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Photo taken this week by my SO
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Pair of Song Thrushes, Prospect Park, Reading, UK
Before a closer look I'd been assuming Red Wings because of the time of year, but no.
Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800
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I was to far away to find out if the Starlings and Red Kite were shouting insults and threats at each other, but I like to imagine they were.
As it happened, the Starlings flew away first, but only by a matter of seconds.
Prospect Park, Reading, UK
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Magpie, waiting on me to throw some cake crumbs: the claws rather catch my attention.
Quite close, thus the crop, and sadly Lemmy World had me shrink it by half to allow it to be loaded.
Prospect Park, Reading, UK. Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800
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First row - juvenile or female, other two rows, a male
Alas, neither really got close enough for a satisfying photo.
Fobney Marsh, nr Reading, UK
Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800
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Recently completed ecological restoration work has attracted many sandpipers and plovers to a newly created salt marsh. One goal of the restoration was providing a retreat for wildlife from climate crisis driven rising sea levels. Work was completed just in time for this year's El Niño created Kelvin wave raising seasonal king tides to record highs. A recent avian survey in Big Canyon recorded 45 species in a two hour observation period.
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Proof that Crows just grow out of trees, no eggs involved.
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It's not much of a stretch to assume that this is the same hawk as was in our back yard snacking on a pigeon during the memory card incident the other week. Once again we have failed to capture this bird in anything approaching its full splendor, because this is another cell phone photo shot through a window screen. I didn't even take this one; my wife did when I wasn't home, and my big camera wasn't even assembled at the time let alone accessible and ready to use.
I think this is a Cooper's hawk. There are some morphs of the Cooper's and the red tailed hawk that look awfully darn similar to me, and I'm certainly no hawkologist, but I base this on the size and the distinctive stripey butt.
It's also perched right on the gable directly outside our bedroom window, a sum total of about three feet away. This is normally a popular spot for a couple of the local starlings to sit and deliberately tease our cats. I suspect those two were nowhere in evidence just at this moment. Neither, as it happens, were the cats.
It's definitely spotted my wife and is giving her the good old hairy (or perhaps more appropriately feathery) eyeball. From that vantage point it'd also have a commanding view of both ours and our next door neighbor's feeders, but it'd also be hugely obvious to any partakers thereof so I'm not entirely certain that'd do it much good. Maybe it was just resting.
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I thought this might have been an osprey at first since the underside of this bird was very white and even with my best effort I had no recourse except to peer up at its belly from below. Otherwise to my naked eye it was a raptor-ish silhouette against the sky and not much else.
This is because it was perched at the tippy top of a very tall tree. Upon closer inspection of the photos, this appears to be a red tailed hawk.
The headline photo is a crop. I took tons of pictures of this bird as it obligingly did not move for several minutes, and it was tough to decide which ones were my favorites. All the while it was certainly watching the surrounding songbirds like, well. You know.
Bonus bird butt:
I was having some focus issues, here, which I was at first trepidatiously considering might have been caused by some delicate yet expensive component in my lens getting broken by any of the bone-shattering knocks it recently took in my motorcycle luggage.
However once I got home I discovered that it was probably down to my UV filter being absolutely filthy. You can easily see some of the dirt on it against the sky, here. Once I gave it a damn good scrubbing it seems all was well.
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Our Japanese maple tree has become quite the popular hang out spot for all of the neighborhood sparrows and finches lately. This gang showed up a little earlier in the day than usual, i.e. when the lighting was still good, and didn't seem to pay any heed to me poking the big giant lens out of my kitchen window at them.
If anything, this may be a little too close for the Bird Lens. This is rather the opposite of my usual problem.
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Bodega Bay, California. October, 2026
I had to wait quite some time for him to wake up and show his lil face, but I got some cute shots of this other guy while I did.
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From yesterday's walk and more shaded than the wren I posted - still, I think it gets the vibe. It's the hind claws that get me on treecreepers.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/49661967
Shot on a Sony NEX-7 with a TT Artisan 500mm f/6.3 lens.
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A wren, having successfully chased another wren away.
I thought it was in good sunlight, but alas ISO12800 at 1/1250s tells a different story - so gone with a downscaled by x2 jpeg
Prospect Park, Reading, UK where most birds were either hiding from, or battered by, strong winds.
Canon R5 MkII + RF200-800
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Whitefish Point, MI. August 2026.
I realized I never shared this cutie. I went to Whitefish Point just to find this bird and I was amazed I found it in five minutes. This was the only one too. They're a protected species so I kept my distance getting these. There were a ton of logs to hide behind.
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The sun was gleaming so nicely on the feathers, so I decided to go for a snap, a caught this little fella mid yawn
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Great Lakes region, USA. October 2026.
I spotted this sparrow trying to hide.
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Great Lakes region, USA. October 2026.
I didn't have much luck with the birds today, but I did spot this pipit roaming our breakwater.
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Great Lakes region, USA. October 2026.
Red-bellied are supposed to be quite common here, but this is the first one I've seen in a long time.
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Great Lakes region, USA. October 2026.
I've had terrible luck finding shorebirds, but these mallards were accommodating.
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