Yue 🍁

First of all, what a lovely surprise to come across a Monty Python reference in the bird community!

For today's #BirdOfTheDay, the theme is the Ministry of Silly Walks, so I've picked a Savannah Sparrow fully booking it, as well as a Neotropic Cormorant who fully understood the assignment
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Ducks! I love ducks so much 🥰

For today's #BirdOfTheDay I've picked American Wigeons, Ruddy Ducks, Green-winged Teal, Gadwall! These are all recent photos, so it's eclipse time for most of our ducks at the moment

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For today's #BirdOfTheDay, I've picked a Snowy Egret who coincidentally also has its Tongue out for Tuesday! And also a Forster's Tern demonstrating its aerodynamic ability

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Even All About Birds' description of them is funny: "An ungainly bird that seems only loosely stitched together as it moves" 😂

Oof, today's #BirdOfTheDay is kind of difficult. At the moment, I guess I'll pick cuckoos in general as my favourite birds

As an example, these Smooth-billed Anis popped up out of the bushes to watch me pass by. Such muppets

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For today's #BirdOfTheDay of a bird with three or more colours, I have a very aptly-named Tricolored Heron 👀

But also an adorable (feral) Red-Crowned Amazon being photogenic!

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay is our Smallest birds

By all measures that must be a hummingbird around here, so I've included an Allen's Hummingbird and a Bahama Woodstar, but may I petition for an honourable mention for the fluffy and borbular Bushtit?
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I don't own a traditional bird bath for today's #BirdOfTheDay, but luckily birds are resourceful little guys!

I have found a Western Bluebird using a dog fountain, and an American Crow in a shallow creek

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For #BirdOfTheDay, may I present a Common Yellowthroat on a fence.

If we're extending past perching birds and letting wading birds join in, these adorable Sanderlings run with the waves everyday on the beach

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Thank you for hosting! It's a lovely concept!

Ooh, I've just heard of #BirdOfTheDay 💛

Let's go with a Swinhoe's White-eye munching on a pomegranate seed, plus an inquisitive Thick-billed Vireo

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He started glowering at me after I watched him scratch himself

This may be the most fearless Wood Duck I've ever encountered #birds #wildlife

Oops got too excited and forgot to #birds

Reposting the picture of the adoptive dad

Caught some pictures of what I assume are the parasitic parents hanging around nearby. Part of the gape structure is visible at the corner of the fledglings' mouths. I've read that the chicks can mimic the gape appearance of their hosts (2/2)

Okay this was a fun day. I saw some of the ever-photogenic Scaly-breasted Munia with some fledglings following them around begging for food, so I assumed they were Munia fledglings at the time. Turns out the younglings are brood parasites instead, Pin-Tailed Whydahs (1/2)

Look ma, no hands!
A Yellow-breasted Chat gave me a rather severe look as it launched itself into the air #birds #wildlife 🤨

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher shows off the goods while collecting nesting material. Taken with a 400mm lens, so I did not get close! He still saw me while using his body to squish down a gnatcatcher-shaped depression though #birds #wildlife 🪺

Black and white song bird with long pennant tail feathers strikes a pose while performing a courtship dance for an unseen female

This Pin-Tailed Whydah in his glorious breeding plumage strikes a dramatic pose. The migrant birds may be gone for us now, but at least we've still got our year-round residents to ooh over (even if this guy isn't native here) #birds #wildlife 🌻

Happy Saturday! This Northern House Wren seems a bit sleepy #birds #wildlife 🐣

Bright green parrot with a red forecrown chewing on a large green seed pod and framed by leaves

Had some technical difficulties the past week, but I think I've got a work-around now. Have a celebratory Red-crowned Amazon munching on a pod in triumph #birds #wildlife 🦜

Small yellow songbird leaping into flight in the undergrowth

I love how long this Wilson's Warbler looks as it extends for the takeoff. Normally they're tiny round fluff balls #birds #wildlife 🐥

The cute booty of a barn swallow collecting mud #birds #wildlife 🍑

This fledgling Bewick's Wren is begging quite determinedly. Its parent is the long-suffering one in the third pic #birds #wildlife #babyseason

Elegant and streamlined white bird with trailing tail feathers and a black cap, hovering over a marshy inlet and scanning for small fish

A Forster's Tern from my Big Day this past weekend. I was able to count 50 species (if I'm allowed to include the house sparrow 😋), a personal best! #birds #wildlife 🐦

Pre and post hop. He wanted a better look at me

"Did you say snacks?"
-Western Bluebird mid-hop. The photo ended up looking kind of AI generated, but I promise it was a real bird 😅 #birds #wildlife

Canada Goose resting one leg at the edge of a pond

Foraging amongst the spring grasses at a marsh

Hmm, for #worldmigratorybirdday2025 let's do a Canada Goose. It's hard to think of a more iconic migrant! #birds 🇨🇦

Young house finch with wiry looking tufts of down on its head, perched on a branch looking forward

Fledgling house finch begging a parent for food

Fledgling House Finches look so grumpy and unserious at the same time. The little tufts of down are amazing #birds #wildlife 🐣

Two swallows seen in the distance picking up mud from a sloping stream bank

The bank from which they collect their materials