Some Perching Birds, ID help plz

Rohirrim

Have dozens of these guys in our area. Not 100% on the ID though :cry

Brown-headed Cowbird??

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Brewer's Blackbird?

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I know the backgrounds are too busy in the first too. Darn things don't like to stand alone very often :wxwax, and I didn't have time to do a proper cloning job.

Thanks for looking,

windoze

i think the lasttwo might be common grackles.....

all shots look NICE ! Nice DOF!


troy

Rohirrim wrote:

Have dozens of these guys in our area. Not 100% on the ID though :cry

Brown-headed Cowbird??

EXIF

Brewer's Blackbird?

EXIF


EXIF

I know the backgrounds are too busy in the first too. Darn things don't like to stand alone very often , and I didn't have time to do a proper cloning job.

Thanks for looking,

PatandRich

Beatiful sharpness and DOF can't help much on the ID but do like to comment on nice shots


Rich

Osprey Whisperer

Nice captures. I'm a doo doo when it comes to ID'in the birds...though. Ibis I knew what they all were. Egretably...I only know the local fowl characters.

MM

bfjr

as others have said good DOF.
Last two common grackles ( I recognize those eyes ) I believe Troy is correct.

Harryb

Nice shots Steve. The first one is a female grackle and the last two are male grackles.

Rohirrim

Thank you all for you comments. I hate to disagree with your ID's, but according to my sources Grackles don't occur very frequently in this area. (Western Nevada) Another local birder felt the bottom two were male Brewer's Blackbirds and the first a Female Brown-headed Cowbird. But dunno

Are you all pretty sure on your ID's???

Regards,

Steve Cavigliano

Rohirrim wrote:

Thank you all for you comments. I hate to disagree with your ID's, but according to my sources Grackles don't occur very frequently in this area. (Western Nevada) Another local birder felt the bottom two were male Brewer's Blackbirds and the first a Female Brown-headed Cowbird. But dunno

Are you all pretty sure on your ID's???

Regards,

I agree with your source Steve. The beak looks too short and so do the tailfeathers for these to be grackles Not too sure about no grackles in Western Nevada though. I'm about 200 miles away and we see grackles around here occassionally. Not in large numbers, but we see them. I see them when I go out the Baylands. Their distinctive "nails on a chalkboard" singing usually gives them away immediately.

Nice shots all


Steve

Dani

they arn't grackles for sure!

I don't htink the first is a cow-bird either though.... the beak is wrong... cowbirds have very short thick sparrow/finch like beaks! and the eye color is off (very dark eyes in cowbirds... light rusty brown eyes in female brewers)

I think you have a female brewers blackbird and a couple of either juvie males (I say juvie because their heads are still brown and not shiney purple black like they are supposed to be) or males with some type of fall coloring