What was your best bird today! (1 Viewer)

[Cheshire Birder]

Broad-billed Sandpiper is the best of the day but missed on Buff-breasted Sandpiper which would have been better.

CB

 

[ammadoux]

common whitethroat, got a real close encounter with one and several closeup this one of them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ammadoux/5730523055/in/photostream

 

[Gretchen]

I finally got a bird which it seems every Asian birder has seen, but I hadn't - Black-naped Oriole! Such a bright bird - how could one miss seeing it? Anyway, very satisfying to see and he was singing his lovely song at the same time, so now I know what to listen for as well.

 

[Larry Lade]

My best bird today was an alternately plumaged American Golden Plover. I found it in a grassy area near Muskrat Lake, Saint Joseph, Missouri.

 

[Gryphon]

my current feeders have only been for 2 days.today a downy woodpecker showed up at the suet for the first time.

 

[chowchilla]

Two Red-tailed Black Cockatoos flying over my place as I got home.

They've been around Cairns for a while now (normally we don't get them here at all; they're a dry country bird), and now these magnificent birds are on my 'home' list!B

 

[Fozzybear]

common whitethroat, got a real close encounter with one and several closeup this one of them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ammadoux/5730523055/in/photostream

Nice! Really lovely to get close to them, they're smashing little birds and although they're around a lot and can blend into the background at times you seem to rarely get the opportunity for a really good close view of them.

For me today it was a beautiful Common Tern that was fishing on the river just by the town centre as I walked to work this morning. I really wasn't in a good mood this morning as I knew it was going to be a bad day at work but seeing the Tern flying back and forth and diving into the water cheered me up immensely.

 

[Larry Lade]

Today's best bird was a female Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I found it perched on a barbed wire fence which goes around a cattle pasture (and Muskrat Lake) just south of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

 

[borealowl47]

Yellow Warblers,seem to be the only warblers adapting very well to mans incursions.Heard three today inside the city.

 

[Gryphon]

a white breasted nuthatch made its first appearance.i also watched 3 downy woodpeckers in a nearby tree at one time.

 

[Larry Lade]

Today's best bird was a female Scissor-tailed Flycatcher. I found it perched on a barbed wire fence which goes around a cattle pasture (and Muskrat Lake) just south of Saint Joseph, Missouri.

My best bird yesterday, Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, I discovered today was, in fact, a Western Kingbird. I found this out when I went to the same area today, re-found the bird and made the correct ID.

While there I got a "best bird" for today, Black-necked Stilt.

 

[crazyfingers]

Saw the pileated woodpecker again today. First I heard it's distinctive laugh and then walking in that direction it flew off across the neighbor's field to the woods beyond where I'm sure it has its home.

 

[ammadoux]

the great reed warbler, i did not know i had one in the garden, until it came to drink from the water pool where i was waiting for the white-throat and the garden warbler. took some shots for it and a video.

then i moved to the other side of the garden and got busy with the l=black caps and the weaver, when it came for the second time, it is as if it was attracting my attention to it.

i am so happy with its visit, i did had one back on the first week of April, but that was not as friendly as this one, but i was happy as much i am today, because these massive warblers did not come to the garden since two years.

 

[Gary Polliard]

indigo bunting on my five acres made its loud appearance for such a small bird.

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Pair of Marsh Tits feeding 5 youngsters. They were quite a handful to feed.

CB

 

[borealowl47]

Two Yellow-throated Vireos ,close second three Bay-breasted Warblers

 

[borealowl47]

indigo bunting on my five acres made its loud appearance for such a small bird.

They do that don't they.:t:Went looking for them at regular place were they are found but never made it,side tracked by too many other good birds.:t:

 

[Gryphon]

i had an indigo bunting do fast fly by and land in a tree across the street.my neighbor watched what i think was the same bird at a feeder the other day.

 

[chowchilla]

Relaxing on the 'Nade after work and watching waders and herons on the outgoing tide when a loud squeaky chuckle from the bushes directly behind us gave away the presence of a Red-necked Crake!

Not bad for the middle of a city...

 

[frankiex]

ime not greedy ,a jenny wren.