Once again, I’ve got a series of photos to offer. Most are bird photos, but a few are of other creatures. As I’ve been doing, I’m going to present this as a bird quiz, but one part of the quiz is a quiz for me as well. This gull…
…honestly has me confused. It just doesn’t match anything I can find in my books and I am not very good with gulls to begin with. Any other birders out there able to ID it? I already feel stupid about this and figure it’s something common in a plumage which confuses me, so don’t worry about making me feel more stupid by telling me “obviously, it’s a…” or any other such thing.
Other birds, plus a couple seal photos, follow.
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Okay, onto the photos:
To me, it’s officially spring when bird #1 starts to show up again:
I’ve posted bird #2 before. I tend to see them a lot this time of year, but not much otherwise:
Same goes for bird #3…
Bird #4 is very common throughout the Northeast:
They sometimes even mob together to attack Bird #5:
Bird #6 was fun to watch. I spotted two of them together, a male and a female. Then noticed several other males in the area. Within a few minutes, all six of the males were all flicking their tails up and down and bobbing about in the water, while she just ignored them:
Bird #7 is very common in the Northeast:
I was taking a photo of Bird #8 (foreground) without even realizing that Bird #9 (upper part of photo) was in the shot. I only noticed it later:
Bird #10 is common in my yard, but I spotted this one on a brief walk through the woods:
Bird #11 is also common, but this is an unusual variant:
Bird #12 is common in the Northeast, but much more so in Summer than Winter:
I’ve had better luck with Bird #13 this year than I’ve ever had before. I’ve been seeing them regularly:
Bird #14 was featured in yesterday’s Dawn Chorus and is normally an uncommon bird for me, but has been here in real quantities all Winter:
Bird #15 is common here year-round:
Bird #16 is another harbinger of Spring for me:
Bird #17 can be seen year-round here, but I don’t get huge numbers of sightings of it:
And finally, as promised… SEALS!