BIRDS
Ohio and other


All images on this page are by
Gerard M. Foley
They were taken variously on 35mm slide and negative film, scanned with an HP Photosmart Scanner and finished for this webpage in PaintShopPro 4.0

To see a full size image, click on the thumbnail.

     My late wife, Ruth Johnson Foley, was the birder in the family, but I use my camera to photograph birds whenever I have a good opportunity. When I can I use my f8 800mm f.l. lens on an old Pentax SLR. Many of the pictures were taken at a pole feeder in Fairfield County, Ohio, where we lived from 1976 to 1994. My remarks relate to the place where the bird was photographed. Any corrections to my identifications of the birds will be gratefully accepted.

The Cardinal
is the state bird of Ohio.
Out in the country they outnumber sparrows by a lot.

These little birds are more common than sparrows too:


Chickadee          Titmouse

In spite of this woodpecker's red head, a different one has even more red on his head, so these can't be called red-headed woodpeckers. Their breasts aren't very red, but still they have the name!


Red Breasted Woodpeckers
They're not common, but not rare either.

This mother downy woodpecker and her son lived in Ambler, Pennsylvania.
Father helped too, but I didn't get his picture.


Downy Woodpeckers


This bird came from California, and was only found there until fifty years ago. It is illegal to cage American songbirds, but a Long Island, New York, pet dealer thought that a California bird could be legally caged in New York. When he found that wasn't so, he released the birds he had. They prospered so that by 1965 they had reached the Philadelphia area by the thousands. When we came to Ohio in 1976 we thought we had lost them, but in a few years they caught up with us.


California House Finch


Here are some prettier native finches. In the winter they're a little dull, but early in the spring the two on the left started to brighten up. Later you can hardly believe the sight of a flock like the one on the right.


Goldfinches


We have visits from these migrants fairly frequently.
The one on the right looks as if he wished he were already where ever he was going.


Evening Grosbeaks

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