What birds have you seen lately?
 

Inspired by my hefty Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds, I have been going outside with my binoculars the past couple of days. These are the ones I have been able to identify. What birds can you see?


White Winged Dove (yes! No, it does not only nest in the saguaro cactus in Phoenix.) This is probably the most common bird I see. There were three in my backyard earlier.
http://i40.tinypic.com/9gkq6p.jpg


Mourning Dove
http://i44.tinypic.com/11jc77c.jpg


Blue Jay
http://i41.tinypic.com/vhrbra.jpg

Cardinal
http://i39.tinypic.com/ravm0g.jpg


Red-Bellied Woodpecker
http://i44.tinypic.com/260d4yv.jpg


I didn't take these pictures myself.

i have cardinals & blue jays living in my front bush~ they both have little babies & are soooo cute~

i also have seen robins & a few what my husband says are crows, but i swear they look like ravens~

http://www.sawse.com/wp-content/uplo...8/08/bird1.jpg

I saw a red wing hawk yesterday, and I was so excited. This thread had perfect timing :)

Edit:

Unfortunately, my hawk didn't have an awesome piggy backer.

I didn't take these pics but here are a few that we have in our yard in spring/summer:

Indigo Bunting
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...go_bunting.jpg

Great Northern Flicker
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...FlickerKK1.jpg

Red-Breasted Nuthatch
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...edNuthatch.jpg

Purple Finch
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...ch9999-001.jpg

Rose-Breasted Grossbeak
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q.../RoseBGBAA.jpg

Starling
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...s/starling.jpg

Brown-Headed Cowbird
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...ed_cowbird.jpg

Winter Wren
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...inter_wren.jpg

...and of course cardinals, blue jays, mourning doves, grackles, goldfinches, hawks and woodpeckers.

I pretty much only see Robins and Cardinals around my house. But there are about 10 million of those.

OOOH! . . . . ;)

OMG, bird excitement. I was sitting on the deck and a hawk landed on a branch up high. It was picking at something. Then a small bird started crashing into it! It would would slam into the hawk, fly away, and slam into it again! I wondered if the small bird was trying to protect a nearby nest. When the hawk flew away, I could see it had a mouse or rat in its talons. And the small bird kept right after it! It was kind of funny.

Pigeons.:D