[Black crow like bird with white shoulders]

If you could sketch what you saw, even a badly done sketch, sometimes that's more helpful than just text. 🙂

[please help identify blue bird in video]

11 minutes ago, zorro bluebird said:

Aah yes google's algorithms... I prefer duckduckgo. It's pretty good but it does have its limits. Nothing showed up even deep down 3 pages. I'll keep it in mind on my searches. Thanks!

Yeah, as much as I wanted to like duckduckgo for the privacy, they just aren't up to snuff with results a lot of the time.

[BRDL]

Had to use the list to remind myself for the last guess. I was out of ideas.

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[Any way this is a Bahamian Mockingbird and not a Northern Mockingbird?]

You'd be surprised how many live things you can have sent through the mail. There was a hilarious twitter thread about a guy that ordered crickets, and didn't realize they weren't contained in an inner container when he opened the box.

You also used to be able to send children through the mail. Man, sometimes that has been tempting. . . . 😂

[ABA Rare Bird Alert]

5 minutes ago, Seanbirds said:

Righto.

Although in all honesty, sometimes it gets a bit. . . .grating.

[ABA Rare Bird Alert]

2 minutes ago, Seanbirds said:

Just curious, was it at Red Slough?

Yep. Was seen again Sunday morning, apparently.

[please help identify blue bird in video]

9 hours ago, zorro bluebird said:

Did you just know the bird or did you search?

I searched using " blue black" "masked" "small" and kept getting blue mockingbird, blue jay, masked lovebird... etc. I'm fairly new to birdwatching. Are there more specialized pattern identifiers I might have searched under?

 

My husband refers to me as "The Google Queen". I just seem to have a knack for finding things. 🙂

I searched masked blue bird in Google Images, and this bird was on the third line of results.

[please help identify blue bird in video]

How about a Masked Flowerpiercer?

[BRDL]

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[Any way this is a Bahamian Mockingbird and not a Northern Mockingbird?]

8 hours ago, SirVive said:

I'm a complete idiot when it comes to technology but I think I must be signed into my wife's Gmail account on my phone or something - I can always tell what she's been shopping for when the banner adds change on my phone. Unfortunately sometimes it's women's clothing sites - and not necessarily the items she was looking for 😕

My husband watches stuff on Amazon a lot. Since our accounts are joined, sometimes I look up the weirdest stuff I can think of, just so he'll get weird ads. 😂

[Lifers]

On 4/22/2022 at 10:47 AM, Avery said:

Surprise WEWA! https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/438505271

 

Every time I've seen a Worm-eating, it's always been when I'm NOT looking for them. When I actively look for one, I never find them. They're quantum warblers.

[Warbler help - Lake County, IL]

Yep, they seemed a little early this year. I had one in Georgia almost two weeks ago.

[ABA Rare Bird Alert]

Steller's Sea Eagle has now been seen on Avalon Peninsula, NEWFOUNDLAND

Pacific Golden-plover in Halifax Region, NOVA SCOTIA

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper in Sauk County, WISCONSIN

[Duck or goose?]

Ruddy Ducks! The white face and that tail sticking up give them a pretty unique profile.

[BRDL]

A no list day is always a good day. Lol.

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[Sedge or Marsh Wren?]

Agreed, House Wren in all photos. Sedge and Marsh have an even stronger eyebrow, and striping and other stuff going on.

[Hermit Thrushes?]

5 minutes ago, Primal said:

Thanks, awesome, Veery is a lifer for me! 

It's a darn good bird for April in Illinois. If you're on ebird, might want to report it.

[Hermit Thrushes?]

First one is a Veery!

Second one seems to have the buffy spectacles of a Swainson's, but I've been fooled by Hermits before. . .

[Empid or Wood-Pewee - Upper Texas Gulf Coast - 4-22-22]

11 minutes ago, meghann said:

With that honkin' bill, I think this is actually one of the Tyrants.

 

11 minutes ago, Peromyscus said:

I think that that is a Great Crested Flycatcher; it's certainly a Myiarchus flycatcher.

Yeah, Myiarchus is what I meant. Duh, Meghann.

[Empid or Wood-Pewee - Upper Texas Gulf Coast - 4-22-22]

With that honkin' bill, I think this is actually one of the Tyrants.

[Can someone help me identify this bird? I did some basic research but could find nothing.]

For what it's worth. . .I prefer this subspecies:

[Can someone help me identify this bird? I did some basic research but could find nothing.]

1 hour ago, lonestranger said:

Boy, talk about a tough room. 

 

[Lesser or Greater Yellowlegs Montezuma NWR NY 4/23/22]

While bill length can be variable, this one is cut and dry. Bill length longer than the head = Greater.

[Can someone help me identify this bird? I did some basic research but could find nothing.]

27 minutes ago, lonestranger said:

That's what makes this bird so rare, if it was spotted out east it wouldn't have been as interesting. 

EXACTLY.

[Your checklist of the day!]

Hit up local spots yesterday for Earth Day. Not quite a big day (would have had to get going a lot earlier for that) but still a good one.

https://ebird.org/tripreport/49293