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May 09, 2012 20:02 | #1

All shot last Sunday afternoon in my backyard, during the 2 hours or so the sun accepted to show up...
C&C welcome.

Let's start off with a classic view of a Titmouse ready to take off with a gorgeous peanut:

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Same with a Nuthatch just taking off - not so sharp, but I like it

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Exceptionally this female Cardinal was not interested by the peanuts, preferring to feed on some seeds high in the tree (long distance pic, a tad soft)

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The Starling was more interested in some kind of green caterpillar, whose family had a bad afternoon as you will see

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Even this smallish ?? (ID please, is it a female House Finch?) fed on the green stuff, as was the Sparrow that follows

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And the winner of the mouthful contest is...

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Thanks for looking.

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May 10, 2012 00:01 | #3

Nice set. I would say #5 is a female sparrow.

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May 10, 2012 04:43 as a reply to @ Photomateur's post | #4

Hahahaha super cool series with good captions
Surely robin beats any bird here. You have to invite blue jays for peanuts eating contest in the future I would like to see that.

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May 10, 2012 06:02 | #5

rick_reno wrote in post #14407562

love the color on that starling, really amazing

Thank you Rick.

Photomateur wrote in post #14408567

Nice set. I would say #5 is a female sparrow.

thank you, I will examine that possibility.

icencold wrote in post #14409188

Hahahaha super cool series with good captions

Surely robin beats any bird here. You have to invite blue jays for peanuts eating contest in the future

I would like to see that.

Thanks for the comment.
Blue Jays were invited - but only one showed up and I was too close for him - he didn't dare come to shooting distance.

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