They should check the area for eggs. This is mating behavior. After a short incubation period, the spawn will swarm towards the nearest freeway

Rounding out the warbler pack last weekend! #NorthernParula + #NashvilleWarbler + #MagnoliaWarbler + #BlackAndWhiteWarbler. Parker River NWR (MA). #springmigration #birding 😎🪶

Also present on a nice migration morning: both Female and Male #BlackThroatedBlueWarbler and some close encounters with #BlackThroatedGreenWarbler as well. Parker River NWR (MA) #springmigration #birding 😎🪶🖤💙🖤💚

I was treated to a few "holy smokes ZOOM OUT" looks at #ChestnutSidedWarbler last weekend as well. Amazing and brave little birds! Parker River NWR (MA) #springmigration #birding 😎🪶🤎

Some cheeto-dust warbler action from last weekend: #BlackburnianWarbler were abundant at Parker River NWR in coastal Massachusetts. #springmigration #birding 😎🪶

it's their month!!!! 🌼

A friend let me know that the new homepage image for Sharp-shinned Hawk on @cornellbirds.bsky.social All About Birds is one of mine! This is one of my favorite shots of any raptor - taken at Mount Watatic's #hawkwatch! www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sharp-... #birding #sharpshinnedhawk 🦅🪶

amazing video where some birders stumbled upon BIG counts of Snowy Owls staging for migration in Alberta. #birding 🪶🦉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=37kN...

Yellow-rumped Warblers (aka butterbutts) in my yard on Saturday! Usually the first warbler we get in big numbers here in April in Massachusetts. #yellowrumpedwarbler #birding 🪶🐦‍⬛🧈🍑

I’ve got a new video up about AI generated birds! I do rant a bit, but it’s alarming how much this slop is becoming a problem, certainly worse than I realized before researching this. [These] Birds Aren't Real youtu.be/wdK-bI61Mhs

Be sure to read the whole thing.

Raptor migration starting to heat up in Massachusetts. Here's a handful of the 28 #AmericanKestrel we counted on Saturday’s #hawkwatch at Plum Island, MA. Keep your eyes peeled for more moving up the coast in the next few weeks !! 🦅😎🪶 #birding

Broad-wings are here!!!

ngl that checks out for me #birdingmemes

AI is not writing

Spring #Hawkwatch is on at Plum Island MA. We had a late #RoughLeggedHawk migrating, 10 #NorthernHarriers (1 ad M Gray Ghost), a handful of #CoopersHawk, an uncommon #RedShoulderedHawk and plenty of Turkey Vultures wandering about. More on the way!

Less than 12 hours to help us by buying this amazing shirt!!! Photo of beautiful Maya and the amazing design our friend @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social did for us! #Birds #Raptors #bsnm #artsci 🪶 Link ➡️ www.bonfire.com/belize-rapto... @ammcanizares.bsky.social

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Tubac HawkWatch in Arizona had an impressive day on March 15! Highlights included an incredible 97 Common Black Hawks, a signature species of the Southwest, and always a thrill to see in numbers. Photos of Common Black Hawks by Ned Harris and Bill Clark #HMA #HawkMigration #CommonBlackHawk

Happy Birthday to the one & only, Aaron Freeman AKA Gene Ween! Thank you for sharing some of your beauty, wit, and wisdom with us jims! #ween 🎂🎉🤎

First life bird of 2026! A Bohemian Waxwing on Plum Island, MA. Lifer #446! This has been a seemingly decent year for them pushing south into areas like New England. ❤️ #bohemianwaxwing #birding 🪶

new #birding field outfit just dropped #birdingmemes 😎🪶🌴

Just spitballing here, but maybe we should celebrate all this beautiful stuff and have a better country?

