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After not seeing him for 17 days...

Correct on all!

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608894590 Lifer from my trip! It was pouring rain so I was more focused on trying to keep my camera gear dry, rather than the shutter speed. Hence the lack of sharpness...

Belted Kingfisher, Mourning Dove, Ruddy Turnstone, and the fourth one is a close up of a Snowy Owl. 🙃

Whimbrel

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608867565

Self-found Buff-breasted Sandpipers! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608898825

Eastern Phoebes! Note the all black bill and lack of eyering and defined wingbars.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608871264

Buff-breasted Sandpiper: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608871266

I dunno, I found those pictures as easy to id as any other shorb.

Confirmed!

Brunswick County, coastal southeastern NC. New Year's Day, 2023

I thought the fourth was either Rock Ptarmigan or a Snow Goose. Thanks for the correction!

Strikes me as a Ruddy Turnstone, but probably not identifiable.

Today a white-breasted nuthatch from the trip; love the lichen on the tree branch https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608881639

Black-bellied Plovers. I don't see a Killdeer, maybe you could point it out.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608856396

I looks good for a Yellowlegs, but not sure which. Maybe leaning Greater. Solitary would have slightly shorter legs, and is usually darker mocha brown on the back

Me

Checked an irrigation pond that hadn't been eBirded in a few weeks. Every time I've gone here, something cool has shown up! First time was 1st county record BBWD, second was rare AMAV and STSA, and today was a trio of BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS (my fav!) along with a bunch of other cool stuff. They ran right up to us, within 10 feet! Can't wait to see the photos the other birder I was with got, he has a much better camera! https://ebird.org/checklist/S150037550

I'm not looking this one up.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/393635701

Definitely.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608889757 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608889758 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608889759

Includes the earliest fall record of Clay-colored Sparrows for the county and re-finding a county rarity that I haven't seen since August. https://ebird.org/checklist/S150020859

Barn Swallow: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608871283

Confirmed!

Yes! Nice shots!

Same here; for me it is not possible to go birding, make a selection, and edit those pictures on a regular day. We just got back from vacation and need to sort through, select, and edit a bit over 5000 photos. So here are the first that are done. I wish I could have gone lower with the green heron, but with several alligators nearby, I thought that was not a good idea 😅 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608848638 https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608848634

@Kevin it speaks volumes about your character that you had to Google that. ❤️ There is hope for the world!

Least Sandpiper would be my best guess. Dunlin would have a noticeably longer bill.

This thread is FUBAR. Yeah, yeah; detention again. I know the way...

Coincidentally one showed up near home today. Unfortunately, I did not (or have not yet) seen it. I may go back, um, right now?

A Killdeer at Cornerstone Park a few weeks ago

Today, southern NJ.

It took me until here

San Francisco Bay yesterday.

birdie 🦆 #484: 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ The orientation of the second clue really had me confused. Seeing the answer after my lucky guess sorted out my confusion quick enough though.

Nope, just casual interest. Cypress is about 90 minutes away and we visit every few years. The swamp garden is a great place to see breeding wading birds in the spring.

birdie 🦆 #483: 🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ They respond to pishing.

3 new county birds (OSFL, WIFL, EASO), and lots of warbler action! https://ebird.org/checklist/S149937161

Noha for me

domestic Peafowl of some sort. Indian Peafowl? Not countable no matter what it is.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/608823105

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

Cooper's Hawk, Mojave Desert, April 2021

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