2025 Lifers

 Barn Owl, after some 20 years. Found two days earlier by a local birder. Roost in culvert in creek bank in day time.

Connecticut Warbler, seen by a dozen. About the 4th in the county. I never had it on eBird, so a lifer there too.

2024 birding has been slower

 I did get some out of state lifers to get my US list to 400, finally.

The usual fall birds and some waterfowl migrants coming through. I should have gone to look at a few swans, but other things got in the way.

SEWARD, ALASKA

Common murre

Kittiwke with their young

Some May birds

 I have moved a lot of photos off the computer, as pictures get bigger and laptop memory is small. But there were again shore birds.

It was dry two springs, some wetlands have now recovered.

Dunlin: 

Avocet

 I had this picture from April in my Instagram, and I must have a slightly better resolved one in storage. But note the similar colors to the phalarope.

Summer Bird

 A pair of scissor-tailed flycatchers nested again in Lincoln, after a few years. Same area West of Lincoln as last time.

                                

Belted Kingfisher

 

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Signs of Spring

 Gnatcatcher, second earliest record for county.

Long-tailed duck we had for two weeks or more.

Great egret

Out West for a day to see cranes and ride 25 miles.