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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    thank you! This is a good motivator for me, I don't travel much for birding but I should get up to the mountains here (new england) more often, many of the warblers are up there in summer....along with Gray Jays and boreal chickadees and lots of other good stuff
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Where are you guys? Is anyone else wondering? The eagles and Harlequins must be somewhere cold and near the ocean I'm guessing? And the warlbers in the mountains - which ones? Just curious. Those are amazing photos, people around here go nuts over Mourning or Golden-Winged :)
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Male and female Wood Ducks landed in the tiny vernal pool behind my house! Very exciting. Never seen any bird in there before, not even a Mallard.
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Went on a local bird tour and we saw two massive eagles eating a fish, one of them appeared to be one of the biggest bald eagles I've ever seen. They were right across a tidal creek only about 100 yards away. I think I'm not cut out to be a real birder. Been trying for several years now, I...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    That's amazing! This bird made it into the corporate news cycle: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/13/red-flanked-bluetail-seen-whiting-nj/71898386007/
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    very nice! I'm glad it's cold somewhere
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    It seems like the Titmouse and Chickadees are incredibly busy little birds compared to the others. I could see Titmice way up in the very tops of the trees, 80-100 feet off the ground. Then I found them down in a tangle of branches on the ground next to the stream. At the base of a large tree...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    I continued my twice-per-year tradition of taking my Nikon 7x35E-C's into the forest outside the tire shop in coastal New Hampshire while my snow tires are being put on or removed. It usually turns into an hour or two of birding. Gorgeous day today, pure blue sky and temps right around...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    I just saw something exciting this morning - Mourning Cloak butterfly on a white pine trunk, looked beautiful in the 7x42 EDG, my trusty yard binocular. Apparently they're known to come out in winter on warm days, which is exactly what we're having now...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Pileated woodpecker landed on the tree trunk directly in front of my kitchen window! Always cool to see them close-up - got the 7x42's on him. Just a badass-looking creature! Like something out of the Jurassic.
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Those are big owls! They're beautiful. So it looks like they're related to Great Horned Owl, I can definitely see the resemblance: https://www.britannica.com/animal/eagle-owl
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Is that an eagle owl nesting in that cavity in the rocks? Very cool!!!
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    poor little guys - they are the fodder of the natural world! They seem to exist to turn grass and seeds into meat. I've had some excellent views of bobolinks the last 2 days. The warbler migration seems slow here this year, they are just not around in the typical numbers. But yesterday I...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Cackling goose are common in CT? Wow, didn't know that, I have to start looking for them (I'm in Mass.). Actually I already did start looking for them yesterday :) so far the Canadian's are still canadians but I'm checking them more carefullly now....
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Cackling goose, that's amazing, what a great sighting! Was just talking with some birder friend about how it pays to always carefully examine the regulars to make sure it's not something rare. For example here in the northeast, checking Common Loon to make sure it's not a Pacific. If you're...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    maybe the female/smaller one is still not fully mature? The white gradually fades away for 5 years, from what I'm told. Any white mottling therefore means an immature one to me, but maybe they go gray/white in old age like us too...don't know
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    I recently wrote about my first discovery of these little guys - gorgeous birds. Every possible shade of brown you could imagine on their backs. I'm still getting started, the thrill of discovering local birds for the first time is fun! Yesterday, for the first time, I saw and identified...
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    What did you see in your binoculars today?

    Gray and foggy day was interrupted by Red-bellied woodpecker, with spectacular neon-red head, climbing around the White Pine tree trunk right outside my kitchen window - he seemed to be picking acorns out of little cavities in the tree (where the squirrels hid them?) and carrying them around
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