Anyone who knows me, knows I love snapping photos, and I love creatures. Birds are a favorite, because of the vast differences between them all! I love the intricacies found in them, like flowers.
Since arriving in the prairies here in Saskatchewan, whenever possible I’ve been trying to capture as many photos of the different birds as I can, so I thought I’d share a few photos with you and see if some of you might know their names.
This pretty creature I’ve never seen before, and have no idea what it’s called. It’s orange-ish with gorgeous black markings on the eyes.
This one I’m not sure of either. There are definitely many birds here that I’ve not seen in British Columbia. I need to find where I’ve put our bird books and start looking them up!
LOVE the bright blue head on this little thing.
I’m quite sure most know the name of the bird above. 
And believe it or not, it took me a while to remember the name of this black bird with the red wings…
lol
Can you guess what the black bird with the red wings name is?
Then there’s this one. I need a better, closer photo, of this bird. This was in our back field so I see them quite regularly and will try my best at snapping a closer photo soon. Do you know what it is?
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, this area has MANY bird species of all kinds. I look forward to spending many years capturing photos of as many as I possibly can!
Do you like to bird watch? What’s your favorites? Have any photos you’d like to share with us?
I’m a bird lover too but just a watcher as far as my back yard goes. I believe I can help you identify a couple of the birds that you’re not sure of.
The first one looks like a cedar waxwing. You see them in big numbers in the winter fly from fruit tree or berry tree and the get drunk on the fermented berries and crash into the windows. Crazy. But they are very pretty birds.
The 2nd one is a little tree swallow by the looks of it. My mom and dad have nesting boxes in there yard and always have them there.
That last one is hard to see but he might be an oriole of some kind.
Wow, your shots are so lovely! =)
Now that I’m on my computer, I can see the photos better than on my phone. That last one is as aptly named as the Redwing balck bird in the previous pic. This is the yellow headed blackbird.
I can hear the excitement in your voice Peggy!
When I was a child growing up between Rosetown and Biggar SK, we had a Redwinged Blackbird whose domain was down the hill near the clothsline and on the way to our outhouse. We had to take the broom with us and whir it over our heads because the Redwinged Blackbird would swoop down on us.
On the positive side – it had a lovely call.