HAPPY BOSTON MOONINITE PANIC DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

Late on my final post for @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026, theme: #CharismaticEndemics. One of the coolest + rarest birds I've seen is the Hawaiian Hawk or 'Io. Saw my lifer at HI's Volcanoes NP in '17. Here's an 'Io soaring in the thermals created by lava rivers at Kilauea. #birding 🦅🌋🪶

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

For yesterday's @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 theme of #PhotoNotAvailable I wanted to recreate my favorite #BaldEagle image I saw last year (not my photo). Unfortunately for some reason, it isn't available on eBird anymore. Oh well, I hope I got all the little details right. 🪶🦅🖕🧊

Nobody: Nobody: Nobody: Me: WHERE MY IN FLIGHT TURKEY VULTURE FANS AT!? 🪶

The theme for @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 today is #RuleBreakers - I like the way Crested Caracara fits into that theme for NA raptors. They sort of look like an eagle, scavenge like a vulture, chase prey like a hawk, but are technically a falcon. #CrestedCaracara 🦅🪶🌵😎 #birding

A Parasitic Jaeger for the #SpectacularSeabirds theme of @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026. A bit out of my wheelhouse but I think jaegers and skuas can be honorary raptors of the sea, don't you agree? #birding #parasiticjaeger 🪶🦅

One more for @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 For the theme of #BirdSuccess here’s one of my favorite conservation victories: Peregrine Falcon. It’s hard to imagine that not long ago, we had pushed this species to the brink of extinction in the Eastern US. 🦅🪶 #peregrinefalcon #birding

I’ve been wanting to get back into illustration lately and @cornellbirds.bsky.social #BirdArtWeek2026 is a great motivation to jump back in. For yesterday's theme of #HiddenBirds : an adult Cooper’s Hawk using whatever cover is available to ambush potential prey. 😎✌️🦅🪶 #coopershawk #birding

Look at this beautiful hawk I just saw!!

@benstiller.redhour.com do u recall where you got the shirt-jacket you’re wearing in the chase sapphire spot? need that!

A Horned Lark to celebrate their reign as @aba.org 2026 Bird of the Year! This one dropped into the #hawkwatch atop Mount Watatic in MA in September 2019, a very surprising timing and location at 1800 feet! As I recall, it was eating spiders off the rocks! #birding 🪶

Here's 12 of my favorite raptor images from the year 2025. It was another year full of unreal moments with raptors: 25 species across the US, including some huge counts during migration #birding 🦅🪶 (1/3). First up, some #hawkwatch birds from September. Species ID on the alt-text.

One of the absolute coolest "regular" birds in my area - a hybrid Red-shouldered X Red-tailed Hawk that has been in the same wintering spot for 12 years in a row here in MA! Check out the mix of RSHA and RTHA field marks. A real splendid bird that I hope makes it through another winter! #birding 🦅🪶

Go see them, but give em some space! 🪶https://www.audubon.org/magazine/unexpected-baby-boom-bringing-snowy-owls-south-winter

I see a lot of pushback that the Color of the Year for 2026 was "Cloud Dancer" (aka white) but some of the alternate choices were not much better. 🎨🦜 #birdingmemes #birding 🪶

While helping some folks w/a tricky winter accipitrine hawk ID, I collaged some of my best scrunched up, cold-weather adult male Cooper's Hawk! So cute and deceivingly similar to Sharpies! #raptorid #birdid #birding 🪶

One of my goals this winter was to get this bird at my feeder! No luck yet … but right down the street, on my Christmas Bird Count turf, is a definite win: EVENING GROSBEAK! A state bird for me. Hope I can find another next weekend !! #eveninggrosbeak #christmasbirdcount #cbc2025 #birding 🪶

I contain multitudes 🦅🪶 #birdingmemes #accipstur #birding

Scenes from last night’s Aurora (Townsend, MA) Pink and purple pillars at the absolute peak of intensity. I could see it still going from bed just before midnight but decided I wasn’t gearing up again 😴. We’ll see if tonight has more in store! #northernlights #auroraborealis

Possibly the luckiest frame I could imagine... two bright meteors flashed overhead right in the middle of my 2 second exposure. Right around 8:58pm EST, my yard in Townsend, MA. #auroraborealis #northernlights 🌃

Cape May Kestrels from October. I "only" saw 130 #AmericanKestrel at the #hawkwatch so they took a bit of a back seat to the other small raptors. Still a thrill. Yes, they were all going left! 😁 #birding 🦅🪶

Ya like Merlins? Well no surprise, Cape May has them too. I saw over 200 #Merlin in my 3 days last month at the Cape May (NJ) #hawkwatch. (Official count was over 600.) In my notes, I wrote down that I saw 8 (!) individual birds in a single scan at one point. #birding #nature 🪶🦅😎

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