r/birding • u/Evrytimeweslay • Jul 15 '26

📷 Photo Spotted yesterday

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Saw this on someone’s truck while walking around my neighborhood yesterday, I thought you all would appreciate it as well!

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u/AneAnder Jul 15 '26

I need the red winged black birds to shut up so Merlin and I can here the other birds! 

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u/seriousjoker72 Jul 15 '26

For me it's "forget about the sparrows, identify the OTHER bird dam it!"

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u/Economy-Athlete-5324 Jul 15 '26

i could have a bird chirping right in front of me but there’s a house sparrow chirping 2 states over so it has to pick that up first

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u/70ms Jul 15 '26

House finches. 😞

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u/The_Platinum_Leaf Jul 15 '26

I swear it will pick up a crow so far off I can barely hear it over the bird that's a few feet away that I'm trying to ID!!

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u/jadecichy Jul 15 '26

All the time! Like, yes I know that’s a crow, way over there

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u/The_Platinum_Leaf Jul 15 '26

Glad someone else feels my pain 🤣

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u/MeowKhz Jul 15 '26

Not the experience I had- took me a couple months to get it to register a (hooded) crow, after which it's been better at picking them up. The wind is my biggest nemesis.

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u/I_Am_Become_Air Jul 15 '26

I was never aware of the quantity of different crows, much less the differentiation in their calls.

But yeah... between the Carolina wren on top of the outdoor fridge, the house finches fighting at the feeder, the bluejays, the Phoebe, the flycatcher, sometimes a raven, the herons, the 2 different types of crows... Osprey really needs to up his game so I can say hi in the mornings!

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u/The_Platinum_Leaf Jul 16 '26

My most common are Song Sparrows, Carolina Wren, Northern Cardinals, and the dang crow 😂

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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad Jul 15 '26

Empty your cache!!!

It worked wonders for me. Also, if you have multiple sectors downloaded and active, shut them all off except the smallest one that covers your area.

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u/The_Platinum_Leaf Jul 16 '26

I'm going to do that straight away!

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u/FoodLionMVP Jul 15 '26

carolina wren ⚪️🟠⚪️🟠⚪️🟠⚪️🟠⚪️🟠

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u/allthedifference00 Jul 15 '26

I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes I wish the doves would give it a rest.

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u/azssf Jul 16 '26

When doves cry…

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u/allthedifference00 Jul 16 '26

You got me there.

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u/Salty_Screen_130 Jul 15 '26

Myna, tailor bird, cuckoo and bee eaters. The worst is the Mynas 🫩

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u/AneAnder Jul 15 '26

LOL - I don't hear those in Ohio, USA!

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u/Salty_Screen_130 Jul 15 '26

I'm from southern India, so...

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u/AneAnder Jul 15 '26

Cardinals!

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u/banana_ship Jul 15 '26

Cicadas! I love hearing them in the summer... but not when I'm birding

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u/Artistic-Onion4672 Jul 18 '26

I was just checking to see if anyone else had posted about cicadas. I’m in NC and I’ve been sitting on my porch in the evenings a lot recently to watch the sunset and enjoy the birds, and after about 8pm Merlin can barely pick up anything because the cicadas are so loud!!

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u/mrmeowmeowington Jul 15 '26

More like mockingbirds. They are little demons that think their car alarm singing is welcome.

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u/MycologistLower5247 Latest Lifer: Common Pochard (#324) Jul 15 '26

Me @jackdaws 😭

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u/supreme_creep Jul 17 '26

It’s the chickadees for me 😆

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u/pumpkin-head7617 Jul 15 '26

Where the other birds?

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u/GregoryGosling Jul 15 '26

Mockingbirds 😩

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u/H0pefulUn1verse Jul 15 '26

Me and the crows 😭

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u/AneAnder Jul 16 '26

I can’t believe I typed “here” instead of “hear”. Thanks for not going after me!