#FlyoverCountry

Bird of the Day — American Bittern, Kansas 2021
"You can't see me"

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Portrait of the head of a bird with long bill, brown stripes and a bit of down clinging to the crown, and a bright yellow et.

Albatrossity

2 days ago

Red-shouldered Hawk on a cloudy day in Flyover Country. Photographed today in Wabaunsee County KS

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Red-bodied white-winged hawk, flying against a high white sky

Albatrossity

2 days ago

Bird of the Day — Prairie Falcon, Kansas 2023
Death Parrot

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Long-winged white bird with speckled underside and dark wingpits, in flight against a blue winter sky

Albatrossity

4 days ago

Light-morph version of the Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk, photographed today in Manhattan KS

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Portrait of a hawk with dark head, white chest streaked with brownish-black, and a dark eye.

Albatrossity

5 days ago

Finally found my first Rough-legged Hawk of the fall season, an adult female in Pottawatomie County KS.

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Large long-winged bird with dark belly flying away from the photographer, with a fence post in the foreground

Albatrossity

1 week ago

Bird of the Day — Red-tailed Hawk, Kansas 2021
Frosty

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Hawk with white chest and brown-streaked belly, perched in a tree with ice/frost-covered branches

Albatrossity

1 week ago

American Crow pestering a first year Red-tailed Hawk (Krider's subspecies), today near Manhattan KS
Ebony and Ivory

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Large mosty white bird being dive-bombed by a smaller black bird

Albatrossity

1 week ago

Bird of the Day — Harris's Sparrow, Kansas 2014
The Sparrow of the Heartland

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Stocky bird with white chest & belly, black head, brown wings and red-orange beak, perched in a bush against a yellow fall background

Albatrossity

1 week ago

The turkeys would like to come in from the cold, please.

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Turkeys pecking at their reflections in a basement window.

Albatrossity

1 week ago

The one that got away.

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Fluffed up turkey with red neck, blue head, long snood, and fully fanned tail

Albatrossity

1 week ago

Bird of the Day — Rough-legged Hawk, Kansas 2022
Raufußbussard

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Long-winged bird with white flight feathers, dark patches at the "wrists", and a white tail with a terminal dark band, soaring against a blue sky

Albatrossity

2 weeks ago

Bird of the Day — Northern Mockingbird, Kansas 2020
Loquacious

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gray bird with long tail and white wing patch, singing from a bare branch

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Bird of the Day — Ring-necked Pheasant, Kansas 2018
Strangers in a strange land

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two brown, longtailed, sturdy birds with green heads and red facial masks, standing in a brown grassy field

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Merlin found today near Manhattan KS

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Raptor with gray-streaked crown, white throat, dark eyes, and streaky breast looking into the camera

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Bird of the Day — Vesper Sparrow, Kansas 2023
Songster - https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/94411

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Gray-white bird with brown streaking on the chest and a bold white eye-ring, perched on a sunflower stalk in a dry field

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Northern Harrier making sure that a Red-tailed Hawk understands whose airspace this really is.

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Hawk with reddish underside and boldly banded tail veering toward another slightly larger hawk

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Bird of the Day — Fox Sparrow, Kansas 2021
Russet beauty

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Gray and rufous bird with a large bill, perched on a bare twig

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Bird of the Day - American Tree Sparrow, Kansas 2021
Snowbird

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small gray bird with rusty cap, perched on a dried sunflower stalk in front of a white background

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Franklin's Gulls, an abundant migrant here in Flyover Country every spring and fall.

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#Migration

Black, white and gray birds loafing and preening along a gray sandy shoreline

Albatrossity

3 weeks ago

Bird of the Day — Redhead, Kansas 2023
Post-election mood

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Duck with brown sides, grayish back, and reddish head, sitting in water and vocalizing with a wide-open beak

Albatrossity

4 weeks ago

I found this very colorful male Taiga Merlin this morning near Manhattan KS. Of course the light was minimal for taking bird-in-flight images, but that seems to be my luck with Merlins. They do like cloudy days!

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Flying bird with pointed wings, banded tail, blue-gray back, and rufous streaking on the head

Albatrossity

4 weeks ago

Bird of the Day — Short-eared Owl, Kansas 2021

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Pale-faced bird with yellow eyes and long wings, flying at and looking at the camera

Albatrossity

4 weeks ago

Very fun sighting this morning near Manhattan KS. A first-year Krider's Red-tailed Hawk perched in a tree below a first-year Ferruginous Hawk.

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Large brown-winged white-chested bird perched in a tree underneath an even larger brown-winged white-chested bird.

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Merlin, Kansas 2023
Swift finality

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Portrait shot of a streaky-breasted brown-capped dark-eyed bird, with a hooked raptorial beak and a baleful glare

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day - Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk, Kansas 2023

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dark hawk with white tail, flying against a blue sky background

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Gadwall, Kansas 2023
Gorgeous, not gaudy

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Brown duck with rusty wing stripe and white wing patch, in flight in front of a brown wetland background

Albatrossity

1 month ago

One of the northern migrant Red-tailed Hawks that I see around my part of Flyover Country has returned for at least the third winter in a row. It's a pretty cool beast; light-morph Harlan's Hawk. In the winter of 2021-2022 (two winters ago), I found this bird within a few hundred yards of where I saw it today (see ebird checklist at https://ebird.org/checklist/S146354616).

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Large bird with light body and wings, blotchy sports on underside, and white tail, flying against a pale blue sky

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Mallard, Kansas 2023
Curly-tailed and ubiquitous

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Pair of flying birds, mostly brown. One has a green head and a blue/purple patch on the wing.

