You’re in for a treat, my darlings! Ken Gibson has given us the keys to his birding kingdom, and I have selected several delights for your identifying pleasure. I’ve linked each photo to the maclargehuge original for ye.
First up, a birb that’s just screaming for a caption:
Next up, a little birb that has a nom in its beak:
Pretty sure it’ll be a super-easy ident for you, but I couldn’t resist that adorable pose.
Next, we have a sweet little birb dining in:
And, finally, an uber-cute birb who’d like everyone to know its opinion of this dining establishment:
I love Ken’s bird photography! Thank you so much for letting us borrow some of your beauties, Ken!
If any of you have UFDs you’d like to share, send them to dhunterauthor at gmail.
Birbs II and IV are nuthatches.
Birb I is the Great Grey Yelling Bird. Probably looking for Allan.
First thought for Birb III was female cardinal. But the black markings on the chest make me have doubts, and I think the beak is a bit narrow for a cardinal, though it’s difficult to tell at that angle.
Birb I looks like sparrows, birb III probably a Kleiber (I’m too sick to google English), but I’d need to see the tail in full…
Bird 3 is a young male house sparrow as his black eye mask is just starting to appear and the black bib on his chest is rather sparsely marked. Bird 4 is a nuthatch of some sort but I am sadly unfamiliar with a lot of North American birdlife.
Yep, Birbs I and III are House Sparrows, while Birbs II and IV are White-breasted Nuthatches. I love nuthatches, which I tend to think of as honorary wrens.
Well the two birbs in photo I are clearly Vladimir and Estragon. Thus the caption must be, “Who farted?”
Clearly, Vladimir, being so close to Estragon’s rear, is still in the hacking phase of fart-response. I don’t think he has any doubts about who did it.
Not sure about 1, but agree three is a house sparrow. Known to most Americans as an English sparrow. Best I can do for 1 is “LBF”, for LIttle Brown Finch.
Basically agreeing with everyone…I and III are house sparrows (females and adolescent male); II and IV are white-breasted nuthatches.
Nuthatches are awesome. My wife is convinced they generate their own local gravity, given their propensity to ‘hop’ upside down. It is pretty cool.