Any Birders On Here?

[SunsetRed]

I hit 300 for the year for Nebraska today. Third person to do it this year.

Congratulations! Now what? Thread caught my eye for first time. Interesting reading. Impressed there's that many varieties in NE area, but I know little.

Am new in NC area and still learning new birds and trees. I swear there's a bird here that actually sings, "Tweet, tweet, tweet". Call it the Twitter bird...haha.

It's wonderful all you've learned.

 

[NorthwoodHusker]

Tanagers are cool. Summer scarlet or western?

Scarlet
Saw one 45 years ago, been looking since
finally success,and at my daughters bird feeder of all places

 

[Woodhead]

Scarlet
Saw one 45 years ago, been looking since
finally success,and at my daughters bird feeder of all places

Waubonsie State Park, up in the bluffs across from Nebraska City is a great place to see tanagers in the Spring. Orioles, goldfinch, grosbeaks, buntings are all well represented there.

 

[NorthwoodHusker]

Waubonsie State Park, up in the bluffs across from Nebraska City is a great place to see tanagers in the Spring. Orioles, goldfinch, grosbeaks, buntings are all well represented there.

We get them breeding up here, but tanagers seem to nest in isolated areas whereas grosbeaks et al are more comfortable around human settings.
Having feeders is like cheating here, you dont have to leave the yard, but was excited to see that tanager.

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

Waubonsie State Park, up in the bluffs across from Nebraska City is a great place to see tanagers in the Spring. Orioles, goldfinch, grosbeaks, buntings are all well represented there.

Indian Cave State Park is a spot I saw both summer and scarlet tanagers the past two years. We only saw 1 western tanager on each of the spring/summer trips to the panhandle this year.

i had a summer tanager on my feeder a couple years ago, which was really cool.

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

Congratulations! Now what? Thread caught my eye for first time. Interesting reading. Impressed there's that many varieties in NE area, but I know little.

Am new in NC area and still learning new birds and trees. I swear there's a bird here that actually sings, "Tweet, tweet, tweet". Call it the Twitter bird...haha.

It's wonderful all you've learned.

So far 350 species roughly seen in the state this year, so I’m hitting right at 80%

467 recognized species in NE including extinct, historical and super rarities that have been accepted. #1 birder in the state all time is 423.

 

[NorthwoodHusker]

Last two days saw a fox sitting ears perked 15 feet from the roadsedge, he was eyeing something in the freshly cut grass, then yesterday saw a woodchuck, yes, on my SiL's woodpile.
Black capped chickadees by the score.
One thing I noticed this summer was lack of turkey vulture numbers, very few, but also noticed more bald eagles roadside eating hit carrion, a lot of them.

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

I finished my NE big year at 318 species, #3 in the state. 333 or 332 was the high total…still waiting on some info. I’m now at 349 NE life birds, which is in the top 40 all time. I saw 21 new NE species this past year.

 

[Native]

I finished my NE big year at 318 species, #3 in the state. 333 or 332 was the high total…still waiting on some info. I’m now at 349 NE life birds, which is in the top 40 all time. I saw 21 new NE species this past year.

ISR NERD.

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

Just hit life bird #350 for Nebraska this morning!

FINALLY got to see a whooping crane out in Hall County. Only took me 40 years.

 

[NorthwoodHusker]

Just hit life bird #350 for Nebraska this morning!

FINALLY got to see a whooping crane out in Hall County. Only took me 40 years.

The pileated woodpeckers are going nuts here,a big one has dug a hole in one of our ash trees, its old,no ash borers up here, too cold

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

S

Congratulations! Now what? Thread caught my eye for first time. Interesting reading. Impressed there's that many varieties in NE area, but I know little.

Am new in NC area and still learning new birds and trees. I swear there's a bird here that actually sings, "Tweet, tweet, tweet". Call it the Twitter bird...haha.

It's wonderful all you've learned.

sweet sweet sweet

this one?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiJzrz_xdP9AhVllIkEHUbTBdoQtwJ6BAgTEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAmericanBirdConserve%2Fvideos%2Fsweet-sweet-sweet-im-so-sweet-the-song-of-the-yellow-warbler-is-a-familiar-sound%2F194780902143062%2F&usg=AOvVaw2NXYZuasWb0UMd4_VgNSBB

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

The pileated woodpeckers are going nuts here,a big one has dug a hole in one of our ash trees, its old,no ash borers up here, too cold

I hadn’t actually seen one until last year, only heard them. Expanding around Missouri River area and other areas in Iowa too.

 

[FeelLikeAStranger]

M

My kids are big into bird watching. They had a kindergarten teacher who incorporates birds into almost every lesson in every subject. By the end of class they could pretty much all identify something like 200+ birds and 100+ birdsongs. It's amazing, annoying, unnerving, and impressive to ask a 5-year-old, "Hey, is that some kind of sparrow?" only to be mocked , "No, dad, that's a female brown nut hatch," words dripping with disdain.

Missed this post earlier. My wife had a elem teacher that taught birds and that stuck with her. I had my HS and I’ve been birding with him and his brother multiple times the past 2 years again.

thats awesome. more young birders are needed

 

[CrabHusker]

Since I started funding her photography addiction, Mrs Crab has become something of a novice bird expert as it relates to local species.

I've learned more about birds just from having her show me the pictures and tell me about the various species I thought I knew something about.

It's another very cool world they live in.