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

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A few shots from my bird walk last Sunday morning

Everybody loves baby ducks

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An uncommon look at a Common Yellowthroat.

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Ruddy Duck

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And a Green Heron that doesn’t look very green.

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Thanks Tad 😃 I think many bids have a sense of humour.
Sometimes I’ll be driving and round a country bend and disturb our magpies here having a sort of game of keepmans off.They’ll fly off but one will be carrying a bit of rubber or squashed metal that was the ‘ball’.
 
I’m not sure when this happened.

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I truly am amazed at the divergent species of so many birds out there. I must truly thank you for showing me a world I didn’t pay attention to before, partially due to my poor eyesight.

But it really is quite awe-some that there are so many different birds, so wonderfully different in their appearance. We don’t get other things like that in our close physical neighborhood with the rest of the animals.

It reminds me of the artist, the creator, when I see so many different creations of this winged creature before me, little pieces of art for man to enjoy and observe as he passes through by.

Even many atheists, I"m sure could develop an affection and much enjoyment for seeking out and hunting down with camera and human eye a quite impressive world of very different birds!

(However, I think that where I live there are not nearly as many different kinds of birds species that you are able to find in your neck of the woods.)
 
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Thanks for starting the thread 😃 I’ve learnt a lot about US birds and it’s nice to think of so many other people observing nature.
 
Okay, I see lots of birds on my daily walks, but most never get close enough for my phone to adequately capture. This guy, however, was fearless, almost begging me to take its picture. It is, I believe, a Dark-eyed Junco, which @tad can possibly verify. I see them occasionally with the similarly-sized sparrows and chickadees

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That’s not just a Dark-eyed Junco, that’s the OREGON form of the Dark-eyed Junco. That’s another nifty yard bird that you would get out where you live that I’ve only had in my yard once.

This is the GRAY-HEADED form of the Dark-eyed Junco. This is from last February in one of the nearby canyons. You can identify all forms of juncos by their white outer tail feathers.

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Went high up on the mountain to encounter Red-faced Warblers and other high elevation summer residents yesterday. Found some!

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I see lots of pelicans along the coast, but most fly too far away for my phone camera. These two pelicans decided to attend the graduation ceremony at nearby Pepperdine University last week. Too funny!

 
A little dove update. Both youngsters have left the nest and now mom is back presumably sitting on eggs again. She tried to build another nest a little further away from my front door, but it wasn’t nearly as sturdy as her first one and was blown away in heavy winds last Sunday. I think she’s a little shy about having a camera stuck in her face. I wonder how Mrs. Osprey feels about that.

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Hummingbird feeder update: The hummers have decided to share time at the feeder, if still somewhat begrudgingly.

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A friend of mine has a large feeder. I have a picture somewhere with 8 of the little critters all together at the feeder. Apparently, there is some sort of truce or hummingbird holiday, where they allow this.
 
I’m going through photos this morning getting ready for class this afternoon (I teach a watercolor class called Birdlandia) and came across these pics I took a couple years ago at the Arizona/Sonora Desert Museum humming bird aviary. You can get really close!

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Ahhh. Mama in the nest. Be sure to get the picture of the 3 or 4 little beaks sticking straight up, when the babies come.
 
That reminds me, I wonder what mamma Osprey is up to on the live cam?! I haven’t looked in so long.🙂
 
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Barred Owl

I saw one today while I was jogging through the woods. I listened carefully and traced it back to its perch. I threw a pokeball in an attempt to capture it. It FAILED…
 
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It’s really beautiful 🙂 Owls are silent visitors here at night,if I stand still in the dark and my eyes adjust,I see them and small bats winging by catching moths midair.
 
Sadly, just down to one baby now for the Osprey family, but it is growing so fast! 🙂

There were three eggs initially, and one egg didn’t hatch. Sometimes it doesn’t get fertilized.

One of the other babies did hatch but only lived a few days. They’re not sure what happened to it–if it was ill or if it didn’t get enough food, sibling rivalry, and so on.

If you read some of the comments from the Cornell staff on the web cam site, they tell you that it’s difficult for Ospreys in the wild, out of all of the other birds of prey. The more varied the diet that a raptor can eat, the more that they can thrive.

Ospreys mainly eat a diet of fish, so things are more limited for them, as opposed to other birds of prey who will eat a more varied diet.
 
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