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    What's your favorite bird song?

    Hermit Thrush, but I recently recorded a male Black-headed Grosbeak, and it sings up a storm
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    Green Heron Catching and Eating a Dragonfly

    I always thought of all herons as fishing birds, so I looked it up and, sure enough, they will eat vertebrates
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    Acorn Woodpeckers Snacking on Acorns

    Thanx...I was just browsing your photos, they're very nice. Year round birding in the Myrtle Beach area looks great. I like the Tufted Titmice, cute birds.
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    Shrikes

    nice, was also happy that the video included the sound
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    Acorn Woodpeckers Snacking on Acorns

    I have been on a bit of a bird video roll. It's not unusual for a group of Acorn Woodpeckers to hang out in the afternoon, snack on acorns and engage in a bit of gossip. The female has the black cap in front of the red crown and the two males have entirely red heads.
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    Green Heron Catching and Eating a Dragonfly

    Don't know if I am doing this correctly. It was more patience than luck. I stood around for about half and hour and took about a dozen videos before this Green Heron did anything to spice up the video.
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    Shotcut Video Editor and Noise Reduction Tips

    I am not a professional videographer, more like an amature enthusiast. I've only tried about five different video editors, including paying for Wonderama (I like it). I recently tried Shotcut, an open source video editor for Win10. It's filled with many different audio and video plugins to help...
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    Language question: waterbirds or water birds

    Water birds I understand wanting to group a batch of birds....so generally I have no problem with water birds as a catch all... also like to say birds like Kingfishers always live by the water and differentiating them from, long-legged wading birds, gulls and terms, shorebirds etc., brings...
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    Philadelphia for a day in May - where to go?

    I would say it depends on your preferences...warblers are a great find during May, however Cape May is more for shorebirds. Here's a great guide for May birding https://www.dvoc.org/DelValBirding/MonthlyBirding/May.htm
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    Corona virus threat to birding

    soon as the US begins testing there will be better info to make a better informed decision
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    Heron in Fflorida

    great blue heron.... in Florida, filled with herons, I was happiest with getting to see and photography the Red Heron
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    Cooper's Hawk? Southwest Montana

    besides the actual ID, might just be a Sharpie, very nice picture
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    Iowa City - any decent birding in the vicinity

    Iowa is 96% famland. Good news, Iowa City has surrounding nature preserves. Here's a quick guide for local bird club. http://icbirds.org/maps.html
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    Plastic Pollution

    Thanks for sharing. No doubt plastics a problem with all ocean faring animals and birds.
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    Mushroom Homes From NASA

    In a Jan. 14, 2020 press release, NASA's Ames Research Center opines on the possibility of building homes made out of mushrooms for habitation on planets. Real planets, like Mars. Well, not exactly mushrooms, but the mycelium, or underground, vegetative part of the fungus from which the so...
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