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  1. snowyowl

    A Great Week in My Garden

    I run 5 feeders in my garden plus two water sources and a some bird friendly plantings (my long suffering wife actually fills the feeders). The feeders are well used but with only a small number of species visiting regularly. We used to great far more species but it has really declined...
  2. snowyowl

    Frustration

    A couple of weeks ago my neighbour from across the road left me voice mail to tell me that there was Barnacle Goose mixed in with a flock of Canada Geese feeding in my field. I can't easily see that part of the field from the house so I hadn't seen the bird. I didn't check my voice mails...
  3. snowyowl

    Possible Nesting Behavour

    Red-breasted Nuthatches are busily doing something near the top of a telephone pole. It seems as if they may be excavating a nest cavity but I've never seen birds using a pole for that purpose. They have been going back and forth to the pole for several days now. Has anyone else seen...
  4. snowyowl

    Heron in Fflorida

    I didn't take these pictures. They were posted on Facebook asking me to id. the bird. I don't have lot of details but am 90% sure that they were taken in Florida recently. My first thought was Great Blue Heron with a bad exposure or trick of the light but looking at it Gray Heron...
  5. snowyowl

    Project Feeder Watch

    Any body else on here that is part of Project Feeder watch? I was late starting this year but got going last week. There is lots of activity at my feeders but not a great deal of variety of species. I had only 6 species during the 2 day count period which immediately climbed to 9...
  6. snowyowl

    Frozen Birdbath

    I've been sitting at my desk watching the Blue Jays through the window. I've seen several fly to the regular birdbath which is frozen solid this morning. They tilt their heads from side to side for a minute then fly over to the heated (unfrozen) bath that that we introduced about a week ago...
  7. snowyowl

    Bird Song Id. Apps

    Apparently there are now apps that allow you to record a bird song and let the app. identify the species. Has anyone on here tried any of these apps and if so what did you think of them? Is there one app that seems better than the others? For someone like me who has a tin ear and can't...
  8. snowyowl

    Possible Hybrid - Canada

    These two RBGR visited my feeders during the last two days. I suspect that the one with the orange breast markings may be a hybrid. Sibley's shows something somewhat similar and calls it a hybrid Black-headedxRose-breasted Grosbeak. I would be very interested to hear what other people think.
  9. snowyowl

    Posting Videos

    I have some trail camera videos that I would like to post but the file format is .avi. I don't know how to convert them to a different file format. Is there anyway that I can post them?
  10. snowyowl

    Bald Eagle behavour

    It happened to me once again yesterday. I was outside without my camera when two Bald Eagle adults flew across about 100' and low in front of me. They swung to the east flying in tight formation then one of them flipped over on it's back and the two of them continued flying with their...
  11. snowyowl

    Crow vs Raven, PEI, Canada

    Does anyone know if the wings on a Common Raven are proportionally shorter than the wings of a American Crow. I am referring to where the wings appear to end in comparison to the end of the tail. When I look at my field guides the wing tips of crows seem to extend to the end of the tail...
  12. snowyowl

    Embarrassing

    The other day I glanced out to see a couple of woodpeckers on my peanut feeder. I even got pictures that I posted to my gallery and on FB labeling them as Downy Woodpeckers.. I was really pleased to get shot of a juvie Downy. A few hours later I looked again at the two birds and realized...
  13. snowyowl

    Frustration

    Yesterday I finally got around to planting my two tomato plants. I plant them every year in a planter that I built into our back deck. I was happily messing about with them when I looked up to see two mature Bald eagles circling above me. They were quite low so I got a really nice view...
  14. snowyowl

    Ruby-throated Female

    I took this Sunday evening. I am amazed by these little guys. The weather here has been nasty, going close to freezing some nights and frequently wet, yet the hummers contine to fly, fight and feed. This was taken, like all of my stuff at the moment, through a double glazed window.
  15. snowyowl

    CS5 Stopped Working

    I've been using CS5 on my Windows 10 desktop and on my Windows 10 lapteop for several years. This week it has stopped working on the desktop and I get amessage telling me that there are licensing issues with the program and quoting Error Code 213.11. It recommends restarting the computer...
  16. snowyowl

    Location! Location! Location!

    In the sticky at the start of this forum, it suggestions putting location info in the title of new threads. A lot of people don't bother to do so or haven't read the sticky. Am I alone in not bothering to look at threads that don't give some indication of location? If the bird wasn't...
  17. snowyowl

    Our Disappearing Birds

    When I first arrived in Canada, some 64 years ago, everytime that I left the city I would see large flocks of what we called wild canaries (American Goldfinches). Flocks of 100 or more would fly it seemed above every field. Today I see flocks of perhaps a dozen. I used to get large...
  18. snowyowl

    Email Issue

    I've suddenly started to get dozens of returned emails all from email addresses that I didn't send anything to, in fact even weren't in my address book. I have been hacked or my email address has been stolen. I've had a lot of emails myself from people that I know didn't really send them...
  19. snowyowl

    Woodpeckers

    I have been disappointed by the variety of woodpeckers coming to my feeders. There are sunflower seeds and suet available to them at all times but other than sporadic visits from a male Downy Woodpecker, I've had little success. This week I added a peanut feeder to my feeder array and...
  20. snowyowl

    A Welcome Visitor

    We used to get one or two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks at the feeders every year but they have been missing for the last couple of years. This male only stayed for a minute or two so I felt lucky to get a picture of any kind. Hopefully he'll be back later.
  21. snowyowl

    Forgot My Binos

    I find it hard to believe that I did this but it seems that I left my beloved Bushnell Elite 8x42's in Florida when we moved back north. Ok, I thought, I'll borrow my wife's Eagle Optics 8x42's, she rarely uses them and they are generally just around in the car generally for back-up. Got...
  22. snowyowl

    Hummers Are Back

    Apparently the first hummer of the year has arrived so I'll be putting out at least one feeder today. It is still cool here and the only thing that I can see that is in bloom is forsythia, of which there is a ton. Trees are budding out but have a long way to go.
  23. snowyowl

    Dried Meal Worms

    I am thinking of setting out some dried meal worms on spec. to see what they might attract. We don't normally get bluebirds but since they seem to be moving back into their historic range so you never know. Orioles are showing up here with some regularity plus there are things like...
  24. snowyowl

    Back Home in Canada

    We arrived home on Monday after our 6 month stay in Florida. The trees are still bare here and the grass hasn't started to green up yet. Yesterday I looked out of the window and saw a Blue Jay using the little bit of water that was in the birdbath, then I saw a Downy Woodpecker sitting on...
  25. snowyowl

    Exif Reader

    I used to be able to read the Exif data attached to pictures but I can't do so anymore. Can anyone suggest an Exif reader that I can download, preferably free?
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