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How's your tuesday going? a reef heron and whole lot of egrets at a fish market. #Photography #Birds #BackyardBirdwatching

A reef heron strutting through a crowd of little egrets.
there is water pooling in sections, and you can see reflections.
you also see some litter (because it is a fish market, and people discard a lot of things)
behind there is a hand cart, and an out of focus corvid looking away.

Look, if all I can do right now is post a photo of a house finch demolishing a dandelion, then I'm going to post a photo of a house finch demolishing a dandelion.

You're welcome for my service.

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A photo of a rosy-looking little male house finch on a sidewalk beside a lawn. He's all stretched up and pulling seeds off a dandelion flower head.

Another one from the archives. This Blue Jay, one of a nearby nest that had several babies last summer, sits perched on a rain gutter, looking like they're just over it (whatever "it" was...maybe their yelly demanding fledglings).

Blue Jay
June 24, 2023
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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#Flickr #Photography #BlueJay #bird #birds #birding #BackyardBirds #BackyardBirdwatching #Birdwatching #birding

I have a pair of white-crowned sparrows hanging out in my yard right now. Can't recall seeing them hang out in my yard before.

#yeg #Edmonton #bird #birds #BackyardBirds #BackyardBirdwatching #Birdwatching #sparrow #WhiteCrownedSparrow

A zoomed-in photo of a small bird on the edge between sidewalk and grass. It has brown markings on its back, distinct white and black stripes across its head, and a yellow bill.

This little beauty had me fooled today. His deep and expansive red colouring had me thinking I had a purple finch gracing my backyard, but on closer scrutiny he's almost certainly a house finch.

I do love my neighbourhood house finches of course, I just can't remember ever seeing them with such intense colouring before!

#Bird #Birding #BackyardBirdwatching #HouseFinch #yeg #Edmonton

A photo of a house finch sitting at a backyard bird feeder filled with sunflower chips. Its red colouring is very deep and extends all the way down it's back and breast.

Very exciting morning for me, birdwatching in my garden. Not only have the Baltimore orioles arrived, but a scarlet tanager appeared in my neighbour’s tree, and I have never seen one of those before at all. Not a great picture, but I’m still excited. #birds #birdwatching #BackyardBirdwatching

A bright red bird in the center of leafy surroundings. In the foreground, out of focus is an orange bird feeder with a clay coloured sparrow perched on its transparent roof, and a female Baltimore oriole partially visible behind half an orange.

The Harris’s sparrows have arrived! #birds #birdwatching #BackyardBirdwatching

A sparrow with a big blotch of black over its face and a orange beak peeks out from behind a shrub twig, on the ground with mulch. It’s mostly in shade with some light coming through to highlight part of its head.

White throated sparrows are one of my favourites, and we don’t have them through the winter. So I always am super happy when they become regulars in my yard again. These two were hanging out this morning with me and the house sparrows while I had my coffee outside. A happy start to the day. #birds #backyardBirdwatching #birdwatching

Female white throated sparrow in focus with two female house sparrows out of focus, in grass that is beginning to get green again. Two of the birds have seed in their beaks, which gives them a slightly smiling look. The birds are all various shades of brown, but the white throated sparrow has stripes on its head, and yellow patches between its eyes and beak.

A male white throated sparrow in a hedge with bare branches and a blurry grey car in the background. There’s also a female house sparrow partially visible. He is facing the camera with his head cocked up, showing off his black and white stripes on his head and his white throat.

Yep, they like the pond. #birds #backyardBirdwatching

Male and female mallard snoozing with their beaks tucked back into a wing. He’s on the rock edge of the pond and she’s near him but in the water.

A yellow-bellied sapsucker visited the garden today. I only see these in the yard about once a year. This felt like a reward for being out and working on cleaning up the pond. #birds #birdwatching #BackyardBirdwatching

Good morning from me and this mallard pair, who came over to chill (literally) in my frosty grass. I hope it’s the same pair that visited me every day for weeks last spring. #birds #backyardBirdwatching

Two mallards sitting on frosty grass. The male is sort of facing the camera, leaning down into the grass to find food. The female is in side view, showing off the patch of blue on her wing.

And a couple of plump starlings on the Hills hoist clothesline.

#BackyardBirdwatching #EasterWeekend #TeMotuKairangi

2 birds perch on an old galvanised rotary clothesline: 1 in the foreground and the other partly hidden by the clothesline. They’re mid-sized, dark-coloured birds with distinctive pale speckles. In the background are the bright green levels of several NZ trees.

The neighbourhood Bluejays have us well trained. One or two of them will sit on the wire outside our back door and skree until we toss some peanuts out for them.

Shortly after another pair shows up to partake in the bounty.

They'll often pick one up, give it a shake, toss it, and then try another, looking for the perfect peanut.

This is what passes for entertainment around here.

I love these birds. 💙

#Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #BackyardBirds #BackyardBirdwatching #Bluejay #Bluejays

A photo of a pair of Bluejays on a sidewalk, picking up peanuts in their beaks.

A Bluejay on a sidewalk with a peanut in its beak.

Very exciting Sunday around here - a pileated woodpecker came in for a bite. I knew there was one in the neighborhood, but haven’t seen one since September.
(I included a chickadee on the same feeder for size comparison, for anyone who’s never seen one of these woodpeckers.) #birds #BackyardBirdwatching

Large black woodpecker with white striping on head and neck, and a bright red crest clinging to side of medium sized tree. Grey sky background.

Woodpecker clinging awkwardly to a green wire sided feeder. Blurry background

Chickadee perched daintily on the side of the same feeder.

The blue jays as usual cleaned me out of peanuts. I love their stained glass colours, and how they’re usually pretty collaborative (taking turns) but occasionally get really bratty with each other. Or greedy - the one pictured in the tree flew back for more, while it still had the peanut it shelled still in its beak! #birdwatching #backyardbirdwatching

Blue jay perched on a tray feeder, holding a peanut up in its beak, like “Look at this magnificent peanut!”

Blue jay on tray feeder, with another one coming in for a landing.

Blue jay pierced on tray feeder, beak slightly open. Looks like nothing in its mouth, but you can see a hint of the whole peanut it sucked down.

Blue jay in tree with a peanut that it shelled in its beak.

I can't see a water-feature of any kind from where we live, But there is (the rather empty) Skanderborg Lake nearby and Mossø a little further away.

Maybe that's why I can see Geese and Swans from the garden sometimes.

Not often though, so I have to have some luck.

Yesterday 3 Canada Goose in between a group of Greylag Goose, and today, during my 30 min. #BackyardBirdwatching 4 Barnacle Goose flying over 🙂

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2 Canada Goose flying over against a greyish sky.

4 Barnacle Goose flying over against an empty sky.

I haven't talked the leaves for several weeks and we have about a six inch thick layer of decaying plant matter all over the garden. I decided to leave it that way. It was a beautiful day today in Portland and I was out on the deck, listening two about two dozen Oregon juncos scrounging around in there. So quiet except for the sounds of their claws and their little tzeet-tzeets. Lovely birds, juncos, so industrious!

#birds #backyardbirds #backyardbirdwatching

With some clear skies today I did 30 min. #BackyardBirdwatching and a 9 km #LowCarbonBirding walk to the local lake.
Not many surprises, but nevertheless 30 species in all. For exemple 13 Yellowhammers, a Goldfinch, 143 Wigeons and 4 Goldeneyes.

But my favourites where these two Whooper Swans flying past the house in the morning. Only the second time I see them this fall. So nice to see these northern guest! 💚

#birding #birds #denmark #danmark #fugle

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