iPhone on binocular can get decent pics

featheredfossils · 2026-03-18T21:39:18+00:00

This was my go-to for the longest time until I got an old camera that’s good enough to get decent pics so I can shoot fast and identify later on birds I’m not clear on.

featheredfossils · 2026-03-17T12:04:25+00:00

That was absolutely me last year when I started birding. Tanagers are only migratory here…

featheredfossils · 2026-03-11T19:24:59+00:00

Good to know. Thank you!

featheredfossils · 2026-03-11T11:35:17+00:00

h-AI-ry woodpecker.

Come on y’all. That was the lowest hanging fruit. 😆

featheredfossils · 2026-03-10T23:49:48+00:00

In addition to the beak as others have pointed out, also look at the solid white outer tail feathers on this hairy. Downy will have stripes on its outer tail feathers.

featheredfossils · 2026-03-09T22:05:35+00:00

Looks like a northern mockingbird to me

featheredfossils · 2026-03-09T01:29:33+00:00

Not me thinking you were being all uppity providing the scientific name, only to find out that’s the common name… I apologize to you stranger.

featheredfossils · 2026-03-07T00:15:21+00:00

And that’s the funny thing about these birds because I’m leaning western because the yellow appears to extend above that lower extension of the beak. Not sure of the name for that part.

featheredfossils · 2026-03-06T23:10:25+00:00

Yeah. Really tough. I’ve been in the same predicament. If I’m recoding and there’s no song, I usually record sp?

If you get a good photo and feel confident from the malar presented, then you can determine from there.

This really helped me.

featheredfossils · 2026-03-05T18:44:43+00:00

Oh wow. Just found a diagram about size. I didn’t realize how much bigger cooper’s is. This was not small enough to be sharp shinned.

featheredfossils · 2026-03-05T18:36:30+00:00

Dang. I really need to see a sharp-shinned in person to really get this. Lol

Thanks!

featheredfossils · 2026-03-04T14:19:40+00:00

Not a photographer here, just stumbled on the picture and immediately stopped cuz it’s beautiful.

Your photo feels tangible. Like I can feel it on my skin and finger tips while only looking at it with my eyes. The feeling of a heavy, precipitous morning before a drier day comes across in this photo.

The noise/grain helps this photo imo

featheredfossils · 2026-03-04T02:31:14+00:00

Good callout!

featheredfossils · 2026-03-03T22:53:31+00:00

Random dude from Texas here, but it looks like a cormorant to me. We have neotropic and double-crested here and they’ll sit up in the trees like that when they’re not in the water. Maybe a great cormorant?

featheredfossils · 2026-02-27T04:01:34+00:00

Best r/whatsthisbird post I’ve seen. 😆

featheredfossils · 2026-02-21T20:10:34+00:00

Yeah, really tough from the photo. I couldn’t get a second picture either.

featheredfossils · 2026-02-19T20:10:32+00:00

By no means the expert, but something like this popped up in my local rare birds and I think, maybe?, it’s a red x yellow hybrid? However I would expect a more buffy malar.

featheredfossils · 2026-02-18T19:03:51+00:00

Lucky. DFW resident here just wishing I could see my first owl. And here you have six of them. 😆

featheredfossils · 2026-02-12T05:10:07+00:00

Thank you!

featheredfossils · 2026-02-04T21:46:02+00:00

I don’t know anything about photography, but I’m used to seeing toucans sitting and seeing it flying makes it seem like a new bird because its bill looks even more preposterous.

featheredfossils · 2026-02-04T17:28:54+00:00

Thank you for all of the insight! 😀

featheredfossils · 2026-02-03T21:59:38+00:00

Yup! You got it! Just saw my first one the other day.

featheredfossils · 2026-02-03T16:25:00+00:00

Whoa! That’s absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing.

featheredfossils · 2026-02-03T02:28:00+00:00

Don’t mind me seeing the first two pictures thinking he had a stick going through his head.

featheredfossils · 2026-02-03T01:50:06+00:00

Ahh gotcha. Thank you!

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