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BRDL 600 🐦🐦🥚🥚 🐦🐦🥚🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦

birdie 🦅 #483: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 https://birdiegame.net/

BRDL 599 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🥚🐦🥚🥚 🥚🐦🥚🐦 🥚🐦🐦🐦 🥚🐦🐦🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦

birdie 🐦 #482: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 https://birdiegame.net/

birdie 🦅 #481: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Lots of butterflies flying around so I tried to catch this one as it flew across the yard. Not a huge butterfly, but the dandelion gives a good comparative for it's size, which is more relevant in the next photo. The size of this spider is really hard to judge due to it being hunched up while it feeds on a butterfly similar in size to the one above, possibly the same one. Notice the spider's body is almost as long as the butterfly. I suspect the spider actual shrunk considerably since I first noticed it, because it was MUCH larger when I first discovered it crawling up my pant leg the day before.

The feeders often provide for some interesting interactions.

birdie 🐦 #480: 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

In camera multi exposure, something I've never tried, or post process stacking, other? Cool photo regardless.

Nope

Looks like your photo didn't make it.

birdie 🦆 #479: 🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

BRDL 595 🥚🥚🪶🥚 🐦🐦🥚🥚 🐦🐦🐦🐦

With take-away dinner.

I had the camera and tripod ready for any birds that might be moving around, but the spiders have provided more entertainment than the birds over the past few days. Carrying a fly off to eat. Tying two flies together for easier transportation while a third fly hangs nearby. Pulling itself and prey along a broken strand of web while leaving a new strand behind. Contrary to what I had always thought, spiders don't always wrap their prey up to eat later, sometimes they eat their meal right away.

birdie 🦢 #478: 🟥🟨🟥🟥🟥🟨 https://birdiegame.net/

birdie 🐦 #477: 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 https://birdiegame.net/

BRDL 593 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🪶🥚🪶🥚 🐦🐦🥚🥚 🐦🐦🥚🐦 🐦🐦🥚🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦

birdie 🦃 #476: 🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/ Definitely not what I was expecting after the first two shots.

BRDL 592 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🥚🐦🥚🥚 🥚🐦🥚🥚 🥚🐦🥚🥚 🐦🐦🥚🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦

birdie 🦅 #475: 🟨🟥🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Definitely one of the easiest competitions to judge, @stitch58 wins.

After RE-reading the checklist, I'd agree it's probably the wrong checklist since @Avery didn't mention the Flamingos on it. I'm still curious about the owl sighting and eBird's protocols on showing location of sensitive birds, which I think Barn Owls would be grouped as.