#birdwatching
Thanks to both @kittychandler and @Daveography for both mentioning the "Merlin" application program for 🐦 birdwatching. Not something I'm really into, but enjoy other's pictures and descriptions. Its pretty informative and very well done.
Sidenote: from my Android mobile phone it required a Google email which frankly kind of ticked me off, would rather have a choice instead of the largest default.
Red Bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus)
I had thoughts and curiosities about the hole that this woodpecker is at, but then the top of the tree fell off and the hole was gone. It was in the late fall, one person told me that there was no way she way building a nest because it was too early. But both a male and a female were around the tree fairly regularly.
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Chaffinch hanging out on a roof this evening. Those out-of-focus white dots are insects flying around.
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Yeah, sex is cool and all, but have you ever had a mama #Mallard look at you like this & then swim over to you with a ridiculously cute waddling of #ducklings trailing behind & then stick around to beg for birdseed with the cutest quacks?
I only saw her around the Wood Ducks so I spent way too long after comparing #WoodDuck & Mallard duckling photos trying to determine if there's a chance they're hybrids. I still couldn't say.
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White-winged Snowfinch (Montifringilla nivalis, 🇩🇪 Schneesperling, 🇵🇱 śnieżka). My first encounter with this species. A relative of the common sparrow, this bird can be seen only high up in the mountains, on bare ridges above the forest line.
Blue Jay, 16th January 2022
Alewife Brook Reservation, Arlington, Massachusetts
Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Naumkeag & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS 90D, Sigma 150-600mm @ 267mm, 65% crop, 1/800s, f/5.6, ISO 400
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This black-headed parrot I saw at the zoo wasn't exactly enthused about being held captive. Maybe a new arrival, I don't know.
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Surveying the realm.
Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) are very protective of their territory. Here is one at op a small pine tree looking over land, probably hunting.
"Look for Northern Mockingbirds sitting high on tall shrubs, poles, or utility lines. Around your yard, you can also look for them running or hopping along your mowed lawn. You may be able to first identify the presence of a Northern Mockingbird by listening for its song which usually mimics numerous other birds at once." - allaboutbirds.org
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Blue Jay is finally back as I put out a bunch of peanuts and sunflower seeds and fresh water and is singing the happiest constant trilling song of abundance I've ever heard it sing. #birds #birdwatching #birdsong
Rufous hummingbird
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The three local swan chicks.
The other day, annoyingly having left my camera at home, I saw one riding on the back of its parent, but the other two were nowhere to be seen – until the parent shook its wings and they all fell out!
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Excursion to the #Oostvaardersplassen #flevoland #nederland #birdwatching #vogels
Northern Mockingbird at The New York Botanical Garden NYC 05/31/23 #NorthernMockingbird #mockingbird #birds #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #birding #birdphotography #bird #birdsofnewyork #Nature #naturephotography #urbannature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #newyorkbotanicalgarden #newyorkcity #thebronx #nyc
A Common Yellowthroat out in the open, greeting the morning.These little birds are quite common this time of year but they rarely sit still and prefer dense vegetation, thickets, and the tall marsh grass.
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The Kookaburra is such a fascinating little bird 📸
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Song Thrush singing some lovely tunes from the top of this building.
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Anna’s hummingbird
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Went for a walk, saw that leucistic blackbird again. (Also, some #mosstodon!)
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Summer Tanager somewhat relaxed during migration through Sabine Woods 2023 #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching
Anna’s hummingbird
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Tufted Titmouse, 12nd February 2022
Drumlin Farm, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Agawam, Massa-adchu-es-et (Massachusett), Nipmuc & Pawtucket traditional territory
Canon EOS 90D, Sigma 150-600mm @ 600mm, 20% crop, 1/800s, f/7.1, ISO 640
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An Egyptian gosling from a few weeks back – it's much bigger now, but I'm so slow to edit my way through the shots I've been taking this spring. More soon!
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Not my favourite photo, but one of my favourite birds — the Great Spotted Woodpecker!
This is a male one as can be seen by the red patch at the back of his head. Females' heads are completely black.
They have a very cute "kik" type of call.
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A Common Blackbird on his throne, singing a nice song.
They're one of the most talented singers around here and also one of the most (if not the most) commonly seen bird as well. @amselfreund has a lot of recordings of their songs on his account if you're interested! 🙂
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A crow on a street light.
(Alternate caption: Master of the glowing orb.)
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Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor)
This tufted titmouse was around yesterday along with several others. Fortunately, this bird took a second to pose in this crepe myrtle tree.
"A little gray bird with an echoing voice, the Tufted Titmouse is common in eastern deciduous forests and a frequent visitor to feeders. The large black eyes, small, round bill, and brushy crest gives these birds a quiet but eager expression that matches the way they flit through canopies, hang from twig-ends, and drop in to bird feeders. When a titmouse finds a large seed, you’ll see it carry the prize to a perch and crack it with sharp whacks of its stout bill." - allaboutbirds.org
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It's a Canada goose! They're not as common as greylags or Egyptians around here, so it was fun to finally photograph one.
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I'm hiding.
This snowy egret (Egretta thula) was at the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.
