take some pix. It is quite amazing!!!

The egrets here go after people's Koi fish....they have to build those ponds pretty deep for the fish to get away from the big birds.

Catlover, we had snowy egrets and blue herons in Oceanside. They also would go after the teeny little mallard babies after they hatched.