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birds of summer 2024
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I can’t ID this bird on my Seek app… anyone know what it is? App says “Rails, crakes, gallinules, and coots…” which is much closer than when it says “perching birds” or even “birds” sometimes… 🤗
Anyway, cool photo, thanks for posting!
Looks more like a Grebe, Horned Grebe or maybe Pied Billed Grebe than a young coot to me but I'm no expert. The beak does seem to extend higher up the face like a coot though.
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We don't have those over here.
I'll look if if I can find a photo with its parent next to it.
edit: our local id-app says it's 100% a 'Meerkoet' (Fulica atra)
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The raptor from Photo of the Day caught his prey; a compatriot to the victim kept squawking and bombing him, trying to scare him off.
I watched for awhile and the smaller bird gave up, and then raptor tucked into to his dinner. Every now and then he'd check on me, but then back to a tug and another morsel, with feathers drifting down from the branch.
One frame caught the raptor getting the prey's eye, and then eating it. Dramatic but a little NSFW or (ironically) NSFlunch.
Today I stopped back at the scene of the crime; nothing on the ground below but some telltale feathers. I imagine the raptor took the carcass remains somewhere else to finish the job.
I am going to cheat a little, my former wife sent me this picture of a bald eagle that was watching her play golf, in Rochester ,NY.
Wow! Beautiful feathers on the raptor. I wonder what kind it is… sad for the other bird, RIP! Thanks for sharing these amazing pics.
.. thirsty duck youngsters, catching some fresh water, Mom watching from a distance away.
handsome fella
Lesser goldfinch, I think
