yesterday, I saw a bald eagle and an osprey with a fish in its talons and today I saw a pileated woodpecker.
So soothing. Until feeding time. Eagle cams. I watch Eastern Tennessee University Johnson City and Bluff City. Online community is active.
I took a perimeter walk. Noticed a dugout in the retaining wall of the hvac unit outside. Chipmunks?
New birds that I haven’t seen before. They are half way between hummingbird and sparrow sized, they have blue/gray tails and heads (like Stellar Jays), a gold bib, white belly and stripey wings.
The weather has been weird AF lately so the birds have probably been blown off course but dang, they are aggressive little shits. They don’t just take over a feeder, they even chase the hummers out of the area.
Yesterday afternoon, I noticed the mallards who migrate through were on our pond. They usually stick around a couple days.
You’re in AZ, right? Those sound like birds that started showing up in our area in SoCal about 5-10 years ago. Ours have an insistent peep for their small size.
Those murder logs are all over the place right now! 
I’m seeing the same ones in the same places just about every day.
However, I was excited to see this roseate spoonbill yesterday:
Here he is with a buddy, cattle egret I think.
Also saw this turtle, he was too far away for me to ID.
Love the pictures!
I don’t have anything photogenic.to add. I saw a fox in daylight on Saturday (it scarpered before I could get my camera out) and then a Little Egret in a suburban park. They’ve definitely got more common in the last few years.
The duckling season seems to be late this year - probably thanks to a blast of cold weather at the end of March. I’ve seen one pair of coots with chicks (cootlets? cootlings?) but no ducklings or goslings as yet.
Cootie-wooties?
You might want to page Tamerlane about that one. The guy knows his stuff.
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ETA @Dung_Beetle - yeah, great pics. I’m only mildly annoyed that the day after I post a stork, you come right back at me with a spoonbill.
Thank you, I think I’ve identified them thanks to a couple of them posing next to the window long enough for me to get a really good look.
They are either Tropical or Northern Parula and are most likely migrating to greener pastures.
But your birds are in England, which automatically adds that touch of class! Not to mention your thumb. 
Had to look those up - never heard of 'em. Adorbs!
Dang, I’m sorry. I meant to post a link.
https://identify.whatbird.com/obj/1090/overview/Tropical_Parula.aspx
We live on the side of a mountain and get many temporary visitors. We are low enough in altitude to see cardinals and high enough to see Stellar Jays.
I’ve been seeing Grackles lately, which is worrisome. They are very entertaining birds but they push out and/or kill the native birds. Phoenix is mostly Grackles and pigeons 
Agreed. They have taken over several suburbs here. However, there are seeds that Grackles don’t like and others do, and this article has several suggestions for discouraging the pest birds.
Thank you, I hadn’t thought of Grackles as seed eaters, they mostly hang around the fast food place by the freeway. That was a very interesting article, thanks for the link!
Just back from two weeks in Sint Maarten and Saiint Martin. Lots of birds and reptiles.
This is a bananaquit (aka sugar-bird). They are sweet little nectar eaters who like mojitos (for the sugar). I ended up getting a bottle of water just for them. Picture taken on Pinel Island, a tiny wildlife refuge we kayak to. There’s also a ferry for the 1 mile trip.
This little guy shared our lunch on Pinel. The little island has no electricity, so the restaurant workers boat dozens of huge coolers and tanks of gas to run their tiny gourmet restaurant, taking everything back to the mainland at the end of the day.
On Saint Martin. What is this bird?
We Californians are vacationing in wine country in Oregon. We just watched snow falling here in the Dundee hills, which I know is very ho-hum for all of you living in snow country, but it’s only about the third or fourth time in my life when I could watch it actually falling from the sky. But it’s on-and-off. It keeps switching to rain, and then back to snowflakes again. Lovely.
My inclination is to guess female Carib Grackle. The facial markings are unusually distinct, but that might be down to individual variation. Scroll down and check out the photo by Rob Dickerson Dec 27 2017 under top photos.
Colibri would have known 
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That was my thought as well. Female Carib Grackle was what a birder friend thinks, but admitted he wasn’t sure