Great Kiskadee snacking on a berry. We saw them going into their nests in Belize.

Lifer of the day in Belize: yellow-bellied elaenia.

The Dickcissel is a sparrow-like bird that’s more closely related to grosbeaks and cardinals. This female was a rare sight at Legacy Park.

Summer tanagers are 🐝 specialists and this female caught a wasp at my backyard stream.

First Indigo Bunting to visit the backyard stream!

Mama mallard has her wings full with 10 little ducklings at Legacy Park.

I found a brand new bird for Legacy Park early this morning. A greater yellowlegs is the 180th species recorded at the park. It’s a migrant shorebird that breeds mostly far up into Canada.

First time seeing this mating display from a yellow-crowned night-heron. So cool! Clyde Shepherd, Decatur, GA.

Our smallest songbird, the golden-crowned kinglet, foraging for tiny bugs in the canopy.

The purple martins are back at Panola Mountain.

Belted kingfisher adjusting her catch midflight. Legacy Park, Decatur.

ATL bird #206 and second new one of 2025 is the American Golden-Plover, seen at Tribble Park in Gwinnett Co.

The Eastern Blueborb. A spherical cousin to the Eastern Bluebird.

Two yellow-crowned night-herons showed up at Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve in North Decatur this weekend in their beautiful breeding plumage.

Walking around Austin, you have to be wary of wandering too far into black-crested titmouse gang territory.

We have a handful of non-native bird species in Atlanta but nothing quite like the Egyptian Goose of Austin, Texas.

The aptly named red-shouldered hawk showing off those red shoulders.

Cedar Waxwings eating berries—my favorite genre of nature photography.

The orange-crowned warbler is a coast-to-coast North American bird, breeding all across Canada and the Pacific Northwest and migrating everywhere from SoCal to Mexico to the Carolina coast.