Jack Maynard(he/him)

yep. Like albinism but in birds

We have a house made to chickadee specs but they don’t seem interested yet. We’re hoping!

Yes they are insect hunters and do love the big butterflies and moths. They will catch one and tenderize it against a perch before they eat it.
Oaxaca is one part of Mexico I haven't seen yet. Its said to have the best food and teh best birds so we hope to see it someday. Ojala!

I think of it as black-and-white spotted, like a Holstein is called a pied cow. But yeah...

This one has been coming around for three years now I think... but it used to be less white.... I just reposted a coupel of my earlier posts and others as well.. there are also a lot of Carolina Leucistics posted... so its not just black-capped...

Chickadee on a iron hook

Chickadee on branch

Several years in a row now we have had a partiallly-leucistic Black-capped Chickadee visit our backyard. Not sure ot is the same bird each year, but tonight this guy arrived. #birding

I have a semi-leucistic Black-capped Chickadee that comes to my backyard fountain once or so a year, and I saw that one a few weeks ago, but this BCCH that appeared yesterday is the real deal for Leucism. #birding

Leucistic Chickadee, Portland Oregon
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Alt theme
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Leucistic variant of Black capped chickadee, displaying a white cap and mantle. Same bird showing up since last summer.

#birds #chickadee #birding

Yellow-rumped Warbler on a thorny branch

Mr Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) looks bedraggled after a short spring rain shower. Coffee Lake Creek Wetlands, Clackamas, Oregon #birding

California Scrub-jay on a sign

Y'all love a blue bird, and I'm particularly fond of birds on signs. This handsome California Scrub-jay ticks both boxes as it oversees the restoration at Coffee Lake Creek Wetlands, Clackamas County, Oregon this afternoon. #birding

Leucistic Chickadee

White Chickadee on the fountain

Frosty the Chickadee on a branch

Frosty our Leucistic Black-capped Chickadee has been a regular presence around the fountain this last week. He (she?) is whiter than last visit and seems to have a (non-leucistic) mate. We hope they are not building a nest in the trees in the lot behind us as they are scheduled to be felled soon. 🪶

A Pied Crow attempts to land on a metal pole with a sharpened end

How many Pied Crows can dance on the tip of a needle? This one struggled. St. Louis, Senegal #birding

It's a beautiful place...

I highly recommend Pieter at Aratinga tours to book reservations, local guides, rental cars or transport. More a travel agent for birders than a tour company. aratinga-tours.com

So sorry for your loss. What a handsome drake

Male Downy Woodpecker on lichen crusted perch

Spotted Towhee on blackberry bramble

A couple more #photogenic #birds we saw today at the Children's Arboretum, Portland, Oregon USA #BirdoftheDay
Downy Woodpecker(male) and Spotted Towhee

Bushtit with yellow pollen on face on a twig

It's that time of the year when Bushtits are all into the willow pollen and look altogether like Verdin. Pacific Yellow-faced Tit? #birding

to me...

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It was a total fluke. Everyone was excited, especially our local guide. You know it’s a good bird when the guide gets animated

Red-headed woodpecker hanging on the side of her nest hole with some food in her beak. Her body is black with two thin white stripes from her neck to her shoulders. The background is blurred green and brown branches.

Pale-billed woodpecker female bringing food to her babies at La Selva Biological Reserve in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica
#BirdOfTheDay #photogenic #birds

Broad-billed Motmot on a vine perch

#BirdOfTheDay is #photogenic. But what bird isn’t??? 😜😝 here’s a Broad-billed Motmot we saw in Costa Rica last year. Cheers!

I love that place! We saw an Agami Heron there in 2016 and Gartered Trogon in ‘25.

butter butt

butt-a-butt 🪶

American Robin from last month in Joseph, Wallawa County, Oregon #birding

Pintail butt and Shoveler shovelin' at Basket Slough #birding

The Golden-crowned Sparrows gave us quite a show this afternoon at the Erratic Rock State Natural Site, Yamhill County, Oregon #birding

Song Sparrow in lichen-covered branches

We successfully twitched a locally rare Eastern Phoebe at Basket Slough NWR today, but at distant range so got no decent pics. But this Song Sparrow serenaded us most of teh morning as we watched the field for our target #bird