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birding. birdwatching. twitching. listing. whatever you want to call it, if you are looking at or listening to birds, this is where you should be.
birding. birdwatching. twitching. listing. whatever you want to call it, if you are looking at or listening to birds you should be frequenting /r/birding.
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Follow Ethical Birding Behavior. Follow ethical birding & bird photography behaviors as outlined by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society (see pinned post).
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Filmed with a Canon R5
I keed, pweety Cardinal singing ♥️🕊️
I feed mostly great tits, long tits, blue tits, robins and blackbird in my garden sunflower seeds and peanuts as well as dried mealworms.
Have started putting out live mealworms since last night and they haven't been touched, the birds seem to only eat the seeds...
Now I'm worried the mealworms are just going to die and rot in the dish, but also I thoughts birds loved live food, especially around breeding season?
Sorry it's not better quality, but they'd fly off if I got closer.
Today is the first Corvid visit to the bird feeder I made!! I literally made it to bring more birds to the yard for my cat Calamity Jane to watch 😋 SoCal bird 😎🤌
I don’t know much of anything about birds and I never really cared about them all too much but I noticed this bird had some interesting vocal behavior. It made one sound for 6 or so seconds, wait, and then would move on to a different vocalization. I listened to it for probably 2 or 3 minutes and it just kept going on and on. All of its calls seemed to be unique to each other.
I’ve never heard a bird do this, but I’m not sure how abnormal this really is because again, I don’t really pay much attention to birds usually.
I don’t have any closeups of the bird or anything, I did point my camera at the bird towards the end of the video, but it’s far away and bad quality.
This is in northern Virginia.
Maybe a Raven? I’m in Northern Maryland. The fence is 6’ tall.
This little guy doesn't have any feathers on his head, bless his heart. He's bald! He visits my feeder everyday and he has been here since I moved in a year ago. Is there something I can put out to possibly help him get some feathers back or any advice on how I could help him? His lady visits with him too amd she has all of her feathers so I'm thinking its something just with him? Sorry for the bad photo!
Round 1: Fight!
Abq, New Mexico!
I see these guys around this pond all the time but today's the first time I've happened to be close to one! Look at that neck stretch...
Snapped this shot right as this red tail hawk closed his eye lids
Location:China
I'm heading to yellowstone national park in a few months. I'll be spending some time bird watching and taking photos. I'm new to this so I'm curious if there are any good websites or apps I need to check out that mention likely spots for specific birds and any other good info. Thanks
Yesterday we had some heavy winds and I found 4 eastern screech owls. I videotaped this using my Vortex Gen 1 spotting scope.
How to discourage these little horn furry menaces? Nothing that would harm them physically in anyway preferably. Psychological and emotional warfare ideas are accepted.