"Among the most elegant of the herons, the slender Snowy Egret sets off immaculate white plumage with black legs and brilliant yellow feet. Those feet seem to play a role in stirring up or herding small aquatic animals as the egret forages. Breeding Snowy Egrets grow filmy, curving plumes that once fetched astronomical prices in the fashion industry, endangering the species. Early conservationists rallied to protect egrets by the early twentieth century, and this species is once again a common sight in shallow coastal wetlands." - allaboutbirds.org
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Good morning, 🐦🐦🐦
If you remember life without cellphones, you were born in the 20th Century. I say that because I retired from the Army in the year 2000 and I didn't have a cell phone. I had just started to see people with them. My wife was still in the Army, and we went to Germany right after I retired. That was where we got our first cellphones. Germany's everyday life communications technology was ahead of ours in the states. It was a complete turnaround from when I was there in the 1970s, even the 1980s and early 1990s. In the 70s we had a utilitarian house phone with an analog meter on top.
“In their phones were antennas, and these antennas sniffed out an invisible world, as if by magic, a world that was all around them, and also nowhere, transporting them to places distant and near, and to places that had never been and would never be.” - Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
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Bird on a wire.
And wel a male American Goldfinch.
See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/1-bird-on-a-wire-jan-luit.html
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Living on the edge - of the feeder.
Here's a blue grosbeak that was around a few weeks ago.
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Crow.
That's it. That's the post.
(Actually, in this shot you can observe the feathers concealing the crow's ear: the auricular feathers – or: ear coverts – are pointing backwards sort of radially-ish from an area below its eye.)
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Set up a new bird bath last weekend. . . Mr. Bluebird has stopped by several times already.
Photographed with a Canon 5D Mark IV & 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L lens.
My #Robin friend Little Mate was a hungry bird this evening. He's eaten enough, and is now singing at the top of one of his trees.
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#Waterbird Wednesday A Red Knot walks along a Texas beach. Photographed from the car. #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching
It's always nice when birds frame themselves.
(Red-bellied Woodpecker, male)
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Today's black-and-white squares: A duck from above and a sparrow from below.
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How to greet a loved one, Egyptian-goose-style. (You'll need to imagine loud honking going along with this.)
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My #Robin friend Little Mate this morning. He had a bit of time to stop and chat for a while, ate some mealworms and then had to get back to singing - it's his job. In #Bath #Somerset #UK.
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Nictitating membrane off, nictitating membrane on.
(It's interesting how in some species, the nictitating membrane is fully transparent, while in crows, it's almost completely opaque – I guess they're dealing with fewer predators, so a robust eye cleaning tool is more important than uninterrupted vision.)
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Ducks feeding, geese flying.
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I did a very bad thing today. I was using Merlin to identify birds by the sounds they make. I was surprised to see Indigo Bunting come up in the list. I told my mom. She asked to hear the song and I played it loud cuz she’s getting old. And an Indigo Bunting came and landed for a minute on the deck railing three feet away. They then stuck around the area for hours thinking my phone was their mate-to-be. I felt so awful. I apologized a lot. #Birding #birdwatching #SoMuchGuilt
A northern flicker enjoying a dust bath near the Compost Heap in Central Park.
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I bought a thing that listens for birds for me
www.chuq.me/blog/review-haikubox-bird-identification-system
20 Jahre lang galt der Bienenfresser als ausgestorben in Deutschland. Jetzt gibt es wieder 350 Brutpaare, einige davon im Kaiserstuhl/#Freiburg. Zur Zeit ist es besonders spannend, die Verpaarung zu beobachten.
For 20 years, the bee-eater was considered extinct in #Germany. Now there are 350 breeding pairs again, some of them in the Kaiserstuhl/Freiburg. At the moment it is particularly exciting to watch the mating.
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This male Yellow Warbler looked so darn cute perched in the branches of the Maple tree in spring in Guelph Ontario Canada. He was just singing his little heart out for all to hear. What a happy little guy! These striking small yellow songbirds have chestnut streaks on the breast.
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Sparrbow.
Every time I see one of these little chipping sparrows (Spizella passerina) with their camouflage face and little red feather top, I think of army camouflage. It gives the little birds a tough look. There were hundreds of these little birds around during the winter and early spring. Now, I only see a few foraging on the ground now and then. I read that they switch their primary diet from seeds to insects in the spring and summer.
Diet
"Mostly insects and seeds. Diet varies with season. In summer, feeds mostly on insects, including grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, leafhoppers, true bugs, and many others, plus some spiders. Also eats many seeds, especially in fall and winter, including those of grasses, weeds, some waste grain." - https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/chipping-sparrow
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I won't deny that I've brightened up the reflection a little, and I've obviously desaturated the rest of the image (not that there was much color to begin with) – with that disclaimer out of the way:
Crows reflected in a crow's eye.
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Black-and-white Warbler on patrol for prey during migration this year in Sabine Woods, TX. #Birds #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching
Hunter in the grass.
There were a couple postings about robins this morning, probably from farther north. I haven't seen many American Robins (Turdus migratorius) lately, but early spring they were around a lot. Large flocks would fly over. There are some still around but scattered throughout forest areas, I think. My Merlin app picks up their songs once in a while.
"Although robins are considered harbingers of spring, many American Robins spend the whole winter in their breeding range. But because they spend more time roosting in trees and less time in your yard, you're much less likely to see them. The number of robins present in the northern parts of the range varies each year with the local conditions." - allaboutbirds.org
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