New bird alert! New bird alert!
My wife and I saw our first Canyon Towhee today! We went on a pleasant hike through cactus country, but is that where the bird was? No, it was at the nearby restaurant with the okay food but great window-side birding. Pickings were slim today other than the […]
Having reviewed the leader's ebird list, our memories, and our North American field guide, we had 5 lifers on Sunday's guided bird walk!
Mexican duck
Blue-winged teal
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Orange-crowned warbler
Black-throated gray warbler
#birding #lifebird
Burrowing Owl visiting the Ocean side in Virginia. Their normal range is Florida. Unlike other Owls they tend to hunt during day and skeddale along the ground
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A juvenile Little Blue Heron standing on a log amid lush green vegetation. The bird is focused forward, showcasing its long legs and slender neck.
Hello, Little Blue Heron! What are you doing in Michigan?
(Second life bird this week!)
#birds #birding #heron #PureMichigan #LifeBird
I was thrilled to meet my lifer yellow-throated warbler near Point Pelee NP this spring. What a stunning bird! 💛🪶🇨🇦
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Nothing like starting the day with two #FTF while #geocaching plus having Merlin identify a new #lifebird #birds at the same time!
Drake garganey looks back as he paddles along through still waters
Surprise lifer garganey - a pair was sticking around at Doñana National Park since it is so thoroughly flooded from the spring rains. Huelva Province, Spain, April 2025
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FINALLY saw the emperor goose that's been hanging out with the cacklers in the Arcata bottoms - behold, a terrible binocular/phone scoped photo of a really good bird 😁🪶 #humboldt #birding #rarebird #lifebird
Backlit western flycatcher perched on barbed wire
Western flycatcher - though at the time I spotted it, it was called a Pacific-slope flycatcher. Taxon merge! This guy ended up giving me 2 for 1 on my most wanted lifer checklist. It was merged with cordilleran flycatcher a year or so ago. Colima, México, March 2023
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Red-breasted sapsucker clings to the side of a tree trunk in a shaded forest
Red-breasted sapsucker - Corvallis, Oregon, September 2022
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Life Bird 427
Jamaican Mango (Anthracothorax mango)
A gorgeous little hummingbird!!
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For #woodpeckerwednesday my longest standing arch-nemesis bird #black-backedwoodpecker on #piceamariana in a spruce-larch forest at #Sax-zimbog #minnesota a few winters ago, seeking wood-boring #beetles larvae #birds #birding #ornithology #botany #ecology #entomology #coleoptera GOTCHA! #lifebird
Empidonax flycatcher perched on a twig against a blue sky. Seen from behind, with its head turned to the right
Vireo in a bush seen in profile
Two grass wrens perched on a small leafless tree against a backdrop of tall try grass
Not the best photos, but here's another round of my most recent life birds: Hammond's flycatcher, Cassin's vireo, and grass wren - Toluca, México, October 2024
#birds #birding #birdwatching #lifebird #avesmexicanas #llenadevida #edomex #toluca
A violet-crowned hummingbird approaches a white cup-shaped flower while in flight
One of my latest life birds - a violet-crowned hummingbird. I had a heck of a time trying to pick out hummingbird species on my latest trip, but there was no mistaking this guy. Taxco, Guerrero, México, November 2024
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