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**jendefer** @jendefer@dice.camp · 11h

#BirdCallOut Cactus Wren! In my tiny backyard! I saw a medium sized bird at the water bath, and at first I thought it was the mockingbird we haven't seen around in the past couple weeks. But when I grabbed my binocs, I saw it was a Cactus Wren. These are sometimes seen (more often heard) in the nearby arroyo, but this is the first time I've seen one in our yard!

#BackyardBirding

**Jonas Wisser** @jwisser@wandering.shop · 5d

Jonas Wisser @jwisser@wandering.shop

This grackle really reminds me of a bird from some animated show or movie, but I can't quite place it.

A medium-sized bird, silhouetted against the sky, perches on a telephone line. The bird appears all-black due to the light at its back, but its near eye is visible.

#Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds

**CTGT** @CTGT@birds.town · Apr 25

Apr 25

CTGT @CTGT@birds.town

These White-throated Sparrows will be heading north in a few weeks. We'll miss you when you're gone.
Just love these little ones, great look, and some beautiful calls.

Bird is in the grass with a few small sticks lying around. Brown and black wing and back feathers with a muted brown underside and gray chest and cheeks. Solid white patch on the throat, black and white stripes on the head with bright yellow spots just in front of the eyes.

#birds #BackyardBirding #nature

**Jascha Polet** @jascha@mastodon.social · Apr 25

Apr 25

Jascha Polet @jascha@mastodon.social

The most recent captures of our low res bird and home cams in Umbria, Italy
#backyardwildlife #backyardbirding #italy #fox #badger #woodpecker

**Orewoet** @Orewoet@mas.to · Apr 25

Apr 25

Orewoet @Orewoet@mas.to

There are Sheep with an increasing amount of lamb again near the house. Yesterday a lamb was born right before my eyes.
The lambs attract a lot of visitors, especially families with children. But also Red Kite, Ravens, a fox and... to my great surprise Yellow Wagtail! Four of them
I once recorded one flying over, but until now never saw them in my surrounding.

O! And the Lesser Whitethroat has arrived! Still waiting to see my first common Whitethroat.

One sheep in the foreground on grassland - unsharp forest in the background -The sheep is lying and looking at the camera, mouth open. It has a lamb standing on its back with its nose down in the wool. Behind it another sheep standing facing right.

A rather unsharp picture of a Yellow Wagtail in grassland as seen from behind, but with its head turned to the right, showing its grey head with white stripes and somewhat strong and long bill.

A better picture of a Rook walking in grassland. It shows the big round food storage ball at the base of the beak.

#Denmark #backyardbirding

**CTGT** @CTGT@birds.town · Apr 24

Apr 24

CTGT @CTGT@birds.town

Seems like there may be a pair of nesting Fish Crows in the neighborhood. This bird has been hanging around recently and is very "talkative."

#birds #BackyardBirding #corvids
#nature

Crow perched on a thick, horizontal branch against a bright blue background with a few green seed pods on the edge of the shot. Bird is all black, including its bill.

**Jonas Wisser** @jwisser@wandering.shop · Apr 19

Apr 19

Jonas Wisser @jwisser@wandering.shop

TFW you're a bronzed grackle who's having an extremely normal one, and you want everyone to know it.

A slightly-larger-than-robin-sized bird perches on a wooden fence, its iridescent blue-and-green head pointed skyward. Its back and wings are iridescent bronze, shading into darker tones toward its belly, and its visible eye is a bright yellow.

Its overall posture gives the impression of a teenager who’s definitely very sober and not high at all, Mom, just very normal today, thanks for asking.

#Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds

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**Jonas Wisser** @jwisser@wandering.shop · Apr 17

Apr 17

Jonas Wisser @jwisser@wandering.shop

Bonus small friends: a gold finch and a house finch who can't believe what you've just told them.

A small yellow bird perches on the top of the twisted-off wire at the top of a chain-link fence. It has patches of yellow-brown and white-yellow feathers because it’s molting, and it was black wings with white trim. It is facing the camera head-on, and its beak is open as though in surprise. (Though in actuality the photo caught it singing.)

A small brown/grey bird with a reddish head and chest perches on a small branch and stares down at the viewer. Its head is cocked and it is facing the camera beak-first. Its eyes, each on a different side of its head, give it an expression of mild shock, as if it’s about to reply, "Janet said WHAT?"

#Pittsbirds #backyardbirding #birds

**Jonas Wisser** @jwisser@wandering.shop · Apr 17 *

Apr 17 *

Jonas Wisser @jwisser@wandering.shop

Today's small friend: the northern mockingbird who lives across the street and who has become a regular visitor to the finch feeder over the last few weeks. Here's hoping they stay a regular indefinitely! :3