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My birdfeeder stays busy with Chikadees and Tufted Titmouses mostly which is fine with me. They are the cutest little birds. I enjoy watching them snag a seed and flying up to a limb to peck at it. Other regular visitors are Nuthatches, wood peckers, squirrels, and the chipmunks that get the dropped seeds. My hummers left last month.
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I came across a great blue heron during today’s hiking.

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Until you see one in person, you don't realize how big those birds are in real life.
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bulbul wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:26 pm I came across a great blue heron during today’s hiking.

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Great photo! I think herons and cranes are so elegant. :happy
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LadyGeek wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 1:03 pm Until you see one in person, you don't realize how big those birds are in real life.
And quite formidable hunters. I have seen them fend of Bald Eagles who try to steal their catch.
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Had a 2 Jay day today.

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My family of Mexican Jays were at my stock tank, while a Scrub Jay was getting water at the house. I only get Scrub Jay for about a day or two every year, this one has stayed for about 3 weeks.
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I am skilled at identifying birds. Let me know if my services are needed.
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Grasshopper wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 3:18 pm My family of Mexican Jays were at my stock tank, while a Scrub Jay was getting water at the house. I only get Scrub Jay for about a day or two every year, this one has stayed for about 3 weeks.
I had to look up Mexican Jays - they look similar to Scrub Jays. I love the blue coloring. :happy

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Nice. I have one of those in my backyard. The hooting is very distinctive. As long as I've lived here, I may have only seen one during the day - and only because I startled him.

I heard one a few weeks ago, but nothing since. The cold weather will sink in later next week, so I'm hoping to hear him again.

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LadyGeek wrote: Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:52 pm Nice. I have one of those in my backyard. The hooting is very distinctive. As long as I've lived here, I may have only seen one during the day - and only because I started him.

I heard one a few weeks ago, but nothing since. The cold weather will sink in later next week, so I'm hoping to hear him again.
We have regulars in our woods behind the marsh. In the late summer, for some reason, one of them drops down in the early evening and runs around the back yard eating something. I caught one in my scope a couple of years ago.

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^^^ Good detail and nice control on the depth of field.

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Christmas Bird Count here in Bozeman yesterday, the highlight for our section was a juvenile Tundra Swan, 2nd one reported on the count in 82 years!
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Hubris wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:23 pm Christmas Bird Count here in Bozeman yesterday, the highlight for our section was a juvenile Tundra Swan, 2nd one reported on the count in 82 years!
A nice catch!

I saw a California condor the other day. It flew so close that I was stunned and didn't get a photo.
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How did these Black Swans end up on Bolsa Chica State Beach in Southern California. Strange!
I took this picture two days ago.

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LadyGeek wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:01 pm ^^^ Good detail and nice control on the depth of field.

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Audubon posted their 2020 photography winners. Some of you may enjoy these. I thought the hummingbird photo was pretty amazing:

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer ... ds-winners
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ID help is needed:
Whitey is the sole exotic in the mixed flock of mostly juncos and a few house finches who are feeding on the scattered milo and sunflower seeds. Whitey has a white head and cape that goes lower on the back than the black on the juncos, and lower and wider than the juncos' black bib in front. Juncos have light colored bills. Whitey has a black bill and a narrow black patch maybe centered near the lower forehead. When facing me and feeding (a blur of quick pecking), the impression is that the black is on the face, but side views don't confirm that. Whitey has a thin wing bar of white amongst the mixed, brown theme of the folded, outer wing feathers.

I'm near the center of Arizona at 4800' elevation in rugged topography where the juniper and pinyon pine brush dominate, but the Ponderosa pines start at 5000' elevation, just a few miles away. Whitey first appeared a week ago, on the day ahead of the first wet storm of the winter. I assume that Whitey is a refugee from summer forest fires, a few states further north. Whitey and the dense flock of 20-30 juncos are at the feeder within the first hour after sunrise, but later in the day, the fewer feeding juncos do not move as a flock, and Whitey is not seen, but has been sighted on 5 of 7 recent mornings when the temperature is just starting to warm to above freezing.
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heyyou wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:32 pm ID help is needed:
Whitey is the sole exotic in the mixed flock of mostly juncos and a few house finches who are feeding on the scattered milo and sunflower seeds. Whitey has a white head and cape that goes lower on the back than the black on the juncos, and lower and wider than the juncos' black bib in front. Juncos have light colored bills. Whitey has a black bill and a narrow black patch maybe centered near the lower forehead. When facing me and feeding (a blur of quick pecking), the impression is that the black is on the face, but side views don't confirm that. Whitey has a thin wing bar of white amongst the mixed, brown theme of the folded, outer wing feathers.

