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Got a few great shots on Pie Billed Grebes

One from 2018


Pie Billed Grebe Anahauc NWR 4-18 by johnd1964, on Flickr

Been years since I've photographed one of these.

I've got this one!

Phinizy Swamp Nature Park. January 2018. eBird checklist S42124158

When this species popped up as this week's bird, I knew immediately which photo I wanted.

Sadly, I don't have this one either.

Pied Billed Grebe

Happy Easter, Whatbirders! After two days watching NASCAR races at Rockingham NC, I'm ready for migration to get into high gear. Hopefully we'll be seeing these two species soon:

Summer Tanager

Lazuli Bunting

The guideline is only one photo per species per week, please. On those occasions when I name more than one species, you're welcome to post one photo of each species. Details and stories behind the photos are encouraged!

Summer Tanager
Big Bend National Park, TX
5/20/78


Lazuli Bunting
Red Top Mountain, WA
7/12/86

I have a Summer Tanager from about 10 years ago!

Got the Tanager but not the other one.

High Island TX 2022

Summer Tanager HIgh Island TX 4-22 by johnd1964, on Flickr

Tanager only for me too. Cape May County, NJ - May 2024

P5068528...Lazuli Bunting ~ female by lonesome55dove, on Flickr

Summer Tanager -- Monterey, CA


Lazuli Bunting -- El Dorado, CA

My backyard. May 2025. https://ebird.org/checklist/S234732038

Why I installed this fountain. I probably should have cropped this a little wider.

Incidentally, did you know you can search Macaulay with banding codes?

Good morning, Whatbirders! I hope everyone that is required to do so had done their taxes.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Swainson's Hawk

The guideline is only one photo per species per week, please. On those occasions when I name more than one species, you're welcome to post one photo of each species. Details and stories behind the photos are encouraged!

Closest I ever got to a decent picture of a bird. It's actually a still frame from a video. I was sneaking up behind it at about 15 yards, with weeds in between us when it turned around around and walked downstream, passing within 5 yards of me.

Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Desoto, TX
6/7/23

Swainson's Hawk
Elkhart, KS
4/19/89

Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Galveston, TX
10/5/78

I have both of these. but heading on my migration trip Wednesday .
Hopefully get some new ones for these.

Yellow-crowned night heron - Mills Pond, TX by stevebruenjes, on Flickr

In Ocean City, NJ there's a Visitors Center located on the side of a bridge so it is elevated above the bay. Right next to it is a rookery & you can get amazing , closeup views by looking down from the parking area at all of the birds nesting there. They include both Night Herons, three Ibis species, Great Egret, Little Blue Heron & occasionally Tri-colored Heron. This was my lifer Swainson's Hawk which I drove 3 hours to see in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. I've since seen another in Cape May but those are the only two so far.

Phinizy Swamp Nature Park, Augusta GA. July 2023. https://ebird.org/checklist/S143543788

I have eleven photos of YCNH from five sightings over three states. Oddly, only one is an an adult, and it isn't the one I selected. I have two that are higher rated than this but I like the angle of one better.

I thought I'd have a lot of these because I see them every year on the Christmas Bird Count in El Petén, but I had to dig to find one! We pretty much always see immatures; I don't know if I've ever seen an adult! The first time I saw one I thought, now I understand how birds are evolved from dinosaurs...

April 17 2026
Wellington FL

Good morning, Whatbirders! I think today's randomly selected bird is common enough that we'll go with one species this week.

Orange-crowned Warbler

The guideline is only one photo per species per week, please. On those occasions when I name more than one species, you're welcome to post one photo of each species. Details and stories behind the photos are encouraged!

Orange-crowned Warbler
Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park, TX
1/28/84