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I forget how early our fall is compared to places further south. Our shorebird numbers peak in mid-August and fall off rapidly by the end of September. Trumpeter (and some Tundra) Swans showed up early this fall and are already almost at their peak numbers. The last of our winter duck species should be showing up in numbers any day now. Neotropic migrants are but a distant memory.BetterLekNextTime posted:Winter Finches are making their way south too. We've had Pine Siskins for a few weeks now. I don't think we'll get big numbers of crossbills or evening grosbeaks out here but I'd love it if we did! My anecdotal data (namely high Pine Siskin numbers since late summer) is telling me we'll see a irruption of Redpolls this winter on the west coast, although I doubt any will make it to California. We've already seen higher numbers of Red Crossbills and even some reports of White-Winged Crossbills in Seattle too, so it may be a great year. fridgraidr posted:Migration is on in the salt marsh! Where are you located? Gulf coat I'm assuming? I'd consider cutting off one of my toes with a butter knife for a few days alone to just bird around Texas and Louisiana right now. Edit: Seconding what BetterLekNextTime said regarding photos. BeastOfExmoor fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Nov 3, 2020 |
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BeastOfExmoor posted:I forget how early our fall is compared to places further south. Our shorebird numbers peak in mid-August and fall off rapidly by the end of September. Trumpeter (and some Tundra) Swans showed up early this fall and are already almost at their peak numbers. The last of our winter duck species should be showing up in numbers any day now. Neotropic migrants are but a distant memory. I’m in SC and spend about 40-60 hours a week in and around lowcountry salt marsh estuaries. It’s a birder’s dream. Today I spent a few minutes chasing some seaside and salt marsh sparrows! fridgraidr fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Nov 5, 2020 |
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My current dilemma is whether to chase a rarity across state lines. There’s been a very cooperative Common Cuckoo an hour away in Rhode Island. Since RI is on our state’s mandatory quarantine list, this would prevent me from going onsite to work until I got two negative COVID tests.
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EPICAC posted:My current dilemma is whether to chase a rarity across state lines. There’s been a very cooperative Common Cuckoo an hour away in Rhode Island. Since RI is on our state’s mandatory quarantine list, this would prevent me from going onsite to work until I got two negative COVID tests. Dang, that's a tough one. It's not only a rare bird here but it's a really cool rare bird. My mental calculus would be different than if it was a weird Stint or something. I'm not a huge vagrant chaser but I kind of regret not going to see the cuckoo (forget if it was common or some other one) that showed up on the central coast 15 years ago or so. Anyone thinking about Christmas Bird Counts yet? At least so far our local ones are on but we're probably going to have to sign a covid waiver to participate. But we're not spiking here so I'm guessing some places will not have them or have them in a limited way. Does anyone have a good solution for not fogging up their glasses when wearing a mask? So far I've almost entirely been birding by myself this year so I've been able to take off my mask when in the park.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/gunsnrosesgirl3/status/1292354617674801152
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i saw an eagle today in central texas streaking through the air at about 35ft up around dusk. it was so powerful i could hear each individual flap
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I spotted one of the city peregrines while driving into work yesterday. It reminded me that it's just about to be nesting season for a lot of raptors! Any cams that you guys love to watch?
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Jan 8, 2021 22:14
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It's winter so that means I get to see all the birds that come down here to Florida for wintering. Like this black and white warbler. 
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my cat is norris posted:I spotted one of the city peregrines while driving into work yesterday. It reminded me that it's just about to be nesting season for a lot of raptors! Any cams that you guys love to watch? There's a few good ones out there, but this one is my fave! Sometimes I put it on just for the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtoxxHADnGk Good variety of stuff here: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/all-cams/
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my cat is norris posted:I spotted one of the city peregrines while driving into work yesterday. It reminded me that it's just about to be nesting season for a lot of raptors! Any cams that you guys love to watch? UMass Amherst has peregrines on their library roof, so I usually watch that. I just bring my camera on errands now because they're everywhere. Sometimes, there are no raptors. Sometimes, they are too high:  And sometimes, you get lucky:  
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El Burbo posted:It's winter so that means I get to see all the birds that come down here to Florida for wintering. Awesome bird. Tanith posted:And sometimes, you get lucky: Wow! what was it eating? We've got a couple of pretty good local cams around here, the Cal Peregrine cam and an Osprey cam in Richmond. I think it's a little early for them to be going right now. Great Horned Owls might be nesting already, but yeah, otherwise check for feeder cams or tropical sites.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Wow! what was it eating? European starling. From the feathers on the ground, I originally thought it had killed a downy or hairy woodpecker, but you can see the yellow beak at the bottom of the corpse.  