I'm near the center of Arizona at 4800' elevation in rugged topography where the juniper and pinyon pine brush dominate, but the Ponderosa pines start at 5000' elevation, just a few miles away. Whitey first appeared a week ago, on the day ahead of the first wet storm of the winter. I assume that Whitey is a refugee from summer forest fires, a few states further north. Whitey and the dense flock of 20-30 juncos are at the feeder within the first hour after sunrise, but later in the day, the fewer feeding juncos do not move as a flock, and Whitey is not seen, but has been sighted on 5 of 7 recent mornings when the temperature is just starting to warm to above freezing.
You might try a bird ID app on your phone called Merlin (Cornell University). You input certain attributes of the bird and it gives you possible species. I'm not sure it will work for an "exotic" but worth a try. There is also a photo ID option but I haven't tried that yet. :happy
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We've been having fun watching our winter 'charm' of Anna's hummingbirds. We have about 5 or 6 that over-winter in our backyard. We live in an area into which, over the last several decades, they have expanded their over-wintering range. It's an interesting sight to see hummingbirds sitting on snow-covered evergreen branches. We've also built feeder heaters to ensure their food stays liquid and available to them for their all-important first feeding in the morning after spending the previous below-freezing night in torpor.
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JAZZISCOOL wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 7:47 pm Audubon posted their 2020 photography winners. Some of you may enjoy these. I thought the hummingbird photo was pretty amazing:

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/summer ... ds-winners
Shared the link with DW. These pictures are amazing!
Thanks for posting this.
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One Ping wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:45 pm We've been having fun watching our winter 'charm' of Anna's hummingbirds. We have about 5 or 6 that over-winter in our backyard. We live in an area into which, over the last several decades, they have expanded their over-wintering range. It's an interesting sight to see hummingbirds sitting on snow-covered evergreen branches. We've also built feeder heaters to ensure their food stays liquid and available to them for their all-important first feeding in the morning after spending the previous below-freezing night in torpor.
Interesting post about your over-wintering hummingbirds. I did not know there were hummingbird feeder heaters. We are in NC and our ruby-throated hummers left some time ago. We do have a heated birdbath even though most days it's not needed.
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agbp wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:16 am Interesting post about your over-wintering hummingbirds. I did not know there were hummingbird feeder heaters. We are in NC and our ruby-throated hummers left some time ago. We do have a heated birdbath even though most days it's not needed.
RTHBs clear out of the east coast in the fall. Oddly, every once in a while an odd HB species shows up on the east coast in late fall early winter. We have seen Rufous and Calliope HBs in MD as late as January. I think they get blown over here by mistake. If they can find shelter and food they will hunker down until they have a chance to head south.
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It's wintertime here in East TN - time for the Hermit Thrush to come grace our yard once more.


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We get those around here. Saw one on the Christmas Bird Count on Sunday; at a distance they have the same profile as a wren so you have to look carefully some times.
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agbp wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:16 am
One Ping wrote: Mon Dec 21, 2020 2:45 pm We've been having fun watching our winter 'charm' of Anna's hummingbirds. We have about 5 or 6 that over-winter in our backyard. We live in an area into which, over the last several decades, they have expanded their over-wintering range. It's an interesting sight to see hummingbirds sitting on snow-covered evergreen branches. We've also built feeder heaters to ensure their food stays liquid and available to them for their all-important first feeding in the morning after spending the previous below-freezing night in torpor.
Interesting post about your over-wintering hummingbirds. I did not know there were hummingbird feeder heaters. We are in NC and our ruby-throated hummers left some time ago. We do have a heated birdbath even though most days it's not needed.
I didn't know that either about hummers sticking around with snow. They left here around September. They are so cheerful to watch. :happy
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There was a big flock of wild turkeys hanging out under my bird feeder this morning. About ten of them. The neighbors cat wasn’t quite sure what to think. Does this count as bird watching? :happy
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Yesterday, I was out bird watching in some wetlands and noticed a bird flying that must've picked up a piece of white trash and was flying strongly away with it. Then I noticed that it had a white tail, too. Then, I thought, "Wow! My eyes are really getting bad! It's a bald eagle."
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livesoft wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:48 pm Yesterday, I was out bird watching in some wetlands and noticed a bird flying that must've picked up a piece of white trash and was flying strongly away with it. Then I noticed that it had a white tail, too. Then, I thought, "Wow! My eyes are really getting bad! It's a bald eagle."
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JMacDonald wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:47 pm How did these Black Swans end up on Bolsa Chica State Beach in Southern California. Strange!
I took this picture two days ago.

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Dottie57 wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:05 pm
JMacDonald wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:47 pm How did these Black Swans end up on Bolsa Chica State Beach in Southern California. Strange!
I took this picture two days ago.

