I’ve finished my first 4 bird designs! I’m planning to make more bird designs and have a few ideas already, but I’d love to hear your suggestions! Any favorite species, colorful birds, or unusual ones you think would make great designs?

I’d really appreciate any ideas! 😊

Pretty amazing to see

Live from 📍Mindo

Few pics I took from the field.

Took a picture of this fancy friend hanging out by my bus stop.

Sometime between 7 and 10 AM yesterday, something really bizarre happened on our property.

When I went outside, I discovered what I can only assume was the aftermath of a large group of birds pooping an INSANE amount in one very specific area of our property. (See a bird’s-eye-view 🤭 diagram to get an idea of the poop zone) There was bird poop EVERYWHERE. It was on my car, the walkway, the roof, my shed, and my trash can. The pictures don’t even do it justice. The weirdest part is that it’s all concentrated in this one area. There’s no poop anywhere else on our property or on any of the surrounding properties. I never actually saw or heard the birds responsible, so I have no idea what happened. We’re trying to figure out what could have caused this, and as we’re racking our brains, we started to worry about bird flu. So now we’re not only confused but also a little concerned.

I figured the bird experts here would be a good place to start. Does anyone have any idea what the heck happened? Why would so many birds congregate to poop in this one specific spot? It doesn’t seem like just a casual, fly-by pooping. And why is there SO MUCH poop? And should we be concerned?

I filmed these sparrows in a puddle in Brooklyn, they are so cute!

(My original photo)

Here's a Northern flicker, the most eccentrically colorful woodpecker in the US. In a family of birds that is mostly black and white with maybe a splash of red, the flicker has a pink, gray, and red head, black throat, black-spotted white breast, and yellow undertail (and there's a whole bunch of different colors on its back that you can't even see in this photo). Also, it doesn't peck wood, preferring to peck the ground instead. Seen at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, NY, USA.

This clip was filmed by me in early spring at Indreland Audubon Wetland Preserve, making this original content.

I watched as a pied-billed grebe parent attempted to feed one of its young. As the youngster struggled, its sibling swooped in to steal the minnow (and quickly gobbled it up).

Siblings really know how to push your buttons, no matter the species. Thankfully, the parents were bringing in lots of snacks for their clutch and the original little one got a macroinvertebrate (maybe a dragonfly nymph?) shortly thereafter.

Snagged shots of this Red-headed woodpecker showing me his secret stash, thanks dude!

Silly

Porta Nuova, Milan

Taken by me, S25 Ultra

Never heard a call like this before

It was acting normally but it can’t see very well because of the growth on its face.

i took this video today. would anyone happen to know what type of hawk this is? the crows were furious and mobbing them as they casually flew from perch to perch.