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Yes, definitely!

This is a thrush, I think Swainson's.

Finally got a good photo of a Jaeger! ML608807066 Long-tailed Jaeger Macaulay Library

Veery

Bad photo, but it was just a long-distance ID shot, and it qualifies: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608806026

They're all American Goldfinch in nonbreeding plumage.

MacGillivray's Warbler!

American Avocet!

In my experience in Portland (just a few miles south of Battle Ground), Willow Flycatchers can be common away from water. My local patch is a vast meadow on top of a 400-foot-tall hill so it is isolated from any nearby water, and Willows are the most common flycatchers there on the edge of the forest. In Clark County, your Empid options are fairly limited in July, with Willow, Hammond’s, and Western being the only expected species. It looks far too bulky to be Hammond’s or Western. I think the harsh lighting in your photos is making it look funny. And your audio is 100% Willow. This call matches the spectrogram shape almost perfectly: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/244471031

I was saving the comment about making the County Rare Bird Alert and the ABA Rarities Alert for this post, but I put it in the lifers thread by mistake. In any event, I get to show off another pic of an American Flamingo. I LOVE my 3000mm zoom Nikon Coolpix P1000! This is one of the original, uncropped photos: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608806028

Hurricane Idalia blew one of the American Flamingos into my county which I chased this afternoon: So today, I made both the County Rare Bird Alert and the ABA Rarities Alert: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608806027

You'll never guess what flew over the flamingo pond west of Chambersburg (Franklin County), Pennsylvania this morning. A Brown Booby! An *adult* Brown Booby! (I learned about this on a local GroupMe ... it's on the ABA Rare public Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ABArare/. Photos there but not yet on eBird)

Im fine with it as Willow. The photos aren’t super helpful but the audio is. Personally though, I think you will have better results if you spend more time in the field and less time puzzling over IDs after the fact. This thread has been going for over a week now. Imagine if all the time people have spent on it was instead spent doing field work!

Another Flamingo, this one in Pennsylvania. Decided to take the 4 hour ride today to see it. Originally there were 2 but one was attacked by a Snapping Turtle. It was captured & taken for rehab, apparently not to badly hurt. I was talking to some of the local birders & they said there are plans to capture this bird also & reunite it with the other one & then relocating them both south somewhere, possibly Florida.

Least flycatcher……third county record….Maricopa county, Arizona

Immature Prairie Warbler

I'm leaning Veery (indistinct breast spots and weak face markings) but unless there are more photos @Applesauce perhaps thrush sp. is best.

I see orangish yellow toes! Agree with blackpoll

Agree with Blackpoll

The plot thickens!

Radnor Lake Nashville TN

Black Vulture.

Common Yellowthroat and Least Flycatcher from yesterday.

Acadian? I toss that out mostly to bump this.

Woah! birdie 🦆 #482: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Not identifiable. I’m not even 100% convinced it’s a warbler.

birdie 🦅 #482: 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ I started with <Marsh Wren. Right environment, wrong family. I'm not familiar with either of them and was working strictly from the pose and the setting.>

A Zone-tail's tail would be much longer, and In a picture that close, the main white band on its tail would be conspicuous. Also all the flight feathers, not just the ones at the tips of the wings, would be conspicuously lighter than the wing linings and body.

Pied-billed Grebe.

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

With the seed positioned the way it is, the AMGO looks like it has an immensely mutated bill.

Is there a problem if I upload the photos I've edited today? I'm backlogged on photo editing.

Thanks all! Sadly this is the only image, so I'll leave it at thrush sp.

I’m not sure this is identifiable. What about Tennessee?

I did exactly precisely what @Charlie Spencerdid, but was then lost.

Blue Dasher(I think)

Roseate Skimmer

Roseate Skimmer

I am checking with you since this is the first time I saw this one on the recent road trip on 25 Aug at the Cypress Gardens In South Carolina.

That's a nice photo! I saw both birds, pre-turtle-attack, five days ago. It took 2 hours to get there, but 3 hours back in part because of heavy rains in a hilly section of my route that prompted me to pull onto the shoulder for at least half an hour.

So awesome!

Dang. So definitely not an Idalia bird. I see no other hurricanes this year that would have pushed/assisted it. Don’t suppose anyone is in that FB group.

That would be my best guess, but not overly confident here TBH based on the photo alone.

Cooper's Hawk, Mojave Desert, April 2021

That's actually 10 lifers ... 😳

This juvenile cooper's spent the day in my yard today. No photoshop, after a hard drive failure last week.

On Saturday, I went back to the local Alder Flycatcher spot to get better photos than the ones I got last week. Unfortunately, the bird didn't leave the back of the wooded area, but I was able to get some recognizable, albeit bad audio: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608658181 Later in the day, roughly .45 miles down the road, I may have seen the same bird, but my photos didn't have enough details, so I classified it differently (Alder/Willow Flycatcher (Traill's Flycatcher)) which also flagged as rare: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608658190

First county record of a Tennessee Warbler! Yard bird 197 and county bird 234(Puts me a little over 80%)!

I AM IN SHOCK https://ebird.org/checklist/S148800538 Iron City (aka middle-of-nowhere) TN These are presumed to be natural vagrants, not escapees as eBird defaulted them to, from Hurricane Idalia, like the ones in Ohio. Got to alert from the state listserve as I was leaving my house this morning, and booked it down after picking up a friend. Absolutely surreal Lifer #389

Red headed woodpecker juvenile……second county record for Maricopa county, Arizona