Category: Birds Weekly Photo Challenge

  • Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #44

    Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #44

    I guess Week #43 Baby Birds proved to be a hard week for everyone. Thank you for being patient with me as I try to recover from the past two days. I hope to post Week #44 Bird Weekly today by end of day.

  • A-Z Challenge – U is for Upland Game Bird

    A-Z Challenge – U is for Upland Game Bird

    Upland Game Birds are a select species of birds in the Phasianidae family with the exception of the Northern Bobwhite and Scaled Quail that are in the Odontophoridae family, plus the Plain Chachalaca in the Cracidae family.

  • A-Z Challenge – T is for Titmouse

    A-Z Challenge – T is for Titmouse

    The Tufted Titmouse is a small gray bird with a loud voice that echoes through the forest that it inhabits. They are frequent visitors to feeders.

  • A-Z Challenge – S is for Sanderling

    A-Z Challenge – S is for Sanderling

    Sanderlings are small plump sandpipers. In breeding colors, they have rusty, black and white mottling.

  • Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds that Begin with an “F”

    Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge – Birds that Begin with an “F”

    Welcome to Week #44 of the Bird Weekly Photo Challenge. Week #44 challenge is Birds beginning with the letter “F” (if a bird has more than one word of the name, you can use it as long as it begins with a “F”, ie: Ferruginous Hawk or House Finch)

  • Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #43

    Bird Weekly Round-Up – Week #43

    I guess Week #43 Baby Birds proved to be a hard week for everyone. Thank you for being patient with me as I try to recover from the past two days. I hope to post Week #44 Bird Weekly today by end of day.

  • A-Z Challenge – R is for Roseate Spoonbill

    A-Z Challenge – R is for Roseate Spoonbill

    Roseate Spoonbills are pale pink and white birds with a patch of brighter pink on the shoulders and rump. They are so named because of their spoon-shaped bill. Crustaceans and other aquatic invertebrates contain pigments called carotenoids that help turn their feathers pink after they eat them. The more they eat, the brighter pink in…

  • A-Z Challenge – Q is for Quail

    A-Z Challenge – Q is for Quail

    Gambel’s Quail live in the Sonoran, Chihuahuan and Mojave deserts in the western part of the United States. They inhabit thorny and brushy vegetation and can be seen along river valleys and creeks.

  • A-Z Challenge – P is for Pelican

    A-Z Challenge – P is for Pelican

    Pelican Island, a part of the Everglades Headwaters NWR complex located off the western coast of Orchid Island in the Indian River Lagoon just east of Sebastian, Florida was the first National Wildlife Refuge in the United States in 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order on March 14, 1903 to protect egrets and…

  • A-Z Challenge – O is for Owl

    A-Z Challenge – O is for Owl

    Great Horned Owls usually adopt a nest that was originally built by another species, often an abandoned Red-tailed Hawk or other hawk species.