Garden bird ID, made simple 🐦✨

How many of these feathered visitors you can recognise?

Bonus points if you spot one today 👇

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Black Bear female (her cub’s in the brush behind her) enjoying wild apples fresh off the tree rather than those on the ground…used all the zoom I had…
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#rural #mammals #bears #wildlife
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#gettoknownature

Black-billed Magpie…together they build globular nests about 3 foot in diameter…male feeds female while female lays and incubates 5-9 eggs…both feed young…
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Captured this Great Blue Heron hunting at the Lily pond in Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…
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Male Belted Kingfisher near Harrah, WA hunting an irrigation canal from a phone line…they nest in 3-6 foot long tunnels that slope upward to keep rain out…
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#gettoknownature #BirdsofBlueSky
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Rufous Hummingbird at my Yakima Valley, WA feeder…likely migrating south…known for aggressive behavior, males do not assist females with incubation or care of young…
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Calliope Hummingbird, the smallest bird found in North America, visiting my feeder in Yakima Valley, WA during spring migration…it didn’t linger…
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Up close with an American Crow…took all my zoom but it seemed OK with people…maybe a resident at Sportsman State Park, Yakima…
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Female Bullock’s Oriole raiding the hummingbird feeder…guess it felt it needed to take a break from grape jelly…common here in the Yakima Valley…
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Hummingbird crowd at my feeder…believe Black-chinned female and two youngsters from my observations…had a female for several weeks before this photo and only females incubate eggs…
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#photography #WestCoastPhotography

Cattails and reeds from the pond edge…a bit of pink water lilies out on the water…

A hollow log laying on a bed of last fall’s fallen leaves that’s likely home to mice or other small rodents…

Bright red wild rose hips against green leaves and brown twigs…

Canada Thistle flowers gone to seed that’s very fluffy and gold…

Sights along a trail we briefly walked at Sportsman State Park, Yakima WA pond so I could photograph the water lilies…it was 96 degrees but I really had to get those lily photos…
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Caspian Tern panting in the 98 degree heat at a boat launch on the Columbia River, McNary National Wildlife Refuge, Burbank, WA…Gull sized, largest tern…
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Mature Black Angus cow…

Calf born early this spring…

Cow and her calf…our small pasture was allowed to go to seed…now a few cattle are on it…they’ll re-seed the pasture by walking the seeds into the ground…it’s an old fashioned, cheap way to keep a pasture healthy…Yakima County, WA…
#cattle #animals #WestCoastPhotography
#photography #gettoknownature

Wood Duck, drake, on Sportsman State Park pond, Yakima, WA…he had just come out of some blooming weeds at the pond edge so I think the white specks on him may be pollen or plant debris…
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Great Blue Heron hunting among the Water Lilies at the big pond at Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…
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#landscape #WestCoastPhotography
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#flowers #wildlife

Messy as they are, watching Barn Swallows build these mud nests is fascinating…didn’t realize it was such a frantic process…Yakima, WA…
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#photography #PNW
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Water lily found on the large pond at Sportsman State Park, Yakima WA…
Google Lens says it’s a hardy variety likely Nymphaea ‘Fabiola’…it took my breath away…
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Great Blue Heron at lunch among the blooming water lilies at Sportsman State Park, Yakima, WA…fishing was good…it got two before flying off to digest
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Steller’s Jay, the only crested jay west of the Rocky Mountains, surprised us by spending much of the summer with us in the Yakima Valley…guess it liked the steady supply of raw peanuts…
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Red-tailed Hawk flying over Toppenish NWR land on the Yakama Nation’s Reservation…its cry has a prominent role in the storyline in the 1992 Val Kilmer, Graham Green movie thriller “Thunderheart”…
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#photography #raptors #wildliferefuge
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Great Egret wading Snake River waters at Hood Park, Burbank, WA…it’s US population was nearly decimated in the late 1800’s by plume hunters…its comeback because of efforts of conservationists made it the symbol of the National Audubon Society…
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#gettoknownature

Shot this hummingbird from an open kitchen window…was really amazed by the feather pattern on the wings…
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#naturephotography

Wondered if this Swallowtail hadn’t dived too deeply into the lily…was preparing to shake it out…however, it backed out quickly and flew off covered in pollen…no need for human interference…
#butterflies
#flowers
#gardening
#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature

Check out the Great Blue Heron rookery on Toppenish Creek, Yakima Valley…14 of 15 nests are now empty…just one remaining adult and a fledgling…will be interesting to see if the rookery is used again next year…
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#gettoknownature
#greatblueheron
#WestCoastPhotography

A few American White Pelicans resting and grooming and cooling off on a very hot day in the shallows of the Yakima River near Toppenish, WA…
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Coyote, a young one, Fort Simcoe State Park, Yakama Reservation, Washington…it seemed to see me more than once but didn’t bolt for a brush as an older, wiser one would…nearly 100 degrees, it stayed in the shade…most of my photos are silhouettes…
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#wildlife
#gettoknownature

Watched this Osprey fly up from the nest, circle the area twice and then return to the platform and settle down on the nest again…not behavior I’ve seen during incubation before…temperature on my phone was 100 at Union Gap, WA at the time…
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#gettoknownature
#wildlife

California Quail, male…love their art deco look…have several pairs…one hatch already…expecting another before fall…usually stay out in the pasture but occasionally show up for a snack at our bird feeders…common in the Yakima Valley…
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#wildlife
#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature

Song Sparrow treating the world to its spring songs at the headquarters area, McNary National Wildlife Refuge, Burbank. WA…fantastic place to spend time with a camera…
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#wildliferefuge
#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature

Where would bird watchers/photographers be without fence posts and power poles? This Red-tailed Hawk gave me a nice over-the-shoulder pose from a post out in Medicine Valley on the Yakama Reservation in Washington state…
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#WestCoastPhotography
#gettoknownature
#wildlife