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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: clish on July 08, 2009, 10:27:22 PM

Title: new ID's please !
Post by: clish on July 08, 2009, 10:27:22 PM

Thank you in advance

bird one, i think it might be a king fisher????
Bird 1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clish_l/3702954238/)

bird two's name just keeps slipping from my mind ! !!  arg
Bird 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clish_l/3702950406/)

some type of Heron?
Bird 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clish_l/3702944530/)

I am thinking Great Blue Heron ... but not sure
Bird 4 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/clish_l/3702127991/)

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Post by: BIGFRANK on July 08, 2009, 11:02:08 PM

Bird 1 ...You are right,Belted Kingfisher.

Bird 2...Common Tern

Bird 3...Great Egret

Bird 4...Great Blue Heron

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Post by: clish on July 09, 2009, 12:53:31 AM

thank you ~

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Post by: The Observer on July 09, 2009, 08:49:09 AM

Nice pics, especially #2.

What is following the GBH in Bird 4?

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Post by: GStuart on July 09, 2009, 09:14:11 AM

It's a bit small for me to be sure, but it could be an Eastern Kingbird.  They are certainly aggressive enough.

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Post by: The Observer on July 09, 2009, 09:21:56 AM

Tells you how much I know, I thought it was some kind of hawk.

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Post by: clish on July 09, 2009, 10:40:15 AM

thanks.... i kept on trying to get a picture of of the Tern Diving into the water.. but it was always too far away from me when it did that..... maybe next time !