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By far the best ever Storm-Petrel shots I've ever gotten!!! As anyone who has done pelagic photography knows, Storm-Petrels are the hardest species out there to photograph well! Super stoked to have gotten such good shots! ML608777436 Ashy Storm-Petrel Macaulay Library ML608777435 Ashy Storm-Petrel Macaulay Library

Brown-headed Cowbird.

The plot thickens!

Black Vulture.

Common Yellowthroat and Least Flycatcher from yesterday.

I agree that photos 1 and 2 are Black-throated Green

White-breasted Nuthatch, Bald Eagle and I’m having a hard time hearing the other call but perhaps it’s a Bewick’s Wren.

Pied-billed Grebe.

I just checked on eBird for this location because I was curious, and I think I'm going to retract Ruddy Turnstone as a possibility. This is a very heavily birded area (10+ visit in the last couple days) and the last Ruddy Turnstone at this location was in 2005. In contrast, almost every list has had Black-bellied Plover on it, and I can see that fitting this bird.

Blackburnian Warbler: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608773653

Finally, a picture of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo that isn't awful: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608773648

As long as you are sure they were separated eye arcs above and below the eye and not a continuous eye ring, then I don't see what else it would be in your neck of the woods. Around here, everybody struggles between Mourning Warbler and MacGillivray's, but I shouldn't think that is an issue for your location. Congrats!

Looks good!

Definitely not Black-bellied Plover with the extra photos. Looks like a Calidris (maybe Western, Dunlin, Pectiral?)

Cooper's Hawk, Mojave Desert, April 2021

https://ebird.org/checklist/S149779277 Great morning before class! Always hard to have the time crunch but I managed to get a bunch of FoF birds. RBGR, GWWA, BTNW, PHVI, and PAWA.

This is a Piping Plover.

That's actually 10 lifers ... 😳

This afternoon I went over my Western Palearctic (Europe and Israel) life list very carefully, and noticed that 7 species had been split since I compiled that list decades ago, so I picked up even more armchair lifers. 2 species were intra-European splits according to the Dutch Birding document I was consulting, both of them wagtails. The other 5 were e.g. Wilson's Snipe being split off from the Eurasian Common Snipe. So that's 8 lifers in the past month -- these 5, the 2 from my August activity, and the actual lifer American Flamingos a few days ago.

Uhh, any chance this could this be a Ruddy Turnstone? Probably not identifiable but still an interesting thought.

They're all American Goldfinch in nonbreeding plumage.

I heard a song.

Radnor Lake Nashville TN

WOW

I punted on the Cerulean Warbler lifer but got a Blackburnian lifer instead. Otherwise, decent number of species for the short distance travelled: https://ebird.org/checklist/S149742102

My reaction was black bellied plover

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/02/world/gold-throated-hummingbird-hybrid-scn/index.html

Had an amazing experience with an immature Cooper's Hawk a few years back.

What about my House Finch?😂 😭

Agree with Blackpoll

Looks and sounds fine for Willow.

These where my reactions as well upon viewing this earlier.

That was my other thought

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BRDL 597 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🥚🥚🪶🪶 🐦🐦🥚🥚 🥚🥚🐦🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦 That's slightly annoying. I have not seen this bird.

The elusive Green-masked Woodpecker:

No caption. Letting the image beak for itself.

I believe this is a Cooper's.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608632682

Always have a tough time getting good eye level shots of AMRE, until yesterday. https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608610752

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608609681 Magnolia Warbler from Tawas