Eastern Wood-pewee - Life Bird
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Crazy story… I took this photo last week in our backyard and saved the image thinking it was a young Phoebe. Today (8/7) I was looking at E-bird researching a new trail to explore and saw a sighting of an Eastern Wood-Pewee. Never having seen or heard of this bird before I did what all good birders do, Google’d images of it and found several which showed me this was the bird I photographed in the back yard last week. Later this evening I was in the backyard and this Pewee was sitting on the fence singing. As I watched it I opened my Merlin Bird ID and played the song and call. The cutie answered right back to both. Both the call and song matched perfectly.
And this is how I saw and identified my first Eastern Wood-Pewee 😀
Summer Tanager
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New life bird for me!
I had seen the shots of red in and out of the trees and a neighbor also told me she had seen this bird in her yard so while out walking this week I took the camera in case I saw the Tanager. We were almost home when I looked up and there it was sitting on a high branch in perfect site waiting for me to photograph it.
Blue Indigo - Lifer List Addition
/This beautiful Blue Indigo appeared in our backyard this weekend. He/she was very shy and scattered the moment it realized we were watching it. I was lucky enough to photograph it and add this bird to my Lifer List.
Yellow-rumped Warbler ~ Life Listed Bird
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Add this to my Life-list of birds I was able to photograph after a hike in Pony Pasture, Richmond VA
Olympus OMD-EM1X 300mm pro, ISO1250, 1/6400 sec at f/4.0
