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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Kristi Larson, one of We Happy Few, found this baby Dark-eyed Junco in her back yard. She named it “Einstein.” After all, they have the same barber.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com For the rest of the photo series, you have to go to their OnlyFans account.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Let’s start with a couple housekeeping notes. Some have asked how to enlarge the photos in the daily email. Different email programs do things differently and I can give no advice about them, but there is a link you can click to

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com We counted 23 goslings!

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. Please include the date. Suzanne Tripp, one of We Happy Few, was visiting Lopez Island (a.k.a. “Slowpez Island”) when she spotted this Barred Owl chilling out at sunset. One needs to be in the right headspace before going out for an

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. please include the date. My camera is in the repair shop. 😢 Fortunately, I have about 12,000 bird photos stored somewhere in the cloud. Here is one of them…

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. please include the date. I‘ve always known this little bird as the Pacific-slope Flycatcher. However, taxonomists gonna taxonomize, and they decided that the Pacific-slope Flycatcher and the Cordilleran Flycatcher were so much alike that they both should be considered sub-species of a

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. please include the date. Warbs goes about its business unconstrained by our puny spatial concepts of “right side up” or “upside down.”

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. please include the date. He could run but he couldn’t hide.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. Please include the date. At NYC real estate prices, Gull figures this little rock in the East River will fetch enough to pay for a comfortable retirement.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com. Please include the date. Rumpie lets us know its opinion of photographers.

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Tufty got itself a caterpillar for lunch! Mmm-mmm-good!

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Score! This napkin will make a nice soft lining for the nest.

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com We interrupt this East Coast interlude with breaking news from the Midwest. For the first time in over a century, baby eaglets have been spotted in Chicago!

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Domestic tranquility, at least until the eggs hatch.

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com We were resting up at our hotel after a busy morning chasing birds. I spotted these pigeons gathering on this balcony/patio across the street. It looked like a daily ritual of waiting until a window opened and birdseed flew out. There are

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Who said Blue Jays were nothing but troublemakers? We found this one picking up litter in the park!

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Comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com One of the approximately 10,000 House Sparrows frolicking around Bryant Park.

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“Hi, honey, I‘m home!”

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A Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher speeds off to catch some gnats. That’s not the easiest way to make a living, that’s for sure.

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comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Osprey are the scruffy looking raptors. They don’t have the majesty of the eagles, the cool reserve of the hawks, or the color of the falcons. They always look a little rough around the edges, but at least they’re better looking

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Comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Migration season is warbler season, and the woods are full of warblers and the birders who love them. They’re often waaaay up in the trees, but I spotted this Palm Warbler doing a solid for the photographers.

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Comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Mill River is an osprey hot spot. There are lots of fish in the river and more in the reservoir upstream, and where you have fish, you have osprey. We counted six birds one morning! Here one takes most of its catch back

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Comments? 👉 bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Some of my first birdy adventures were in East Rock Park, a large forest park on the east edge of New Haven, Connecticut. It’s always great to go back. A small stream, Mill River, runs through the park and attracts all sorts