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I lived most of my life on the eastern half of Long Island, was into fishing and going to the beach and never noticed any of the birds.  Then I moved to Maryland (near Annapolis) for 12 years, visited the eastern shore and Delaware and never noticed any birds.  I moved to landlocked Tennessee 2.5 years ago and developed a bird ...

What a fantastic photo.  I have never seen this type of owl before, not even in photos.  Do their ears always stand straight up like that?

KingstonOntarioBirder: My birding started in childhood with a pet bird; binos; to film cameras; digital point and shoot up to where I am know with digital DSLR's. To me I do you because I enjoy it and love being out in nature. This will not likely change any time soon. When I photograph any bird species I attempt to just shoot it as I ...

If personal talent is the key, I'm in trouble. I'm artistically-challenged.  I mostly take ID bird photos and try to do my composition on the computer.  I'll give you an example of a current dilemma.  I've got two photos of the same hawk. In both photos the bird is easily identified.  The bird is perched on the ...

Whith all technical photography aspects equally the same/good (composition, subject size, definition/detail, exposure and color accuracy), what makes a winning bird photo?  Should the bird/birds be a certain percentage of the photo? Approach it as if you were trying to pick out a bird photo from your many bird photos to enter in ...

How can you tell if they are fighting or just communicating?  A couple of weeks ago I heard a lot of noise.  I went over to investigate and a red shouldered hawk on top of a street light pole was screaming at two crows on the next pole over.  The crows were looking at the hawk and screaming right back.  They were too far ...

It's a dinner tactic.  The birds want someone to keep looking up at them so the person doesn't watch what they are doing and gets hit by a car.

How come my Cooper's Hawk was blue or like a cadet grey?  It wasn't brown at all.

I'd like to add something to my previous post.  I don't know about where you live but where I live March, April and May are great months for photographing birds in their natural habitat.  The main reason is in March and April there aren't as many thick leaves on the trees so you can eyeball them easier (I don't use binoculars).  ...

These are great stories and thanks for the ID.  I don't think I'll ever have a bird's nest in tree disturbance problem.  I've discovered I'm too height-challenged to be able to see into any.  And any climbing days were over about 40 years ago.  I don't even bother looking for nests.  I was a little worried the hawk ...