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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com DoorDash, Tree Swallow style.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com I guess he didn’t like me looking at his girlfriend.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Purple Martins, the largest swallows in North America, had nearly vanished from the Puget Sound region when Kevin Li decided to do something about it. Today we—and the martins—enjoy the fruits of his and many others’ labor. Martins nest in colonies along

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com A popular perch, it appears to be.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com The earnest tenor aria is a staple of the bel canto repertoire, and that’s what this sparrow reminded me of.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com The Army guarantees you three hots and a cot, but it doesn’t guarantee you three good hots and a cot. Private Crow exercises due caution with its lunch.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Believe it or not, Purple Martins migrate to South America in the fall. Seems like a long ways to go. They can’t find bugs to eat closer to home? How do they do it? I’m not sure, but I know enough aerodynamics

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Over at the Union Nay Natural Area the other day… Great Blue Heron. Ho hum. Green Heron. Wowzers!

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com We’ve been keeping tabs on six osprey nests here in the city. This is a long-established nest atop a light tower at the Magnuson Park playfields. It’s so far up that it’s hard to get a good sense of just

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Kingfishers hover in the air as they search for fish swimming just below the surface of the water. This one made three dives but didn’t come up with anything. There’s a lot of disappointment in fishing.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Judy Kauffman, one of We Happy Few, sends this photo of a Ring-billed Gull with this caption: “A beautiful afternoon for bouys and gulls at Old Silver Beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts.” I didn’t immediately recognize the bird as I’m more used

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Like skiing fresh powder.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com You could use this picture of a Pigeon Guillemot to illustrate a dictionary definition of the word “skedaddle.”

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Finally! We hadn’t seen one in the park all year!

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com D’oh! This is the photo I intended to use in today’s post.

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bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Hooray! I got the bird camera back and took it out to check another osprey nest not far from the Chipotle ospreys from a couple days ago. Call these the Smith Cove ospreys. They nest on a platform erected by King County at a

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Oh my, what big feet you have! Adam Krefman, one of We Happy Few, caught this Cooper’s Hawk prowling the alleys of Oak Park, Illinois.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Someone asked, “Why all the old photos recently?” Well, my bird camera was at the factory repair shop in Pompano Beach, Florida. In its absence I did a little photography with my smaller camera, but it lacks the reach of its bigger cousin.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Barbed wire, concertina wire, even blackberry vines! Finches live dangerously!

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com “Where’d everybody go?”

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com We took note of each other for a moment, and then Pewee went on to its future and into my past.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com I don’t speak House Sparrow, but it was obvious these three were working something out.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Easy to see what she thought of us.

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comments? bird.o.the.day@gmail.com Little Woodies can be so rowdy it took two moms to get this crew to settle down.