Found this special American Airlines Livery at CLT, Charlotte, NC TODAY.
N167AN, an Airbus A321-231, arriving at CLT from IAH - Houston at about 11:50am.
Flagship Valor, displaying the three designs, army, navy and air force, of the Medal of Honor.
Found this one departing CLT as F91328, heading to PHL.
I am not super familiar with Frontier and did not realize they have a Plane Tails livery series with different animals depicted on the tail. I believe this is one of their Endangered Animals series.
N921NN departing CLT bound for TUL tonight. I thought I found another Reddit post with some comments that this is the last plane sporting the retro eagle livery
N921NN departing CLT bound for TUL tonight. I thought I found another Reddit post with some comments that this is the last plane sporting the retro eagle livery
A short video I was able to capture of this grumpy little dude as he complained yesterday
This little guy landed on some grass so close to me I had to back up 4 feet or so to get him outside of the minimum focus distance of my lens (about 17 feet). Then sat there and yelled for 10 minutes or so
I’ve seen so many pictures of cardinals molting, but have not seen one in person yet. And his molt isn’t even that bad yet!
Haven't seen this one shared yet.
Interesting thoughts popped into my head listening to this one on the hypocrisy of Flock Founders and their defenders.
Whenever someone fights back against Flock, they are very quick to pull out the "We are taking a picture of your license plate, and only your license plate. While you are travelling on a public road, with a camera that is in a public location. You have no expectation or right to privacy in that situation".
But, when someone records the location of a conspicuous camera, that is located either in a public location, or in the rare occasion that is its placed on private property, it is placed using a public easement.... In a way that the location is easier to find for the public, where the entity that contracted for the camera has no right to privacy. The person documenting the camera's location and sharing it is a "terrorist that is worse than antifa"???? lol... fucking morons.
Rules for thee, not for me.
This pair is raising their third brood in my yard, in the Charlotte area. Of course the brood had to hatch on the 30th, the literal day before the heat dome set in. I've been trying to offer them as much help as I can, have a bath with a fountain that I have been replacing the water in 2-3 times a day to keep it cool, offering live mealworms to try and minimize their energy spend foraging, but its still been rough. It sucks seeing them struggling so hard
The pair nesting in my box are on their third brood of the year after successfully fledging all 10 babies from the first two broods.
Thankfully these 4 are still okay! But they gave me a bad scare last night and kept me up most of the night. They are 4 days old today, so nowhere near old enough to not have their momma on them at night, but she didn’t show back up at dusk. Our peak ambient temp was 102 yesterday. Between the heat and fireworks, I think it stressed her too bad to come back, but I have seen both her and the dad feeding them all morning this morning!
Not sure if this is allowed or not, hopefully I am not running foul of rule 3...
It's pretty well known that the physical design of the boxes isn't great for heat. Between thin walls that don't offer much insulation and black or dark color exteriors... Especially with the recommendation to put the entrance facing east-ish, making the black exterior wall face south.
I went through and made all these modifications to my box and it has been working great, usually staying right at ambient. https://www.reddit.com/r/Birdfy/s/yD9s5N1o7m
Curious if there is any interest in the components for the heat shields? Either as individual components or a whole kit?
I am in the process of updating the design on my spacers to be more use friendly, and intend to put the STL out on Maker World (Bambu lab's open source page for 3d printing files) under an open source license...
Female blueborb sitting on her third brood in my camera nest box
Not the best angle, he was intent on hanging out at the very top of the tree and it made for very awkward setup with a big prime on a tripod... But these guys have been skunking me for about a month now, could always hear them, but never see them
Found this little guy about 20 feet of the trail at a local park. Stopped and took pictures of him for about 30 minutes, got a few awesome shots of his parents feeding him too! With how many times they fed him giant dragonflies over that 30 minutes, it was easy to see why he went from eastern kingbird to eastern kingborb
I found this fledgling Eastern Kingbird about 20 or so feet off the trail at a popular park in town. He sat there for quite a while, I watched him for at least a full 35 minutes. Mom and Dad were close by the whole time and I got to watch them bring some bugs in for lunch a couple of times. They were even bold enough to chase away the errant Blue Heron that got too close.
I recently got upgraded on my birdfy nest. I had an original nest duo, and it started malfunction a moth or so ago while this momma was still raising her previous brood. I swapped the old box for the new one when the fledged a few weeks ago and she is now spending her first night brooding her third brood of eggs for this season.
One of the several updates Birdfy made from the gen 1 to gen 2 nest boxes, the white light why had inside was replace with an infrared light for night vision without disturbing the residents.
Got a motion notification only to find this funny look staring back at me under the infrared lights.
I’ve had a nest box up in my yard for a few years now and never seen these two (at least I’m pretty sure it’s the same pair that keeps coming back) raise more than 2 broods in a season. This week they started on #3 after ten successful fledglings this year.