What is your favorite bird? And every fowl encounter you've had under the sun

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Lazy warm days,green and blue …ibis catching the air current way up high in long V formation.
House sparrows chattering,Starlings nesting.
 
Pelican, this morning

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At first glance on my wee phone screen I didn’t notice the slightly larger one near the middle 😁
 
I thought it was worth a try. This is a Pine Siskin on the top of Mt. Lemmon a couple of weekends ago.

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Pigeons wait patiently for an unsuspecting driver to park their car below

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This is a cuckoo not going cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

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A curmudgeon of coots. (I’m certain a group of coots isn’t called a curmudgeon, but I thought it sounded good)

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Clean-up crew featuring pigeons and house sparrows

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Love this time of year hearing Skylarks singing in the paddocks at night :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
 
A Western Bluebird in Sedona. There were some very large flocks in the area. I was able to count 80 individuals in the largest of them.

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This is a Juniper Titmouse. Difficult to see harder to photograph. This photo has been heavily edited using the lighting feature.

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I love the colorful Western Tanager. We used to have them, here – but haven’t seen them in recent years. Also, Evening Grossbeaks are beautiful. I love all birds, and feed them in my garden.
 
JanR said:
I love the colorful Western Tanager. We used to have them, here – but haven’t seen them in recent years. Also, Evening Grossbeaks are beautiful. I love all birds, and feed them in my garden.
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The Western Tanager was one of the first birds I identified as a young birder. I haven’t seen a Evening Grosbeak in years. I used to see them around my hometown in Montana quite a bit. This is a picture of another bird from my youth, a Townsend’s Solitaire from my trip to Sedona two weekends ago. I see them in the winter both here in Arizona and in Montana. I guess the difference is whether they prefer warm juniper berries or frozen mountain ash berries.

This was my favorite photo from the weekend. I love the quality of the early morning light. The best time to see and photograph birds!

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Ah, yes! The bluish tints of early morning light and shadow play. I once saw a Townsend’s Solitaire in our yard. I recognized it by the white eye ring and it’s general build and coloring. Also, size.
 
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Ah, yes! The bluish tints of early morning light and shadow play. I once saw a Townsend’s Solitaire in our yard. I recognized it by the white eye ring and it’s general build and coloring. Also, size.
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That’s a good yard bird. I haven’t gotten one in my yard yet, but my species list stands at #118. That is if the budgie and the lovebird are accepted by the ABA. 😉

Do you keep a life list?

I enjoyed your garden pics. I’m trying to figure out where you live. Somewhere dry enough for California poppies and cool enough for evergreens. Plus, somewhere where Townsend’s Solitaires show up!

Here’s a photo of a young White-crowned Sparrow that hasn’t quite earned it’s white crown. This was taken at Red Rock State Park in the red rock country of AZ a couple weekends ago as well.

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