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Three Lifers today!

American Redstart - I hate lifers without photo proof, so I spent a long time getting something Merlin recognized.  I extracted an image from a video, performed a quick photoshop fix, and then cropped it:

I'll embed both awful, however species recognizable photos:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/481561671

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https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/481561651

1800

Yellow-throated Warbler.  More, bad photos extracted from a video.  I can't even get an app to recognize them, but I felt it borderline acceptable to upload them the Ebird.  Anyway, I'm 100% confident of the ID, as a fellow birder with a much better camera than I got a perfect photo, and both Merlin and iBird Photo Sleuth Identified the species.  I thought about embedding (outside of Ebird of course, as it's not my photo) that picture, but I didn't ask permission to use it:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/481561751

1800

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/481561761

1800

Finally, a good picture - Short-tailed Hawk:

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/481561141

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I got a Prothonatary Warbler yesterday! I was down in Fresno but didn't have any birding stuff with me. Ended up buying a pair of 25 dollar binoculars from target so I could go see it. Digibining didn't go so well through them. This is the best photo I got. 

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5 hours ago, Aidan B said:

I got a Prothonatary Warbler yesterday! I was down in Fresno but didn't have any birding stuff with me. Ended up buying a pair of 25 dollar binoculars from target so I could go see it. Digibining didn't go so well through them. This is the best photo I got. 

20220905_093203.thumb.jpg.0ef31acb9eb59f40bd8435a6997a2d89.jpg

 

That looks like a Yellow Warbler to me. ?

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