Hot Tub Birding
After birding in the wind and rain most of the day, watching this Merlin eat his meal in the hot tub at Mary’s (us in the hot tub, not the merlin) was quite copacetic!!!


After birding in the wind and rain most of the day, watching this Merlin eat his meal in the hot tub at Mary’s (us in the hot tub, not the merlin) was quite copacetic!!!


Here’s a pix of feather I found this morning showing feather abrasion.
Some of you may have seen this elsewhere. If you want to delve further into RT hawks this may be the place https://redtailedhawkproject.org/ Also a FB group. Red-tailed Hawk Project
Egret/Heron Quiz answers. How’d you do?
Here’s species #129 seen at my place “the dacha”. Any ID discussion needed?
Davis Mountains in May. Can anyone ID?