lonestranger

Sorry LeopARTnik, I wasn't trying to confuse you. I can't help with your ID but I thought that bumping this back up to the top might help get more experienced eyes on it.

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We might as well dream of winning the lottery too. @Administrator sounded committed to adding more forums back in September and mentioned it again in October but nothing has happened yet. I think we're just adding to our own frustration by pursuing this any further. The members have spoken, in more ways than one, but it doesn't seem like the right people are listening. As for the Canada Goose term, I have to agree with you that it's weird not to use the term Canadian Goose. Being from Canada, and knowing better, I use the term "Canadian Geese" when referring to the plural but use Canada Goose when referring to an individual. It just seems to roll off the tongue better for me that way. Everyone knows what bird(s) I am referring to either way I say it so I never worry about which term I use.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that your other picture probably shows the yellow rump of the yellow-rumped warbler.

It says here that you need 250-400MB to install the app. Hopefully that answers your question.

You have some funny looking cattle down there.

I think you got the wrong lone but I appreciate the thought.

Zebra finch

If you're really creative(cheat) and can find a bird with an X somewhere in it's name, you could rearrange the letters and come up with an X bird. I used up my creativity on X with my "Xwing Cedar Wa". https://forums.whatbird.com/index.php?/topic/37-alphabet-birds/&do=findComment&comment=14743

I've been waiting for Z but keep missing my chance. Drawing a blank on X, even creative ones.

This sure looks like a red-tailed hawk to me. The belly band is an obvious indicator for me. The barred tail is typical of immature birds and also seen on some west coast adults. While I always second guess myself because there are similar looking birds in different ranges that I'm not familiar with, I am fairly confident it's a red-tailed and not a sharp-shinned hawk.

Welcome to Whatbird, G_kayaker. I have to ask, Is that a birding phrase that I've never heard before?....or was that a typo that resulted in auto correct making that ID for you?

While we're on the subject of presenting changes to the forums, I'd like to suggest that we also ask to have the Edit feature changed from it's five minute time limit back to the old way with no time limit for editing our posts. It's frustrating when you can't correct a silly typo, and even more frustrating when you can't correct a critical typo that confuses those reading it. Lets face it, we don't always notice the obvious right away and it's easy to hit the wrong keys or have auto correct change a typo into the wrong word without us noticing it. If you submit your post and run to the bathroom before reading it, there's a good chance you won't be able to edit your post when you come back if you notice a typo in it. I know that I'm not only one frustrated with the current Edit time limit, I've seen it mentioned over and over again so lets add it to the suggested changes.

I'm far from confident and have zero experience with them, but that bill looks short enough for one of the night herons. Is that a possibility?

I guess more than anything, I want what I know I can't have, the old community that enjoyed the old website before the first major crash. The community/members is what has always made this website great, but since the crash we seem to have lost the interest of many of our members. The old forums use to have places for birders to get together and discuss non-birding topics, and get to know each other a little better. There were forums where the young birders could be kids and have fun that wasn't restricted to just talking about birds. People used to create simple games that many of the members would participate in just for the fun of it, and there were many of those games going on before the crash. There were forums to share photos of the stuff that kept us amused when there were no birds around. Those forums or sub-forums weren't always here though, they were added to the website at the request of the members and many of them became quite popular and I suspect a few even attracted new members. The other wildlife forums weren't added as ID forums, they were added so that people could share their experiences with the rest of the community. Any IDing that was done in the wildlife forums was voluntary but because the community was always willing to share their knowledge where and when they could, and there's a lot of collective knowledge in the minds of our community, those wildlife forums had an almost natural transition into informal ID forums. The members of our community may not have built the old website but the members of our community ARE what made the old website what it was, and that was not just a great educational site, but also a fun place to be. The WhatBird community is as diverse as the birds at the root of our mutual enjoyment, and just like the birds, some members will leave the area and never come back. I guess I am just hoping that some of the members can be enticed to come back. We all know that birds can be attracted to our yards by putting out a feeder full of sunflower seeds. We also know that putting a variety of feeders out with different seeds will attract more, and a wider variety of birds. We also know that putting out specialized feeders like hummingbird feeders and suet cages can attract specialized birds like hummers and woodpeckers. We also know that adding a bird bath or water attraction will attract more birds than just putting out seed or specialized feeders. If we remove all our feeders and bird baths from our yard, what do you think will happen to the birds that used to enjoy our yard? They might come back for a while looking for what was once there, but if they don't find what they're looking for, they're quite possibly going to stop looking in our yard altogether. I for one prefer to keep our yard as bird friendly as possible by adding attractions, not by removing them. That's just this birder's spin on things.

@Administrator, use the poll results as you see fit. Here's hoping. 🤞

Bumping this to keep the poll on the first page for a few days.

I think you'll find the discussion I linked to expands on the idea with explanations/arguments for both sides. Compared to the old forums, the new forums fall short in many ways and requests for more variety in forums keeps coming up over and over again, mostly from people that remember how the old forums used to be. It's my opinion that Whatbird is a fraction of what it used to be before the crash, and I admit to being disappointed with that.

Straight forward question that relates to the discussion in this thread.

Watch for them getting drunk when they're gorging on the berries/fruit. Waxwing will indulge on berries and fruit that is naturally fermenting and if they indulge a little too much they supposedly get drunk. I've never seen it myself but it sounds like it'd be fun to watch.

The photos load right in the post for me. If you haven't already, try refreshing your browser, that usually works for me.

Besides the features that The Bird Nuts mentioned, you can also see that the legs are feathered right down to the toes, which also supports rough-legged hawk.

I think the white patch is just the wind blowing the feathers around enough that you see the finer feathers underneath showing through. I have a similar shot of a red-tailed hawk with it's head turned showing a white patch like yours. I see a pattern in mine that looks like an arctic fox to me. Back-headed Hawk by lonestranger102, on Flickr

The link worked for me, here's the photo it took me to.