follow up from the last post.

I just found out how to add a clip to a post. Please turn off the sound when ypu watch this. The camera I used makes every souynd really high pitched or really bad. This was that woodpecker from the last post. So make sure that you turn off the sound. please

Downy woodpecker & bunting

If you look really close to this picture you may see the little Indigo bunting sitting on the wire mesh bird feeder. (the feeder on the top left.) This is not the best picture I could get but it was the best I got. The little bird stayed all week, It was very pretty. It is not often that an indigo bunting comes.












Before we left for New Mexico, my brother and I stayed here with our grandmother. When I was just getting up that morning, I heard a loud bang on the window. I ran down stairs to see what it was. There was a little male downy woodpecker laying there stunned. I picked it up in a towel and brought it to our room. When I got there my brother was sitting there reading. I said 'I have a surprise for you' I said holding the stressed woodpecker behind my back. He was amazed at the little thing. I was sure it was going to die, but when i was going to go out side with it.... It squirmed out of my hand and flew to some furniture and started pecking on it. then it flew back to us and started standing and pecking my brother! As I was about to open the window, it flew and hit the window a second time. then it noticed the open window and flew away.

New Mexico

In March my family and I went to Albuque-rque New Mexico.

These are some birds I saw in sanctuaries and lakes:

When we went to a sanctuary, we went on a small walk. While I was looking for a great horned owl nest that was said to be there, My brother told me to turn around. I had seen road runners before but this one was really special. The road runner let me walk right up to it. I took a picture and a movie. It was a beautiful little runner. I enjoyed walking up to it.

In the same place as the road runner there was a pond that had a feeding station. There where millions of mallards and wood ducks and ring necked ducks. There where also a few coots. I enjoyed watching all the birds. I also saw my first mountain chickadee there. While I was watching a lady behind me said 'Here comes a hooded merganser." I thought that she said ' Here comes a COMMON merganser.' So I was looking crazy for a big duck that was green and red and white. I did not notice the little tiny red and black and white duck paddling up. I finally noticed the little thing with its hood puffed up. It was so cute!

There where also the northern shovelers. I do not have much to say about them. We went up to look for cranes and we got shovelers. It was funny the way they would duck their beaks under water sometimes putting them upside down.

On the way back on the road My father hit a poor meadowlark with the car. It was very sad. I did enjoy studying it, but it was sad that it died so I could study it.

Florida Birds

While I was in Florida I saw around 12 new birds! I went to this part of Florida while my father was at an art show.

All this was right behind the booth.

This is a limpkin, this one was really neat to study as it broke open shells and ate the snails in them. That was the only place I ever saw them, there where two of them.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

There where two green herons there. One was really small. That one kept coming right up to me. It was so cool the way it just stood there trying to fish. It was having no luck, so I kept on tossing it some bread. It would pick up the bread and just hold it in its mouth. The little green heron never ate the bread, it just held it in its mouth. One time I was watching it trying to fish, and some people where ripping up some kind of a nut. And they where throwing the nuts at the little heron. The heron was stretching its neck out as far as it could go. (The heron was around 9 inches tall and it stretched the neck out around 5 inches.) And then it opened its mouth. it was really scary.

These are some ducks that I could not tell what they are.

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This an Anhinga that I saw in Florida on the other side of the lake. I got an award off of this picture.

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This is what I call "ballerina Moorhen". It is a common Moorhen. I was taking pictures of it when it stretched out its foot and wing.

different birds

This red bellied woodpecker is not "boss hog", I named this one Harold. This one came to my feeders. I imagined what these two chickadees where saying to each other: "I think he is pretty big, do you think he will eat us?" "Shh, don't talk so loud. He will hear you."

This is the first time I ever had a Pileated woodpecker come to the feeder. This one is a female. It came on the first real snow of 2007.

I can tell it is a female because it only has red on the top of the crust. It is hard to see that in the picture, but I could tell in real life. The males have the entire top of their head red, and a red streak on each cheek.

This is a female Baltimore Oriole. When I came home from New Mexico, I looked outside and there where two female orioles. I have a picture of both on one feeder. I will show that later.

secound, third, forth, and fifth birds I I.D.ed

The second bird I identified was the black capped chickadee. Then the tufted titmouse. First I thought that it was a bluebird. Then I learned that not every bird is a bluebird. That was when I got started.

Then It was the cardinal. I knew before I started what a cardinal was. Just usually I thought it was a blue bird. The fifth was a rare Pileated woodpecker. when I first saw it, it was a male on a utility pole. We got a really good look at it. One time I attracted four different pileated woodpeckers. they came for a month and then they stopped.

first

This is my first post. This is a blog about some birds I have seen. Some in my yard, some in different states. first, I became a birder last year when my grandmother had us come up and for home school, we got to I.D. a woodpecker. It was a red bellied woodpecker. Because that was the first bird I ever I.D., it was my favorite. My grandparents called the woodpecker "boss hog" because when he was on the feeder he was so big he pushed all the birds away from his side.