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A male Phainopepla from this Saturday morning's walk before the heat sets in.

Cyanocitta , to random
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An Anna's Hummingbird from this Saturday morning's walk before the heat sets in.

Hagukh , to random
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An Eastern Kingbird sitting on a cattail in the reeds.

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Excited to add a tiny lifer to my list today. Took about an hour of following this Alder Flycatcher’s freeBEER call to finally get eyes on it, a rare empid in our area.

Three-photo collage of an Alder Flycatcher - small flycatcher, grayish-olive above, pale underneath, thin white eyering, dark wings with bold white wingbars. Left side: Perched on a tiny twig sticking out on a dead skrag, facing away from the camera with its head facing left, against a completely blue sky. Top right: Perched on the same twig facing right. Bottom right: facing away from the camera on a different slim branch with a few low clouds in the background.
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    mof_sg , to random
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    knock knock who's there?

    3 Rufous guests.

    1 rufous woodpecker looking at the camera and the other busy searching for bugs in the branches.

    timdesuyo , to random
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    from winter. I don't know where they've all gone now.

    a masked bunting standing on some green grasses and dead leaves

    GPJohnston , to random
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    Plenty looks on our Solstice hike, got in a few miles, saw a beaver, Cooper’s hawk, bunnies and turtles, heard bullfrogs bellowing. But only got OK pics of cedar waxwings bug hunting and a Virgina rails clucking in the marsh. Thought about making heathen vows or taking pagan oaths but, nah!

    Beautiful cedar waxwing in the morning light.
    Photo looking down on a Virgina rail in marshy mud. It’s got a medium long tan/rust beak, a gray blue face and gray brown body, with a patch of black and white speckles under the wing. It’s a medium sized shorebird, you can see one spindly leg.

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    timdesuyo , to random
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    One of these day's I'll get a good picture of an — They are so pretty.

    NevadaWolf , to random
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    "We heard this establishment was for the birds."

    NevadaWolf , to random
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    OMG OMG

    Spotted a small bird on top of one of the yellow pipeline markers. Brain scrambles to both tell dad to stop before we scare it and trying frantically to ID it cause we are going to scare it.

    It spooks and lands just on the other side of the pipeline ditch.

    A BURROWING OWL!

    A small brown and tan owl perches amid a low growing bush. Its body is turned towards the right, showing the brown spotted wing and tan spotted chest. The round head is turned to face the left, bright yellow eye looking straight out over a small dark hooked beak.
    Closer view of a small brown and tan owl perching amid a low growing bush. Its body is turned towards the right, showing the brown spotted wing and tan spotted chest. The round head is turned to face the camera, bright yellow eyes looking straight out over a small dark hooked beak.

    dendroica , to random
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    Camped last week at Little Crater Lake, one of my favorite spots in the Cascades. Mid-week the campground was virtually empty, and the open subalpine meadow nearby was the stage for a dozen Common Nighthawks swooping and peenting in the dusk. When night has darkened the forest, the sky remains sourcelessly bright for a span of fifteen minutes, and in silhouette they cut across it on long, long, pointed wings, a smooth aerial dance of moment-to-moment improvisation.

    CTGT , to random
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    No Tern is an island

    Forster's Tern

    Hagukh , to random
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    A Brown Thrasher and one of its young in the garden

    A young Brown Thrasher in a shady spot at the edge of the meadow waiting to be fed

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    Ich liebe es stundenlang im Garten zu sitzen und zu beobachten.

    Ein Grünspechtmann flitzt in der Wiese rum und will den Ameisen an den Kragen

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    two things:

    1. I didn’t know bluebirds nested in places like this (did they borrow/steal/barter/lease to own a barn swallow’s nest?)

    2. Glad to see other dads changing dirty diapers/fecal sacs

    #birding #bluebird

    (I accidentally hit post before I finished putting alt text in but added it immediately after. If it isn’t showing up let me know)

    nathanlovestrees , to random
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    don’t be fooled

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    Cyanocitta , to random
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    Windy Tuesday, no fires close to us thankfully, go bags always ready. A White-breasted Nuthatch on the redbud trunk this morning.

    Rihilism , to random
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    A common scene this time of year along the trail at Recreation Area.

    In fact, I believe this is my third year in a row for catching a photo of a dickcissel singing its heart out atop a color-coordinated mullein inflorescence.
    (06/05/24)

    Photograph of a singing dickcissel perched at the top of a mullein inflorescence with out of focus green foliage in the background. The dickcissel is facing left leaving one eye visible. Its beak is opened in song and its weight bends the mullein spike to the left. Based on its coloring this may be a female of the species. This bird has grey abdomen feathers, brown wings, back, and tail feathers with dark bars and mottling, a bright yellow chest with grey on either side, a white neck with a slim black outline, a grey cap with a yellow mask across the eyes, a grey cheek with a yellow patch on the lower cheek, dark eyes, a silver-grey beak, and brown legs and feet. This variety of mullein produces a flower spike that towers above the plant. The flowers have five yellow, overlapping petals that form a shallow cup around the yellow center.
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    timdesuyo , to random
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    I ran into a pair of making a racket the other evening when I wasn't prepared to photograph them. I think maybe it was some vocal parenting, but it seems like it would be a second clutch for the year? I know I saw babies almost ready to leave the nest months ago.

    common kingfisher on a stick in front of green grass
    common kingfisher on a stick in front of yellow winter grasses. there is a foreground stick blocking the view a bit
    common kingfisher on a stick over a creek

    NunavutBirder , to random
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    You’d be hard pressed to find a bird handsomer than a Pacific Loon.

    Rihilism , to random
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    Female (with bug) and male purple martin.
    (06/10/23)

    Photograph of a male purple martin perched on a slender, horizontal pole with a pale blue sky in the background. The martin is facing forward with its head tilted to the right frame. Male purple martins have purple-blue body feathers that flash iridescence in bright light, brown and black wing and tail feathers, dark grey legs and feet, large, deep-set, dark eyes, and a short, pointed beak that curves down at the tip and is ideal for catching insects in flight.

    Photograph of a female purple martin perched on a slender, horizontal pole with a pale blue sky in the background. The martin is facing forward with its head turned to the left frame. This martin has just caught a bug that it still holds in its beak. Female purple martins have brown body feathers with white mottling, dark grey legs and feet, large, deep-set, dark eyes, and a short, pointed beak that curves down at the tip and is ideal for catching insects in flight.
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    Palm Warbler in a evergreen tree

    See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/palm-warbler-on-top-of-a-evergreen-jan-luit.html

    vogelflausch , to random German
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    Good morning 🌧️ from Germany. More birds from my vacation in Lithuania🇱🇹 :
    Barn Swallow near Minė.
    Have a wonderful start into this new week

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