IKLland Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 6 minutes ago, Peromyscus said: I heard my first House Wren of the spring on my morning walk yesterday, about 3 blocks from my house. Nice! I heard/saw 35+ yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 1 hour ago, IKLland said: Nice! I heard/saw 35+ yesterday. Wow, that's a lot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted April 21, 2022 Share Posted April 21, 2022 I saw the male Anhinga reported in my county yesterday. It was on the other side of a small pond, in a tree. It spread its wings for many minutes, and as I was leaving it was making soft grunting noises. This is the closest I've been to an Anhinga in many years. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 FOYs from this morning: Red-headed Woodpecker, Warbling Vireo, Worm-eating Warbler (lifer!), Cerulean Warbler, and Chestnut-sided Warbler. Also forgot to add Blackpoll Warbler from Tuesday. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 19 minutes ago, Avery said: Also forgot to add Blackpoll Warbler from Tuesday. Blackpoll Warbler already!!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoroark Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) FOY Black-headed Grosbeak just chilling on a suet block in the yard. He flew off before I could snap a photo. Edited April 22, 2022 by Zoroark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 2 hours ago, Peromyscus said: Blackpoll Warbler already!!?? It’s an early one that’s been sticking around in the same place. I think I posted a photo in the Head On Bird Shots thread. I’m on my iPhone or I’d put the photo In this post 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Three more arrivals: Eastern Kingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, and Solitary/Spotted Sandpiper. My wife saw her first Broad-winged Hawks of the spring too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Blue Grosbeak, Magnolia Warbler, and Baltimore Oriole! Tomorrow I try for my lifer Swainson’s Warbler… ? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 SOOOO MANY BIRDS!!!!!!! Wish I could have birded longer. 6 or 7 FOY, depending on COTE/FOTE ID conundrum. The birds swarmed in after the rain last night. Rain that created great shorebird landing spots all over the place. Now the birds just need to find them. Trees dripping with birds well past the time of day I would have expected. A Pine Warbler has been serenading me all afternoon in the yard, in between whistling White-throated Sparrows. Birdcast says 350,000 birds crossed over my county last night!! FOY - Sora, Yellow Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, House Wren and Forster's Tern. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 2 hours ago, Avery said: Blue Grosbeak, Magnolia Warbler, and Baltimore Oriole! Tomorrow I try for my lifer Swainson’s Warbler… ? Tag on Yellow-breasted Chat! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Today was good for me but nothing compared to you guys. I'll bore you all by sharing anyway ? FOY Eastern Kingbird, Great-crested Flycatcher, House Wren, and Cattle Egret! I was excited about the wren for two reasons. 1. I almost never see those little buggers 2. I got some decent photos!! ? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarkhunter Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Two male Rose-breasted Grosbeaks were at one of my feeders. Haven't seen Grosbeaks in a couple of years, and I got buzzed by my first of the season Ruby-throated Hummingbird this morning. Good thing I put a feeder out yesterday so he didn't swear at me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 FOYs from today (funny enough, just outside Nashville): Acadian Flycatcher, Northern Waterthrush, Tennessee Warbler, Nashville Warbler, and Canada Warbler Forgot to add Eastern Wood-pewee and Ovenbird yesterday 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Today's were White-faced Ibis, Yellow-breasted Chat, and Cattle Egret, including some other great birds. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiscalus quiscula Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 FOY Winter Wren. Monday night there's high migration alert on BirdCast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 (edited) SOOOOO MANY MORE BIRDS!!!!! 10 FOY today, with 4 of them tagging as rare. eBird Migration Dashboard said 1.6 Million birds passed through last night. The shorebird spots ended up requiring double looks as new birds popped up from other birders in the area. Eastern Kingbird (flagged as early), Black-throated Green Warbler, Common Yellowthroat, Warbling Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo and Green Heron all at first spot. Confirmed my Common Tern (rare) from yesterday. Flooded farm fields gave up 23(!!!!) American Golden-Plover (rare) including a full breeding plumage bird, Dunlin and tagged early Semipalmated Plover. Edited April 24, 2022 by chipperatl 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 Got 7 new county FOYs today: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, Purple Martin, Ash-thraoted Flycatcher, Rufous Hummingbird, Hermit Warbler, and Swainson's Thrush. I'm currently 43 behind pace from last year, but I'm still missing a bunch of easy birds that will catch me up to the mid 220's if I just make a single trip out to the western part of the county. The Cassin's Vireo and Hermit Warblers were nice, they're both uncommon birds in the county and are very hard to see on their breeding grounds. I'm done borrowing the R5, so I'm back to taking digis. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 7 minutes ago, Connor Cochrane said: Got 7 new county FOYs today: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, Purple Martin, Ash-thraoted Flycatcher, Rufous Hummingbird, Hermit Warbler, and Swainson's Thrush. I'm currently 43 behind pace from last year, but I'm still missing a bunch of easy birds that will catch me up to the mid 220's if I just make a single trip out to the western part of the county. The Cassin's Vireo and Hermit Warblers were nice, they're both uncommon birds in the county and are very hard to see on their breeding grounds. I'm done borrowing the R5, so I'm back to taking digis. How did you like the R5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted April 24, 2022 Author Share Posted April 24, 2022 9 minutes ago, chipperatl said: How did you like the R5? I've used it a couple of times in the last year and a half. It's an amazing camera. I don't think I was ever trying to get a good photo down in Texas, I was birding way more than photographing, yet I was able to get a ton of great shots. Definitely canons best birding camera. It's crazy how large the files are, it takes my computer close to a minute just to get them loaded in Lightroom. They're great though, they allow you to crop much more than on any other camera. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Connor Cochrane said: Got 7 new county FOYs today: Olive-sided Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, Purple Martin, Ash-thraoted Flycatcher, Rufous Hummingbird, Hermit Warbler, and Swainson's Thrush. I'm currently 43 behind pace from last year, but I'm still missing a bunch of easy birds that will catch me up to the mid 220's if I just make a single trip out to the western part of the county. The Cassin's Vireo and Hermit Warblers were nice, they're both uncommon birds in the county and are very hard to see on their breeding grounds. I'm done borrowing the R5, so I'm back to taking digis. I still need an olive sided and a swainson’s somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 Just now, IKLland said: I still need an olive sided and a swainson’s somehow. that's not too bad. I still need Caspian Tern. Hopefully I'll get one when biking to school tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodi Nielson Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and Indigo Buntings have arrived in southern Kentucky!! Saw them in my yard yesterday. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 14 hours ago, Connor Cochrane said: that's not too bad. I still need Caspian Tern. Hopefully I'll get one when biking to school tomorrow. No, I mean for my life list! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peromyscus Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 First of years this morning: Red-eyed & Warbling Vireos, Orchard and Baltimore Orioles, Wood Thrush, Scarlet Tanager, Ovenbird. I even saw the Warbling Vireo and both orioles. This afternoon, I jetted up to Columbia, Maryland, to see the 13 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks found this morning. They were sleeping on a dead tree leaning over the lake, and were so close to the lake-side trail. I didn't expect them to be that close tome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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