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I will never appreciate anything more than how the presence of swallows provides a mosquito-free experience, even when standing directly in a swamp at sunset. We should all thank swallows today.

Barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) 📍 Essex County, ON

#barn swallow #swallow #bird photography #2026 #202605 #hirundinidae #passeriformes #my pics

*makes a weird telephone noise*

Chipping sparrow (Spizella passerina) 📍 Ottawa, ON

#birding #birblr #2026 #passeriformes #passerelidae #202605 #sparrow #chipping sparrow #my pics #fav

I am not feeding you. No matter how close and cute you get. No matter how many cheeseburgers you demand.

Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) 📍 Essex County, ON

#I SEE THEM EVERY DAY but i am not a skilled enough cameraman to catch one... til now!#2026 #202602 #bird photography #black capped chickadee #chickadee #passeriformes #paridae

Girl... I love your mascara. You HAVE to tell me the brand

Tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 📍 Essex County, ON

#birblr #birds #tufted titmouse #202601 #2026 #these little guys never wanna stay still...#passeriformes #paridae

Little guy keeps returning to this exact tree cavity. Must be especially cozy...

Eastern screech-owl (Megascops asio) 📍 Essex County, ON

#birding #owl #screech owl #strigiformes #strigidae #2025 #202512 #first owl...!! and continuing little owl...

American tree sparrow (Spizelloides arborea) with photobombing White-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis) 📍 Essex County, ON

#202512 #2025 #american tree sparrow #passeriformes #passerellidae

Hey man, LOVE your work. My favorite song is "haunted flute played in the middle of a quiet forest"! Next level stuff. Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) 📍 Essex County, ON

#birblr #bird photography #202510 #2025 #hermit thrush #thrush #my pics #fav #(IT TOOK FOREVER TO SEE ONE!!)#passeriformes #turdidae #(what a family name...)

Gotta grow those pantaloons nice and fluffy for the coming winter.

American robin (Turdus migratorius) 📍 Essex County, ON

#robin #2025 #202510 #birds #my pics #passeriformes #turdidae

Mmm my worme : )

Red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus) 📍 Essex County, ON

#birds #birblr #202509 #2025 #red eyed vireo #vireo #passeriformes #vireonidae #my pics

Blending in perfectly with the changing leaves. Bay-Breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea) 📍 Essex County, ON

#warbler #bay-breasted warbler #bird photography #202509 #2025 #birds #passeriformes #parulidae #my pics

I think if someone designed a saw trap for me in particular, it would involve having to identify flycatchers by sight alone.

Eastern Wood-Pewee (Contopus virens) 📍 Essex County, ON

#birds #wood-pewee #2025 #202509 #my pics #passeriformes #tyrannidae

Today in why birding is never a dull moment: technically, this bird has changed names since I took these pictures two months ago. In October of 2025, the NACC reclassified the warbling vireo into two species - the eastern warbling vireo (Vireo gilvus) and western warbling vireo (Vireo swainsoni).

The split is understandable, with the two newly-split species having different calls, plumage, and wintering grounds. There is actually very little crossover between the two geographically!

Eastern warbling vireo (Vireo gilvus) 📍 Essex County, ON

#birblr #nature photography #warbling vireo #i only noticed... when i went to go clean the pics up #vireo #passeriformes #vireonidae #my pics #2025 #202509 #fav

Baby mourning dove is too baby to get the hint that it is not welcome to sit with the grackles at their lunch table.

Juvenile mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) and a posse of common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 📍Tecumseh, ON

#2025 #202507 #grackle #mourning dove #birding #columbiformes #columbidae #passeriformes #icteridae #birds #my pics

Stilts are very good at looking like they were drawn by a child. They toddle around on their cartoonishly long legs, plucking invertebrates out of the shallow water.

Black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) 📍Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, UT