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Hi again!

A few more random photographs from Mike's files. Some of the species are repeated but a different view. Hope you like:

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Wood Duck Family ( Aix sponsa)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/chickadeedeedee/Birds/WoodDuck.jpg

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Common Mergansers ( Mergus merganser)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/chickadeedeedee/Birds/CommonMergansers.jpg

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Snowy Egret ( Egretta thula)
(Florida native)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/chickadeedeedee/Birds/SnowyEgret.jpg

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American Avocet (Recurvirostrata americana)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/chickadeedeedee/Birds/Americanavocet.jpg

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Blue-winged Teal ( Anas discors)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/chickadeedeedee/Birds/bluewingedteal1.jpg



Lydia

Hi Lydia Thanks for the pics they are excellent, I love to look at birds from other continents, it drives home the diversity of life forms. I often access US sites just to browse through the birds and fungi that thrives there. Strangely apart from places like Arizona the fungus is almost the same as here, but the bird life is has greater variety, and some very different from the Uk. I subscribe to E Nature so do get to see a lot of Americas Flora and Fauna.

Yours PeterK

Hi Lydia,
Thanks once more, for more of your lovely photos. I love the Wood Duck family, those ducklings are soooooo cute!
Hope you & Mike are both keeping well.
All the Best Lydia,
Judo.

Hi PeterK.

The USA is a wee bit larger than the UK and we have a few more species of birds than you. However bear in mind that the photographs of your Red Squirrels and Finches and Jackdaws and Buzzards and ..... are as "exotic" and beautiful to us as our photographs may be to you.

We all should cherish and try to preserve the species we have but I think we all too often take them for granted sometimes because they are common.

So happy you like our pictures and thank you!

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Hi Judo and thank you too!

I love the family portraits too! I know Mike has one of some Canada Geese but I couldn't find it last night.

Mike and I are OK. Thanks for asking. Mike is doing physical therapy on his knee and that has improved a lot although the knee may not be pleased afterwards! :'D

~~SIGH~~ It's always something isn't it? But in comparison to what we were facing ... physical therapy and a grumpy knee is nothing. :bounce:

Thanks again for your kindness everyone.

Lydia

Hi Lydia.
Thanks for putting the lovely pics up. Like Peter I find it very interesting to see birds of other countries, especially the ones that carry very similar names to some of ours, but manage to look so different.
Glad to hear that you are both well, maybe reasonably is more appropriate in Mike's case, but as you say, when one considers what he has been through, the knee must seem like a minor irritation. Hope all goes well for him, and that he's soon returned to full physical activity.

All the very best to you both.
Baz.

Hi Baz.

Some of our species are *very* similar. Perhaps adaptations to the varying climate and regions. OUR Starlings still look as handsome as YOUR Starlings. Although, each Starling has his or her own unique set of speckles.

From the pictures posted, our House Sparrows seem to differ from yours, although they too are the same species. Perhaps it too is individual variations like the Starlings.

Mike is an impatient patient but wants to return to mountain bicycle riding by spring and does what he needs to do with physical therapy.

Thanks.

Lydia