Archive for the ‘Bird Photographs’ Category
13 Jul
Birds of Castle Bolton Mews
European Kestrel (top),
Red Kite (center), Eurasian Eagle Owls (top sides),
Harris Hawk (lower left side), Pere-Saker Falcon (lower right side),
Gyr-Saker Falcon (bottom)
13 Jul
Birds of the Yorkshire Dales
16 Jun
Canadian Geese and an American Wigeon by Gateway Seminary in Ontario
On Friday, I visited Gateway Seminary in Ontario. I began my tour near the large pond, which has three bright fountains of water springing up from it. I happened to see two Canadian Geese with their three goslings and a lone duck among them. The duck looked like an American Wigeon (male) to me, with his “baldpate” white strip on the head and dark eye-mask, but the mask was black, not the usual green, and I wondered if the duck were a hybrid. After a little research, I learned that every so often, American Wigeons occasionally have black eye-masks instead of green ones. I learn something new everyday!
5 Jun
Birds of Safari West
Today I visited Safari West in Santa Rosa, where I had the pleasure of seeing more than 30 different species of bird from Africa and around the world, including:
- African Lesser Flamingo, African Spoonbill, American Flamingo, Black Swan, Blue-Crowned Pigeon, Cape Thick-Knee, Cattle Egret, Demoiselle Crane, East African Crowned Crane, Fischer’s Lovebird, Greater African Flamingo, Green Turaco, Hamerkop, Helmeted Guinea Fowl, Laughing Kookaburra, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Purple Swamphen, Ostrich, Rainbow Lorikeet, Red Junglefowl (rooster!), Sacred Ibis, Scarlet Ibis, Silvery-Cheeked Hornbill, Spur-winged Lapwing, Taveta Golden Weaver, Trumpeter Hornbill, Waldrapp Ibis, White-Bellied Stork (also called Abdim’s Stork), White-Faced Whistling Duck, White Stork, & Wood Duck
Flamingoes
Scarlet Ibis
Hammerkop & Sacred Ibis
Waldrapp Ibis & White-Bellied Crane
Damoiselle Crane
Jane Beal,
bird-photographer