Kevin

In my county I have seen 30 Sharp-shinned Hawks and 10 Coopers. Coopers are year round, but Sharp-shinned are only here in the winter.

Savannah Sparrow.

Cattle Egret. Eurasian-collared Dove.

Airplanes!!!! 1-3 jets from the army come fly around for about an hour, several days a week sometimes. In one way it is nice because I get a free show(Rolls sharp dives, etc.), but they are so loud I can here myself yell at the top of my lungs. So of course birding is done. Cars. For some reason people think they need to drive down my gravel road (Which I bird regularly) at 60MHP, that they have no reason to be on, you have to go out of your way to get on it. And there is a perfectly nice hwy that runs quite close by. People.

Please tell my that article is a joke! 🤣😂😭

I'm at 186/276 for my county. 8/16 warblers, 18/27 waterfowl, and 19/24 Sparrows.

Agreed!

I am half way there, 8 of 16.

@Jefferson Shank

My best photo of a Purple Finch yet!

Lots and lots of Purple Finches. https://ebird.org/checklist/S79878757 https://ebird.org/checklist/S79901676

So have I, and have had 50 percent success, and 50 percent failure. If y'all promise not to laugh, I'll tell you how far away from my house they were. They were 6 and 9 minutes.

Some where in my mind I know what it is, but I can't think of it.

Eastern/Western Meadowlark?

As winter goes on there becomes less pray, and they have too hunt more. I'm starting to see them in the day time around here too, in fact I saw one today.

What's that?

Yep!

https://ebird.org/media/catalog?taxonCode=audori&mediaType=p&regionCode=US-TX-091&includeUnconfirmed=T&userId=USER725269&q=Audubon's Oriole&user=Tropic Consul

Three, Lesser Redpoll.

"northern part of Mississippi bar for several months, so I kept following the Jedediah Smith memorial trail" That really threw me for a loop! I assumed that this was somewhere on the northern Mississippi river, and I was having trouble remembering Jedediah Smith doing anything around there.

Spotted Sandpiper.

Yellowthroat?

Sure. Next time your going to try for a better shot you could wait for the end of the week to post.😉

You can do one.