brendank

Happy New Year to everyone! Been enjoying all the stunning photos of rarities this January! Some photos from around my home in North Carolina.

Snowy Owl (photographed in Buffalo, NY)



Ruddy Duck



Redhead



Bufflehead (male and female)



Golden-crowned Kinglet







Ruby-crowned Kinglet



Brown Thrasher





Northern Mockingbird



Eastern Bluebird





Winter Wren



Fox Sparrow



White-throated Sparrow





Dark-eyed Junco



Yellow-rumped Warbler



Black-and-white Warbler

tsheunglai

Brendan

Glad to see your photos and esp from you.

S L Tai

tsheunglai

Brendan

Glad to see your photos and esp hear from you.

S L Tai

brendank

Thanks, Mr. Tai! Seems like there a lot of rarities for you to enjoy this winter!

wgeoff

Hi Brendan

Nice to have you back - at least on the website, if not in person. Keep it coming.
You would have enjoyed the last month but I guess you wouldn't have got much work done.

Kung Hei Fat Choi for the Year of the Horse.

Geoff

wleepoin

Hi Brendan,
Good shots especially the Kinglets ! Of course the Snowy Owl is my favorite too
We had a wonderful start in 2014, hope it continuous.

Keep posting and Kung Hey Fat Choy : )

Cheers & keep warm out there,
PWMK

brendank

Thanks, Geoff and PWMK! I miss HK birding.

I actually don't like photographing the Snowy Owls too much. Too many photographers show up here to for the Snowy Owls and so when you stop on the road a lot of cars pull up and then scare the owls away. Not many photographers here though are interested in passerines so I prefer that.

tsheunglai

Surely the best of two weeks for a long time. Four HK-ticks:Blyth'sreed warbler at Shatin, Long-billed plover and Blyth's pipit at Kamtin and Barred cuckoo dove at Kadoorie Farm and Garden.

S L Tai

lchunfai

Nice birding and Wish I can see the snowy owl soon.
Happy Chinese New Year

atbohemia

WOW, SUPER LOVELY~!!!
  HAPPY TC NEW YEAR~!

brendank

Thanks, Fai Jai and atbohemia!!

Here are some more:

Bald Eagle, 3rd year



Bufflehead





Carolina Chickadee






Northern Cardinal (male and female)





Downy Woodpecker (male and female)





Hooded Merganser



House Finch



Dark-eyed Junco





Tufted Titmouse





White-breasted Nuthatch





Hermit Thrush





Pine Warbler





Yellow-bellied Sapsucker





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subbuteo

Hi Brendan,

I'm really enjoying these pictures. I lived in the US for a year and have a particular fondness for Tufted Titmouse and Chickadees- they were hand tame where I lived and would land on me as I walked and look for seeds.  I learned to always have some on me so they were well rewarded.

Dylan

fatchun

Hi Brendan!

Cannot wait to say Hi to you! Happy new year! Really long time no see after you left HK. Seems you have a great birdy life in US~ Keep going! and looking forward to more of your photos!

Chun

brendank

Thanks, Dylan and Chun!!

A few more:

American Coot





Brown Creeper



Great Blue Heron



Red-shouldered Hawk



White-winged Scoter (with Greater Scaup)





Bonaparte's Gull







Double-crested Cormortant



Savannah Sparrow

iherman

Hi Brendan,
Great series of photos.

Herman

brendank

Thanks, Herman!

A few more from recent weeks.

Red-necked Grebe







Pied-billed Grebe





Horned Grebe







Lesser Scaup









Red-breasted Merganser







Hooded Merganser











Mallard





Canada Goose





Killdeer





American Kestrel



Merlin









Mourning Dove



Northern Flicker



Fish Crow





Common Raven



Brown-headed Nuthatch



Cedar Waxwing





Field Sparrow



Song Sparrow





White-throated Sparrow

rosefinch

Hi Brendan,
long time no see!

Very nice photos! It seems that the places around your home is so birdy and full of beautiful birds, so admirable!
The Hooded Margansers are so cute, and the white-throated Sparrow is so lovely!

When birding in HK especially when it's so quite, it's always remind me of your wonderful birdlist seen at the forum!
Hope see you sometime visiting HK again!


Cheers
Meiling

John Holmes

Hi Brendan,

Nice shots...I especially like the Mergansers...

John