You should probably just delete it for now.
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Yeah I made a thread of my own but someone merged it with this one.
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Iām getting very close to my goal for January. I was hoping to hit 100 species on the way to 300 for the year.
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What is bad about a bunch of bird-related threads getting merged?
What are the guidelines for, like, safely birding during hunting season? Iāve wanted to visit the Yolo Bypass in the winter but I heard itās hunting season.
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It makes it hard to keep track of different conversations.
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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 itās hoping to find bugs among the seeds?
That sounds great! I know this was a few days ago.
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Look at your hunting regulations for your area. Most likely u should wear a orange hunting vest.
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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.
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I stay on more used paths and wear a bright orange hat or reflective vest. I would avoid going off trail.
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Yes I agree with you!
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The Yolo Bypass has an auto tour loop area that isnāt 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.
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Bird of the week poll is open once again.
- Wrens
- Sparrows
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Please vote which bird you want as the bird of the week. The poll will be closed by tomorrow morning.
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@austin_ajit, I sent you a link in a direct message. Let me know if you got it; if not, Iāll 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 wonāt use the flash on owls; Iām trying to develop a solution using a mini-flashlight with diffuser to get directed light that wonāt blind whatever critter Iām 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, itās going to look like one of the old Chuck Jones Roadrunner cartoons.
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I saw some ducks today. Some mallards and some other smaller ducks that I havenāt identified yet.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2025-01-11&taxon_id=6912&user_id=isopodguy&verifiable=any
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Yesterday I was at the little Nature Reserve of the Guadalhorce River Mouth near the airport in MƔlaga 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
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Ooh, itās close.
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Looks like thereās at least one Bufflehead in the group.
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