#liferbird — Public Fediverse posts

Oh my glob! A hermit thrush! And it felt so safe I got photos? Not good but good enough to verify! #LiferBird #Oregon #birding

Okay, I know the Scaup suspense is killing everyone! I think this is a Lesser Scaup, based on the narrow size and shape of the black 'nail' of the bill, seen head-on.

However, I'm sure that she is a big deal in her own heart.

Also she is still a #LiferBird for me!

#birdPhotography #Oregon

First sapsucker of the year! And a lifer, Greater SCAUP! #WildForWoodpeckers #birding #oregon #liferBird

Went for a sunset nature walk at the Tualatin River Nat'l Wildlife Refuge yesterday with a friend, and watched this hawk flying low above the sere meadow.

At the time I remarked to my friend that it must be a red-tail (I saw a flash of orange) but the flight pattern -- almost hovering near the top of the grass -- seemed really unusual. Well, that's because it was a Northern Harrier! A lifer raptor! I have to trust my 'that's weird' sense more! 😁

#birding #LiferBird #Oregon #TualatinValley

Purple martins! At the marsh

#BirdCallOut #LiferBird

We went twice this week to burned locales where the three-toed and black-backed woodpeckers have been seen recently, but while we heard the black-backed, we saw neither.

But today, just visiting a favorite spot, I got to see one of the other species left on the list! Birding doesn’t respond to determination: you just have to keep your eyes wide and love the birds you see!

#LiferBird #CentralOregon #WildForWoodpeckers #birding

NO mistake #LiferBird: another for my ambition of seeing every Oregon woodpecker! :sapsucker: Williamson’s Sapsucker!!! I’m so happy and I got decent pics!

#CentralOregon #birding

Birded in the pouring afternoon rain yesterday, for the first time in weeks (getting kittens has been keeping me busy!). Mostly saw the usual suspects, but as I was thinking it was dim enough I should go home, I saw a bird fly to a tree. “Probably the scrub jay I heard earlier," I thought, "but silhouetted who can say? I'll snap some photos to be sure. Wouldn't it be jolly if it were something COOL like a shrike or something?”

Please meet my very first Northern Shrike. 😳

#birding #LiferBird

Happy to report that I saw an Anna’s hummingbird, an American Kestrel, and an Acorn Woodpecker on a granary snag before leaving the parking lot area. So much for my dubiousness! #birding #LiferBird

“Aren’t you a little short for a chickad—OH MY STARS A GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET!” #LiferBird #OctoberBigDay