Catching up slowly--finally finished September 2017 birds

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Some birds, still from last year.  These are all from September 2017 so I'm officially only 9 months behind in my editing.

Starting with thrushes:

Hatch year American robin in the dogwood bushes:


Swainson's thrush, also partaking of dogwood berries:


Hermit thrush:

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Some warblers and vireos are next.

American redstart--either a fem or a youngster, or perhaps both


An Ovenbird:


A hatch year (noticed the brown eyes) Red-eyed vireo:

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Black-capped chickadee:


Gray catbird:


Male Yellow-shafted flicker (Northern flicker):

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Two hatch year Eastern towhees, both males, but the first is from early in the month and the second is from the end of the month.  You can see how quickly they molt their juvenile plumage to something more adult in appearance, but the eyes stay brown, not like the red eyes of the adults:




White-throated sparrow:

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Some seed-eaters.

A Pine siskin on a coneflower seedhead:


Two hatch year male Rose-breasted grosbeaks.  The first is still in juvenal plumage, distinguishable as a male by the soft rosy feathers peeking out from the bend of the wing by the shoulder.  The second is a little further along into molt with the general male pattern already apparent:

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And finally, some late season hatch year Ruby-throated hummingbirds heading south for the winter but stopping by at Chez Hazel for some sustenance along the way:

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Great pictures Hazel, especially, the Hummer on the pretty yellow flowers.

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I love the hummers at the jewelweed, too. Almost the entire patch of it grew back this year, but during a recent thunderstorm, a deer panicked and trampled a bunch of it. sigh Should still be enough standing for the hummingbirds this fall, though, barring any more stormy weather.

I'm working on October 2017 now and it looks like I may have some more bird images when I'm done with it. whoot whoot

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Jun 21, 2018 10:43:04 GMT -5 hazelrunmama said:

I love the hummers at the jewelweed, too. Almost the entire patch of it grew back this year, but during a recent thunderstorm, a deer panicked and trampled a bunch of it. sigh Should still be enough standing for the hummingbirds this fall, though, barring any more stormy weather.

I'm working on October 2017 now and it looks like I may have some more bird images when I'm done with it. whoot whoot

Looking forward to more pictures & posts.