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From my files, back in the day, in central Florida on a birding trip. A grab shot in a moving boat, not very good, but I tried .
I am so relieved to be posting July photos!
This was a great day. I went to Bankside where I was very happy to see a nice assortment of birds and one deer. While I was there a friend of mine showed up and we continued birding together both at this location and then on to Sikome Lake area.
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Carolina Wren in my garden.
Yes I know there are more stresses for a bird, like hawks, but these are the two main bird stresses :)
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This bird flew high up into a bush in our garden. I think its a bird of prey but never seen one before here. phioto is 400% crop. Taken with fuji x-t3 & 55-200mm fujinon zoom lens.This was the very first shot with the x-t3 as only just taken it out of its box when the bird flew into the garden hence wrong capture date it was actually 28th sept 2018.also my first time processing the in Capture One express free for Fuji.now after a few goes I think I could do a better job of the conversion.
Surprised I was able to get this close to this bird with my drone. He just sat there and let me get quite a bit of footage as well as photos.
Cavity-nesting birds, such as the Tree Swallow (shown here) and Eastern Bluebird, compete fiercely for suitable nesting sites. That competition is both intraspecific and interspecific. Bluebirds won't tolerate another nesting pair of Bluebirds within 100 yards or so, and, in a fight with a Tree Swallow over a single nesting site, the larger and rather more aggressive Bluebird typically prevails. Tree Swallows, on the other hand, will tolerate other Swallows nesting within 100 feet or so.
One way to keep both sides relatively happy in these bird wars is to employ paired boxes, as in this photo. The Bluebirds return from their wintering grounds about two weeks ahead of the Swallows and claim one of the boxes. The Swallows then arrive and claim the other box. The Bluebirds already settled in may express their irritation with the new neighbors, but they usually acquiesce. Both species then go about their business of raising broods.
For more on this topic (with photos and video of the paired boxes working as intended), please see: treeswallows.com/tres/index.php/reducing-bluebird-tree-sw....
Spice Finch on my feeder. I don't feed the birds anymore as the horde of squirrels were too destructive and disruptive. I miss them. Houston, Texas 2019
I don't know exaclty what kind of bird this is, but I'm sure I'll find out once these are posted.
I've noticed that there seems to more of them around than there used to be.
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T word “pygmy” means small, and that certainly describes the Northern Pygmy-Owl! Standing just 16-18 centimeters tall, this tiny owl is one of the smallest in North America. But the Pygmy-Owl doesn’t let size stand in its way; this fierce little owl frequently preys on birds and mammals larger than itself. You might see a Pygmy-Owl being harassed by a mob of angry songbirds. Pygmy-owls are also well known for their feather markings. These owls literally have “eyes on the back of their heads”, or so it seems. Though Northern Pygmy-Owls actually have bright yellow eyes in front, the backs of their heads are feathered with a pair of quite convincing “eye spots”. Though these markings are really just variations in feather coloring, researchers believe that they confuse both predators and songbirds that might mob them.
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