Outdoor Ontario
Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Shortsighted on September 13, 2022, 07:45:12 AM
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Here's lookin at you, kid. What is looking at you?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-SQ8f4dC/0/575c20a7/Th/Rail%2Ceye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-SQ8f4dC/A)
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Here's lookin at you, kid. What is looking at you?
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-SQ8f4dC/0/575c20a7/Th/Rail%2Ceye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-SQ8f4dC/A)
Sharpie?
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No, I didn't alter the image with a Sharpie. Unless you meant that my image was sharp. It's OK, but it's not that sharp. Now I know what you mean! No, it's not a Sharp-shinned hawk. Its vision is not that good. I've never seen one perched way up there.
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Chicken
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VR
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Correct. A vibration Reduced Virginia Rail. But not your VR, I'm certain.
Salient features: orange eye, faint pale eye-ring and white lore extending directly onto the orange bill/beak. One of the marsh chickens. BTW, where was your VR located?
Eye-D: #2
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-4QbFCJ9/0/d3f60523/Th/LFC%2Ceye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-4QbFCJ9/A)
Eye-D: #3
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-PLK8PWQ/0/551ab892/Th/sora%2C%20ete-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-PLK8PWQ/A)
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Eye-D: #4
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-95m6p3c/0/5fae2f54/Th/RP%20eye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-95m6p3c/A)
Eye-D: #5(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-7TKqkZz/0/792612e2/Th/WB%20nuthatch%2Ceye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-7TKqkZz/A)
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Chipping sparrow and white crowned.
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Ally, I am assuming that you are referring to the last two eye shots. I can see why you think the first is a Chipping sparrow due to the reddish colour above the actual aye, which does look a bit like the ruddy crown of this sparrow. The eye depicted does not belong to a Chipping sparrow. The bird in the snippet of photo isn't called a sparrow at all, although it might be viewed as belonging to the finch family, a passerine. This bird tends to show up in very late fall, or in the winter and also has some red on its crown.
The second eye, (actually the fourth unidentified eye) is not a White-crowned sparrow. The coal-black eye on a white background is nothing like a sparrow. I like to call them tree-huggers, but I'm funny that way.
I thought that Axeman would get the second eye-snippet (not the third or fourth) since he knows a chicken when he sees one.
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Eye-D: #6
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-2q22xXQ/0/66fca899/Th/Robin%20eye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-2q22xXQ/A)
Eye-D: #6B
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-nt773DC/0/8f73c27a/Th/The%20eye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-nt773DC/A)
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Eye-D: #7
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Hw7fp4D/0/a8b7b5f9/Th/Shoveler%2Cfemale%2C%20eye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Hw7fp4D/A)
Eye-D: $8
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-LzvMBbR/0/ff410acd/Th/Waterthrush%2Ceye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-LzvMBbR/A)
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#8 Carolina Wren, #7 Northern Shoveler - female, #6 Downy Woodpecker, #5 Saw-whet Owl
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I can see why you picked Carolina wren for #8. It's incorrect but reminds me that I do not have a fine definitive shot of that species from which I can extract an eye for an eye-D. Actually Dinu, I thought everyone would get #8. While not uncommon, many people have never seen one because they are never still enough around still water to catch a glimpse of this sort-of-warbler.
#7 is indeed a female Northern Shoveler. I don't seem to encounter a female of the species very often.
#5 is a tree hugger (to me) but not a peckerhead, although it has a respectably long probing tool, but not a noggin that could absorb the kind of pounding a Downy might experience, even for a small woodpecker. I thought that the hint of a coal-black eye surrounded by white would give it away but I guess my subjective view is not shared by all.
#6 is a very common bird with a dark(ish) head and that crazy splash of white around the eye that almost comes across as malignant in its ragged outline ... sort of invasive, if you know what I mean. There were so many of these around this spring and well into the summer but now I must admit to seeing very few, even though they might even appear in winter, from time-to-time. The bird providing an eye here was sitting in a nest that was concealed under the densely leafed low hanging bough. I just lifted the bough with one hand, said "allow, allow, allow" ... and click. I then lowered the bough as went on my way.
#6B is also quite common if you are in the right environment, It's by far the biggest bird yet depicted as an eye-D.
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eye-D: #9
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Ptpt9XV/0/a0a2371a/Th/Redstart%2Ceye-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Ptpt9XV/A)
eye-D: #10
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-mMBj4Sd/0/8601fb3b/Th/Palm%2Ceye%2C-Th.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-mMBj4Sd/A)