Orchard oriole! In the trees around a swampy lake!

It's a new bird for me, too!

#BirdCallOut #Lifebird

Rose-breasted Grosbeak! At the nature center bird feeder!

This is a new bird for my wife and me, and until we checked in our book when we got back to the house, we were coming up with our own names for it. My favorite was the Fuscia-bibbed Grosbeak.

#BirdCallOut #LifeBird

New bird alert! New bird alert!

My wife and I saw our first Canyon Towhee today! We went on a pleasant hike through cactus country, but is that where the bird was? No, it was at the nearby restaurant with the okay food but great window-side birding. Pickings were slim today other than the Canyon Towhee, but just before we left I did finally see a Pyrrhuloxia that my wire reported I'd missed at the start of the meal when I was off washing my hands.

#birding #lifebird

Having reviewed the leader's ebird list, our memories, and our North American field guide, we had 5 lifers on Sunday's guided bird walk!

Mexican duck
Blue-winged teal
Blue-gray gnatcatcher
Orange-crowned warbler
Black-throated gray warbler

#birding #lifebird

Hello, Little Blue Heron! What are you doing in Michigan?

(Second life bird this week!)

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Forster’s Tern Over Cape May Harbour

While scanning the skies above Cape May Harbour, I spotted a slender tern gliding past the boat. At first, I wasn’t sure which species I’d photographed—Caspian, Common, or Forster’s? Back at home, subtle field marks confirmed it was Forster’s Tern in breeding plumage. A life bird. One that taught me to look closer.

https://islandinthenet.com/forsters-tern-sterna-forsteri/

Wild goose chase success! Life bird taiga bean goose encountered today in Saratoga County, New York. An extraordinary vagrant, I think this might be the first record in all of the eastern US? 50+ eBird reports for this guy today, I'm so glad so many people got to see it.

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A handful more life birds from my recent trip - Cassin's vireo, Hammond's flycatcher, grass wren. This latest batch puts me up over 550 species, wow! Toluca, México, October 2024

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Life bird! I'm sure I've seen so many more hummingbird species than are on my life list and I just wasn't able to identify them. They can be so tricky in areas where there is a lot of diversity. But there was no mistaking this one - a violet-crowned hummingbird, with a shining white underside and without any of that typical hummingbird green. Taxco, Guerrero, México, November 2024

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