#white winged scoter

[tenderanarchist]

These are so fun to make

#birds #birdwatching #memes #bird memes #fashion #birding #coopers hawk #white winged scoter #native birds #bird nerd #steal his look

[northernpintail]

White-winged Scoters on a blustery day

#birds #ocean #landscape #original photography #nature #vancouver island #nature photography #pnw #birding #bird photography #birdwatching #original photography on tumblr #white winged scoter

[boy-warbler]

White-winged scoters at LaSalle Park, Burlington from last Friday

#birdwatching #birding #birds #white winged scoter

[shadowkira]

Found this potentially injured Sea Duck while kayaking on the Chincoteague refuge. We called the research center, and they requested that they bring her to them. She would only let me hold her and refused to be held at all for the kayak ride back. We had an angry duck at the nose of the kayak, which was less fun than it sounds. After she fell asleep in my lap while we waited for the correct park ranger at the research center, people thought she was my pet duck. 😅

#Turns out it was just migratory exhaustion but they told us it was still great that we brought her in when we did. #I got scolded by the wife at first because she wanted to know why the fuck I was trying to catch a duck. Told her I was concerned by how- #close she let us get to her. I found it very suspicious that every other bird flew before we could even remotely get close. #White Winged Scoter #Sea Duck #Duck #Ducks #Maleah Adventures

[chaialevi]

white-winged scoter migration (Melanitta fusca) Chatham, MA 11/15/2022

#so many birds #flock #birds #video #birdwatching #nature video #seaside #scoter #white winged scoter #massachusetts #bird migration #winter bird #cape cod #birding #sea #sea duck #ducks #duck #bird video #bird #birdblr #seacore #coastal #ornithology #birdcore #coastal living #nature goth #blue hour #winter #migration

[north-american-duck-poll]

Round 1 match 5B

#white-winged scoter #pink-footed goose #ducks #geese #duck poll #tumblr polls #round 1

[capecodadventurepictures]

White-winged Scoter in Provincetown 01/15/24

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#2024 #Duck #MacMillan Pier #Provincetown Harbor #Scoter #White-winged Scoter

[staedtler-mars]

Bonaparte's Gulls!

#also regular herring gulls #cormorant #and a bonus not pictured #two white winged scoters! #bonaparte's gulls #photography #sea birds #ocean life

[anonsally]

Happy Birdday To Me!

For my birthday today, I took the day off work and spent over two hours birdwatching at a hotspot I had not been to before, though it's not that far away. Long report below!

(I hate driving on the freeway, particularly the one I would've had to take to get to Arrowhead Marsh. But I figured out that I could get there on public transit instead.)

Various rare bird sightings have occurred there in the past week, so I was hoping to see something new. In the end, I only saw one of the rarities, but I did see 7 birds I'd never seen before!

My dad joined me after about 45 minutes, but even before that, there were a number of Very Serious Birders with serious equipment. None of them had seen (today) the Nelson's sparrow or tufted duck that have been there the past few days (though according to the rare bird alerts, a few people had seen the sparrow in the morning), but they did help me with some IDs and point a few birds out and let me look through their spotting scopes!

Seven new species:

Common yellowthroat. This is probably the one I was most excited about, even though it isn't very unusual--but I had never seen it! and it's yellow!

Sora. Also very exciting with its pretty plumage and yellow beak! It was shy, but I got a good look at it a few times when it foraged at the edge of some reeds.

White-winged scoter. This was the only rare one that I saw, and it was pointed out by some of the Very Serious Birders, who let me look at it through their scope and regretted that they had not pointed it out to me while it was preening and showing its white wing patches. I could see a tiny white line on the wing, and the bill was very scoter-y, but it would look to a casual viewer like a pretty solid dark brown duck.

Blue-winged teals. Very beautiful bird. There were 3 of them--two males and a female--paddling around, and I could see a small light blue spot on the folded wing of one of the males. It's a large blue patch in flight, but not always visible when they're swimming.

Cinnamon teals. Another beautiful bird! We saw a pair.

Horned grebe. The horned and eared grebes are similar-looking and hard to distinguish, but in this case, I saw both (and was told both were there), so I managed to pick out the differences. (I had seen an eared grebe on the Elkhorn Slough boat tour, identified by someone else.)

Glaucous-winged gull. I would never have even tried to identify this one, but was told what it was.