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Beautiful birds. Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed these as well. Did a little digging and couldn't see any native black swans in the US but did see a reference to one mostly in Australia although they've been spotted in Florida and NC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan

Sometimes "exotics" escape from zoos or private collections, I read.
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TnGuy wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 11:45 am Image

It's wintertime here in East TN - time for the Hermit Thrush to come grace our yard once more.


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Sorry for the lack of pictures - I’ll be prepared next time.
The ponds here in North Florida are full of wintering wading birds.
Today I saw several Wood Storks and Great Egrets in a small neighborhood pond.
Another golf course pond had over 50 Great Egrets.
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mike@jb wrote: Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:43 pm Sorry for the lack of pictures - I’ll be prepared next time.
The ponds here in North Florida are full of wintering wading birds.
Today I saw several Wood Storks and Great Egrets in a small neighborhood pond.
Another golf course pond had over 50 Great Egrets.
Cool! I didn't know what a Wood Stork looked like but I do now! Very interesting bird.

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I had hundreds, maybe even over 1000 birds in my front yard today. It was one of the coolest nature phenomenons I've witnessed. The sound of the massive group of birds flying and landing almost in unison was incredible.

I'm assuming they were migrating. They looked like barn swallows or chimney swift's, but I don't think that's what they were. I didn't get a close up pic, but was able to record some of it on my phone.
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Last week I saw 127 Hooded mergansers fly in from Puget Sound on to a freshwater pond right before sunset...a few at a time. Then the males were displaying for the females. Sent my friend a week later and she saw four! Last week I saw a northern bob white which is not a regular here in the PNW.
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Thought I seen a Dodo bird in my yard. I was consuming Christmas ales at the time. :beer
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One bird that we get in our yard every winter is the Brown Creeper (though, I have yet to see one so far). It summers in the higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains, moving down to the Tennessee Valley and surrounding areas for the winter. The Brown Creeper has a wonderful habit of 'working a tree upwards' by clinging to the tree and probing the bark for bark insects as it steadily climbs. Then, when it's time to move on to the next tree it always flies to a low spot on the tree trunk to begin the process of working back up the tree once more - up-and-down, up-and-down ... it's a good identifying behavior.


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TnGuy wrote: Thu Dec 24, 2020 12:30 pm Image

One bird that we get in our yard every winter is the Brown Creeper (though, I have yet to see one so far). It summers in the higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains, moving down to the Tennessee Valley and surrounding areas for the winter. The Brown Creeper has a wonderful habit of 'working a tree upwards' by clinging to the tree and probing the bark for bark insects as it steadily climbs. Then, when it's time to move on to the next tree it always flies to a low spot on the tree trunk to begin the process of working back up the tree once more - up-and-down, up-and-down ... it's a good identifying behavior.


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Vtsax100 wrote: Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:40 pm There was a big flock of wild turkeys hanging out under my bird feeder this morning. About ten of them. The neighbors cat wasn’t quite sure what to think. Does this count as bird watching? :happy
Sure, why not? When we lived in western PA, we enjoyed seeing wild turkeys behind our house rummaging through the leaves.

ETA: I love the great photos people have been posting. Keep 'em coming!
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A recent eagle with lunch.

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What bird is this? Mid-Atlantic, MD.
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Faith20879 wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 12:43 pm Image
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What bird is this? Mid-Atlantic, MD.
I'm no expert, but it looks like a Carolina Chickadee to me. We have plenty of them here in NC.
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Black-capped Chickadee. I see them occasionally in my feeders (Philly area). From the Audobon guide:

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Candor wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 11:50 am A recent eagle with lunch.

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Great photo! :beer
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LadyGeek wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 1:03 pm Black-capped Chickadee. I see them occasionally in my feeders (Philly area). From the Audobon guide:

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We get a lot of these and I never get tired of them. So cute!

I've seen several large flocks of Bush Tits lately at the suet feeders which are also fun to watch.
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LadyGeek wrote: Fri Dec 25, 2020 1:03 pm Black-capped Chickadee. I see them occasionally in my feeders (Philly area). From the Audobon guide:

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I love these little guys. They are almost my favorite. They always are waiting out in the bushes when I take seed out in the mornings. I love watching them grab a sunflower seed and go up on a limb with it. They hold it between their feet and the limb and start pecking it.

Sadly I had a failed nest last spring. I had been watching them from the start and one day noticed I hadn’t seen the parents for a while. I looked in the box and all the babies were dead. It broke my heart.
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Today’s relaxing day around the house allowed for some bird watching out the window. Saw several black-capped chickadee, Carolina wren, junco, hairy woodpecker, and cardinals.
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