Peromyscus

That too!

aaaand guess what I didn't see

BRDL 601 🥚🪶🥚🥚 🥚🐦🥚🥚 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🐦🐦🪶🥚 🐦🐦🐦🐦 I haven't seen this species either

Coincidentally one showed up near home today. Unfortunately, I did not (or have not yet) seen it. I may go back, um, right now?

What a lovely photo birdie 🦃 #484: 🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

BRDL 600 🥚🪶🥚🪶 🥚🥚🥚🪶 🐦🐦🥚🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦

birdie 🦃 #483: 🟥🟥🟨🟩⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

Maybe? But, this morning there were 3 Brown Boobies in Baltimore, 2 or all 3 adults. 1 or 2 BRBO have been in Baltimore for some weeks, with the first adult photographed at the end of July. 1 subadult was seen in New York City in late June. I don't think hurricanes or tropical storms were responsible for the late July & late June birds.

You'll never guess what flew over the flamingo pond west of Chambersburg (Franklin County), Pennsylvania this morning. A Brown Booby! An *adult* Brown Booby! (I learned about this on a local GroupMe ... it's on the ABA Rare public Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/groups/ABArare/. Photos there but not yet on eBird)

That's a nice photo! I saw both birds, pre-turtle-attack, five days ago. It took 2 hours to get there, but 3 hours back in part because of heavy rains in a hilly section of my route that prompted me to pull onto the shoulder for at least half an hour.

BRDL 599 🥚🐦🥚🐦 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🥚🐦🐦🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦 I have seen this species, and I figured out the code unaided (for once).

birdie 🦢 #482: 🟥🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

BRDL 598 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🪶🪶🥚🥚 🐦🐦🪶🥚 🐦🐦🐦🐦 I did not consult a list. And, I have not seen this species.

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

That's actually 10 lifers ... 😳

This afternoon I went over my Western Palearctic (Europe and Israel) life list very carefully, and noticed that 7 species had been split since I compiled that list decades ago, so I picked up even more armchair lifers. 2 species were intra-European splits according to the Dutch Birding document I was consulting, both of them wagtails. The other 5 were e.g. Wilson's Snipe being split off from the Eurasian Common Snipe. So that's 8 lifers in the past month -- these 5, the 2 from my August activity, and the actual lifer American Flamingos a few days ago.

BRDL 597 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🪶🪶🥚🥚 🥚🥚🥚🥚 🪶🥚🐦🐦 🐦🐦🐦🐦 I have seen this bird

birdie 🦆 #480: 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

One of the Pennsylvania flamingos was apparently attacked by a snapping turtle, and sent to a rehabber this morning. The other bird is still at that pond.

Yellow-bellied Flycatcher is not currently reviewable in DC on that date (Sep. 13), so the YBFL photos in that checklist were not seen by an eBird reviewer.

BRDL 596 🪶🥚🥚🥚 🥚🪶🥚🥚 🪶🥚🥚🥚 🥚🥚🪶🥚 🐦🐦🐦🐦 I have not seen this bird either.

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

Sedge Wren!

birdie 🦆 #478: 🟥🟥🟥🟨🟩⬛ https://birdiegame.net/

The Song Sparrow that was greeting me upon my return from seeing the flamingos in Pennsylvania.