I also "collected" a whole trifecta of teals, because someone also pointed out a green-winged teal (I'd seen one before). I was happy to see a pied-billed grebe (definitely the cutest of the grebes we get around here). On the walk from the bus stop I saw what I believe was a red-shouldered hawk perched on a utility pole. It had the orange barred front, but the back looked less black-and-white than brown-and-white. There were lots of scaups in the water, but I couldn't tell if they were greater or lesser; we also saw what was probably a greater yellowlegs, but of course could have been lesser. I saw some coots, common goldeneyes, black-necked stilts, snowy egrets, a great blue heron, loads of willets and marbled godwits, and a couple of black turnstones, but I'm sure there were lots of other ducks and shorebirds I didn't manage to identify.

All in all, it felt like a very successful birthday birding expedition, and it made me want to go back.

#personal #birdwatching

[barry-kent-mackay]

Surf Scotter (lower left pair);  White-winged Scoters (right, pair); Black Scoter.  Also from the National Geographic series…I just wish he had put the birds a tad lower in the water, but still a pleasant painting.

art by major allan brooks

text by barry kent mackay

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#birds #birdlr #birblr #bird art #artist #major allan brooks #barry kent mackay

[dansnaturepictures]

21/06/2022-Thornwick Bay

Following on my previous post on a gorgeous hot and sunny day we went to Thornwick Bay this afternoon after my Mum and her partner had got back from the boat trip. It was quite a relaxed afternoon at the seaside at a place we came so briefly at the end of our Yorkshire trip in 2018 but one that certainly left an impression on us. It was lovely to take in the stunning coastal scenery especially the distinctive rock formation which stands out all along the local coast we have learnt this time and arch as well as the seaweed covered rocks from different perspectives and bright cliffs and ground it is a beautiful place and it was nice to see many others enjoying it. I took the first, fourth, sixth and final two pictures in this photoset of views here today.

It was a brilliant walk for birds as we looked for Puffins we had some of our closest Puffin views of the holiday when here last in 2018, and did find them standing out like shining jewels against the white cliff. It was a joy to see a handful of them here and also some flying in and out which looked so sweet. It was exceptional to see these birds I love so much again. I found it quite magical seeing them here today because in a nice way this is quite an unassuming place to see Puffins. I associate seeing Puffins with nature reserves like Bempton Cliffs and South Stack and offshore island reserves like Skomer Island and the Farne Islands which is amazing and places like these are true sanctuaries for this precious species and others. But whilst obviously just around the corner from Bempton on Thornwick Bay you’re walking on the beach and look up and see Puffins, and I find that quite surreal. I took the fifth and eighth pictures in this photoset of Puffins here today among others which I tweeted on Dans_Pictures tonight.  I also saw Guillemots, Razorbills, Fulmars with one gliding sensationally close over head at the car before leaving, Gannets and heard and saw Kittiwakes well here.

Around the cliffs also we saw smart marked House Martins flying around which was breathtaking to see and excitedly made out their mud nests on the cliff. Also on the cliff was a Herring Gull with an adorable chick which was great to see.

Just as we left there was much excitement when we spotted a group of birds rafting on the clear and excellently two toned in places water, and we could make out with their tail feathers upturned and colour and build seeing them fly off too that they were Common Scoters. An amazing bird to see always, and it was my first time seeing any this year so was a big bonus of another tick this week away to take my year list to 181, level with my entire total in 2016 to make my year list my joint sixth highest ever now and it still remains the highest a year list of mine had been at on this date some way ahead of my past year lists at this stage.

On national insect week today I enjoyed seeing butterflies again with Large Skipper a top species to see I took the third picture in this photoset of one with a bit of its wing and one antennae missing, Small Tortoiseshell in a great run of seeing them with many about lately and a white one seen this afternoon. I also had the joyful moment of seeing a Grey Seal in the water a smashing animal to see at the coast always and one of my favourite mammals, meaning I’ve seen Grey Seals in Pembrokeshire and Yorkshire on holidays this year as well as at home in Hampshire which feels amazing what a year I’ve had for them. I also liked delving into the rock pools here a little seeing a sea anemone I believe which the seventh picture I took today in this photoset shows which was lovely and limpets too, fascinating to see.

