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Bird of the Day — Northern Bobwhite, Kansas 2023
Elegance in brown

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Predator.

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Some featured creatures from yesterday at MNSA, NY
6.22.24
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Yellow-crowned Night Heron perched on a snag. Smaller heron with blue-gray, mottled upper, buffy lower, white forehead and black and white lateral face markings. Slight yellow tinge to frontal plumage. Strong, sharp black bill.
Seaside Skimmer dragonfly, the only dragonfly to lay eggs in salt-water. Colors change over the season, but this early arrival has a yellow and black banded and black-tipped abdomen and a blue-black head and thorax.
American Oystercatcher standing on a matt of algae at low tide, holding a small crab. Black and white upper, light lower, black head with yellow eyes. Long, slightly recurved, orange bill.

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Bird of the Day — Eastern Meadowlark, Kansas 2024
Singing from a low perch

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Bird of the Day — Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Kansas 2024
Perky

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Mom (at top left) and dad (at lower right) Scissor-tailed Flycatchers simultaneously bringing food to their nestlings, this morning in Pottawatomie County Kansas.

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My friend Little Mate this morning. He's still bringing his mate Maple lots of food, I think they have a new nest, but I haven't been able to find it yet. Hopefully that's because it's better hidden than their previous attempt. In .

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Happy Pride Month!

Bird of the Day — Painted Bunting, Kansas 2022

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The common corvid triumvirate around here

Magpie perched on a thick branch. Sun shining on its feathers and the green leave behind it
Two jackdaws perch up high in a tree. We can only see the tail of one of them but the other is in full view and backlit by the sun. Some green leave around and behind it

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American Oystercatcher family album
Lido Beach, NY
5.28.24

American Oystercatcher male with one chick near nest. Adult Oystercatchers are stark black and white birds with a long, red bill and orange eyes.
Female Oystercatcher with her three chicks. Two chicks seems to be play-fighting with each other.

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Bird of the Day — Sooty-capped Chlorospingus, Costa Rica 2024

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Bird of the Day — Resplendent Quetzal, Costa Rica 2024

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Bird of the Day — Common Tody-flycatcher, Costa Rica 2024
Yellow Sprite

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I ❤️ poppies.

There are three poppies in the photo, one beautifully developed and two still in bud, but the one in the middle is bent as if sad that it is not as tall as the others. The blurred background is red from the whole field of poppies and only in the upper part of the frame, where the developed poppy is, the background is darker.
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    Some birds at the Marine Nature Study Area, a salt-marsh preserve in NY. 5.17.24

    Clockwise from upper left: Green Heron, Ruddy Turnstone, Osprey and Yellow-crowned Night Heron

    Ruddy Turnstone, a shorebird patterned like a Calico Cat.
    Yellow-crowned Night Heron in profile. A small heron with a blue-grey body and black and white banded head, with a yellow tinge to its forelock and a long plume arising from the rear of its head.
    Osprey, a large fish-eating hawk, perched on a snag. Body is mostly dark brown with some white on the underside and head and a black mask.

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    I find this relaxing and hope you do too.

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    Bird of the Day — Summer Tanager, Kansas, yesterday.
    In honor of Mother's Day, a lovely mama bird.

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    A lemon-yellow male Baltimore Oriole tried to convince me that he was a very out-of-range Scott's Oriole.

    Today in Riley County KS

    black-backed and black-headed yellow bird, perched upright on a skinny vine

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    Bottoms up!

    With only its tail showing as almost its whole body is now submerged
    Now just the tip of its tail feathers and the ripple in the water
    With its whole body under water we see the bottom of the coots feet as it pushes itself downwards

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    My latest friend, Bramble. Bramble is just over 5 weeks old & is now fully independent. For now, Bramble is hanging around close to the nest site, but will shortly begin to wander further afield in search of a territory. Bramble is now adept at catching food, including flies & fast-moving spiders, so stands a good chance of survival.

    A juvenile European Robin, a small brown bird, perched on a barbed-wire fence, facing the camera, head turned to left so only one eye is visible.

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    Leaping lizards! Err, dinosaurs. My bad.

    Blue-headed Vireo in the yard this afternoon.

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    The very aptly-named Yellow Warbler. Currently the most common warbler in my patch of Flyover Country.

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    Bird of the Day — Black-and-white Warbler, Kansas 2024
    Stripes!

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    Bird of the Day — Nashville Warbler, Kansas 2022
    Finding the sun

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    A few migratory warblers in la Cienaga de Zapata, Cuba, taken in March. The Black-throated Blue, Northern Parula and American Redstart were probably almost ready to migrate north at that time.
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    "Northern Parulas are small wood-warblers with a short tail and a thin, pointy bill. They are plump little warblers about the size of a kinglet. Adult male Northern Parulas [like this one] are bluish gray overall with a yellow-green patch on the back and 2 white wingbars. A chestnut band separates the male's bright yellow throat and chest. Adult females are a bit paler and typically lack the male's breast band. Males and females have distinctive white eye crescents. Immature birds are paler than adults and lack the chestnut breast band." (AllAboitBirds).
    The American Redstart warbler is "a medium-sized warbler with a relatively wide, flat bill and fairly long, expressive tail. In flight it has a deep chest, slim belly, and long, somewhat club-shaped tail. Adult male American Redstarts [like this one] are mostly black with bright orange patches on the sides, wings, and tail. The belly is white. Females and immature males replace the orange with yellow or yellow-orange. They have gray head and underparts, with olive back and wings and dark-gray tail.

    "Black-throated Blue Warblers are small, well-proportioned birds with sharp, pointed bills. Compared with other warblers, they are fairly large and plump. Males are midnight blue above and white below with black on the throat, face, and sides. Females are plain grayish olive overall, although some individuals have blue tints on the wings and tail. Both sexes have a characteristic small white square on the wing, sometimes called a “pocket handkerchief.” (AllAboutBirds).
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