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Birding is harder than it looks! I finally took my camera out to the local nature preserve after a few weeks of practice on my back porch. It's so much harder to find and track birds in the middle of a forest than watching them fly up to my birdfeeder. Anyway can I get help on an ID? I saw several new species but this one is tough, I think it's a juvenile male Indigo Bunting? I'm on the IL/WI border and I can't think of anything else with a matching range. 
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Jun 26, 2023 03:58
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Yeah or maybe female
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Jun 26, 2023 04:50
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Magpies are such great birds, I love them.
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Jun 27, 2023 11:57
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This is Stumpy, who turned up one day and started living with one of the local groups. His missing foot made him awkward on the ground and he had a bit of wear on his wingtips and tail from using them to balance himself but by god could he ever fly. Unfortunately after a few months he disappeared as suddenly as he arrived, poor little guy.
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Jun 27, 2023 12:15
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They’re really fast and really tiny so I can’t get a decent pic to save my life, but we’ve got a killdeer brood with 2-3 chicks running around somewhere near my house 
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Jul 5, 2023 09:24
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I've just moved to a place with actual nature around and it has been really cool to see the frequent visitors and their habits. I've been seeing this little sedge of Sandhill Cranes pop by to snack in the mornings and, lacking a zoom lens, verryyy slowly shuffled over at an angle for photos.  
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Jul 28, 2023 14:56
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Sandhill cranes are amazing creatures
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Jul 28, 2023 16:35
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here are some boring birds i see https://i.imgur.com/U1CSmhU.mp4 Blue jay dancing after I saw her again after being away for a couple weeks  A crow, underexposed and blinking  Another blue jay, shy  European starling. Beautiful but I think they're quite stupid  😜  Dany DeVito chicken here  The chickadees appreciate good decorations  Almost went for it!
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Jul 28, 2023 19:06
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tuyop posted:boring birds My local (Australian) magpie has been sitting on her nest for a week now, only two more weeks until magpie chicks! If it's not raining she still comes around for breakfast, otherwise her mate collects it and takes it to her 
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Jul 28, 2023 19:37
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GotLag posted:No birds are boring! I miss the magpies from Alberta
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Jul 28, 2023 20:12
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Love those colors!
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Jul 28, 2023 20:16
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I'm glad I found this thread, Love all the birds posted. I shot these two Galahs when I was at my In-Laws last weekend. I think they're my favourite birds.
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Jul 30, 2023 02:32
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 Harvey the blackbird memorial post  I had a distinctively leucistic blackbird take on my garden as his territory this spring, which is obviously cool and awesome. Who doesn't like a bird you can actually tell apart from the others? He could cling to feeders, which is an unusual talent for blackbirds  He likes a bath, like all other blackbirds  He was unfortunately also delicious, like all other blackbirds  https://i.imgur.com/jKRs6JR.mp4 A 100% deserved meal for the sparrow hawk - if you slow it down a little, you can see how well it manoeuvers its approach in the span of about 3-4 frames. I don't know if it comes on automatically when I embed a video, but the clip has audio. e: vv Thanks! VV My PIN is 4826 fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Jul 30, 2023 |
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Jul 30, 2023 11:23
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[url] tags for embedded video, not [timg]
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Jul 30, 2023 11:27
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My PIN is 4826 posted:
Sick video! I love it and am jealous you got to see it.
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Jul 30, 2023 16:38
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The hummingbirds finally found my feeder so I stuck my GoPro on it and surprisingly they weren’t bothered by it. It’s been a hoot watching them.    
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Sep 2, 2023 00:39
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^^ Nice! Just a public service announcement to get out there and check out fall migration. With that and the hurricane season birds are really moving around right now. I haven't gotten many photos yet this season but I did see a scarlet tanager and chestnut-sided warbler last month which are pretty unusual for the Bay Area. Not that rare, but there were a couple of phalaropes in a nearby park too.  Miller-knox red necked phalaropes-8224 on Flickr
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Sep 2, 2023 02:28
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My camera sucks, but I saw a Pileated Woodpecker while hiking, and managed to get a blurry shot with my monocular! It was exciting!
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Sep 5, 2023 21:43
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:My camera sucks, but I saw a Pileated Woodpecker while hiking, and managed to get a blurry shot with my monocular! The first time I saw one I was shocked at how big they are. If you're used to the more urban-suburban-common downy or hairy woodpeckers or flickers, you're really not prepared for a woodpecker the size of a crow.
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Sep 6, 2023 00:14
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They are so huge and charismatic. Wonderful birds.
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Sep 6, 2023 01:12
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Awesome find. I hope to find one sometime.
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Sep 6, 2023 02:27
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For those of you who want to ruthlessly stalk the birds in your backyard without setting up an RPi running BirdNet-Pi, there is a solution: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scribelabs/birdweather-puc?ref=3v6fke $200 for waterproof goodness.
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I'm building 2 of those this weekend. One raspberry pi, one orange Pi. I'm trying to use a Orange Pi instead of Raspberry, because RasPis are really hard to find and have become reasonably expensive. Orange Pi can be less than $20. Combine it with a cheap USB mic and you can build one for less than $30 and an hour of your time. I'll let you know how it goes. I've seen a couple reports of success with the Orange. Once/if I've got them working I'm going to make some fake birdhouses to house them and my wife is going to paint said enclosures.
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