birds not in the garden

[david c]

hi ,i thought i would start a new thread ,birds not in the garden
when we were on holiday in america in august 2009 we had a swamp tour on lake martin in louisiana.
in the top photo you can see malcolm next to the car we were renting,the middle photo is a great egret ,and the bottom one is a great blue heron.
happy days

[Sajehar]

Those cygnets are so cute! Are cygnets baby swans? Showing my ignorance here. Your place looks dead exotic, SussexRox.

[Scally]

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Buzzard, doesn't come into the garden but often seen overhead.

[Scally]

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[crocus]

Thats partial albinism sussex. Pretty common in blackbirds, not so common in crows

All these pictures make me think that I really must get a decent camera.

[JHR57]

Buzzard, doesn't come into the garden but often seen overhead.

This is the only bird of prey we see and in exactly the same situation we have a pair that breed in our local park and if they both fly low together they stop all light from our modest garden - mind you we do have a pair of tawnies who nest in a tree adjacent to our garden but very very rarely see them just here them at night LOL xxxxxx

[madeliaette]

ahhhh, now we are getting into birds I know more about - aka the ones I USED to dwell with rather than currently do...
I have heaps of pics of birds taken in the Illawarra/NSW... can anyone tell me what this cute lil bird is....? (I do know, but am curious as to if anyone else knows there 'overseas' birds or not)

[david c]

i don't know ,some sort of parrot

rosy spoonbill.
anghina.

a barred owl, i think, all taken at lake martin.

[crocus]

Its a rainbow lorikeet

[Scally]

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Very spectacular! Loved the rosy spoonbill. Here's another spoonbill, this time from NZ:

And also a heron from NZ, maybe a white faced heron.

and New Zealands smallest native gull: