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Saw a string of pelicans lifting out of LeClaire Cove on the Mississippi this morning on the drive home from work. RW Blackbirds and starlings here and there.

Heavy Rain when I got off yesterday, and when i stopped for gas at the Pleasant Valley BP there was a RW Blackbird hovering over some rushes growing in the ditch and squalling for all she was worth. Reckon her babies got flooded.

redtail hawk
robin
starling
red bellied woodpecker
scarlet tanager
cardinal
Carolina wren

Have these yellow bellowed/gray fly catchers build a nest every year in one of my gutters.

yep........call 'em 'gutter birds'

Hilarious to watch......well the new birds are almost ready to leave..

Parents...sometimes 3 adults feeding the babies...polygamists ?

Walk under the nest ? Get ready to be dive bombed


They are busy all day & first up in the morning

This pic..looks like 'em

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I have kind of stayed away from this thread because I really like birds, live where there are a lot of them and notice them a lot. Afraid once I get going I might be a long time and will always have to come back with one I forgot. Anyway.... on a typical day we see a lot of birds:

white herons
ibises
black crowned night herons
green herons
wood storks (maybe seasonal, don't think I've seen one for a while)
great blue heron
ring billed gull
great black back gull
coopers hawk
red tail hawk
bald eagle
bluebirds
cardinals
downy woodpeckers
red belly woodpecker
Carolina wren
house wren
blue jay
mourning dove
mocking bird
great crested flycatcher
osprey
chickadee
blue jay
robin
tufted titmouse
song sparrow
brown pelican
mergansers
crested cormorant
European cormorant
field sparrow
eastern phoebe
common yellowthroat
Eastern towhee
red wing black bird
boat tail grackle
golden eye grackle
purple grackle
ravens
house finch
blue gray gnatcatcher
cedar waxwing
yellow-rumped warbler
brown headed nuthatch
ruby crowned kinglet
Canada goose
killdeer

that's it from the list I've been keeping of those I can identify. Can't say I've seen them all the same day.

Not today, but a typical year of watching would include;

Red Belly Wood Pecker
Morning Dove
Palliated Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Downey Wood Pecker
Red Tail Hawk
Sharp Shined Hawk
Baltimore Oriole
Eastern Blue Bird
Robin
Flicker
Crow
Blue Jay
Grackles
Cow Bird
Blackbirds
Killdeer
Finches
Wrens
Titmouse
Chickadee
Sparrow
Osprey (when working the river)
Bald Eagle (again, when working the river)
Warbler
Bats
Turkeys
Chickens (my egg layers)
Blue Heron (working river or on creek)
Geese (Canadian, they are thick here)
Ducks
Nuthatchs
Cardinal
Scarlet Tananger
Indigo Bunting
Purple Martin
Turkey Vulture
Starling
Pigeon
Barn Swallow
Owls (rarely)
Grouse (rarely anymore)
Grosbeak

I’m missing some for sure. Have a list at home with the books I use to identify. Enjoy feeding and watching birds and have for years. Cool topic. Fun to rack my brain in the midst of a thunderstorm.

Stupid house cats are making a return here. They are hard on our birds. Coyotes had them extinct for years but now they (Yotes) seem to have disappeared. We are seeing a resurgence of rabbits, squirrels and groundhogs too.

Meadowlark
Kingbird
Lots of doves
Painted bunting
Indigo Bunting, Think I got painted bunting on the brain syndrome

TODAY - Female Cardinal

Buzzards today, killed an armadillo sat night

I saw a couple of hen turkeys cross the road to the cabin with 10 or twelve little ones running along, close behind. I thought they had all crossed the road so drove on past. Two of the little guys, that were stragglers, busted out of the underbrush like a couple of quail. I didn't know those little guys could fly...