Albatrossity

1 month ago

A starling was on the breakfast menu for this Merlin this morning, near Manhattan KS.

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Streaky-breasted long-winged and long tailed hawk, perched on a utility pole and eating a recently-killed European Starling

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — American Tree Sparrow, Kansas 2017
Rusty winter guest

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Gray-white small bird with rusty cap and bicolored bill (black on top, yellow on bottom), perched on a sunflower leaf stalk

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Distant shot, alas, of a pair of Red-tailed Hawks negotiating air space boundaries. Near Manhattan KS, this morning.

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Two birds in flight with legs outstretched, one above the other, which is upside down in mid-air to fend off the upper bird

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Field Sparrow, Kansas 2017
Winsome

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Brown bird with rufous crown, white wing-bars and a bold white eye-ring, perched on barbed wire near a cedar tree

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Lots of Bald Eagles in my patch of Flyover Country right now. I found this 4 or 5 yr-old bird today near Manhattan KS. It is almost but not quite in fully adult plumage. Still a few white body feathers, a few dark tail feathers, and some dark smudges on that almost-yellow bill.

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dark-bodied white-headed bird with a large yellow bill, soaring against a blue sky on a crisp fall day

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Snow Goose, Kansas 2019
Blizzard o'geese

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A flock of black and white birds flying against a mostly blue sky

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day - Dark-eyed Junco, Kansas 2019
Snowplowing

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Gray and white bird perched in snow and using its feet and head to dig into the snow

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day - Belted Kingfisher, Kansas 2021
Hardy

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Bird with shaggy blue-gray crest, blue-gray band over a white belly, blue-gray wings and a large beak, perched on a bare branch

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — LeConte's Sparrow, Kansas 2023
Don't like wind

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small brown bird with orangey facial pattern, perched on a sunflower stem in a windy field

Albatrossity

1 month ago

First-winter Herring Gull, cruising over a local reservoir this morning. Photographed near Manhattan KS

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Grey and white long-winged bird flying over leaden waters

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Northern Harrier, Kansas 2023
Tireless predators

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long-winged hawk with brownish head and breast, yellowish eyes, banking and hunting against a light blue sky

Albatrossity

1 month ago

One of the less common subspecies of Red-tailed Hawk, this ghostly pale Krider's Hawk showed up in my patch of Flyover Country this morning.

Near Manhattan KS

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bird with lots of white speckling on dark wings, pale red tail, and white head, in flight against a blue sky

bird with lots of white speckling on dark wings, white front and white head, perched on the crossbar of a utility pole

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Greater White-fronted Goose, Kansas 2021
Moving south

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Two large-bodied long necked gray and white birds flying against a blue sky

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Ruby- crowned Kinglets. One of them really thinks he is "king"!

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Albatrossity

1 month ago

Almost, but not quite in focus. LeConte's Sparrow, photographed this morning near Manhattan KS.

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Small bird with orangish chest and facial stripes, in flight against a brown background

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Bird of the Day — Western Meadowlark, Kansas 2019
With a small insect friend

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Yellow-breasted bird with brown wings, perched on one side of an old fencepost while a praying mantis peers around from the other side

Albatrossity

1 month ago

Fall colors and a fall migrant bird. Young White-crowned Sparrow amongst the dogwood shrubbery.

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Small bird on a bare branch, framed by yellow and red foliage

Albatrossity

2 months ago

White-crowned Sparrows are back in Flyover Country. And this one seemed very happy to see me!

Photographed this morning in Riley County Kansas USA.

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Small gray/white bird with bold black and white crown stripes, looking at the camera with its mouth wide open

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Bird of the Day — Song Sparrow, Kansas 2023
Thorn bird

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brown and white bird with streaky chest, perched in a thorny tree and facing the camera

Albatrossity

2 months ago

I found this cutie skulking in a sunflower patch this fine fall morning. LeConte's Sparrow.

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Small bird with conical bill, boldly-striped back, and pumpkin-colored facial pattern, hiding in some tall brushy weeds

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Bird of the Day — Eastern Bluebird, Kansas 2017
Splash of color on a dull day

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Blue-backed rufous flanked bird perched on a twig in front of a dun grassy field

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Bird of the Day — Pine Siskin, Kansas 2023
Welcome Back!

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streaky brown-and-white bird with short pointed bill and yellow highlights on the wings, perched on a dry sunflower head

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Our most common migrant warbler here in Flyover Country, spring and fall. Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler.

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small gray, brown, and white bird with yellow flank spot and blurry streaks on the chest, perched on a bar twig in a leafy understory

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Bird of the Day — Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Kansas 2023
No ruby, but beautiful fresh plumage

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small olive-drab bird with pointed bill, white eye-ring, and flared wings and feathers, viewed from above

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Even though it is October, and this House Wren is heading south very soon, he still felt that it was necessary to scold me one last time!

Photographed near Manhattan KS yesterday.

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small gray and brown bird with uptilted tail, vocalizing on a bare branch with green and yellow fall leaf colors in the background

Albatrossity

2 months ago

Bird of the Day — Sandhill Crane, Nebraska 2011
Looking rosy in the dawn light

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Three dark long-legged long-necked birds with a faint rosy glow, flying overhead against a clear blue sky

Albatrossity

2 months ago

"Pardon me, sir, but is that a fish in your pocket?"

Osprey, near Manhattan KS this morning

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long-winged black and white bird, with a yellow eye, soaring against a blue sky background

Albatrossity

2 months ago

I found a couple of Cooper's Hawks at my birding destination this morning. Usually that means that the smaller birds are going to make themselves scarce. And it did take a while before there was much activity, but eventually I had a pretty good list. Here's the eBird report - https://ebird.org/checklist/S151830662

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