Flowers/plants I enjoyed seeing on the walk were a type of loosestrife I believe a lot of it in one area which the second picture in this photoset shows, possible common vetchling or meadow vetchling which was nice, oxeye daisy or chamomile, large bits of bindweed and lots of it which looked great, white clover, broad-leaved clover, lovely bird’s-foot trefoil seen well, sorrel I believe, possible ragwort coming through, arrow grass looking nice again, I seem to recall red campion and hogweed. I hope you all had a nice day.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: My first Common Scoters of the year, six of my favourite birds the Guillemot, Razorbill, Puffin, Kittiwake, Gannet and Fulmar, two of my favourite butterflies the Large Skipper and Small Tortoiseshell, one of my favourite moths the Five-spot Burnet, one of my favourite mammals the Grey Seal, Herring Gull, Stonechat, Dunnock, House Martin, Rock Pipit and Pied Wagtail well, Magpie and Jackdaw well, the white butterfly I couldn’t quite tell which, sea anemone and limpets.

It was great to see a Yellowhammer in a bush on the way here a key bird for this quite rural area.

#thornwick bay #photography #photos #puffin #common scoter #birdwatching #birds #uk #world #nature #happy #kittiwake #gannet #guillemot #razorbill #razorbills #house martin #rock pipit #large skipper #auks #seabirds #birding #limpet #herring gull #chick #young #magpie #stonechat #walk #relaxing

[northamericanbirder]

Birding Hotspot: Radnor Lake, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

  Links: [illustrated eBird hotspot page]

[TN Parks - Radnor Lake State Park]

[Google Maps]  

  15 minutes south of downtown Nashville is Radnor Lake, a small gem of a state park tucked away between suburban areas. The lake has drawn an incredible number of species over the years—over 200 per the eBird data. Bald Eagles nest here, as do Great Blue Herons (in a heronry, which is a little like an apartment building for herons—multiple nests in the same tree), and it often draws ducks that are rare for Tennessee.

Rarities for the Nashville area over the past few years have included Long-Tailed Ducks (typically in the Atlantic Ocean in February), Surf Scoters and White-Winged Scoters, Willets, Red-Necked Phalarope, and Limpkin.

Owls, woodpeckers, and songbirds fill the woods around the lake. Deer, wild turkeys, and turtles also hang out here.

Hotspot amenities: There is a small nature center (where the Tennessee Ornithological Society's Nashville chapter meets), with restrooms, and parking for about 40 cars (that's my best guess; it can sometimes get very busy, and finding a parking spot is not guaranteed; you may have to wait in line).

A popular walking trail loops around the lake (approx. 4 miles, I think; it can be walked in about 90 minutes), with a number of viewing platforms. The main loop is accessible to all-terrain wheelchairs. Unpaved portions of the trail are off-limits to bicycles, joggers, and pets.

The park is also home to the Barbara J. Mapp Aviary Education Center, where on select days visitors can view the center's captive birds of prey, venomous and non-venomous snakes, and turtles.  

"Radnor Lake State Park, Nashville 10/24/22" by Sharon Mollerus is licensed under CC BY 2.0.  

"Radnor Lake Path" by stephenyeargin is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.  

"Radnor Lake State Park, Nashville 10/24/22" by Sharon Mollerus is licensed under CC BY 2.0.  

[heron photos by @everydayesterday]

#birding #birdwatching #nashville #tennessee #radnor lake #birds #birblr #birdblr #eBird #great blue heron #radnor lake state park

[boy-warbler]

White-winged scoters are one of the less common winter ducks I see each year so this was a good sighting for me. Colonel Samuel Smith Park yesterday

#birdwatching #birding #birds #torontobirds #ducks #white winged scoter

[justvisitingthisplanet]

Long tailed ducks and friends (1-27-24)

Other than the long tails, white winged scoters, black scoters, common goldeneye, greater scaup, and redheads are present in these images

#I spotted around 13 different duck species in general #take.flight #my photography #wildlife photography #birding #long tailed duck

[north-american-duck-poll]

Round 1 match 5A

The Ross’s Goose is not sexually dimorphic, which means females and males look the same. Like the Snow Goose, they have two colour morphs. White-morph birds are white all over with black wing tips and blue-morph birds have dark brown bodies and necks with white on their faces, bellies, and wings. They can be distinguished from Snow Geese by their smaller size and stubbier bill.

The White-winged Scoter is sexually dimorphic, meaning the females look different from the males. Females look very similar to female Surf Scoters, being dark brown all over except for white patches on their face. White-winged Scoters also have a large white patch on their wings, although this is not always visible when the wings are folded.

#ross’s goose #white-winged scoter #ducks #geese #female duck poll #hens pens and geese #tumblr polls #round 1 #tournament poll

[capecodadventurepictures]

White-winged Scoter in Orleans 01/02/24

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#2024 #Duck #Rock Harbor #Scoter #White-winged Scoter