Thayer's Gull ... I think

Is it Thayer's?  Is it an integrade with Kumlien's?  Does it matter?  Not anymore lol, they're both just called Iceland Gull now.

Whatever you call it, this video shows a young Thayer's type...

Great Salt Lake

 There's a lot going on in this vid!  Full frame prairie falcon, red-necked phalaropes, chukar.  Hordes of shovelors, wigeon, red-necked phalarope.  Want to watch bison sparring?  Want to listen to Western Meadowlark singing from 8 feet away?  This video has it all!

Blood Lake Utah

 Christyn and I did a fabulous hike a couple weeks ago a little outside of Park City, Utah.

Watch this vid to take in fun Western birds like Gray-headed Junco, Green-tailed Towhee, Mountain Chickadee and more. 

Scenery was tremendous and the flowers were nice too, check out the video above!

Michigan California Gull

 Who needs going out west?  Sometimes the West comes to you!  Here's a California Gull from Warren Dunes and New Buffalo from earlier this week...

Adelaide's Warbler and a Lizard-Cuck!

 We return to Puerto Rico for this episode, birding lowland Cambalache State Forest near the northern coast of Puerto Rico.  Adelaide's Warbler is an endemic that we only saw here.  We also got by far our best looks of Puerto Rican Lizard-cuckoo here, as well as our only Red-legged Thrush.

Watch the vid here!

Merlins are assholes

 Merlins are cool birds.  And they eat birds for a living, so should we be surprised they're constantly strafing each other and whatever they can find, from gulls to jays to kestrels to bats to any small airborne creature?

In this vid watch one barrel roll and nearly loop the loop after a passerine, and then full frame with a Nashville it caught over the lake.  After that let's play chicken with Blue Jays!

Fall Forster's vs Common Terns

These are REALLY similar.  And some of the things we use to separate Forster's Tern from Common Tern in the spring won't work in the fall.  Let's talk about how to separate these two birds!