Birdwatching Chat Thread

[Chickstarrs]

Thanks!

I was able to get down to Florida to visit old friends back in March before all the lockdowns happened. They took us to Wakodahatchee and Loxahatchee Wetlands. It was nesting season so we saw so many different species of birds in great numbers. Got a lot of great photos too.

 

[PioneerChicks]

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Here's a young Rose-breasted Grosbeak I saw yesterday.

I have been busy, but I finally finished the re-draw. I'm much more satisfied with this one, it actually looks like a bird!

 

[PioneerChicks]

I just remembered I made this album for birds of prey:

Feel free to add to it!

 

[Corbdee]

Wow it looks great, amazing photos!

 

[PioneerChicks]

Wow it looks great, amazing photos!

They're not all mine, but thanks!

I'm debating about making an album for other wild birds too, what do you think?

 

[orloffer]

Here are some of my bird-watching pictures! They are from the Bay Trail area, and I may add more later:
1) Is this a sparrow of some sort?

2) Snowy egrets

3) Double-crested cormorants

4) Female mallard and something I have not identified?

5) Snowy egret!

6) Black-necked stilt

7) Snowy egret (left) and great egret (right)

8) What is this?

 

[Beachcomber]

Here are some of my bird-watching pictures! They are from the Bay Trail area, and I may add more later:
1) Is this a sparrow of some sort?
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2) Snowy egrets
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3) Double-crested cormorants
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4) Female mallard and something I have not identified?
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5) Snowy egret!
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6) Black-necked stilt
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7) Snowy egret (left) and great egret (right)
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8) What is this?
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I think the unidentified bird in pic #4 is a grebe, but I'm not sure what kind.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Here are some of my bird-watching pictures! They are from the Bay Trail area, and I may add more later:
1) Is this a sparrow of some sort?
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2) Snowy egrets
View attachment 2396865
3) Double-crested cormorants
View attachment 2396866
4) Female mallard and something I have not identified?
View attachment 2396867
5) Snowy egret!
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6) Black-necked stilt
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7) Snowy egret (left) and great egret (right)
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8) What is this?
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Your pictures are beautiful! What a great walk!

#1 Is definitely a sparrow, maybe a House Sparrow?
#4 Maybe a grebe of sorts?
#8 Avocet???

 

[Beachcomber]

Your pictures are beautiful! What a great walk!

#1 Is definitely a sparrow, maybe a House Sparrow?
#4 Maybe a grebe of sorts?
#8 Avocet???

I agree with #8 being an avocet.

 

[Fintechie]

I see Red-tailed hawks, Peregrine Falcons, Turkey and Black vultures, Bald Eagles, Northern Harriers, Blue Jays, Northern Cardinals, Robins, Gray Catbirds, Mockingbirds, Barn Swallows, Chipping Saprrows, House Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Brown Thrashers, House Wrens, Red-winged black birds, Baltimore Orioles, Great Blue Herons, Canada Geese, I saw a Cedar Waxwing once, Carolina Wren, Juncos, Tufted Titmice, Great-crested Flycatchers, Eastern Wood Peewees, Pheobes, Eastern Bluebirds, Common Yellowthroat, downy and hairy woodpeckers, Pileated Woodpecker, Northern Flickers, etc.
My favorite bird that lives by me would probably be the House Wren. A pair built a nest in a bird house right by my window and I got to watch the babies grow up and fledge. It was really great. There was also a Gray Catbird nest right next to the wren nest. One of the fledglings got eaten by a snake, but the others survived. It was really cute to see them fly for the first time.

Pictures wanted!