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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Ally on April 05, 2022, 02:43:41 PM

Title: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Ally on April 05, 2022, 02:43:41 PM
I think I saw a couple of golden crowned kinglets, and just now a dark butterfly flew by my window. I think it's a mourning cloak.
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Charline on April 05, 2022, 03:23:20 PM
I think I saw a couple of golden kinglets, and just now a dark butterfly flew by my window. I think it's a mourning cloak.


I photographed a golden crowned kinglet a few days ago, but haven't got to deal with the photo yet.
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Shortsighted on April 05, 2022, 03:30:14 PM
No problem dealing with the capture of a kinglet, but dealing with the photo itself; well, that's another matter. I love it. It's the fall that'll kill you!
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Ally on April 05, 2022, 04:22:56 PM
The golden crowned kinglet hasn't returned for me to photograph. Still in class. Would you settle for a couple of house finches? I really adore them, the couples will always stay together. She is not happy with him today for some reason.
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Ally on April 05, 2022, 04:25:19 PM
Such a handsome well-rounded white throated.
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Shortsighted on April 05, 2022, 04:42:37 PM
I've seen some House finches hanging around someone's house down the street but not for ages up at my end.  Even that sighting was over a month ago. I've heard White-throated sparrow calls lately but I have not yet seen one. I'm hoping that something new will show-up in the backyard soon. I may need to wait until the last week of April before that happens. I came across a photo taken with my Canon G9 a decade ago and it reminded me of the bonanza of birds that were visiting in those by-gone days. A White-throated sparrow, an Eastern Towhee and a Fox sparrow all at about the same time. Then a thrush and a Thrasher. Stuff like that just doesn't occur anymore.
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Ally on April 05, 2022, 04:46:50 PM
That was the whole trip worth of birding in Pelee you described there.
Title: Re: Kinglets and Mourning cloak
Post by: Shortsighted on April 05, 2022, 05:20:10 PM
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-Vr37Ntv/0/dbdf5d96/M/i-Vr37Ntv-M.jpg) (https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-358cgw/i-Vr37Ntv/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-S54m5fK/0/b132166a/M/i-S54m5fK-M.jpg) (https://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-358cgw/i-S54m5fK/A)