Two Martin Pics.

[1 Ron Vasser]

A couple of shots from this morning. Aren't they beautiful.

[Matt F.]

YES! I've been looking forward to some new Ron Vasser photos!

Ron, you truly have a gift.

[Guest]

Wow Ron, those are a couple of fantastic pictures. Keep them coming Henry

[Guest]

Ron, Thanks for sharing, they are fantastic

Collleen

[Guest]

Ron,

I remember all your beautiful pics from last year. I think I used a couple for my computer's background

Great job Ron!....keep them coming!

Thanks
craig

[Glen Webb Jr]

Geez Louise! Those photos are amazing! Up close and personal!!!!! And so beautiful.

[Joe Zorn]

Ron, Really beautiful birds! I can see the iris in both birds' eyes.

Can't get much closer than this.

Someone tell me what manner of PM these two are. Males/female, ASY/SY.


Also, Ron, how do you put the pic into the text of the message? No matter how small I resize the pic, it always comes up as an attachment that has to be clicked on.

Joe

[Fred Kaluza~MI]

Something there is funny! In the first picture, the Martin appears to have a nice painting hanging on the wall inside near the ceiling! Nice touch!

[Sherrie]

Wow... You can see the eyelashes on the male in that second picture! Incredible! We have such wonderful photographers on this forum!

Thanks so much for sharing your great talent - and please keep them coming!

[1 Ron Vasser]

Thanks Folks! Glad you enjoyed them.

Joe, they are ASY and you do know the all purple is the male. To post pics. like this you need a host site to store your photos and then transfer to your post.

Fred, that's their apartment #.

[Joe Zorn]

Ron, Your pics were very much larger than I expected, and i never saw the male to the lower right of the female, until later today.

Since I thought the female was in the shot by itself, I was wondering if it's very white chest indicated an SY male maybe, even if this was a little early yet.

The bird in the second shot had a lot of gray color as well. So, to me, it also could have been either. I have not seen that many female/SY's to be able to distinguish them apart. Thus, asking for Identification, however foolish that might have seemed.

I do know that all purple means ASY male. And since they are not picking at each other, it's companion is probably a female in the first pic.

I do have a site that hosts my pics. How do you put the HTML code into the message?

[Dale Hrncirik]

Ron,

Thanks for sharing those great photos.

IMO, that's as good as it gets! Please keep em coming!

Dale

[1 Ron Vasser]

Joe, I didn't intend my reply to sound sarcastic. Hope you didn't take it that way. Here is a good ID link.

http://www.purplemartin.org/MartinID/martinid.html

Copy and paste should get your code into the text message.
Hope this helps.