Such little cuties! 
I might see some warblers today so… hope we’ll have warblers as BOTW!
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But but but I have several favorites. Please don’t make me pick one. I love this one because I like the black and white combination in nature and then you throwing hot pink skinny legs of the Black-necked Stilt what is not to love.
But, then you have the American Woodcock who loves to dance and in my youth I did too. Plus it almost seems to have eyes in the back of it’s head. So cool!
And then check out this super cutie Bank Swallow:
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Doves certainly are more stupid then other birds. My cat finds them very easy to catch, (IMPORTANT: my cat is not for hire for people who want to catch doves).
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I think that’s mainly because they have gotten so used to humans and human pets that when one turns violent they don’t know how to react.
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I added an unexpected yard bird this morning. Purple Martin! Martins are much more patchily distributed in California compared to the eastern part of their range. Our birds don’t use human-provided nest boxes like they do in the east and the places they do nest are no close to my house.
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Very cool! Purple Martin would be a lifer for me.
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Yesterday was puffin day. So here’s a fact: A baby puffin is called a puffling. There. You know that now. You’re welcome.
(Photo from google)
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Those are Old World Warblers. Our New World friends have something else.
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True. We have the Parulidae compared to the Phylloscopidae.
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Warbs!
Huhh!
What are they good for?
Absolutely everthing.
Hey, it’s right there in Black and White.
(Sorry, couldn’t resist)
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From da nature meme thread that is very important for us birbwatchers:
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Here is a little summary I wrote on the Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Let’s learn 5 facts about the Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Corthylio calendula).
1. The Ruby-crowned kinglet is a small bird overflowing with energy (photographers have a hard time getting pictures of it due to it’s overflowing amount of energy). The Ruby-crowned Kinglet forages through lower branches of trees and shrubs while moving from place to place in a fast energetic way. Often seen hoping from branch-to-branch while foraging for food.
2. They feed on primary small insects and spiders. The main insects they feed upon include: Beetles, flies, moths, ants, and even wasp. During the winter months they may feed upon some berries and seeds.
3. The conservation status for the Ruby-crowned Kinglet is currently at low concern. According to All about Birds Kinglets seem to handle human disturbance and habitat fragmentation fairly well (so that is a good thing when it comes to conservation). Even though wildfires and logging can reduce their population rate. Their wide range of wintering habitats helps them tolerate human disturbances.
4. In the summer Ruby-crowned Kinglets can be found in spruce-fir forests in the northwestern United States and across Canada. They also can be found in mixed woods, isolated trees in meadows, coniferous and deciduous forests, mountain-shrub habitat, and floodplain forests of oak, pine, spruce or aspen. So, they are pretty common birds in those habitats. Interestingly enough Ruby-crowned Kinglets can be found in woods and thickets across most of the continent.
5. They like to nest occasionally as high up as 100 feet. Female Ruby-crowned Kinglets usually choose a nest site near the tree trunk or even suspended from small twigs and branchlets. It usually takes the female 5 days to build a complete nest. They work very hard to build the perfect nest by making trips every five minutes or so to gather materials: grasses, feathers, mosses, spiderwebs and cocoon silk for the outer structure, fine plant material and fur for the inner lining. I just love all the effort they put into building the perfect nest for soon coming hatchlings. They lay 5-12 eggs in their nest and incubating them up to 14 days before they hatch.
Not sure about you, but I definitely find the Ruby-crowned Kinglet as an interesting bird. I have had a few on my property this week. They have been singing and calling every time I’m out birding.
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Anyone have big birding plans for the City Nature Challenge this coming weekend? The Sacramento Region has topped out at 169 species of birds during the CNC two different years in 2020 and 2021 so it would be cool to finally break 170 species.
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Not really. I’ll be stuck at home during the challenge. Plus April isn’t a good month for birding in Bangalore due to the INSUFFERABLE, GOD FORSAKEN HEAT.
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Local seagull colony (bath, uk) already fledging chicks (possibly last year’s? seems a bit early)
This is very important. Also, I believe there is a birb/borb project on iNat if you’re interested!
Not for the CNC, as my region doesn’t have a project (And I’ll be working) but I have been hearing some early warblers lately, so I have been out birding on my own a lot!
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My first hybrid bird! 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/272459966
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Congrats!
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