the vulture committee was back, preening and stretching... Was it the regular morning blue jay chorus or vulture sighting alerts? #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpmY...

"a green jay mother and a blue jay father" ! #birds www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

vulture chilling on the roof in a pigeon pose and then arose gracefully like a dancer #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=-04v...

raptors circling over the ragged cliffs, breathtaking! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCYt...

the berry twist to this bucolic scene! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTaq...

glittering grackles and starlings at sunset #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVd_...

first sighting of a female gadwall duck (identified by Apple Photos and Merlin Photo ID) #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBYI...

first sighting of a molting bluejay #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrWy...

Over the same creek - today, two red-tailed hawks flying in perfect sync #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5nu...

sighting of a red-tailed hawk last week and months earlier in april #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=szO6...

Synchronized Sunning by the lake!! the vultures were beyond magnificent #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBmi...

exploring bluebirds (boat, grass and tree) #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GWa...

dinosaur doppelganger! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AxV...

the vultures seem to gather every morning by the lake #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s-u...

an hour earlier than usual - lilting song of the cardinal and a family of deer crossing the overflowing creek #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qk...

Still looking! #birds www.threads.com/@audubonsoci...

Now there are warning signs on the beach about Cecil the seagull! "With eyes like an Eagles, a hovering ability like a Hummingbird, waiting for the right moment to dive in like a Pelegrine Falcon then BAM!! there he is with another sandwich…..” www.boston.com/news/off-bea... #birds

the heron decided to perch on a log near the trail and kept laser focus on the water while also monitoring the dogs and hikers on the trail #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj4S...

agile vultures 'daily scrum' committee starts at the diving board and later a circling 'sprint' in the sky! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceuu...

preening green heron! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=a49S...

first sighting of the Monarch Caterpillar too! #butterflies youtu.be/FmC1WthwnFM?...

"Researchers have tracked Iris, named for the unique inflections in her eye, since she started nesting along Missoula’s Clark Fork River in 1999. “Osprey nests help us track the movement of toxins through the watershed,” says UM chemist Heiko Langner. " - www.audubon.org/magazine/wor... #birds

magical sighting of the atlantic puffins and many more birds near the island off the coast of Maine on this cruise One more for bird life list - Black Guillemot (breeding plumage) in addition to puffin (video has chapters of various sightings) #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVVK...

Elegant Tern at the harbor #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jM0...

A magical sighting of Atlantic Puffins! (near Eastern Egg Rock Island in Maine; around three hours away from Boothbay Harbor on On Cap'n Fish's Cruises Puffin and Whale Watching Boat) they are much smaller than we imagine, around 11 inches #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnzf...

green heron with fish on fishing pier! it is the great blue heron who usually visits this pier #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjh...

WOW! "The most famous eBird checklist of all time is the report of this mind-boggling migration in Tadoussac, Quebec, in May 2018. Its greatness is obvious—108 species! 72,000 Tennessee Warblers! 108,000 Cape May Warblers!" - www.audubon.org/magazine/the... #birds

Morning Aria! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnED...

two mockingbirds faceoff (no idea why the video looks pixelated (was the camera having trouble figuring out what to focus on between the moving birds and grass in the meadow? ) #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ZA...

when did you spot the female cardinal? #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQy4...

did you see the woodpecker or 'elephant' first?!! is that a downy or hairy woodpecker? #birds www.youtube.com/shorts/NLSNa...

earlier in the morning - the heron was also on the tree! (in addition to seeing the cardinal, sparrow, finch and circling hawk) #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4b0...

Wow! "over 80% of birds-of-paradise species convert the sun’s invisible ultraviolet light into vivid yellows and greens. This process, known as biofluorescence" Source: www.allaboutbirds.org/news/ultravi... #birds

first saw 1, then two, four and then, many more on the opposite side ... multiple vultures resting perhaps after circling the skies #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRx3...

Dinosaurs and feathers! #birds Gift Link - The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/s...

grackles gather and also splash in the stream! perhaps, first sighting of female grackle #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhXF...

a spectacular heron at sunset #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNbX...

the bird that makes you doubt Merlin BirdID until you see its instantly recognizable mate nearby! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CJ4...

#birdsong "discovery of a fossilized herbivorous dinosaur from China preserving a surprisingly birdlike throat. It provides a clue that the origins of birdsong might go as far back as the beginning of dinosaurs themselves." - gift article from The New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/s...

"results from a new study: The birds actually minimize the need for shock absorption. How? Their heads and beaks essentially act like a stiff hammer, striking and stopping in unison. a simple explanation for how woodpeckers avoid injury: physics. " - www.audubon.org/magazine/new... #birds

on this bird walk, no birds at all and suddenly, there is this majestic eagle surveying the creek! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq8y...

ethereal reflections... #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQz4...

"Archaeopteryx isn’t the first dinosaur to have feathers, or the first dinosaur to have ‘wings’. But we think it’s the earliest known dinosaur that was able to use its feathers to fly." - www.theguardian.com/science/2025... #birds

Action Packed Turtles in the small pond! Check out turtle swimming, turtle side eye and claw And multiple birds including Carolina Wren sing in the background #turtles www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_fe...

different strategies - the duck valiantly tries to swim upstream against the current while the heron calmly crosses over to the opposite edge ... #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSjG...

sketches, watercolors to prints of beautiful birds #birds www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

the joy of walking on a new Bird Trail and the first sighting is a Baltimore Oriole! #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQAK...

"Two years ago, scientists counted more than 14,000 American Oystercatchers throughout the East, a stunning 43 percent increase from their low point, bucking the trend of decline among most North American shorebird" = www.audubon.org/magazine/ins... #birds

was this cormorant lost? hopefully found way back to the nearby lake where they usually gather in groups ... #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq2X...

Northern Flicker on tree and on grass #birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLqe...