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

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White-throated Sparrow in Tennessee. See it’s white throat?

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This is a Field Sparrow. I was super excited to get it’s pic because I thought it was North American lifer #511. Turns out I saw it at the same location, near Paris, on Kentucky Lake in Tennessee when we visited him in 2007.

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For those of you scoring at home, I left Tennessee with 61 species recorded adding new 11 species for the year for a US total of 289 Chances are good I’ll hit 300 by year’s end. That is, if I get out and try. I’ve been super sedentary lately.
 
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A little sandpiper in flight along the surf line this morning

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And three little sandpipers in and amongst the trash 😠 and debris that washed ashore after yesterday’s rain storm.

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A few shots by a friend who’s a real photographer from last years Christmas Bird Count. My area includes a neighborhood that puts on a big show at Christmas. Makes for some fun shots. These are a male and female Vermilion Flycatcher. We have the CBC world record for them in Tucson.

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Amazing little birds,@tad ! Do they stay around for the Winter?
 
They’re year round residents, fairly common in parks and grassy areas. Here’s a photo I took. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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So today, a special visitor to my small garden!
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Not my picture but it was exactly like this one.
I feed about thirty sparrows so I shouldn’t be surprised if a sparrow hawk visits! 😲
Similar in size to a dove but slimmer. I’ve had three different hawks in my garden in ten years that I know of, this is the smallest. The last one killed a wood pigeon.
 
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My Christmas card this year. It’s a watercolor of Chestnut-backed Chickadees from our trip to Oregon last Christmas.

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That’s truely amazing ! 😊
And the fact that no danger had claimed her life in all that time!

Driving past rural silos and a grain depo yesterday I saw a big flock of seagulls (not herring gulls) all over the side of a huge mound of canola grain.Im thinking they may have been eating the grasshoppers or grubs that happened to be in the grain at the time of harvest rather than eating the grain 🤔
 
They look a lot like our Western Gulls. Here’s a few I saw at the beach the other day.

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When we were kids, the gulls would gather above as we played in the schoolyard during lunch and recess. We had to be careful, lest they drop an unwelcome surprise on us 😠:poop:. After the bell rang, they would swoop in to fight over all the food scraps we had left behind.
 
A few shots from the Tucson Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count this morning.

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Encountered a Townsend’s Solitaire yesterday on the University of Montana campus 2018 year bird #292. No photo obtained.
 
I think you are the first real Birder I’ve ever met @tad 😃
Still waking to the sounds of a big flock of Corellas .They tend to scream and wheel around in flight before the sun comes up.Im sure they would conserve more energy and have to forage less if they were more sensible :roll_eyes:🙃
 
A nice assortment of water fowl at the little lake at Inglewood Cemetery. Coots, ducks, Canada Geese, and what appear to be large white pelicans near the back. They would have come closer had I brought some food.

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