Birds of Gray
I gathered more photos of these four gray birds here and there these past few months.
So here’s their best photo from the balance, sharing a gallery together. The Northern Mockingbird got lucky with two photos.
Loggerhead Shrike
Northern Mockingbird
Northern Mockingbird
Gray Catbird
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
“Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.”
— Helen Van Wyk (1930-1994) Artist, Teacher and host of PBS’s “Welcome To My Studio” television show.
Very Nice Donna! Fun to see Great images of the smaller birds!!
Thank you, Reed!
I like all these guys… gray rules! Great photos, Donna. 🙂
Thank you, HJ! 😊
Cute birds! Fine photos!
Thanks, Belinda!
So lovely, Donna. Grey is a gentle colour. 😍
Thank you, Sylvia, it is!
I liked the loggerhead shrike best of this selection.
Thank you, Tom, I was surprised he landed there after I had been there a bit. Maybe curious of me?
Your Mockingbird looks a little like out Grey Shrike-thrush which has a beautiful song also Donna.
I just looked at yours and see the resemblance! 😊
Nice set, Donna. I don’t think we get shrikes or mockingbirds here, but definitely catbirds galore!
Thank you, Eliza. I imagine you hear some ‘meowing’ in your flower gardens! 😉
A lot! And now that they have nests, a lot of scolding! 😀
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I love shades of grey. Love the bandit markings on the Shrike.
Thank you, Vic!
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Very interesting idea to create a theme around grey. we did get a Mockingbird here in Edmonton, way out of its territory. people came from all over to see it. I like the photos.
Thank you, Jane! I wonder where that Mockingbird thought he was going?! Great for Edmonton!
That Loggerhead Shrike looks very similar to what we would call a Great Grey Shrike. I may have captured a young one on my L’A Vieille walk, but I wasn’t sure if it was that or a Lesser Grey Shrike or something else (and the photo wasn’t great either – certainly compared to yours!) So I didn’t include it in the gallery.
Don’t you just love the ‘great/greater’ and ‘lesser’ thrown into the species name! Means there’s just the slightest difference to figure ID. Drives me crazy sometimes, lol.
Donna, really great collection of grey birds! The one that I recognized is shrike. Namely last spring I heard very beautiful song and identified it later on as Red-backed Shrike. I got one really bad quality photo 😩 hopefully some day it will return.
Thank you, Minna! We have only two gray Shrikes in the US. Your ‘Red-backed’ sounds very interesting, so I just looked up images. Oh so lovely! I hope it returns some day for you!!
I hope that too. It is quite similar to your Shrike (the shape and the stripe in the head), but white 🙂
Cute little gray birds , Donna! Lovely pics!!
Thank you, Indira! 😊
That’s a lovely series of gray birds, Donna! The Gray Catbird is on my list to be seen still.
Thank you, Deborah! The catbirds are very shy/secretive, I usually hear them ‘meowing’ before I see them. 😃
Who said grey is boring? The Catbird is definitely my favorite.
Thanks Hans! The Catbirds are such a tease when trying to capture. 😉
Beautiful photos! These birds are like me, always wearing grey.
Thank you, I am a fond wearer of grays too!
Oh – I do hate it when WP eats anything I type… just wanted to say how much I admire the detail and clarity your images capture. That Shrike… E spotted one out in the Pacific foredunes one time, but it was really far… My shot was fuzzy, but now I know what it was SUPPOSED to look like. 😀 ❤
Thank you, Gunta! Shrikes have that tell-tale bandit mask that makes them so darn cute. 🙂
Beautiful gray birds. 😊
Thank you, Irene! 🙂