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This is one of my best photos of a cardinal, despite the low light.

An early migrant Tricolored Blackbird...a surprisingly difficult species to get good photos of, in my experience. Also, with their noted decline, I always feel lucky to be looking at even one. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/597471731

Confirmed.

Looks fine for Carolina Wren to me

HOFI. The size and color are fine for it, and structurally it’s a HOFI. Notable curved culmen.

Orangeburg Sod Farms, Orangeburg County, central SC. Sept 2019, on a trip with Carolina Bird Club. The sod farm is privately owned but the owner is a birder. Check in at the gate first and you can drive the roads and berms between the sod. The usual targets are migrating shorebirds drawn to the wide open damp grass fields, but the same conditions can pull harriers. This one was dining on something just below the level of the grass.

No clue why you’re analyzing a list from 2019 so closely. Plus, Passerine sp is not incorrect - just unnecessarily vague.

Green Herons, even juveniles, show a much more muted and concolor upperwing in flight. Least Bitterns have a notable buff patch (wing coverts) that contrasts with the darker flight feathers on the upperwing. It's definitely a Least Bittern.

Here’s the final trip report. Did pretty well considering I didn’t visit the locations I wanted to on Monday. The biggest misses were Red and Cassia Crossbill, Boreal Owl, Three Toed Woodpecker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Evening Grosbeak. Did have a few birds I wasn’t expecting, Northern Pygmy owl, dusky grouse, pinyon jay and juniper Titmouse . all photos are up except the last two days and my audio recordings. https://ebird.org/tripreport/145746

Baltimore Oriole

Dowitchers

Wilson’s Snipe.

Don't know what it is about them. I see them pretty often in the winter & I've yet to get a shot of one that I was happy with.

Found today in San Antonio TX

Russell Burgess Coastal Preserve, Horry County, northeastern coastal SC. 22 July 23. I was aiming for the Willet and didn't even see the photo lifer Whimbrel until I was checking the photos. This is only my second sighting of this species. When I was tagging the photo, I was surprised to see a 'Whimbrel' tag didn't already exist. I checked my library and Macaulay and sure enough, I had no photos of one.

Ha, yes. The second time I ever saw them my father and I spent 20 minutes looking for them at this spot where 15+ had been reported recently. We looked around these ponds, but couldn't find any. Finally after 20 25 minutes right before we were about to give up we went slogging through some ankle high grass that you sunk down into almost shin high. All of the sudden this little bird with a gigantic bill comes torpedoing out of the grass. I nearly fell backwards into the mud. 🤣 We saw about 15 more, and they all flew near the road that led to the ponds off the highway. We started driving on that road, and we were going to try to get some photos, but as soon as I opened that door, all 26 birds took off.

1-2 Least Sandpiper 3-4 Semipalmated Sandpiper?? might be one of the two longer winged primarily eastern peep species im not familiar with 4-8 Willet, the bird in number 4 i think might be a western willet and 5-8 are eastern willets but im no expert

Thanks all, I had ruled out anything else other than Green Heron (of which I had several in the same location, only they were much more cooperative to photograph as you can see here) 🙂

I usually only see them in flight, and usually hear them yell “eSCAAAAPE” 😉

Wing pattern is an easy way. That big rufous patch in photo 2 with greenish below.

Fancy word for crawling around in caves, usually only used by cave crawling spelunkers. 😉

And I thought I would be the only one with a great photo of this bird!

Over 25 years after my parents last took us there, I took my Darling Bride back in 2002. Except for a new visitors center, everything looked EXACTLY the same as when I was last there. I wasn't into birding yet but that's where I got my lifer Stellar's Jay. I came out of one of the pit toilets and there it was, just above eye level in a tree about four feet from the door. My Mom's wishes will take precedence but if it was entirely up to me, the dam at Duck Pond is where I'd scatter Dad's ashes.

Been a while since I posted on this trip report. I really haven't had a lot of time to bird. Took down a tree two days ago, went spelunking with my other grandparents yesterday, and going to take down a ton of trees in the next three days.... At least I'm getting payed. Going to go to the track today and do a mile trial. Hoping to break 5 minutes. Up to 116 species! Really slow moving the number up now, but it's moving.

No not in the Mantas family. This is in the Waterscorpion family, Genus Ranatra. Hanging out pool side.

That was the first place I’d heard a Lincoln’s Sparrow sing. https://ebird.org/pnw/checklist/S90309549

Definitely a HOFI

I'm leaning Bewick's Wren here, noting the pale belly.

Looks like it! Nice photo!

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Nazca Booby. It was shrouded in fog which made photography difficult.

I have seen many many many Northern Harrier both in Colorado (summer) when I lived there. I have seen them in Florida (winter) since we moved here. But I do not have a good a picture of one. I have a bunch of okay ones. I used the one below because it is male and you never saw as many of them as the female and it is an okay pic.

Juvenile Snowy Plover https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/596903501

Back in the game (I think I missed three weeks). Most of my photos are fairly average in-flight shots so I went with this one from March 2021 (snow still on the ground). Heavy crop. I watched it for some time hunting over a field and it finally snagged a mouse or a vole (hidden in the grass). Interesting how different these birds can appear.

Same

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker! I’ve always wanted to see a sapsucker!

The filter for your region for Bachman's Sparrow is set to 5 birds from Apr. 1 - Sep. 1. Your report of 6 birds means you have exceeded the filter limit. So, while the ID may be correct, it's not a bad idea to indicate in your checklist comments on how you determined six individual/distinct birds. Not a big deal, the filter is set to 5, so your checklist only exceeds it by a single bird, but to help in the review process it's always a good idea to include additional details.

From this weekend, Kentucky Warbler! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/569044901

Took the family out looking for wildflowers and had a very cooperative lifer Lewis' Woodpecker on a fence post right along the road.