HeidiTheBirder🦤

US capitol building, DC
I had the opportunity to photograph the presidential inauguration, was cool to get out and see DC

Northern Cardinal defending food from a House Sparrow on the grounds of the Smithsonian National Zoo

I’d love yo!

I am not very computer knowledged lol. I’ll have to look that over when I make the post for my east coast trip

Just casually taking the best White Throated Sparrow picture I’ve ever taken

Grand Tetons, Wyoming

It’s like a punch

Go for it!

January 14: In which I realize I do not know how to drive in the snow - Welcome Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana! This week’s adventure came out of nowhere. My boss called me up last week with a work assignment near Idaho Falls, and naturally, I said yes before he could even finish hi...

New blog post just posted

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Using this to catalog my US big year for 2025

Ravens are hard birds to beat. They’re smart, look awesome, and apparently will listen to hard rock music with you for hours like this one which sat by my car listening to music with me for an hour

Mostly flights there. At least from my area it’s cheaper to fly to Alaska than Duluth

I mean ultimately it’s famous for winter birding. It’s just expensive to get to unless you take a rental car from like Minneapolis instead of Duluth

Yall seemed to like the Great Horned Owl I posted, so here’s a few Barn Owls!

I got to take two of my friends to lifer this wintering chestnut-sided warbler.

His face has molted and he’s slowly growing in dark marks on his face and shoulders!

Chestnut-sided Warbler 📷🪶

Not a bird. But while birding you see lots of other animals, like this fox here

I actually just got my great gray for the year in Idaho!

Great Horned Owl, utah
Not always the easiest birds to spot. This week and next week I’ll be chasing several other owl species, including Great Gray and Snowy Owl

Yeah! And thank you!

Hella good birds

Very zoomed in pic of a Snowy Owl

Today, I went to that same beach for the 4th time. Here is what I saw:
Waterfowls: Surf Scoters, Long-Tailed Ducks
Shorebirds: Sanderling
Owls: Snowy Owls [Two of them] (pic)

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New blog post for my Big Year attempt

All about these bastards, which I cannot get good pictures of

2024, year of birding
Saw 484 Species
Brought my lifelist to 641 with at least 170 lifers
First birding trip out of country (Costa Rica)
Got a new camera

Thank you everyone for a good 2024, and here’s to a great 2025!🥂

To 600 ABA species in 2025!🎉🎉

Birds are life, birds are love

Plants
So many plants

Woah

Boat Billed Heron
(Cochlearius cochlearius)

Found in Latin America, namely Mexico down to Brazil and Peru

Photo taken by moi along the Rio Tarcoles in Costa Rica

I’ll be honest, if it weren’t for gulls-Rosy Finches would be my favorite birds

Look at my fat cock everyone
(Andean Cock of the Rock)

I’m so sick

Gulling is a sickness 🪶