PaulK

That's a fantastic bird for the lower mainland! Well found!

Why isn't that a harrier?

Thank you. I think the issue I'm having is how this displays on mobile - it simply won't give me that link.

I mean the link that can be used to share directly using the other media button below, such as in this post

Hi, how do you get the long link directly to the photo in Macaulay library? I'd like to start sharing that way but can't figure it out.

I just looked up blue-grey gnatcatcher and then typed in roseate spoonbill, and backspaced out of the autocomplete.

Ok, just curious because it's all visible now.

Hmm, I'm less sure. They don't normally get quite that far north on the west coast.

From Wednesday, an absolutely wonderful time wandering around in the rain at a fantastic site. https://ebird.org/checklist/S85048678

oh, was it the dabbling duck sp. from the other thread that did it?

I spent way too long trying to figure out what kind of Mallard cross this was the other day. In my defense it was moving quite a bit in the pond (some kind of weird current?), and I wasn't expecting it at a reserve.

Was this ever explained?

This ended up being a link to the species page not the photo! (This is actually a pet peeve of mine about how photos are displayed on eBird/Macaulay, that they pop up over the page so the links get confusing, especially with an accidental use of the back button.)

I don't know if it's been discussed but it's described quite well in Tony's essay that's linked beneath the pictures, the one that I read closely and then used to carefully misinterpret this bird.