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You can tell the snowy egret by its golden slippers. I've heard they use their feet to startle fish when they are foraging.
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Activity 2
1. Chicken-like Birds:
This bird appears to be a California Quail and was a strange sighting for me. As a resident of Georgia, I've seen the occasional Bobwhite, but this location is entirely outside the usual range for the California Quail.
2. Songbirds/Other Songbirds?
While the Brown Thrashers is definitely a Songbird, its appearance and habit of thrashing around in the underbrush for food didn't seem to fit with any of the other subcategories that we learned.
3. Songbird/ Finches and Buntings
The Northern Cardinals stout, short bill and bright colors put it in the Finches and Buntings subcategory of the Passeriformes. Beautiful birds!
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Cool quail! Could someone be raising them nearby? Maybe one escaped!
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I love California Quail! We have them where I live in Washington and the make the funniest "chi-CA-go" call. Also the chicks are adorable little puff balls.
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Wonderful photos. Thank you for sharing them. A family of California quails lives in my neighbour's hedge here on Vancouver Island in Canada. They troop through my place every morning and troop back every evening. They're so funny, loitering around then making a mad dash, running on the ground. Makes me happy whenever I see them.
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@Elsie
From my Toronto backyard, the male gold finches are transitioning to their spring plumage. Here is an example of a bright male, a female, and a transitioning male, all taken on the same day. -
@Ann The picture of your transitioning male helped me a lot! I saw a "goldfinch" eating some birdseed, but it didn't have black on its head, and it wasn't brownish like the females. He was dusty yellow!
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@Ann I love your photos of the goldfinch! These are some of my favorite birds that come to our feeder during their migration. (I live in North Carolina.)
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Wow that is very peculiar! Definitely looks like a California Quail to me. I see them every few weeks in, well, California! I wonder what's this one's story?
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From my Toronto backyard, the male gold finches are transitioning to their spring plumage. Here is an example of a bright male, a female, and a transitioning male, all taken on the same day. Read More: