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Horry County SC. Oct 2023. eBird checklist S151179246

From the autumn 2023 meeting of the Carolina Bird Club. I picked up a couple of lifer shorbs on this trip. The mosquitos were ... challenging.

it has been rather warm this month in the Dallas area, in the 80s for a lot of days in February is really unusual. the one's that frequent my feeder typically leave in early Oct and return in April. maybe I should put my feeders back out. thou usually the Juncos are gone when the hummers get back ...

Zoroark wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 5:15 am I haven't added all the photos yet.

Looks like a fun trip. Are you still birding by camera without binos?

Good morning, Whatbirders! The random number generator spit out an East Coast species this morning, so I'm pairing with a western one!

Laughing Gull

California Gull

The guideline is only one photo per species per week, please. On those occasions when I name more than one species, you're welcome ...

Zoroark wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 1:59 am California Condor (tag is 2Y)
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/651438384

Eight condors! Is there a trip report for this excursion? Thanks!

Looks like a Red-necked in between plumages. Wait for someone who's more familiar with them.

May 2025. Rio Grande Del Norte National Monument, New Mexico. eBird checklist S241522715

Lifer from last year's Taos - Santa Fe trip.

Good morning, Whatbirders! It's my favorite weekend of the year with two of my favorite activities. The NASCAR racing season starts and it's the Great Backyard Bird Count!

Western Kingbird

26 species for my neighborhood's GBBC event, including the first Black-crowned Night no-hyphen Heron I've spotted in the neighborhood.

https://ebird.org/checklist/S300553415

Other GBBC highlights include the first Baltimore Oriole in my backyard, my state-first Savannah Sparrows and American ...

Kevin wrote: Thu Feb 12, 2026 1:41 pm A family I know nothing a about...

Apparently more than I do.

birdie #1364:

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I got 13 out of 20
2 wrong due to multiple species,


You know you can skip photos, including the multi-species ones, right?


I'm going to suggest that we use Likely birds to help make the game more location specific. With Likely and infrequent or All possible birds from the location options ...

Kevin wrote: Thu Feb 12, 2026 3:19 am That's weird Palo Pinto loaded instantly just now. Well I guess it's working. Thanks everybody.

It loaded for me too as expected this morning.

My former backyard in Lexington County, central SC. August 2019.

A blurry shot out the kitchen window. There were a couple of spots where the birds would dust-bath but this wasn't one of them; the pine straw is an even mat. There also weren't any ant mounds in the area. I think the bird was just ...

birdie #1363:

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Kevin wrote: Wed Feb 11, 2026 9:20 pm What settings are you putting in?

Vivaldi browser (Chromium) on Windows 11

Brunswick County NC
Year-round
Likely and infrequent
Photos

I use this several times a month. It's working as usual for me this afternoon.

Perhaps some photos of them in there more normal setting would help the id .

No, I'd never seen one on the wing or from below. My handful of sightings are all of birds on the ground, and only once at less than 75 yards.

EDIT - boy, marking text as Bold really doesn't stand out much, does it? I ...

Lonestranger wrote: Tue Feb 10, 2026 4:05 pm I was curious about the ID and almost as clueless as you, so I asked Merlin for some help. The birds are Eastern Bluebirds, or were you just referring to the American Pipit?

The pipit, Funny Guy.

It's been cold here, but not unseasonably so. High 20s to low 30s at night, up to about 70 during the day. All normal for this time of year.

Speaking of frozen bird baths, I finally deployed the bird bath heater I have never previously used since I bought it several years ago. It did a fine job ...

birdie #1362:

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birdie #1361:

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Zoroark wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 3:57 pm

Charlie Spencer wrote:test 1

Received. I tried the quotes a few days ago but forgot to check if it worked.

Kevin wrote: Mon Feb 09, 2026 3:19 pm I worked hard to get this shot, and I'm not a photographer so me to put effort at all is something.

Pardon the ignorant question but what is it?

Clueless in Carolina

I birded from the deck this afternoon, outside for the first time since the 8" snowfall on the first of the month. Still a bit chilly at 45F but better than wind chills below 30. One interesting thing about getting out on the deck as opposed to birding from inside the sunroom: did you the birds make ...

I had no idea we had a thread going over on BirdForum, though, as I mostly hang around the Birds & Birding board because it fills that discussion desire. :P

I started the BirdForum thread in late December or early January, a couple of month after Whatbird died. I included the word Whatbird and ...

birdie #1360:

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Good morning, Whatbirders! Looks like I've tossed out a couple of clunkers for two weeks running. Hopefully more people will have this week's bird!

Eastern Phoebe

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Hooded Robin wrote: Sat Feb 07, 2026 1:15 pm 'Listers" - the movie. Two brothers, novice birders, live in their van for a year doing a big year.

I recall they're scheduled to be at Biggest Year.

As many know, the same cold has inflicted itself on the NC coast. A few days after Sunday's eight inches of snow, I drove by three Brown Pelicans in a tidal creek I cross almost daily, a few miles upstream and inland from the Atlantic. The next day there were 13, and a Fish & Wildlife man was taking ...