It's old news now, but back on May 9 I participated in global big day, and really tried to put in an effort for the first time.

I ended up putting in about 14 hours of birding in many different habitats. My tally for the day was 92 species, which is by far the highest number of species I have seen in a single day.

One of my favourite encounters from the day was this Cooper's Hawk at White Lake, which was dining on what I suspect is a Brewer's Blackbird.

I organized the day into an eBird trip report, for the curious...

https://ebird.org/tripreport/514344

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Nice morning walk through the ranch on the edge of town.

I think there were way more olive-sided flycatchers than just 5 but eBird gave me shit about it and I didn’t feel like justifying my ears to someone who wasn’t there.

20 California Quail
12 Band-tailed Pigeon
2 Mourning Dove
2 Anna's Hummingbird
8 Allen's Hummingbird
5 Olive-sided Flycatcher
2 Western Wood-Pewee
6 Western Flycatcher
3 Steller's Jay
7 California Scrub-Jay
2 Common Raven
18 Chestnut-backed Chickadee
8 Wrentit
2 Pacific Wren
2 Bewick's Wren
3 Swainson's Thrush
9 American Robin
15 Cedar Waxwing
2 House Finch
5 Purple Finch
3 Dark-eyed Junco
13 Song Sparrow
1 California Towhee
4 Spotted Towhee
9 Orange-crowned Warbler
5 Wilson's Warbler
3 Black-headed Grosbeak

Number of Taxa: 27

Whether you are an avid birder or not, maybe go outside and look, listen, enjoy:

https://ebird.org/news/global-big-day-2026

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In the actual #GlobalBigDay yesterday I was not much lucky, but today have seen this beauty in #Genova .
Unlike the ubiquitous Kramer parrots here, these ones are more rare and harder to find because of their far more modest behaviour.

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Oh my GLOB, Cornell Ornithology’s Birds of the World (their site with huge fully cited detailed entries on different bird species) is free today to celebrate #GlobalBigDay! I finally get to see a helpful précis of everything science knows about the Lewis’s Woodpecker, for instance! Maybe the details about bald eagle courtship I need are in here?! This is…definitely helping me get out of my house and count birds! 😅

#birding

A few more birds from World Migratory Bird Day
May 11
Central Park, NYC

clockwise from top left:
Magnolia Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blue Jay (not migratory)
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