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This week’s Bird Weekly – Photo Challenge: Birds with their butts in the air caught my eye. What a cute challenge!
After looking through some of last year’s photos I was surprised how many I found that fit the bill.
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The photos below from the wetlands are my favorites. However, I will confess that I do not know what all of them are, but I’m working on it!
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Aww, those are so cute! I love seeing them do that, it just looks so funny!
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Birds are so cute, aren’t they? Thank you!
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Now that is an interesting challenge … plus one that made me smile. Well done, Lisa!
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Thank you! It made me smile too! 😊
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Awesome “butted” birds. The little brown songbird, I’m not sure but it could be a female Red-winged blackbird. Not being there and a closer look with the binoculars, it could be a few different ones. The cute little bird is a Sora! Congratulations on that one. I just put the Sora into today’s Brown feathered birds. They are quite secretive and hard to find. I love your coot shot. I’d like to photoshop that and make a heart. LOL! 🙂
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Thank you! Come spring I will recognize so many more birds!
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That’s awesome! It just takes getting out there and doing a bit of research. This Bird Weekly challenge certainly helps me identify birds I didn’t know existed, so I hope it is helping you too. 🙂
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It is!! 😊
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Yay!!! I’ve been moving all my archives to a new external hard drive and I realized I’ve been taking bird photos for 20 years but only became a birder 9 years ago. I guess I had a passion when I didn’t know it. LOL! 🙂
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That is me and photography. But last year was the perfect year for me to kick it up 😊
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That is awesome! I kicked it up in 2019 when I finally decided to learn how to use my new lens that I bought in 2018. I had bought a light weight lens when I bought my Sony in 2017 & had a hard time exchanging it for the heavier lens. I don’t leave home without it now and I never change it. 😊
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Oh and by the way, the babies at the end are Common Gallinule chicks. 🙂
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Awww, the little beaks! I see it! I have just stared a new photo folder to save photos in as ID birds 😊 Thank you Lisa!!
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You are welcome. Do you have a Sibley’s field guide? I think I will put some info in my next blog about using field guides to help identify birds. I carry mine everywhere. I have one for the East coast and one for the West coast for when we travel out that way. 🙂
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I don’t, but I use the iNaturalist app and I have discovered a lot of plants and creatures on that app. I have identified all my dragonflies on that app. It seems to work well.
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That is awesome! I have Merlin on my phone which is an app put out by Cornell University but I never leave home without my field guide. Sometimes the birds in an area are not always on the aps so I have my book to guide me. Obsession!!! Yep! 🙂
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Maybe the more I learn, the more I will want to learn. But generally that app I use works well. Sometimes it takes a few days for someone on the back end to confirm or help me out. I have quite a few birds now that I can ID when I’m out and about, and even tell other people! That is cool!
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That is so cool! I still learn from more experienced birders than me. 😊
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Love this challenge. 😍
Made me giggle seeing all the little birds with their butts in the air – SILLY 🤪👍🏻
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I know, funny huh? I got this post in at the last minute for the challenge, but I couldn’t pass it by!
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The photos are adorable! Lisa! And especially because I am a bird lover 😍🥰
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Pretty cute theme!
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