lonestranger

Those pre-sunrise colours are often better than the actual sunrise colours, in my opinion. I'll make a suggestion for taking sunrise/sunset photos with your phone. If you turn your phone horizontally when photographing the horizon, you will capture more of the colourful horizon and less of the not so colourful clouds. I find it allows me to zoom in a lot more without cutting off the edges of the scene. Just something to consider when composing sunset photos.

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birdie 🦅 #258: 🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Could the square look be from a single wing being folded in half? Still speculating on a possible insect meal since that is their only listed food source, other than eating fruit in the winter.

I will speculate that what we're seeing are the wings of a moth, or other insect, folded together. The bisquit and filling look of the 'cookie' is probably the different colours of the upper and underside of moth wings. As I said, just speculating.

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birdie 🦅 #257: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩 https://birdiegame.net/

Wild Turkey...fleeing after seeing a selfie of her kid??? 🤣

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birdie 🐦 #256: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

I'm confused by the comment about the perched bird. I see two photos of two eagles in flight, no perched bird. Is there something I'm missing here? 🤔

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birdie 🦢 #255: 🟥🟥🟨🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

This is one of those photos where the IC(Interesting Capture) puts it above the better IQ(Image Quality) of some of my other Starling photos.

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birdie 🦉 #254: 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

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birdie 🦆 #253: 🟥🟥🟨🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

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birdie 🦃 #252: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟨🟨 https://birdiegame.net/

Dark-eyed Junco is about as far as my thoughts go. With so many variables, further classification is more frustration than I am interested in. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing interesting variations, I just don't have the brain space to sort out those variations.

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birdie 🦉 #251: 🟥🟥🟨🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

I think what @IKLland is asking is, is there a Chihuahuan AND Eastern Meadowlark counted on the list or is there just one Meadowlark counted. I don't think I added a number to my Meadowlark so that may have messed up the count that is in questioned.

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