This week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge is Say What You See.
This made me think of some of my Instagram posts where I compared a species common English name to a photo of the species and give it a checkmark when they match.
Rose-breasted ✔ Grosbeak ✔ (Pheucticus ludovicianus)
Beautiful! 🙂
Many years ago, i used to have Java Rice Birds as pets; this species reminds me of them a lot! 🙂
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Thanks Tom. We used to get Evening Grosbeaks in the spring and fall but haven’t had any for a few years. The Rose-breasted Grosbeaks spend the summer with us.
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A fantastic shot of a beautiful bird.
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Thanks. I must admit, they’re one of my favourite species we get in the yard.
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We’re just entering the time of year when my favorite bird, well one of them, the Great Egret/Snowy Egret, return to a few great nature spaces. I got some great shots of them yesterday before work.
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I’ve only had two Great Egrets this spring, and they were flying over our yard when I was photographing some of the birds in the yard.
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Ours show up in some amazing spaces, like our Palace of Fine Arts lake or at the Sutro Baths ruins at the ocean. I love photographing them. I’ll be out tomorrow evening hoping to get some worthy shots.
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They breed around here but they’re not common. According to the distribution maps for Great Egrets they don’t get this far north let alone nest.
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I suppose we lucked out! Come November at a lake not far from where I live, you can see groups of forty-fifty of them fishing. It’s a true sight to behold. At the same time we get lots of Brown Pelicans and Great Blue Herons.
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