I don’t know enough about birds to know what is rare for our area, but I do know that we have a few visitors who stop by on their way elsewhere – the window to see them short.
For Bird Weekly’s challenge: Rare Birds. The featured image is a pair of wood ducks. While they did stick around and have babies in our area, they were elusive to photograph. Note: When I see a bird new to me, I get so excited and ruin the photo, lol.
Fabulous photographs, I love swans and ducks and as a species they are not rare where I live we have both at the caravan park we have a caravan and regularly see them up close but I have never seen either of them 🙂
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Thanks. Would be wonderful to have such beauties nearby.
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Ducks, any ducks are always exciting. The swans, are they trumpets. Don’t understand swans.
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Ducks are fun to watch. Those are tundra, not trumpeter swans. Swans are rare here, except for ones that are kept for show. Thanks.
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The tundra swans photo is so pretty, with the white of the swans against the light blue water. I love the color pallete of the Cape May Warbler photo. Aside from that, what immediately popped into my mind when I saw the bird was the song “Shake a Tail Feather.”
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Lol! Thanks.
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You’re welcome!
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Great set of rarities. I’ve never seen the Tundra Swan. The Wood Ducks are a hit & miss. Some years we get them & some years we don’t see any. I saw a couple in Tampa – like a glimpse before they swam into cover along the Hillsborough River in January. No photo! I love Cape May Warbler. I have a pic of it somewhere from a couple of years ago. We didn’t see it this year during migration. Hooded Merganser are popular here during migration. Always see them. Fantastic post! 🙂
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Thanks Lisa. The swans were a fluke find – they had stopped at a gravel pit nearby and I just happened to glance over and see them. Good to hear I’m not the only one having trouble capturing the wood ducks.
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Yeah, the wood ducks are a challenge. There have been swan sittings in Florida, but I have yet to see one. I’d take a fluke! 😂
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Flukes are always good,lol.
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Yes they are! Hehe! 😁
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Love these! 🙂
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Thanks!
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