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    ^^ I got one, too. I haven't set it up, yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    I'm seeing a lot of feral roosters and peacocks in the streets these days. It's hilarious.
    There's an island in the middle of the Indian ocean called Diego Garcia. It's British owned, but the entire island is essentially a US Navy base. Feral chickens are the "wildlife" of the island. Disturbing them will earn sailors a trip to Captain's Mast. The Navy version of non-judicial punishment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobM View Post
    soon the hummingbird feeder will be hung.
    Get it up soon! The hummers should be in Florida any day now!
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    So, should I clean out a bluebird house, or leave it up to them? I know sometimes earlier birds make their homes before the bluebirds get a chance. But, it seems like they never left this year.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BobM View Post
    ...and soon the hummingbird feeder will be hung.
    Quote Originally Posted by Nearfest2 View Post
    Get it up soon! The hummers should be in Florida any day now!
    I'm planning to do this for the first time this year.

    Got some good advice from a friend who's been doing it for years, and hope to see several hummers.

    We've had a few of them at my Mandevilla flowers in the past, so I expect that they'll be in the area...
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    I've had mine up all winter with a warming light just in case a vagrant (Anna's, Rufous, etc.) wanted to swing by. No luck.
    Chad

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    My wife took a picture of an albino robin when she went out to go to work. It's not a great picture but I'll see if I can post it when she gets home. It almost looks like a bluejay but she said the chest was orange. I went out back to see if I could see it and I saw a woodcock.
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    Saw my first, probably last, of the American Avocets of the season. They don't stay long in the Bay Area.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow View Post
    My wife took a picture of an albino robin when she went out to go to work. It's not a great picture but I'll see if I can post it when she gets home. It almost looks like a bluejay but she said the chest was orange. I went out back to see if I could see it and I saw a woodcock.
    This might be what she saw. https://journeynorth.org/robin/sprin...3_piebald.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Saw my first, probably last, of the American Avocets of the season. They don't stay long in the Bay Area.
    Maybe it's just where you are looking for or seeing them. I seen them year-round at the Palo Alto Baylands.

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    Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting

    When hobbyist photographer Michael Sanchez snapped this picture of a blue rock-thrush subspecies on the coast of northern Oregon last week, he didn't know how rare the bird was until he posted it to social media.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting

    When hobbyist photographer Michael Sanchez snapped this picture of a blue rock-thrush subspecies on the coast of northern Oregon last week, he didn't know how rare the bird was until he posted it to social media.
    I saw this on Facebook. What a find!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting

    When hobbyist photographer Michael Sanchez snapped this picture of a blue rock-thrush subspecies on the coast of northern Oregon last week, he didn't know how rare the bird was until he posted it to social media.
    That's pretty cool. And a really great shot considering how difficult it can be to photograph birds.

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    He keeps showing up for food


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    Woody and his buddies (pileated woodpeckers above ^^^) have destroyed half of the wooden mailbox posts in our neighborhood!
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    I put out a hummingbird feeder for the first time, in mid-April. Got a visitor the first day!

    I'm now cleaning / re-filling it 2x/week, and we have regular visitors, male and female.

    We only get one visitor at a time, so we don't know if it's just one male and one female (or if they're a couple) or if we're seeing several males and females.
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    I saw a red winged blackbird on one of the trails near me today. I also thought I saw a couple of gray catbirds (at least I'm pretty sure that's what they were).
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    Sitting out on my deck last week, I supped on a few G&Ts, while witching my feeder and my hummingbird feeder and listening to the calls, and runnuig Merlin.

    Here's what I heard and saw in around an hour:

    Birds - 6-12-2024-2.jpg

    (Click to expand, click again to make it much bigger)
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