Not So Random Thoughts

He be like, "yeah, did you hear that? I can sing."

Yellow-eared Woodpecker (Veniliornis maculifrons), female, family Picidae, order Piciformes, endemic to eastern Brazil

What a show-off.

American or Brown Creeper (Certhia americana), family Certhiidae, order Passeriformes, MN, USA

Snow Bunting (Plectrophenax nivalis), winter plumage, family Calcariidae, order Passeriformes, MN, USA

Spectacled Owl

Uilen en dierenpark de paay - The Netherlands

Red-billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus), male, family Trochilidae, order Apodiformes, endemic to Jamaica

Blackburnian Warbler Setophaga fusca

6/8/2024 Koochiching County, Minnesota

 Australian Masked Owls (Tyto novaehollandiae), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Australia

Canada Warbler (Cardellina canadensis), male, family Parulidae, order Passeriformes, Quintana, TX, USA

Wire-tailed Swallow (Hirundo smithii), female, family Hirundinidae, order Passeriformes, India

Fox Sparrow (Passerella iliaca). Family Passerellidae, order Passeriformes.

This was my first time ever seeing one, and I've been obsessed ever since. In winter when we get a rare snow that lasts more than a day, I would get a few more species at/around my feeders that didn't typically come around. I had this little one several days in a row while the snow persisted.

Ural Owl (Strix uralensis), family Strigidae, order Strigiformes, Slovenia

Saffron-crowned Tanager (Tangara xanthocephala), family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes, Colombia