WINGSCAPES

Desert Wildlife from Arizona

Our friends Shirley and Wayne from Cottonwood, Arizona have sent us two more BirdCam photos, a Common Raven and a Collared Peccary (commonly called a Javelina) to add to our Avian and Non-Avian BirdCam Life Lists. They have truly set the bar for the number of BirdCam Life List pictures we have received from our very excited customers!

Shirley writes:

Ravens don't come in to feed at our feeders, so you can imagine my surprise as I looked through the photos this day

...as we were eating dinner tonight along came a Javelina, or Peccary as it is really called. The last time they came through in the day time there were about 20 in the herd. The little babies are red and so cute! But tonight there was only one... this one is a medium sized one.

Greater Ani Photo from Panama

One of the great things about the Wingscapes BirdCam being used by ornithologists in their field research projects is that they send us images of some amazing birds. Christine Riehl, a researcher from Princeton University who uses BirdCams in her field studies, sent this amazing photo from one of her BirdCams in Panama of a Greater Ani leaving its nest.

Needless to say that we'll be adding this one to the BirdCam Life List!

Northern Bobwhite added to the BirdCam Life List

Regular BirdCam photo contributor Pam from Malabar has such a variety of species in her yard. She recently sent us these great pictures of a pair of Northern Bobwhites. Since these are the first images of this particular species that we have received they have been added to our BirdCam Life List.

Thanks Pam!

BirdCam in the News!

Regular contributors to the Wingscapes BirdCam Life List – Shirley and Wayne from Cottonwood, Arizona – were recently featured in the Verde Independent newspaper along with many of their BirdCam photos of the Greater Roadrunner pair nesting on their property. We were very glad to read in the article that Shirley and Wayne continue to be “always ‘delighted and surprised’ at the pictures the camera takes” just as we’re always delighted and surprised with each new species they record and add to the Wingscapes BirdCam Life List.

Keep up the great work Shirley and Wayne!

BirdCam Life List Reigning Champions

Shirley and Wayne from Cottonwood, Arizona keep sending us great shots. These were some of their first photos!

Here are a few of the pictures they have sent us that we have added to our BirdCam Life List.  They have also submitted the Verdin, Crissal Thrasher and the Gambel's Quail.

Shirley writes:

Here is a picture of the hooded oriole - male taken today, May 5, 2008 in Cottonwood Arizona. We noticed that you did not have one posted on your life list of the Wingscape bird cam webpage.

We are new at this - actually today is the first day that we have had our camera.

We have quite a few more birds that come in regularly to our feeder that are not on the life list, and I want to send them as I get them...

Black Chinned Hummingbird - this is the cutest little guy. Note the dark throat and white line under black on his throat. He's a nice purple...

Our only other one up here right now is the Anna's. Down in southern AZ there are so many other species and it's a real treat to go hummingbird watching down there.

Bullock's Oriole - this is the oriole that we have out west that is like your eastern version.  Note he has a dark back of his head, as compared to the hooded oriole that I sent in a few weeks ago. We also had the Scott's oriole, but of course, we haven't seen him since we got the bird cam.

Two New BirdCam Life List Birds Added from Oregon

Check out these great shots sent in to us by Floyd in McMinnville, Oregon.

The Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) Warbler and the Pine Siskin are the first photos submitted of these two species so we have added them to our BirdCam Life List.

Floyd writes:

...photos taken by the BirdCam during the past week.  Still having fun with it.

 

Common Redpoll Pictures from Maine

Jack from Fryeburg, Maine just sent us these great shots!

Thanks Jack!

He also captured the first photograph of a Common Redpoll with the BirdCam so we have added it to our BirdCam Life List.

Jack writes:

We really enjoy the pictures we get from the camera. One is a picture from the same day (March 23) and the other is from April 5, 2008 when a flock of about 100 were in the tree in the yard. A bunch went down to get some seed when that picture was taken. Again these pictures of the Common Redpolls were taken in Fryeburg, ME.

Painted Bunting Added to the BirdCam Life List

Dan, from the Nervous Birds blog points out an excellent feature of the BirdCam - the ability to capture images of birds that visit feeders while you're away. He was able to photograph this superb Painted Bunting. As these are the first Painted Bunting photos taken with the BirdCam that have been reported to us, it has been added to the BirdCam Life List.

Thanks Dan.

He writes:

BIRDCAM nabs a PAINTED BUNTING!

On December 18th (my birthday) good friends Bill and Gail from the Wild Bird Center store in West Annapolis called to tell me that a customer had recently seen a male PAINTED BUNTING on their feeders! I quickly called the homeowners to see if I could pay them a visit.

An hour or two later, I made my way over [and] they let me set up my BIRDCAM on one of their feeders, where they had told me that the bird had visited over the past two days.

On the morning of the 20th, I returned [and] managed to see and hear a lot of great birds, just no PAINTED BUNTING.

Around 8:30AM the next day, I returned to download photos from the BIRDCAM to my laptop in order to see if the bird stopped by.

A Matter of Perspective

The Born Again Bird Watcher posted this interesting article about size differences between the Varied Thrush and the Dark-eyed Junco. 

He also captured the first photograph of a Varied Thrush with the BirdCam so we have added it to our BirdCam Life List.

John Writes:

As the juncos were joined by a group of Golden-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia atricapilla) this morning, I moved the Wingscapes BirdCam from one of the feeder posts down to a ground level location known to be a clustering area for many of sparrow species that visit the property in hope of adding a few photos of a Golden-crowned to my expanding bird image collection. When I retrieved the images from the camera this afternoon, the answer to my junco-startling thrush conundrum was discovered.

Wild Turkey Added to the BirdCam Life List!

Jim from Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, California wrote in with this great shot of a Wild Turkey.

Since this is the first known picture taken by the BirdCam of a Wild Turkey, we will be adding this to the BirdCam Life List.

Thanks Jim!

He writes:

A very dry March-April brought an unusual visitor to our birdbath yesterday! Here's a Wild Turkey.