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I saw a PBS program the other night about a bird known as the dipper. This bird was very aquatic. :)
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Ivan - still plenty of snow here, but Southern exposures are starting to melt away. This is on the edge of a yard, where road salt first melted the snow, then the dark surface heated by the sun is melting northward.

Dippers are fun to watch for sure. Here is one I got an ok picture of in Wyoming.
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Ospreys on cardon, Punta Cirio, Sonora, MX.

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Kookaburra :)
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is that kinda cute chubby guy eating a cactus fruit?
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Hi,

Here's Haematopus unicolor - the Variable Oystercatcher:

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Some of the birds housed at the Monterey (CA) Aquarium. (Almost as cool as the otters...) And two Sea Gull hipsters.
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Hey great pics!
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Never taken many birds, only the odd duck or swan.
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With the price of postage I really have to teach those Canada Geese to take seeds back and forth for me. Looks like they are doing the trip anyway. Nice pics, Dave
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Ivan C wrote:With the price of postage I really have to teach those Canada Geese to take seeds back and forth for me. Looks like they are doing the trip anyway. Nice pics, Dave
Hah, they became Pennsylvania Geese.. They got kinda lazy and stopped flying back to Canada so there are some places where they live in PA year round.
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Canada Geese are now considered a pest over here in the UK after having been introduced in the past.

http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/Images ... 6-4547.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Perhaps a bit of a sensational account but our laws do tend to protect birds, at least the kind the aristocracy don't shoot. :lol:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ASBOs.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I can understand how those geese could be a problem. I believe gray squirrels have been introduced to England as well, yes?
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Yes they seem to have driven our remaining native Red Squirrels up north.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/Redsquirrel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthn ... vival.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not only that the greys have moved into urban areas now. We never saw a squirrel in towns or even urban areas when I was young, now they are everywhere. Apart from their colour the ear tufts are one of the characteristics of the red's, something the grey's don't possess.
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Baby Great Horned Owl from yesterday.

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At the same preserve as the owl I saw a Snow Goose which are not totally unheard of in the Chicago area but I have never seen one before.

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Mixed in with the Canada Geese and the Snow Goose was a White Fronted Goose. According to a birdwatcher there these are really rare east of the Mississippi River and he said in his 50 years of birding he has never seen one in the area.

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