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[Liam]

Shouldn't be too hard. One of the two lifers I got today!

Location: Phinizy Swamp Nature Park in Augusta, Georgia. 

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[illin]

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsgXdiaNoqM

Wow 9,000 posts and this is a lifer?

[birdbrain22]

C'mon ... is that all you got??? LOL

[Liam]

Well hey, they're not so easy to find here. Especially when they're foraging down in the brambles.

Now let's see who's up to the challenge of the second bird (mtdavid, I know you know. So shush ;D) 

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[jeffroscoe]

Hey illin, if I was rounding that post number, I'd have gone to 10,000.  Anyway, the first one looks like a Song Sparrow to me.  Won't I be red in the face if incorrect? 

[mtdavid]

Well may I just point out that I know because I guessed correctly? lol

[ColoTomo]

birdbrain22:

C'mon ... is that all you got??? LOL

Hey, I still need it !!  It's a seminemesis

 

illin:

Wow 9,000 posts and this is a lifer?

LOL, between Liam's real-life lifelist and the internet lifelist, there is quite some discrepancy.  One thing you have to keep in mind is that he's 16 and not a working adult with a car & money to burn on birding trips......

[illin]

I can't find the second one.

[illin]

ColoTomo:

LOL, between Liam's real-life lifelist and the internet lifelist, there is quite some discrepancy.  One thing you have to keep in mind is that he's 16 and not a working adult with a car & money to burn on birding trips......

I know I was just giving him a hard time. Starting out as young as he is, and with the knowledge and enthusiasm he has, by the time he gets my age his list will be way longer than mine for sure.

[Liam]

jeffroscoe:

Anyway, the first one looks like a Song Sparrow to me.  Won't I be red in the face if incorrect? 

Note the reddish streaks on the breast and flanks. You still have time to redeem yourself. ;)

mtdavid:

Well may I just point out that I know because I guessed correctly? lol

 

You genius, you.

ColoTomo:

 

illin:

Wow 9,000 posts and this is a lifer?

LOL, between Liam's real-life lifelist and the internet lifelist, there is quite some discrepancy.  One thing you have to keep in mind is that he's 16 and not a working adult with a car & money to burn on birding trips......

 

Couldn't have said it better myself.   

illin:

I can't find the second one.

Couldn't find it either. Base your guesses off of behavior. It should be pretty easy.  

[ColoTomo]

Liam:

ColoTomo:

LOL, between Liam's real-life lifelist and the internet lifelist, there is quite some discrepancy.  One thing you have to keep in mind is that he's 16 and not a working adult with a car & money to burn on birding trips......

 

Couldn't have said it better myself.   

I think you did say that yourself... almost word for word, LOL.

 But as I said before I bet you will be over 1000 on your lifelist in 20 years.  I'm still keeping $10 in check for the "Send Felco&Liam to India" fund 

[birdbrain22]

Behavior... what sitting in some brambles??? Could be so many. What quadrant of the pic, at least?

 

[Liam]

Well thanks, Tom. :)

birdbrain22:

Behavior... what sitting in some brambles??? Could be so many. What quadrant of the pic, at least?

 

Never found it in the picture, but think of a small dark bird that flits in and out of brambles. 

[birdbrain22]

 

 

I keep telling my son(Johnnybirder) how lucky he is, we go birding everywhere together. Truth be told though, I know I am the lucky one in many more ways then one. 

Soon his list will catch mine. I keep telling him I will have to take a solo trip out West to pull ahead!!! LOL  Nah, when I go I will take him... I could not do that!!

[Liam]

birdbrain22:

I keep telling my son(Johnnybirder) how lucky he is, we go birding everywhere together. Truth be told though, I know I am the lucky one in many more ways then one. 

Soon his list will catch mine. I keep telling him I will have to take a solo trip out West to pull ahead!!! LOL  Nah, when I go I will take him... I could not do that!!

Your son is lucky. I wish my dad was a birder. Lol! 

[Sparky the Cuttlefish]

Liam:

Your son is lucky. I wish my dad was a birder. Lol! 

Haha, I feel your pain!

 

On another note, are you (or any other young birders on here) thinking of going to the Hog Island Audubon Camp for young birders in Maine this summer? It's high on my birding to-do list, partly because of the seabird thing (storm-petrels!). Was wondering if anyone that I knew/knew of was considering it.

[Liam]

limpkin:

On another note, are you (or any other young birders on here) thinking of going to the Hog Island Audubon Camp for young birders in Maine this summer? It's high on my birding to-do list, partly because of the seabird thing (storm-petrels!). Was wondering if anyone that I knew/knew of was considering it.

I'm not, but I know a few other young birders who are. 

[Kryptos18]

Flits in and out of brambles? Can only think Orange-crowned Warbler.

[Liam]

Well actually they prefer to flit within brambles. They're dark brown birds, quite small.

[illin]

Winter wren?