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Jan 9, 2021 02:23
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BetterLekNextTime posted:I think it's a little early for them to be going right now. Great Horned Owls might be nesting already, but yeah, otherwise check for feeder cams or tropical sites. Yeah! It's a bit early, but some of the known pairs here in Pittsburgh are starting up their nesting behaviors. The Hays pair of bald eagles is hanging out in their nest tree quite a lot and otherwise being very lovey with each other. Not sure on the falcons but I imagine they've got to be in a similar mode. I looooooooove those feeder cams from far away places!
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Here’s some fellows I saw today
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El Burbo posted:Here’s some fellows I saw today They are adorable and most excellent.
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El Burbo posted:Here’s some fellows I saw today  those are some floofy birds.
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At first only one was hanging out, but then they got divebombed by the other. I thought they would fight but I guess that's just how they say hello
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my cat is norris posted:I spotted one of the city peregrines while driving into work yesterday. It reminded me that it's just about to be nesting season for a lot of raptors! Any cams that you guys love to watch? https://mobile.twitter.com/leedsbirder/status/1348227334525095936
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Good freedom birds
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfUxI5cres We workin' on that nest, yes we are!
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my cat is norris posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfUxI5cres Super laggy for me, but there is a 2 egg cam below it in my suggestions that's awesome. Except they keep moving the camera around.
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H110Hawk posted:Super laggy for me, but there is a 2 egg cam below it in my suggestions that's awesome. Except they keep moving the camera around. loving watching this right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knforhbo2AY e: yeah I do wish they'd quit moving the camera around so much Enfys fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jan 15, 2021 |
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As someone not living in the US, watching backyard birds from Ohio is pretty neat, very different to my own backyard bird buds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtGUTs_HgcE
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https://twitter.com/JocAPhotography/status/1350120387527499776?s=19 Very pretty bird
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https://mobile.twitter.com/EmoBurd/status/876984351065481216 A very graceful bird
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Saw a western bluebird today. I took a crappy picture of it. Somehow my new phone has a way worse camera than my old one. The female was nearby. They were both hunting bugs or something in a mushy wet area. 
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El Burbo posted:Good freedom birds Vancouver is really close to the US border. About a decade ago, they built a huge new landfill site near-ish to the border crossing. This giant concentration of garbage caused a population explosion of rats. This in turn caused a population explosion of bald eagles eating the garbage rats. I've had at least a few instances of Americans getting really excited because they saw a bald eagle as they were crossing the border, where I didn't have the heart to explain to them why.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Vancouver is really close to the US border. About a decade ago, they built a huge new landfill site near-ish to the border crossing. This giant concentration of garbage caused a population explosion of rats. This in turn caused a population explosion of bald eagles eating the garbage rats. Can confirm. There are so many Bald Eagles around that landfill. Seeing eagles in a flock is always impressive though.
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Bald Eagles are dirty trash birds. Beautiful, powerful, majestic dirty trash birds. A true symbol of America.
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My partner joined a facebook group that shares a lot of bird pics taken from birdfeeder cameras and she loves seeing all the bird pics. With Valentine's Day coming up, I thought that would be a perfect gift. Anyone have recommendations for a camera (birdfeeder attached or not) that I could put next to the birdfeeder? Ideally, it would integrate with our Nest devices.
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Dik Hz posted:My partner joined a facebook group that shares a lot of bird pics taken from birdfeeder cameras and she loves seeing all the bird pics. With Valentine's Day coming up, I thought that would be a perfect gift. Anyone have recommendations for a camera (birdfeeder attached or not) that I could put next to the birdfeeder? Ideally, it would integrate with our Nest devices. How do you want to power it? Solar? Wall wart? POE? How protected from the elements will the ideal mounting location be? (I am similarly curious about it, we have easy gfci protected mains voltage close enough to run a cord to our feeder(s).)
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H110Hawk posted:How do you want to power it? Solar? Wall wart? POE? How protected from the elements will the ideal mounting location be? (I am similarly curious about it, we have easy gfci protected mains voltage close enough to run a cord to our feeder(s).)
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Finger Prince posted:Bald Eagles are dirty trash birds. Beautiful, powerful, majestic dirty trash birds. A true symbol of America. It is astonishingly fitting.
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https://twitter.com/VenusNabs/status/1355006331627954176 It is now snowing 1-3" per hour here so snow bird brought the snow.
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Hello all, I'm new to birding. I have a cheap pair of binoculars that is good enough for now, and some feeders in my yard. I've got Merlin and eBird, and am learning lots. I'm mostly in it to observe and grow closer to the neighborhood corvids. The crows are awesome but I also have at least 5 jays that are regulars to my feeders. This is exciting.
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I love corvids because they always let me know when there's some sort of cool raptor around.
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A heads up for everyone to save a little time for birding next weekend. The Great Backyard Bird Count runs Feb 12-15. It's an easy citizen science project to get involved with to help monitor late winter bird populations. Does not have to be literally in your backyard, just wherever you have a few minutes to look for birds.
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