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Just a reminder, as we reach the end of the spring migration season #birders you can cozy up with a cozy little animal fiction bird book 💙📚(and may I recommend the audiobook!?)
🪶 #booksky #birdsky #indiewriters
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As of today, I have managed to waste 6 months of my life to corporate slavery... 😫 At this point, I would give my right arm to go out with a binocular in my left arm ... At least I woke up from my numbed stupor...
#bird #photography #birdPhotography 📸📷🪶
#birdsky I think this is the mated pair a junior’s not home. They are just together and looking around.
Anyone on #birdsky have a Minnesota-specific recommendation for field guides?
I've also already got Merlin on my phone, so I can try to ID the vocals when I can't readily put a name to a face.
Saw a variety of birds I can't yet identify very well (as well as some very familiar regulars) & looked through the couple field guides I do have only to realize I don't have a very good, regional one.
But we were rewarded by seeing a sizeable hawk looping overhead & hearing songs turn to warnings!
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Morning session!!
Northern Flicker! Have not been able to visually confirm
So #birdsky
Have any of you noticed that when a mockingbird is mocking, they have a little more vibrato or tremolo to their call? I've been able to distinguish between the mock and the real call. Is that legit??
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekT
T is for #Thalurania glaucopis
🪶Beija-flor-de-fronte-violeta #Violet-capped Woodnymph
📍 #Joanópolis #SP #Brasil
📷📸Andréa e Silva
#photography #birdsky #birdsphotography #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching #hummingbird #birds #ornithology #aves @bskyphotos.bsky.social
Photo credits to my kid #birdsky
The return of the great blues to our local waters. I’m gonna use the text to describe for the alt that it’s a sequence of a great blue heron standing in the water than flying then about to land on standing on a log. Greens behind and around.
Last one I promise! The waxwing and bluejay stopped by, too!! Most I have captured in a morning session. #birdsky
Some mornings captures... Lots.of chatter this morning! I wish I lived in the country, tho. Our 'quiet' residential neighborhood is loud by 8am.
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Almost didn't notice this beauty until I was under them.
Red shouldered hawk
Honestly, I felt a little intimidated walking beneath them.
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I hope #mayday #birdsky will enjoy me singing The Internationale in Solidarity with those standing for workers rights and economic equity across the world, and with victims of the same repetitive bully-type shitstorms of years past that lead to cops beating protesters again. youtu.be/bnq0NIgpKIU?...
Out at the bird banding research station this morning!
All birds handled by professionals under a federal permit for scientific research purposes
#birdsky 🪶🦉 #birdbanding #colorado
I may be able to silence my phone alarm, but the boy will not be silenced. He has decided that it’s time for me to get up so here I am. A parrot can certainly hold you accountable 🦜
(I think he heard me blow my nose and knew I was awake)
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Out birding at Pueblo reservoir yesterday. Just perfect weather and the park was totally empty even on a Sunday. Couldn’t ask for a better afternoon
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First swift of the year just spotted! 😁 #birdsky #swiftsareback
I haven't seen them yet but I know they're back! We're ready! 🪶 #birdsky
Here's a shot of Basil from last year.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQ
Q is for #Quack quack! 🪶
🐦 #White-faced Whistling-Duck/ #Irerê/ #Dendrocygna viduata
📍 #Uberaba, #MG, #Brasil
📷 📸 Andréa e Silva
#photography #birding #ornithology #nature #birdwatching #birdsky #birdsphotography #aves #patos #natureza #fotografia @bskyphotos.bsky.social
Day 4074 - A Murder Of One stillwellgray.ca/blog/day-407... #everydayart #everyday #art #snapseed #nature #crowsefstalin #crows #tree #bluesky #birdsky 📸📷
The Kinglet at the Phoebe are first timers!! Have not yet visually id'd. Beautiful music! 8 species in this recording!
Chased a Vaux’s Swift at Pueblo Reservoir today and we got him!
Check out my beautiful picture of him 🥲
We also saw 32 other species while surveying the literal thousands of swallows looking for this swift.
🪶🦉 #birdsky #pueblocolorado #birdwatching #birding #vauxswift
A few more joined in. The blue jay, finch, the chimney swift, they've all dropped by now. We'll see who else shows up today. Had a bluebird come sit on the table right beside me yesterday, give me a little look and a chirp, and flew to the branch, said bye now waiting for them to return. #birdsky
This is some of the company I am keeping this morning on the front porch. #birdsky
I love birdwatching any season, but spring is a favorite because the birds are WILD this time of year!
I wrote about some of my fav springtime bird behaviors this week on the newsletter:
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We have great photos of the red-tailed hawks. What's not to love? 🪶 #birdsky source.wustl.edu/2024/04/scie... 🌱
Scientists track red-tailed hawks nesting near WashU campus - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis
Researchers with the Forest Park Living Lab have been tracking these two hawks' movement data since December. Through work tracking a variety of animals, the project is providing a map of health and m...
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The turkey that's trying to fight his own reflection by the office building across the street is back.
They put out a plastic owl.
No effect.
His girlfriends are just chilling in the grass while he trolls That Other Turkey. He's cracking me up.
🦃🪶 #birdsky
#birdsky meet the red-tailed hawks of WashU
Here's hoping these two are tenure-track
source.wustl.edu/2024/04/scie...
Scientists track red-tailed hawks nesting near WashU campus - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis
Researchers with the Forest Park Living Lab have been tracking these two hawks' movement data since December. Through work tracking a variety of animals, the project is providing a map of health and m...
source.wustl.eduA few more to add to the list! The Hawks have been hanging out quite a bit, there are now two of them. I was surprised the mockingbird didn't show up earlier. Such a great place for birding and it's right on my front porch. #birdsky
More! #birdsky
My hawk friend has a new friend and they have been frequent visitors!!
Lots more join to the party! Front porch, recording number two. The towhee and the black bird have joined us, I have only seen the Blackbird once but see the towhee often
Today's visit to the front porch! There were also 3 geese that flew overhead after this recording!!.
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One minute on the porch!!!
We have so many birds!! There's a finch couple returning for the 3rd year in a row to a nest by the back door! #birdsky #birder #birding #sparrow #robin #mockingbird #cowbird #knoxvilletn
#birdsky WashU's social media team put together the absolute best slide show about the red tail hawks who live on campus. www.instagram.com/p/C5lmCJQrCS...
They set it up like a little story-book romance. I saw Tungsten cruising during the eclipse!
Washington University in STL on Instagram:
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Good Morning BlueSky 💙
Here's some blue in my sky today!
Eastern Bluebird 💙
#birdsky #bluebird #perchingbirds #birds #orinthology
Camera phone.... Wish I had better
