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Here is the latest picture of my friend and porch companion Northern Mockingbird, Mr. Mocky.

RUN, MOCKY, RUN!!!

I am having a fair amount of success teaching my porch-pal, Northern Mockingbird, Mr. Mocky, to sing the opening line from Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Now, If I can only teach him some table manners after eating at my suet feeders !

WIPE YOUR BILL!!!

Went to the lake today with my grandson to feed the ducks and this Canada Goose was NOT too impressed with what was on the menu.

YOUR STALE BREADCRUMBS ARE MAKING ME SICK!!!

I usually don't care much for black and white bird photographs, but I sorta liked this one when i took it.

BLACK AND WHITE

hey thornius
hope you didnt get any damage from that bad weather i just read about.
looks like the system that was supposed to hit us shifted south!

It destroyed EVERYTHING 6 miles north of my house. We got 10 minutes of heavy rain and marble sized hail, but NOTHING more than that. So far 24 people are dead within 30 miles of my house. We didn't even lose electricity here. So I will Still be giving my bird reports.

Hi Thornius! I was SO relieved to see your post and find out you were okay. I was worried when I heard that tornados hit the suburbs of Nashville.

Take care,
patches

So glad that you are ok Thorny. We have been worried about you.

I took some pictures today of some of our visitors.

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2107551253

We still dont have a field guide yet , so would anyone like to help me identify them??

Thanks!

That looks like a goldfinch to me, but I could be wrong.

I was thinking the first one was probably a Finch. But wasn't to sure of some of the others. Especially the last one. The last one was a card LOL! HE posed for me to get a shot of him from all angles before flying off LOL~!

I can't wait until I get a field guide! I think I'll order the Sibleys one from Amazon tonight.

I guess I did not look far enough. I just saw the goldfinch the first time through. I dunno what the others are at all though!

OK all you hummingbird freaks - I live in NW Florida and when the weather is this nice the hummers usually keep right on going and we don't have too many. However, here are my buddies - they now have 4 babies in the nest and are coming to the deck to feed all day long - I've never posted pics before but I'll try - Lin







Hope it works

Yeah!! It worked, but do you think those pics are too big?? Aren't they cute?

Starla, you have goldfinches, bluebirds, the brown one is a thrasher and there is a robin (the last one). Very Nice!! Lin

ooooh thank you! I bought a field guide this week (stokes... that was all they had) so I have been looking some up.

So far I have id'd the gold finches, Brown Thrasher, blue birds, and Towhee's oooh and I havent gotten a picture yet but we also have Mocking Birds YAY!


LOVE yours pic's btw!


ETA: I meant to tell you that I am originally from FL too. I grew up in Bartow Florida.

Beautiful pics Lin!!!

Lin - those are terrific pictures of a beautiful bird!
Love the colors!

Lynne

thank you, thank you, thank you, can you tell what my hobby is - I am so lucky to be able to stay home and garden, bird and take pictures--

Very lucky indeed! What kind of bird is that?

Lin, looks like I have competition. You know your birds!

Not competition, just a fellow birder. Wish I could get out more but do most of my birding from home. I have a great yard for birds though, on a lake so I get lots of neat stuff. Is this heaven? Wow, just think someday it will be even better. Lin

Triss, it's a male bluebird. He will bring the fledglings to the nest in about 15 days. When the babys get here, I'll put a pic of one of them on here.

That is very exciting! Cannot wait to see those!

Hey everyone, I have so many pictures and have never shared them with anyone so I am sort of excited. I am going to try and copy the link for my albums to this site. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do ...

http://www.imagestation.com/mypictures/