Bird Portraits - Post Yours!

[Levina de Ruijter]

Jr. was jumping up & down, itching to give his wings a try outside the nest. He got his wish a week later, and I wasn't there to capture it.

233-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

A great capture, Kirk. The other one looking like “how did he do that?”

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

More a primrose yellow. There are several fairly similar species in NZ, two on the main islands and the rest on the smaller, less inaccessible ones. I guess they were called robins by the early European settlers because they are a similar shape to ours and similarly tame—in fact even more tame.
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Ah, so it is not in fact a robin!

 

[Jack Dawe]

Blue Jay

 

[K9Kirk]

A great capture, Kirk. The other one looking like “how did he do that?”

Exactly! The other one was nearly as active, but it left the nest the week after, also.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Sandhill cranes at Myakka River State Park.

221-studio25 by Kirk Behymer, on Flickr

I love this. They are such beautiful birds.

 

[fotoi]

 

[greatgrandma]

This isn't as close a picture as some. An osprey nest on a ATON (aid to navigation- in this case lighted red marker #6) in the Potomac River)..

Somewhere I have a photo of an osprey returning to a nest with a swallow in their claws to feed the babies.

 

[Blackbird]

This isn't as close a picture as some. An osprey nest on a ATON (aid to navigation- in this case lighted red marker #6) in the Potomac River)..
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Somewhere I have a photo of an osprey returning to a nest with a swallow in their claws to feed the babies.

Seems to do the same as our White storks: build a nest on every high place that is big enough.

 

[greatgrandma]

Seems to do the same as our White storks: build a nest on every high place that is big enough.

Ospreys are fish eaters so they built on trees or things around the water. Bald eagles do the same as a rule

 

[fotoi]

Wood duck