Missing the summer birds already 😭

Just bought a bird anatomy book I can't wait to use

Tiny murder birb

i'd love to get like pictures of birds and have to identify like a set. or match pictures of birds to their calls and things like that. as much as i love Merlin i'd love to not be so relient on it

So pretty!

Belcamp MD

Middle Harbor Wetland View Point. Lakeside Marblehead, Ohio

NE Wisconsin

As a not-great photographer, I appreciate black and white warblers - some of the only birds that'll pose long enough and close enough for me to get a good picture. This one was in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Although the Grass-green Tanager occurs in Peru from Amazonas all the way south to Puno, near the Bolivian border, at elevations ranging from 1,500 to 3,350 meters, I have only managed to see it at Wayqecha, where it comes to bathe and take advantage of the feeders.
Never has a bird been more aptly named in both English and Spanish!

🇬🇧 Grass-green Tanager
🔬 Chlorornis riefferii
🇪🇸 Tangara Lorito
🗺️ Wayqecha, Manu Road, Cusco, Peru
🗓️ August 2026

Quick morning circuit around Koyna Wildlife Sanctuary last week. The forest was buzzing post-monsoon. OC.

All shot on Canon R7 + RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L

Comment on your favourite.

1. Oriental Magpie-Robin

   1. Small Minivet (male)
   2. Jungle Babbler
   3. Red Spurfowl (female) - lifer for me!

Sat still for like 10 seconds in the grass before disappearing

1. Spotted Dove

2. White-cheeked Barbet

Live from 📍Mindo, Ecuador

East Harbor State Park Beach.

(Not endorsing the littering of this takeout container! Lol but the raven got to it before I did) and some dude scared the bird off (lame) so he/she didn't ingest any Styrofoam before it got thrown away.

Didnt have time for any fancy pictures and I didn't want to alarm or bother him/her, but this is the closest I've been to the local ravens I've been watching. He/she found what looked like a peanut butter sandwich and broke open the container.

Didn't mind the people walking by and let me hang out next to him/her for a bit. I'm talking to it in the first picture and apparently being listened to lol

Thought I'd share my exciting moment (I'm a major fan of ravens, especially my local ones)

Great Blue Heron, Bald Eagle (he was flying quick), Hooded Mergansers, goofy Downy Woodpecker, Northern Blue Jay, (not) Red Bellied Woodpecker, White Breaster Nuthatch, Dale. (Other Birds seen Black Capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Mallards, Hairy Woodpecker)

Got lucky and snagged these two photos while on a nature walk with my wife. New to birding this year and have always had a soft spot for Jays of any kind.

Most of us look at bird song as a spectrogram — frequency going up,

time going right. I wanted to see what it looks like if you let it

become a structure instead of a flat image.

Each point is a frequency the bird is actually producing at that

moment. The lines connect them in different ways: when a note slides

up or down, when overtones stack into a harmonic, and — the part I

find most interesting — when two moments in the song sound alike even

though they're seconds apart.

That last one ends up being a repeated-phrase detector. Birds repeat

themselves constantly, and those connections light up every time a

motif comes back.

This is [SPECIES], recorded by [vos / xeno-canto + autor + link].

To be clear about what it is and isn't: it does NOT identify species.

It measures and draws, nothing more. Merlin already does ID far better

than anything I could build. What this gives you is a way to see the

structure of a song — how repetitive it is, how tonal or noisy, how

the phrases relate to each other.

It runs on a phone, and you can feed it your own recordings. Free and

open source if anyone wants to try it with their own:

https://github.com/gustaavoq94/birdgraph

I'd genuinely like to see what it does with a mimic — a mockingbird or

a lyrebird. If anyone has a decent recording of one, I'd love to run it.