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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 16h

Beautiful bird and blossoms pic! Thanks!

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Alan. 😊

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 1d

Marsh Wren with a beak full of cattail #birds #birding #birdoftheday #beakful

Perky Marsh Wren with tail up and mouth full of cattail fluff perched on horizontal cattail with a few green reeds in the background

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Marina. 😊

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 2d

My first Hermit Thrush sighting this Fall 🍁🍂 #birds #birding #birdphotography #birdoftheday

Hermit Thrush on green grass surrounded in behind by a pile of slightly dried out red maple leaves, a few such leaves in front. Bird has a round head and full body look, brown back, characteristic reddish tail, creamy white throat with sharp brown spots which become smudgy spots further down onto the breast. Its dark round eye is surrounded by a very thin white eye-line.

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks very much, Rob!

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 3d

In honour of our Toronto Blue Jays. Go Jays Go! #birds #baseball #birdoftheday

Back of Blue Jay, crested head turned to its right, perched on bare beige meadow twigs. Various shades of blue overall with distinct blue, white and black markings at end of folded wing tips. Blue tail with thin black barring and white tail tip.

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 7d

Great Blue Heron ~ recent resident at our local pond #birds #birding #birdphotography #herons

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 11d

Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share.

She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others.

#ThankYouJane #RememberingJane

Photo: Marko Zlousic

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 11d

Momma Ruby-throated Hummingbird on her nest. Seeing this was so special! #birds #birding #hummingbirds

Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird with her iridescent green feathered body and whitish throat, bill and tail both pointed up, tucked into her nest made mostly of white spider silk dotted on the outside with a few bits of green lichen, set on a moss and lichen covered branch with blurred green leaves in the background.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to all you voters for hanging in through four sparrow preliminary rounds! This is the championship round - we've reduced 16 sparrows to 4 finalists: Chipping, Dark-eyed Junco, Fox, and White-crowned. Tough decision, I love them all. Vote your champ in the comments! #birds #birding #sparrow

A chipping sparrow perched on the landing arm of my feeding station, looking over its shoulder to the right side of the image

A Dark-eyed Junco perched in my backyard last autumn, with a combo of unchanged green leaves, and bright red leaves

A fox sparrow on the ground with some sunflower seeds, being photobombed by a northern cardinal in the lower right corner of the image

A white-crowned sparrow perched on a bare branch, looking over its shoulder to the left side of the image. Taken in early spring with leaves just starting to come out

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 14d

Fox!

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 14d

One of these things is not like the others…
Can anyone help with an ID on these Swallowtail butterflies?

Three large yellow Swallowtail butterflies close together on ground adjacent to water. The middle butterfly has different markings than the other two.

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 15d

Lincoln’s

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 15d

It's the final day of the ongoing sparrow cage matches; tomorrow will be the grand championship. Cast a vote for your favourite of today's competitors with a comment - House, Lincoln's, Vesper, and White-crowned sparrows. Each photo's ALT text has a bit of ID info #birds #sparrow #birding

House sparrows are introduced from Eurasia and aren't related to our sparrows; but they're so common here I felt I had to include them.

Lincoln's sparrows have delicate dark streaking on a buffy, taffy coloured breast.

Vesper sparrows have a fairly prominent white eye ring. They are so named for their habit of singing at dusk, or vespers, which was when evening prayer services were held

White-crowned sparrows are very well named for their distinctive head markings!

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 16d

Tree Sparrow

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 16d

It's day 3 (of 4) of the ongoing sparrow cage matches. Cast a vote for your favourite of today's competitors with a comment - American Tree Sparrow, Dark-eyed Junco, Eastern Towhee, and Swamp Sparrow. Each photo's ALT text has a bit of ID info. #birds #birding #sparrow

American Tree Sparrows have a dark smudgy spot on the centre of their unstreaked breast, and bicoloured bills - a black upper mandible, and yellow lower one. In this photo, taken last January, it's foraging in goldenrod

Dark-eyed Juncos migrate south from their boreal breeding grounds and will spend the winter here - they are the true harbingers of winter! I took this photo in my backyard last October, so my backyard maples are in full red and orange colour, providing a beautiful backdrop

Eastern Towhees are atypical sparrows - large, colourful with red eyes!

Swamp Sparrows are well named for the habitat that they prefer, and are well camouflaged for it.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 17d

It's day 2 of the ongoing sparrow cage matches. Cast a vote for your favourite of today's competitors with a comment - Chipping, Clay-coloured, Grasshopper, and White-throated. Each photo's ALT text has a bit of ID info. #birds #birding #sparrow

Chipping sparrows are quite tiny, with an unstreaked, bright white breast, rufous cap, and black eye line.

Clay-coloured sparrows are fairly skulky and aren't seen that often, which is a pity as they have beautiful soft colouring

Grasshopper sparrows are also quite skulky. They have some lovely touches of yellow and orangish-brown, and a flattened head that looks like an anvil was dropped on it!

White-throated Sparrows can be one of two colour variants, or “morphs”: their faces are either gray with bold black, white, and bright yellow patterns, like this one, or a more muted tan-brown. They are well known for singing “Oh sweet Canada, Canada, Canada”

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 17d

The Clay-coloured beauty gets my vote.

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 18d

Game on! Sparrows are underrated, so hopefully these cage matches will bring them some love. Our day 1 competitors: Field, Fox, Savannah, and Song sparrows. Please vote for your favourite of these four with a comment. Minor ID info is in the ALT text for each. #bird #birding #sparrow

There's something about the pink bill and body proportions of Field Sparrows which to my eye gives them a baby cuteness quality

Fox Sparrows are large, chunky sparrows with gorgeous foxy brown chevrons pointing upwards on their breast.

A key ID feature of Savannah Sparrows is their yellow eye stripe

Probably our most common sparrow and what people imagine when they think of sparrows, Song Sparrows have soft brown streaking on their breast which may form a central smudgy dot

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 18d

Fox Sparrow is my fave!

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 24d

Proud to post this link to the article that I wrote in the September issue of @aba.org's Birding magazine - much easier to read than the scanned jpgs I posted earlier. Thank you ABA and @birdizlife.bsky.social! #birds #birding #Lyme #Lymedisease #wellness

www.aba.org/birding-and-...

Birding and Wellness - American Birding Association

After Lyme disease forced him into retirement, geologist Bob Bell found healing in birding, improving wellness, sharing knowledge, and inspiring people to connect with birds.

www.aba.org

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 26d

This is an entertaining and informative presentation on bird migration. Worth a watch!

Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 28d

Given that fall migration is in full swing, I thought it would be a good time to repost this YouTube link to the talk on bird migration I gave last March, on behalf of @burlingtongreen.bsky.social. Special thanks to @birdscanada.bsky.social for great input! #birds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msyd...

"Mysteries of Migration: Now You See Me, Now You Don't" Birding Webinar with Bob Bell

YouTube video by BurlingtonGreen

www.youtube.com

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Lori Whibbs 🇨🇦 @lori2whibbs.bsky.social · 29d

Sparrows would be great. Far more than little brown jobs. I’m thinking of my faves already!

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 29d

OK I'm calling it! Our grand champion warbler, of 32 species, is the Ovenbird! Thank you to everyone who voted and play along, it has been fun! #birds # birding #warbler #warblers

An ovenbird perched on a bare branch, with the background blurred out. He's looking to the left, showing off his orange stripe down the center of his crown, and brown streaks on his white breast.

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