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Very Cooperative Rock Wren https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/541367071 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/541367081

I've seen both several times, but of the two species, I've only seen one (Chestnut-collared) in alternate plumage. Plus, my Chestnut-collared photos are much better than my Lapland photos. That makes for an easy choice between the two species. Here's a Chestnut-collared doing a flight display.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/543749031 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/543749001

Common Merganser♀

Unreal. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/541520061

Flightless Cormorant...Galapagos

Brown Jays at Santa Margarita Ranch; lifer number 705....I mean 1 billion and 3.

Should be showing up here in about a month and a half! I think them & Woodthrush are my favorite songs.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/543444011

I don't think the photos I got the other day were an improvement, so I'll just add this older photo. Considering how many of these I've seen, you'd think I'd have a better photo.

Had this one as my laptop background for a while

I have better cormorant photos of a different species, but I'll do this one for the level of interest. This was when I had only started kind of birding and I thought it was a penguin 😆. New Zealand Pied Shag. This was on a nice secluded beach on a windy spring (for the southern hemisphere) day.

Its been a while due to bad weather, but last weekend was a success https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/543900991 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/543901001

Not sure why but I always liked this one. I have many others but this is my favorite.

Red-footed Booby in central NC today!! Insane stuff!

Bullock's Oriole

Golden hour oystercatcher: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/549376471

I'm working from the ABA list. I have a spreadsheet with a random number generator. I check the list to which species matches that week's number. When I post that species, I remove it from the list so it won't be picked again soon. I don't always select the random species. If it's a rarity, I'll skip it and generate another number. I try to stick with species that can be found in a large part of NA for at least some part of the year. Sometimes that means the chosen bird will frequent only the east, west, midsection, or coasts. I may choose to add a second species or a group of species so that more people will have a chance to participate - chickadees or cormorants, for example. I may also combine a group of birds that may not be individually common enough for many people to have photographed. This week the species randomly chosen was one of the less common cormorants. I wanted to use the infrequent bird, and I noticed there were a few other uncommon corms, none of which merited being the bird of the week on their own. If I hadn't been on the road working from a tablet, I would have noticed DCCO had already been used. I didn't, so I threw it this week open to all corms. So my approach is select birds that are likely to have been photographed by many people, not to get as many photos as possible from each person. There are plenty of photo galleries here, including one for postings for no reason at all, with no restrictions on anyone starting a new discussion on any topic he or she chooses. (Indeed, in my opinion there are more threads than necessary, but not every thread has to appeal to every member, including me.) I plan to work through the majority of ABA list but there are some birds that aren't going to make the cut. At this time, one photo per poster per week will continue to be my standard policy.

Here's a Brandt's since we don't have one here yet https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/547283671

Fox Sparrows https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/540963641 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/540962571

It’s spring! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/547662451

Long-tailed Cormorant - Kenya https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/547329741

I have a TON of good DCCO shots, but since that’s what pretty much everyone else has posted so far, I’ll post my only decent photo of a Pelagic Cormorant.

I didn't get a pretty background, but this merlin was happy to model for me!

Was going to post a Cinnamon Teal but I never got around to it...

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/544404561

Northern Pintails! Was a nemesis for a long time. They were pretty far away and kept dabbling so this was the best photo I got.

Looked through my archive earlier today and apparently I had no decent photos. I went out to try to get some good shots of some today, didn't get anything amazing, but I definitely improved upon the old photos. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/542492441

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/540525731 MAN, these are tough to expose properly!

My photo is so bad I'm almost too embarrassed to post it. This should make @chipperatl not feel so bad about his though!

I'm going to slide this in a few hours late since you granted this less than a week ago and I was visiting family all last week.

Love these guys.