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male northern shoveller

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #ducks #northern shoveller

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accidentally scared off a snipe, which flew away and disappeared in the grass immediately upon landing—no wonder they're so hard to spot!

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dawn dowitcher

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male northern shovellers chasing each other off

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #ducks #northern shoveller #what's funny is that it was a very slow chase #which is why I was able to get these shots (｡>ヮ< )

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(｡◕ >◕).

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apparently the resident sandhill crane shows up wet in the mornings for some reason, but dries off later...? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #sandhill crane #I did see its feathers were dry later so it's probably not a problem but huh. interesting #it does make for very nice feather definition ( ˙꒳​˙ )

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green-winged teal showing off the reason he's named that, and displaying very cutely to a watching female ( ˙꒳​˙ )

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my first baby sighting of the year! it was very interesting watching the two parents carefully guard their brood, slowly escorting them across a part of the lake to come and graze on the grass ( ˙꒳​˙ )

I got a lot of shots of them flying because they kept chasing away other birds!

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eating an ant 🐜

and a worm 🪱

sora

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #sora #it's so cute 😭 #seriously I didn't get any great photos of it but its cute little tail was so much fun to watch #it kept flicking up and its such a bright white/orange colour #soooo happy I saw it yesterday

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a sora!!

my first time seeing one, and it was so casual that everyone who saw it was astonished—for such a notoriously shy bird it spent a lot of time out in the open, even getting so close my camera couldn't focus on it anymore! it was a lifer for quite a few people last morning ( ˙꒳​˙ )

I really enjoyed watching it hop around looking for bugs and flicking its tail, and watching it disappear into the grass only to pop out instantly much further than I would have expected. it's also a lot smaller than I expected, only about the size of the red-winged blackbirds!

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #sora #it was such a fun morning #though one of the birders there kept using recorded calls to try and lure it out which I'm not a huge fan of #it was admittedly very cool to hear it respond #even though I missed the bird I had actually gone to see (seems like they've migrated through already) #I'm super happy and I got tips on where to find the other bird year round to boot! #I have so many more photos brace yourself

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ruby-crowned kinglet ( ˙꒳​˙ )

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #ruby crowned kinglet #I love these cuties

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red-winged blackbirds, male and female

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sandhill crane grooming itself at dawn

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green-winged teals ( ˙꒳​˙ )

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savannah sparrow ( ˙꒳​˙ )

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #savannah sparrow #I LOVE how tiny it looks #baby... #with its feet like a little scribble #I wanna draw it lol

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pigeon + detail

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #pigeon #I love the iridescence on their necks sm #and the yellow eyes ( ♡∇♡ )

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tree swallows ( ˙꒳​˙ )

#my photography! #bird photography #birding #birds #tree swallow #got suuuper lucky to catch them hanging out on the boardwalk and got lots of photos ( ˙꒳​˙ ) #one benefit of waking up at dawn in summer is there aren't so many people so some of the birds will come a little closer :D #I love how they fly so close to you even though it makes them impossible to photograph lol