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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Una bella figura!

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Sanderlings getting busy in between waves coming up onto the shore.

7/9

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Chickadee chin-ups.

7/8

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com I have had zero luck looking for owls this year, so here’s a fine looking youngster from 2021.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Bringing home bugs for the little ones. It’s tiring enough just to watch the swallows go back and forth and back and forth. Imagine what it’s like to be one! (Here is where all the parents start composing replies beginning with,

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Watch out! Here comes trouble!

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Harlequin Ducks gather in the shadow of the giant ruin left behind by a once-great civilization.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com “Makes me sad how far they’ve fallen.” “They’ve straightened themselves out before, let’s see if they can do it again…”

7/3

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Our favorite source of Chicago news, Block Club Chicago, is all over the Piping Plover beat. *********** Four Piping Plover Chicks Get Names — And They Honor Chicago Music Legends The cute, fuzzy chicks’ names were picked via a contest where more than 1,500

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com “The name‘s Rhino. Guess why…”

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Happy Canada Day!

6/30

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com We thought we would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. To this end, we boarded a bird cruise headed for Smith Island, a small, uninhabited dot out in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Surrounded by beds

6/29

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com There are five osprey nests near Bird o’ the Day Tower. Not everybody is thrilled about that. Here we see a crow escorting an osprey out of airspace it has claimed as its own.

6/28

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Barbed wire, chain link, and concertina—it looks like our sparrow is in a maximum security lockup, but I’m sure it won’t become a victim of our carceral state.

6/27

comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com A few years ago I ran a series about cars named after birds. In honor of today’s Greenwood Car Show, only the greatest car show on Earth, here‘s another Bird—and Car—o’ the Day. Pontiac Phoenix Having previously explored the

6/26: Special Butterfly Edition

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Butterflies are pretty hard to photograph, especially when in flight. They don’t follow the same rules of flight physics everybody else is bound to. Even a hummingbird is more predictable than a butterfly. Hence, you try to catch them when they land,

6/25

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com I won’t bet the deed to the railroad on this, but Woody here looks like a young’un, born this year and still figuring out how the world works.

6/24

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Amanda Erickson, one of We Happy Few, is traveling through Scandinavia and caught these Black-headed Gulls exhibiting proper Nordic reserve with one another.

6/23

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Lookee here! Right now I’d say Catbird’s sitting in the catbird seat!

6/22

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com What could nicer than to sit in the garden?

6/21

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com I was watering the garden the other morning and the bushtits showed up for some fun in the sprinkler.

6/20

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Bird o’ the Day comes to you from Seattle, Washington. We have the ocean, ferries, gulls, and Ivar’s. Bob Hughes, one of We Happy Few, was in town for the World Cup and sends this picture of a very Seattle scene: Dinner

6/19

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Pamela Rentz, one of We Happy Few, was enjoying dinner at Scoma’s, one of the Bay Area’s best seafood restaurants, when she saw this Black-crowned Night Heron looking for its own seafood dinner at the anchovy net pen.

6/18

comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com I don’t think it was a bro hug.