I’m getting very close to my goal for January. I was hoping to hit 100 species on the way to 300 for the year.
What is bad about a bunch of bird-related threads getting merged?
What are the guidelines for, like, safely birding during hunting season? I’ve wanted to visit the Yolo Bypass in the winter but I heard it’s hunting season.
It makes it hard to keep track of different conversations.
I also have a Carolina Wren at my feeder. It seems mildly interested in my sunflower seeds, but does a similar thing. When I put suet out for my birds, the wren leaves the seeds alone and actually does eat the suet. Putting out suet may distract it. As for the behavior itself, all I can think of is maybe it’s hoping to find bugs among the seeds?
That sounds great! I know this was a few days ago.
Look at your hunting regulations for your area. Most likely u should wear a orange hunting vest.
Yeah I did a checklist again recently after finishing ebird essentials. I have come to understand that ebird is really meant to be used more for censusing and bird density, relying on current knowledge without communication from others. I think I like what its for and might use it to notice trends.
I stay on more used paths and wear a bright orange hat or reflective vest. I would avoid going off trail.
Yes I agree with you!
The Yolo Bypass has an auto tour loop area that isn’t hunted. The rest of the area is off limits except for hunters so you never come in contact with people hunting. I was just there this past weekend and the birding was awesome. I had two Eurasian Wigeons among other cool things.
Bird of the week poll is open once again.
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@austin_ajit, I sent you a link in a direct message. Let me know if you got it; if not, I’ll repost here.
On the birding front, things have been keeping me out of the field lately, and I am deeply unhappy about that. I did manage, though, to carve out a couple of hours to head up to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge (less than 5 km north of my house, so a favorite spot). Spent a goodly while trying to sweet-talk my camera into getting a non-blurry low-light photo of a Great Horned Owl. (I won’t use the flash on owls; I’m trying to develop a solution using a mini-flashlight with diffuser to get directed light that won’t blind whatever critter I’m photographing.)
I swear, once we are done with the Situation currently eating all of our spare time, the Doctor and I are going to head for the hills so fast, it’s going to look like one of the old Chuck Jones Roadrunner cartoons.
I saw some ducks today. Some mallards and some other smaller ducks that I haven’t identified yet.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2025-01-11&taxon_id=6912&user_id=isopodguy&verifiable=any
Yesterday I was at the little Nature Reserve of the Guadalhorce River Mouth near the airport in Málaga and saw the following (to be expected) ducks:
Northern shoveler
Mallard
Common Shelduck
and the rarer but also usually found here
White-headed duck and
Marbled duck
Ooh, it’s close.
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Looks like there’s at least one Bufflehead in the group.
Oh, cool! In which picture?
The Ducks, Geese, and Swans group: in the middle of the group, about two-o-clock to the three-pronged tree branch. (Actually, the prongs are pointing towards it.)