The ABCs of birds - letter C

[Patti from Kentucky]

OK...since I think we've spent two days on the letter B (there are a lot of B's), and it's after midnight in the Eastern US, I'll start the letter C!  I feel a little like a character on Sesame Street.  Anyway...

C is for Cedar Waxwing.

I took this photo in the fair city of Rochester, in the gorge during the 2006 falcon watcher's weekend.  It's nice of the local wildlife to give us a thrill when the falcon watching is slow.

Sorry for the rear shot, but I think it's their best side anyway.

[Patti from Kentucky]

Here is a Chestnut-sided Warbler; taken on the shores of Lake Erie during Spring Migration this past May.

[Patti from Kentucky]

And to add to my collection of photos of birds taken from the wrong angle, here is a Collared Trogon.  I saw this bird in the Peruvian jungle...it has a spectacularly beautiful black and white pattern on its tail and wings; it's too bad the photo doesn't show that very well.

[Patti from Kentucky]

And my final entry for tonight (more tomorrow evening unless someone else beats me to it), it the Common Yellowthroat, a beautiful little warbler I see with some regularity in damp places.  This one I photographed, like most of the warblers I've been lucky enough to get pictures of, on Lake Erie in May.

[dale]

shoot, Patti. I guess I have to post at least ONE "C" that I actually SAW.

OK, then, my picture of eight California Condors at big sur.

yes, they are condors, not fly poop on the camera lens.

[dale]

and one I definitely did NOT see, but admire; if I met one I would invite it to dinner and try to get to know it better.

Cinerious antshrike
 
the picture below comes from this page:
http://www1.nhl.nl/~ribot/english/thca_ng.htm

where you can also hear his song, if you are a dog.
not exactly, but it's pretty high-pitched.

[Donna]

OK...since I think we've spent two days on the letter B (there are a lot of B's), and it's after midnight in the Eastern US, I'll start the letter C!  I feel a little like a character on Sesame Street.  Anyway...

  Ohhh were still doing B's

Mon and Tues A's
Wed and Thurs B's
Fri and Sat C's

 

[dale]

Ohhh were still doing B's

The cinerious antshrike begs to differ, and you don't want to get those bad boys POd. They just look tiny.

[Patti from Kentucky]

OK...since I think we've spent two days on the letter B (there are a lot of B's), and it's after midnight in the Eastern US, I'll start the letter C!  I feel a little like a character on Sesame Street.  Anyway...

  Ohhh were still doing B's

Mon and Tues A's
Wed and Thurs B's
Fri and Sat C's

 

Sorry...I assumed since we skipped our second day of A's and spent both Tuesday and Wednesday on the B's, we were ready for C's.  I'll be good and get back to Aafke's original schedule.

[Donna]

OK...since I think we've spent two days on the letter B (there are a lot of B's), and it's after midnight in the Eastern US, I'll start the letter C!  I feel a little like a character on Sesame Street.  Anyway...

  Ohhh were still doing B's

Mon and Tues A's
Wed and Thurs B's
Fri and Sat C's

 

Sorry...I assumed since we skipped our second day of A's and spent both Tuesday and Wednesday on the B's, we were ready for C's.  I'll be good and get back to Aafke's original schedule.

It's a tough schedule! Tomorrow C's

[carla]

OK...since I think we've spent two days on the letter B (there are a lot of B's), and it's after midnight in the Eastern US, I'll start the letter C!  I feel a little like a character on Sesame Street.  Anyway...

 Ohhh were still doing B's

Mon and Tues A's
Wed and Thurs B's
Fri and Sat C's

 

Sorry...I assumed since we skipped our second day of A's and spent both Tuesday and Wednesday on the B's, we were ready for C's.  I'll be good and get back to Aafke's original schedule.

Don't worry,it's after midnight now in the Netherlands,it's Friday here.I choose some birds with the B and C together.
Greetings Carla
 PS  In the B topic.

[Patti from Kentucky]

C is for Clark's Nutcracker, one of my favorite birds!  We see this bird in the higher elevations of the Rocky Mountains.  They don't migrate, but instead manage to survive a snow-packed Rocky Mountain winter by caching food to eat throughout winter.  In the Northern Rockies, where we usually see them, they cache mainly the high-calorie, highly nutritious pine nuts of the Whitebark pine.  They have a sublingual pouch into which they can gather lots of pine nuts to carry off and hide.  There is some concern about the bird (and other animals, including Grizzly Bears) who depend on the Whitebark Pine, since its populations are being devastated by the pine beetle, who is aided and abetted by climate change.

We took this photo at Yellowstone National Park, but we've seen then many places in the western mountains.

[Patti from Kentucky]

This photo of a Common Raven we took in Bryce Canyon National Park.  He's a member of the same family as the Clark's Nutcracker above!  They all like to hang out at tourist attractions and try to beg free food.

[dale]

yo! Nutcracker is a corvid? I had no idea.

[annieinelkhart]

I choose the cranes, Sandhill like I saw for the first time last year in Florida!  Loved watching this pair and hearing their clacking!   They were BEAUTIFUL!!