Backyard Photos
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| We're always encouraging everyone we talk to in the store to share with us your backyard bird photographs. Several of you have done just that, and we have some great photos to share with you all! Everyone please feel welcome to bring your printed photographs into the store (we can scan them into the computer), or to email us photos to add to this album. All photos are the property of, and credited to, their respective senders, posted with permission. |
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| From Our Backyard | ||||||||
| Here are a couple of photos from the Levins' backyard in spring and summer, 2005. In May, we had several visits from a male Black-Headed Grosbeak. He showed up for a few days in a row and then didn't return. And in August, we had a similar experience with a female Black-Headed Grosbeak. Wonder if they were a pair nesting in the area. Our photos, taken through a kitchen window and screen, unfortunately didn't come out perfectly clear, but you can see the birds' beautiful orange and black colors and white markings. The male is fantastically vivid, and the female's head stripes and wing spots make her equally striking. A neat bookends to the season, to get to see each of these birds at our feeders. Click on each image to enlarge. |
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| The Gretz Family Gnome | ||||||||
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| Male Bullock's Oriole | ||||||||
| Here's another beautiful photo from Glen Stark. You can see his Yellow-Headed Blackbird picture a little further down this page. Thank you again, Glen, for sharing your colorful visitors with all of us!
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| Sharp-Shinned Hawk | ||||||||
| Much thanks to Matt Newport for sending us these photos. Matt identifies this beautiful bird as a Sharp-Shinned Hawk. He says: "Hiya, Thought I would pass on a few hawk photos taken in my back yard in Aurora as it was hunting sparrows. Matt" |
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| Bear-Proof Feeder Line |
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| These pictures were sent by longtime customer Stan Foster, showing his bear-proof feeder line at his cabin in Estes Park. Thanks, Stan, for the pictures and descriptive notes for this effective system. Click on each image to enlarge. |
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| Hummingbirds in Dillon Click on the image to enlarge. |
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| Sittin' on the Fence Click on the image to enlarge. |
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| Hummingbird on Deck! Click on the image to enlarge. |
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| Foundling Baby Owl |
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| Long-time customer C.E. Crane sent us several fantastic photos of a baby owl rescued by his sister and brother-in-law. The owl fell from a nest about thirty feet high, and they were unable to return the baby to the nest. Click on each image to enlarge. )
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| House Wren Nestlings |
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| Linda Clear visited Wild Bird Landing while in town from Sacramento, CA. While she was in the store, she showed us her photos of a nest of baby House Wrens on her front porch. She has very kindly emailed us copies of the photographs, so here they are! Linda writes: "The parents had nested in a wall hanging on my front porch that was full of dried flowers from the Christmas holidays. When I decided to put some spring dried flowers in the holder I discovered that some wrens had nested in the arrangement and there were four tiny eggs in the nest. Each day as I would go out my front door to collect the mail the mother would fly away but always return as soon as I reentered the house. A few weeks later the eggs hatched and I got these pictures with my digital camera. The babies eventually grew and flew away from the nest. It will be interesting to see if they return next year to nest on my front porch. Enjoy."
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