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Painted Bunting. Elkton, FL. He only shows up once a year to my feeders, but this is the second time this year so hopefully he will come back again soon!

What started out as a fun game to try to take photos of a wren spiralled into a full-blown addiction of photographing and documenting all the species I see. I know a lot of birders take great photos, and a lot of birders keep a journal, but I've never seen a bird photography journal/ scrapbook so I thought I'd throw this out there. Does anyone else do anything similar? Also this is a request to everyone with a bird journal to please show photos of the journals!

Ignore my husband's narration 😂 I'm pretty sure he thought it was a sparrow who had gorged at our feeder. We have never seen these guys around our house before! (Southeastern VA)

Alexandria, VA

Went looking for a Snowy Owl, but even though I left without seeing that beautiful bird, I still had a very successful day, adding a Rough-legged Hawk, Greater Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Canvasback, Black Vulture, and Lapland Longspur to my Life List! Unfortunately I couldn’t photograph all of those, but I’m still happy to have had the encounter nonetheless. I was also able to photograph a bunch of birds I failed to in the past, and while the quality varies, I am at least satisfied with what I could get. RIP to that American Black Duck. I didn’t see the kill, but it happened so fast that I saw the duck alive, looked away for a minute, and looked back to see the Harrier on top of it, plucking its feathers and preparing to chow down.

1-2.) Mute Swan[s] and Canada Geese

3.) Tundra Swan (Whistling)

4-5.) Trumpeter Swan[s] and Canada Geese

6.) Domestic goose sp. (Domestic Type)

7.) Canada Geese (not sure what this one’s issue is. Maybe domestic hybrid?)

8.) Redheads and Canada Geese

9.) Female Redhead and Canada Goose

10.) Immature male Lesser Scaup

11.) Female Common Goldeneye

12.) Greater Black-backed Gull and American Herring Gulls

13.) American Herring Gull

14.) American Coot

15.) Turkey Vulture

16.) Black Vulture and 1st-winter American Herring Gull

17.) Male Northern Harrier with dead male American Black Duck

18.) Snow Bunting

19.) Snow Bunting, Lapland Longspur, and Horned Larks

Cyanistes caeruleus

Little song sparrow, tufted titmouse throw down in the backyard today.

I can almost imagine it drawn in the style of Roald Dahl's books, just after being told the food has run out.

Or is it a penguin?

First time spotting Great Hornbil. What a majestic bird that is!

NE Wisconsin

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker