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Bjorkqvist's avatar

Six crows at sunrise here in central Arkansas.

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Great. I suspect crows are more common where you are.

Maria Race's avatar

Northern Cardinal in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Elise's avatar

An American crow fly-by as I pulled up the shade this morning, Michigan

Anne Houle's avatar

Red Tailed Hawk in a suburb of Chicago.

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Great way to start the year!

Jenny's avatar

Carolina chickadee, Virginia ☺️

Bob Faber's avatar

A bright white bluejay in Hiram, Ohio.

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Well that is an unusual Blue Jay!

Bob Faber's avatar

I enjoyed your comments about juncos and the Holden Arboretum. I grew up in Chicago and ended up living next to the Arb.

Robert Provost's avatar

Tufted Titmouse outside of Boston!

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Excellent! A hard bird to come by in my area.

Allison Sloan's avatar

Red bellied woodpecker heard in suburban northwest Arkansas. (Pileated seen on forested trail two days ago.)

Bob Dolgan's avatar

That’s a great first bird!

Deborah Deatrick's avatar

A whole flock of bluebirds asking for the their daily mealworm ration in Cumberland, Maine.

Bob Dolgan's avatar

How fantastic!

Sarah Miller's avatar

24 house sparrows, more than usual, on my feeders

Bob Dolgan's avatar

We have had some big groups of 20-plus lately.

Beth Gabriel's avatar

Male Northern Cardinal!

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Nice! I heard one singing this morning, which is verrry early in the year for that.

CherylK's avatar

An Anna's hummingbird at our feeder.

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Nice one! No hummingbirds here.

Jeanie Ransom's avatar

Glanced out my window and saw two large American crows, enjoying some suet that had fallen out of the feeder. I was surprised to see them in my suburban St. Louis backyard, but also delighted!

Bob Dolgan's avatar

A New Year surprise!

Heather Kohser's avatar

Black Capped Chickadee! By NY’s Day end we had a Cooper’s Hawk miss it’s meal at our feeder and then sit on our phone wire, then dived into a bush after Sparrows - missed again. ✨

Gina Leigh Wammock's avatar

I heard (but didn’t see) a golden-crowned kinglet in Pisgah National Forest here in NC!

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Nice way to start the day, Gina!

Pam Karlson's avatar

Female Cardinal ... followed by male Cardinal outside our front picture window this morn!

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Great, thanks for sharing Pam!

Anthony's avatar

I saw a bald eagle today.

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Amazing New Year’s Day bird!

Anthony's avatar

Indeed! I saw it while I was driving to Chicago.

Jim Fuerstenberg's avatar

we saw 9 crows in a neighbor's tree

Kim Harrod's avatar

A feeder potpourri of Northern Cardinal (male), house finch (male), and house sparrows, with a crowd of dark-eyed juncos and mourning doves underneath eating the leftovers! Suburban Chicago-style :)

Bob Dolgan's avatar

Sounds familiar - the doves and juncos do the same here!