Snake Fingers Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Yesterday: an American Goldfinch I heard singing, first time I IDed one singing. The only reason I recognized it right away was: I was wondering if it really sounded like “potato chips”, so I listened to it(it doesn’t IMO) and thus my subconscious learned a song.I recognized it as “oh that one bird… wait it’s that one bird that doesn’t sound like potato chips… that one bird is a AMGO! Is there a term for say: looking in a field guide, seeing a WBNU in it, then seeing a WBNU a few weeks later, and you know immediately that’s a WBNU.? If there isn’t there should be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, Snake Fingers said: Yesterday: an American Goldfinch I heard singing, first time I IDed one singing. The only reason I recognized it right away was: I was wondering if it really sounded like “potato chips”, so I listened to it(it doesn’t IMO) and thus my subconscious learned a song.I recognized it as “oh that one bird… wait it’s that one bird that doesn’t sound like potato chips… that one bird is a AMGO! Is there a term for say: looking in a field guide, seeing a WBNU in it, then seeing a WBNU a few weeks later, and you know immediately that’s a WBNU.? If there isn’t there should be. Yep, that's how a learned a lot of my bird vocalizations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Yesterday's was a very vocal Black-capped Chickadee making gargling calls and chip noises that let me get quite close. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 1 hour ago, Quiscalus quiscula said: Yesterday's was a very vocal Black-capped Chickadee making gargling calls and chip noises that let me get quite close. Any photos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted February 21 Share Posted February 21 Just now, Birds are cool said: Any photos? Unfortunately forgot to bring my camera. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 Lifer Greater Scaups. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Yesterday, a Pileated Woodpecker that I heard. Their calls are so weird! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 This morning, my first Brown-headed Cowbird of the year. It was in a local park I was walking through, a male foraging in a group of starlings. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 American Goldfinch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Hairy Woodpeckers. My first of the month, and the first time I have seen in GA. All other sightings have been by sound. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Went birding in Atlanta today. Not a bunch of birds, but I got some nice photos, birded a few new counties, saw a couple county lifers, and visited some friends that moved from Dublin, GA. Hard to choose what my favorite bird of the day was, though I would probably say it was a NOMO that was mimicking everything from Mallards to Brown-headed Nuthatches. Trip Report: https://ebird.org/tripreport/110074 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 The migrant Wood Duck pair in the local park stream when I was taking my binocular-less half-hour walk this morning. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 FOY Common Grackles!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanager 101 Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 4 Snow Geese! Drove 50 minutes to get them too. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Saw and photographed a YTWA for the first time this year! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Yesterday: The incubating Bald Eagle in the nest cam, in Big Bear Lake, California. Where it was apparently 15 degrees, snow covered the nest edge but not the bird, the wind was blowing, the tree/cam was shaking, the blizzard warning had expired. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 Great-tailed Grackles. No birding today, but I hope to get out for a quick chase tomorrow or the rain holds up a little. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 (edited) Very hard to choose today. Either 600 BHCO (way underestimate) which triggered the high count by about 250, or 128 CEDW (individually counted) that mean that spring migration is on its way! Edited February 28 by Birds are cool 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 Hooded Mergansers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Here is a pic of the YTWA. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Fingers Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 1 hour ago, Birds are cool said: Very hard to choose today. Either 600 BHCO (way underestimate) which triggered the high count by about 250, or 128 CEDW (individually counted) that mean that spring migration is on its way! Bro you individually counted 128 birds?! Respect. That’s a lot of BHCOs… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birds are cool Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 46 minutes ago, Snake Fingers said: Bro you individually counted 128 birds?! Respect. That’s a lot of BHCOs… They sat still for me until literally two seconds after I was done counting! (A biker flushed them) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Fingers Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 10 hours ago, Birds are cool said: They sat still for me until literally two seconds after I was done counting! (A biker flushed them) Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Yesterday, FOY Fish Crow outside Whole Foods. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 That's weird, thought I had posted, guess I never submitted it. Hardly ever have these guys in the yard and I had only heard them, not seen them. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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