Bird of the Day — Red-tailed Hawk, Kansas, yesterday
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Bird of the Day — Ring-necked Pheasant, Kansas 2021
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Bird of the Day — Red-tailed Hawk, Kansas 2023
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Bird of the Day — Savannah Sparrow, Kansas 2020
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I'm gonna meddle with the Bird of the Day feature here. I have thousands of images of Red-tailed Hawks. Red-tailed Hawks come in thousands of different varieties/plumages. So I will regularly drop in a photo of one of those as the Bird of the Day.
And this one is special. Feb 13, 2018, but I remember it like it was yesterday. Wildcat Creek Road west of the Manhattan airport. I was recently retired, and had a new Olympus camera and Panasonic/Leica lens, adjusting to that new system after many years shooting with Canon gear. I saw this young redtail, and got a bunch of shots of it both perched and in flight, and I was hooked. I had no idea that redtails came in plumages like this. I had no idea that I lived in one of the best places in the country for seeing this species in a tremendous variety of plumages. I have been learning ever since.
Bird of the Day — Red-tailed Hawk, Kansas 2018
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Bird of the Day — Curve-billed Thrasher, Texas 2012
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Bird of the Day — Song Sparrow, Kansas 2024
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Bird of the Day — Northern Harrier, Kansas 2024
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Bird of the Day — Bewick's Wren, California 2024
Jaunty
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Bird of the Day — Whooping Crane, Kansas, spring 2024
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Bird of the Day — Dark-eyed Junco, California 2014
Flasher
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@Dahna@mastodon.social It's an artifact of the lighting in that shady space. They are actually just gray.
Bird of the Day — Oak Titmouse, California 2024
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@sciencebase@mastodon.social Yes, a male Merlin of the Taiga subspecies (F. c. columbarius).
@peachfront@toot.community Don't be too jealous, the caption is incorrect. This is actually a Parasitic Jaeger; I had the right tag in the metadata, but failed to look at that before I posted this morning!
@rain_worl@lemmy.world All pictures posted on my account are my pictures, unless otherwise noted. And I have no clue how to nominate it for wikimedia commons. Can you elaborate, or point me toward a site that will guide me?
@pv_man@lor.sh OM1 Mark I with the 150-400 Oly zoom