February 2-5 catch-up

Here are some pictures of the February birds on my list. The first two were actually taken in late January, but I've seen them in February too. The rest were all taken from either my computer chair or the deck just outside of this room yesterday.

Hooded merganser male

Great blue heron

Brown pelican zoomed in on

Brown pelican first glimpse so you can see where the creek is. This is at high tide.

Tufted Titmouse

The immature male Baltimore oriole close view

Same bird enjoying orange

Double crested cormorants--one diving

First view of the cormorants--I like the symmetry

Chipping sparrow

Carolina chickadee

Molting

No, I haven't been on some wonderful vacation. I've been without internet access for two endless weeks. All is well now, with a new dish on the roof and a new modem--and it's much faster than before which may help with former blogging frustrations.

Anyway, now that I'm back I'll show you some of the pictures I took in the meantime.

Here are some birds losing their feathers in their pre-migration molt. Actually none of these will be migrating, but they still get a nice new set of feathers at the end of the summer. They don't look all that great in the process though.