Any fellow birdwatchers out there?

[Wormhunter]

Within the last few years, I've become absolutely, hopelessly addicted to wild birds. Has anybody else expanded their horizons from poultry to all types of avian life? If so, I'd LOVE to chat about interesting finds and observations. Feel free to share pictures, too!

~Alex

Hi, we live in the Forest of Dean England , we have lots of trees and our nest box has a pair of great tits busy gathering twigs and bracken, today we spied a pair of woodpeckers busy gorging on peanuts from our nutfeeders, the pheasants visit for breakfast when we feed our ‘girls’

 

[jnicholes]

"Cleared for Takeoff......"

 

[SharW75]

The orioles are back!

 

[Alexandra33]

Has anyone done any birdwatching as of late?

 

[Sequel]

We have some young hummingbirds buzzing around. They love the hardy fucshias and the crocosmias.

 

[jnicholes]

Not much birding, moved to a new part of the state. Still getting the area down.

 

[chickentrains]

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they're still old photos, but more current than my last post here

 

[jnicholes]

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"Cleared for Takeoff......"

I still like my old photo I took of a peregrine falcon. I especially love the caption I put in.

 

[Kessel23]

Has anyone done any birdwatching as of late?

I have a big colony of blue herons at the back of our property. 46 nesting pairs is what I counted this spring. Here is a picture of one of the nests from last season. I climbed way up a maple tree and took it with my phone. 3 chicks in the nest and one of the parents to the right. I'm going to buy an actual camera this year so I can document them better next year

 

[Melleding]

And last, but not least, my all-time favorite - the cheerful, sweet Ovenbird. I'm smitten with these little things.
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I love them too! We had one stop here one year. He was walking around the path in the back like he was sightseeing. Only have seen two of them here in 30 years, just passing through.