Post your Bird Portraits (2)

Northern Cardinal...

Snowy Owl. (Hope it's okay to post here since the "in flight" thread is still locked.

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Snowy Owl

Melissa6 wrote in post #19328163
Snowy Owl. (Hope it's okay to post here since the "in flight" thread is still locked.

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Snowy Owl] by Melissa McCarthy on Flickr

Lush snowy Melissa,
There is another in flight thread started now here https://photography-on-the.net …read.php?t=1524​394&page=1

Capn Jack wrote in post #19328109
"I has a stick!"
Is it a double crested cormorant? I don't see the orange around the mouth, nor the blue chin on a Brandt's cormorant.
La Jolla, California, USA

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JAK_0152] by Jack Silver on Flickr

Nice shot Jack. It's a Brandt's. The blue throat skin (the gulag pouch) doesn't always show. The lores and skin around the face will always be orange on a Double-crested, and the bill isn't as dark.

sidknee wrote in post #19328165
Lush snowy Melissa,
There is another in flight thread started now here https://photography-on-the.net …read.php?t=1524​394&page=1

Oh, great! Thank you!

Had some nice light for this American Wigeon.

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kd_reno wrote in post #19328187
Had some nice light for this American Wigeon.

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Beautiful light indeed
Love the head-on perspective
Wonderful textures, colors, & detail

I spotted this baldie and it landed in a tree behind my house. I parked underneath and took this.

Braved the frigid winter air (17F/-8C with a windchill of 9F/-13C) to try for some wildlife photography after not having done any over the last month or so. There was quite a bit of activity at Killens Pond State Park with White-throated Sparrows foraging for food among the grass and snow, White-breasted Nuthatches scurrying up the trees, and a couple of Northern Cardinals taking advantage of a bird feeder filled up by park staff. However, the stars of the morning where the Tufted Titmice that were all over the trees and, like the Cardinals, taking advantage of the bird feeder.

1) White-throated Sparrow

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kd_reno wrote in post #19328175
Nice shot Jack. It's a Brandt's. The blue throat skin (the gulag pouch) doesn't always show. The lores and skin around the face will always be orange on a Double-crested, and the bill isn't as dark.

Thanks much for the ID, and the kind words!

I was driving down Route 1 today south of Rockland Maine when I spotted this eagle on the side of the road in a field feeding on its kill. Nature is not always pretty.

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He is not pleased to see you.

shooz wrote in post #19328277

Little Bee-eater, Mara River, Kenya