stonechat

Got them in my backyard too. I like how those immature ones look very different from breeding adults!

Steller's Jay: a black-bluish bird with a crest.

Clark's Nutcracker: Gray and black bird with longish pointed bill standing on a rock.

Black-necked Stilts: two slender shorebirds in flight, with white body, black wings and neck; long thin bill and long red legs.

Birds from my recent trip to Alberta. 🪶

Steller's Jay; Clark's Nutcracker; Black-necked Stilt

A Cooper's Hawk (bird of prey) bathing in a bird bath, with his head submerged in the water.

A Cooper's Hawk (bird of prey) in a bird bath.

A Cooper's Hawk has visited our backyard for a bath yesterday. 🪶

Amazing!

Telling an LLM "do not shy away from politically incorrect facts as long as they are well supported" does not make it give you secret facts, it makes the LLM produce text that mimics someone who would describe their beliefs that way.

GitHub - Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi: A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 5, 4B 3B+ 0W2 and more. Built on the TFLite version of BirdNET. A realtime acoustic bird classification system for the Raspberry Pi 5, 4B 3B+ 0W2 and more. Built on the TFLite version of BirdNET. - Nachtzuster/BirdNET-Pi

github.com/Nachtzuster/...

Oh I miss hearing their voice!

Yes, wheatear was my first thought too. Due to white rump and posture.

Where I live it's more than 2 km to the river. But there are ponds on the golf course nearby.

That's fascinating, because just today I saw a Wood Duck with 6 ducklings in my backyard!

A congregation of gulls, with American Herring Gull, California Gull and Ring-billed Gull.

From top to bottom: American Herring Gull, California Gull, Ring-billed Gull.

California Gull is my first sighting in Manitoba, and it was my goal. 🪶

From these photos I finally understood why Roadrunners are cuckoos.

Golden-winged Warbler: a small warbler with golden crown, large black bib and golden wing stripe.

Today's find 🪶
Golden-winged Warbler
July 1, 2025. Manitoba

Last fall there was a fox basically stalking me at the Hecla causeway. That was pretty sad. Probably conditioned to associate people with food.

A purple heron (large wading bird with long neck and legs) standing in the reeds.

This day in my 🪶 birding history
Purple Heron / Ardea purpurea
June 2014

Oh no, I just mean, do you have them where you live. I think they should be nesting in Poland.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology While not as slender as a typical heron, the Yellow-crowned Night Heron’s smooth purple-gray colors, sharp black-and-white face, and long yellow plumes lend it a touch of elegance. They forage at all ...

Beautiful bird! This is a Yellow-crowned Night Heron. But I do not think this is a baby. First, it is too early for this (if the photos were made now), and second this is an adult plumage. Juvenile are more plain.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow...

Nice! I love these birds. Do you also have Ficedula hypoleuca?

Such an amazing photograph!

I've always wanted to visit it, but for now, no thanks.

They have arrived to southern Manitoba already.

Bohemian Waxwing on an crabapple tree.

Bohemian Waxwing
Manitoba
March 1, 2025 🪶

To be fair, they are increasingly wintering in Manitoba too. Especially in the cities they have become quite common in winter. Yet, in spring their number increases noticeably.

I am sorry, this is not a Brown Creeper, but some wren. My best guess is Carolina Wren, but I am not familiar with all the wrens of North America, may be some other.

A picture of a Eurasian Sparrowhawk perched on a branch.

This day in (my birding) history 🪶
Sparrowhawk / Accipiter nisus
2012

Same in my backyard! First sighting this year!

Sorry, I will read 25% less from now on.

Feels like something is missing from this list... Maybe a nation that have elected all of them?

(I tried to find this article in my Feedly archive but failed.) Anyway, I am more or less obsessed, so I once had a 1,438 days birding streak. 2/2

This reminded me that many years ago one edgy birding blogger wrote an article with the opposite message. I think he called it "birding on the way to your proctologist's appointment", and somehow it was supposed to convey the idea that you should not be recording all the birds you see. 1/2