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Oak Titmouse, but I wouldn’t call it a weird one. Many bird species have a vast vocal array, some of which we rarely hear, or hear less frequently. Last night two Barn Owls were flying over my house low enough that I could see them in the dark, and in what I presumed to be some sort of courtship display, one or both of them was making a super interesting clicking noise I had never heard. Doesn’t mean it was weird, just that I had not encountered it before.

Why isn't it a Common Grackle?

Sorry about that guys. Thankfully someone called this to my attention: note to self: don't select photo at 1am again and take the author's word for what the species is 😁 pushing out the corrected name, this should not affect anyone's stats but if there are any issues lmk

Common Merganser♀

I think the bird gods are making up for teasing me with glimpes of GHOW flying away or in complete darkness over the years. After the one I saw last week, I saw two today. One was perched ON THE TELEPHONE WIRE on the way to the park I was going to, and this one was in the park being mobbed by crows. I'm not complaining or anything, I'm just hoping the same exact situation I have with EASO resolves in the same way! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/546772401

Yup! I really hope to get to see them do their armpit display one day 😆

Northern Pintail.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S131218405 Just a nice day for a walk. 42F and the snow is melting, listening to singing birds.

Looking the the folded tail in photo one, the outer tail feathers (the ones that don’t have any other feathers “on top” of them) are shorter than the central ones. Sharpies have equally long tail feathers. Hope that helps!

I'm not familiar with Boat-Tailed or Common, but it doesn't look quite right for Great-Tailed (which I see all day, every day). The bill seems short, wide, and a bit decurved; the tail too short and too wide; and the head is bulky without much of a neck. Last, and probably least, it doesn't have that "angry" facial expression I associate with Great-Tailed.

Narrow light brown streaks and obviously graduated tail feathers = Cooper's.

Had my FOS Hooded and Bullock’s Orioles today!

White-winged Crossbill

I know very little about this ID, but something here just screams Rusty at me. I've seen countless Brewer's, and this bird would stick out in a flock of BRBL for some reason I can't seem figure out.

BRDL 419 🥚🐦🥚🐦 🥚🪶🥚🪶 🐦🐦🐦🐦 A North American bird!!

Close look at a Cooper's Hawk flying away.

birdie 🦆 #302: 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ I got the correct bird on the first try. I agree that it's a misidentification.

Yeah, the more I look at it the more confident I am that it is a Common Grackle. Just a bit rusty with grackle ID right now. 🙂

Today, Killdeer and RWBB are back that is a good sign

Turns out as of V13 photo sleuth is a separate app. iBird Pro now has a link to the app. As I understand it, Photo Sleuth is not a subscription, but a one time purchase. Since I purchased it originally as part of iBird Pro, I was provided a coupon to get the Sleuth app for free. I am now back online.

I’m super busy today, so somebody else can go.

Thanks, it does

Thanks but don't understand what you mean about graduated tail feathers. Nice to have you weight in. I always learn from reading your posts.

My thought at the time too. I didn't think the tail was long enough for Boat-tailed but I've never seen one.

Is today's bird not misidentified??

birdie 🦢 #302: 🟥🟥🟨🟨🟨🟩 https://birdiegame.net/ Size assumptions without a good reference point strikes again 🙄

I wouldn’t necessarily say I prefer phones but I’d use my computer for a lot more things if it wasn’t old and didn’t take 15 minutes to boot up.

Upper right bird might be a Pectoral Sandpiper?

Looks good!

Thanks for doing this! Besides taking forever to find the hotspots, the app crashes every time I end a checklist and never records the end time. I'm still using a notepad and pencil....

A weird Oak Titmouse? It sounds similar to the 5th recording of Oak Titmouse on Merlin.

👍 Yup! All Gulf Coast BTGR have dark eyes

but not on the Atlantic coast north of Florida ... our Boat-tails have yellow eyes

Yes, it looks like a Ross's Goose.

Cliff swallow

Awesome shot of this Woodcock in the open and not hiding in a pile of wet, brown leaves!

I wait until I'm on my laptop to check my lists, but I realize we who prefer computers over phones are in decline.

(Pink panther theme song starts playing) birdie 🦢 #301: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Double C Crested Caracara

Thank you Kevin. Great information. I appreciate you taking the time. Funny signature line.

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birdie 🦉 #300: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

More of an hors d'ouevre, really...

With that deep keel, I would say domestic

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/546090961

I don’t bother using the eBird app for anything other than submitting checklists. With a bit of practice, the website is actually very mobile-friendly.

I think this maybe a first for the committee. I’m not sure if they have an official stance on remotely sensed birds. It will be interesting to see how they treat this record, especially given its significance.

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