TheIneptBirder

It’s Female Bird Day! I’ve been sitting on this vid til this day: a fem. Rose-breasted Grosbeak having some #girldinner after arriving in Ohio from the Tropics. (the science: “When Female Birds Are Overlooked, Conservation Suffers“ www.audubon.org/magazine/whe...) 🪶

While the warblers get all the attention in the canopy, this beautiful dinosaur methodically and productively destroys the forest floor looking for breakfast. (Pileated Woodpecker) 🪶

Preen like no one's watching (Common Merganser, central Ohio, April) 🪶

[TRIGGER WARNING: graphic vid if you're a snake or snake lover.] Welp ...since you asked! I have a vid. Poor thing was alive during much of the ...process.

Happy #WrensDay to those who celebrate! Sorry for the shake but how cute is this lil family of Rock Wrens?! (seen in SW Oklahoma) 🪶

It’s impossible (for me, as an American) to post this week without guilt, dread, sorrow, etc, but as a micro atonement please accept 20 seconds of birds—different species mostly getting along—enjoying the sunshine. (Georgia coast) 🪶

For those of you who can’t get outside today, here’s some armchair birding for you—fabulous duck edition. It was a great week for ducks around here (Ohio), as the ice thawed and everyone had some self-care. 🪶

As your workday begins, this Northern Shoveler reminds you to Work Smart Not Hard 🪶

Your new screensaver 🪶

I'm never not amazed at seeing woodpeckers do their thing. (Yellow-bellied Sapsucker here) 🪶

Kinglets had ADHD before it was cool 🪶