I searched through my archives for birds with black feathers and came up with birds I saw in Alaska, Texas, Colorado, and close to home in Georgia. The photo above is a Hooded Merganser at Inks Lake in Texas.
Thank you Lisa. for this Bird Weekly Challenge #21: Birds with Black Feathers
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Beautiful pictures! I especially like the Puffins. My dad did some woodcarving as a hobby. I have a picture of a puffin he carved. I’ll have to track down where it ended up. I also like the red beak of the oystercatcher. That’s a new one for me! Enjoy your day!
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Betty, thank you! I loved seeing the puffins when we were in Alaska. Happy Tuesday!
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What a variety of beautiful birds. I’m looking forward to seeing a Puffin one day! P.S. It’s 48 degrees and sunny this morning, I am in heaven!!
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Suzanne, thank you. We had to travel all the way to Alaska and go on a wildlife cruise to see those puffins. I loved seeing them. 43 degrees here!
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Those Puffins are so darn cute! Great shots of beautiful birds… but I love those Puffins!
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Nancy, thank you! Those puffins were so much fun to see.
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Congrats on a great collection!
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Judy, thank you! I didn’t think I had that many black feathered bird photos until I looked through my archives.
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Wonderful array of photos from your travels, Beth! The Puffin is my #1 bucket list bird! The Black Billed Magpie & Black Oystercatcher would be lifers too! The Whooping Cranes would be as well even though I saw them as a kid…that doesn’t count. Thanks for sharing these awesome birds with us! 🙂 BTW…That male merganser is quite beautiful!
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Lisa, thank you! We traveled a long way See most of those birds. We had to go on wildlife cruises to see the puffins and oystercatchers
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I know I will see them someday. I want to go to the Isle of May to see them and the Arctic Terns. Oh, I can dream! LOL! 🙂
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I have always wanted to see and photograph Puffins!
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Ingrid, seeing puffins was on my bucket list when we went to Alaska. We saw them on wildlife cruises. They are not very big but really stand out when they are floating on the water.
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Wow – are those Tufted Puffins (or Horned Puffins)? They’re different from our Atlantic Puffins here in the UK
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Margaret, I think there might be both in this photo. I know we saw both kinds while we were in Alaska.
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Your bird photos are always great. We always refer to seasonal residents in Florida as “snowbirds”. I guess you could call the hooded mergansers snow birds as well because they are winter residents in our part of Florida. I don’t see them often on our pond but they really are cute.
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Karen, thank you! I’m so glad you enjoy my bird photos. We saw that merganser in Texas. I didn’t know they wintered in Florida.
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