Alright, post a picture of a bird you've seen/heard recently,

[Goldeneye]

that DUers in other parts of the country might be jealous about. Here's mine...Sedge Wren. We heard a few on an extended bike ride in the country. We also heard a dickcissel, and grasshopper sparrows.

[XemaSab]

1. Wrentit

[amazona]

2. mississippi kite

Quite a few over the yard lately.



I haven't had a chance to take my own photo so grabbed one off the internet.

[semillama]

3. Indigo Bunting

not uncommon to see one or two everytime you go out around here in the summer.

[Goldeneye]

4. Fire Fire

Where where
there there
put it out, put it out

That's what my ornithology professor taught us so we could remember their song. I don't hear the "put it out, put it out" part so much but it was still a good way to learn.

[shrike]

15. We usually have some at the feeder each spring

Unfortunately, they don't stay long.

We had a Merlin (small hawk) at our garden pond this summer.

Best place I ever went for birding was Alaska. You actually get used to seeing Bald Eagles. Though I rather liked the Puffins myself.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. Several generations of Red-Tailed Hawks . . .

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Several generations of Red-Tailed Hawks . . . nesting high on a local hospital building in Essex County, Massachusetts. Unreal. Granted Red-Tailed Hawks are not uncommon but to see adults and juveniles nesting and, in general, claiming an entire hospital area as their own!

This photo is "borrowed" from the web, because I didn't think to bring my camera on a hospital visit!


a majestic bird . . .


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[Lefty48197]

6. I had an incredible Bald Eagle sighting in Michigan's U.P. last week

We had already seen three eagles in two different sightings, but they were just flying above the trees and disappeared quickly. The next time, we spotted 2 eagles flying above the trees, so I pulled over in a very desolate part of Michigan's Keweenaw peninsula. Soon after I parked the truck, we saw that there were actually three bald eagles, and they not only came out of hiding, they actually flew right towards us and circled nearby. One even flew directly towards us and circled overhead and I was able to snap these pictures. I'm not sure if he was hamming it up, or if he was just checking us out. I think it was both, but mostly the former. I was afraid he was going to crap on me. Unfortunately, I never did get a photo of 2 or 3 eagles in one shot.

[semillama]

7. Eagles in the Keewenaw? not surprising

great spot to find them. I can pretty much guarantee an eagle sighting every time I go back there to visit (i'm from the Keewenaw).

It's almost not exciting anymore -"oh, an eagle. Ok." They've done great up there. My favorite eagle sighting was when I was taking my girlfriend on a "Copper Country Cruise" and we were on the boat out to the Copper Harbor Lighthouse, and there was an eagle flying around the bay. It landed on a stump near the shore, and prompty got divebombed by a herring gull. It was her first time ever seeing an eagle in the wild.

[Lefty48197]

8. What a conservation success story

I believe that Michigan was down to 24 eagles about 1970, and that today we are up to over 300 nesting pairs, which must put the total population at 1000 or more.

[livetohike]

9. A flock of Cedar Waxwings in the Laguna Mtns. on Halloween

Feeding on some berries (choke berries, I think).

[Gato Moteado]

10. i just saw a green macaw a few days ago

i didn't have my camera with me at the time. i was on the campus of earth university and it flew a few meters above my head. the same day i saw at least thirty oropendulas, two aracaris, and various species of hummingbirds.

[semillama]

11. Five geese species

Clockwise from top: Snow Goose, Canada Goose, Ross' Goose, Greater-White Fronted Goose, Cackling Goose. Auglaize County, Ohio

(photo: Randy Rogers)

[Goldeneye]

12. That's some good birding.

Do you mind telling me where that was taken? We always keep our eyes open here (cental WI) but we're usually happy to find Canada's, the little Canada's (richardson's), and at some point we usually pick up some snow geese, but we never find them all in one place.

[semillama]

13. That was taken at an old gravel pit in Auglaize County, Ohio

Apparently this spot has been productive for waterfowl in the past, but this was just nuts.

Auglaize Cty is in NW Ohio. The spot we were at is just south of Lima.

There were also blue phase Snow Geese and a possible Ross x Snow Goose hybrid as well as many ducks and Ring -billed Gulls.

[semillama]

14. Manx shearwater

Saw one yesterday on the Cape May Ferry!

[shrike]

16. How 'bout a hawk learning to fly?

We had red-tails nesting outside our house, and we looked out the window one day and saw Mom teaching them to fly. Boy, that was a sight to behold. They'd run along the ground, hold one wing up. Run along the ground and hold the other wing up -- Mom screaming in the background the whole time. Reminded me of MY mom teaching me how to drive.

Later on, Mom and Dad flew off and we had three depressed-looking adolescent Red Tails hanging around. They'd sit on the garage, the shed, they weren't a bit afraid of us.

(Oops, no photo to post, sorry ...)