Your Best Shot Of The Day

[Greyhawk]

County first Short-eared Owl from Jan 5

What county would that be, if you don't mind saying?

By the way, I encourage everybody to put a location in their profiles. Not a requirement, but it would be nice to have an idea where the membership is located generally.

[HamRHead]

This was in Burke County, GA. As it turned out, there were actually two birds. Neighboring Richmond County has had at least one, maybe two, Short-eared Owl reports. The next closest eBird reports are close to 100 miles in any direction.

[Michael Long]

Very happy with this, my best ever views of a Canvasback
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/648591339

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[Charlie Spencer]

Great Blue Heron. My backyard, Brunswick County, southern coast of NC. November 2025

I don't think I posted this one on Whatbird before it crashed. If so, I apologize for putting it up again. I'm sure we all have some degree of backlog to work through.

[Kevin]

I also just got my lifer short-eared owl here in Texas last week.

[Aidan B]

Leucistic California Towhee from recently.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/648294631

[aveschapinas]

From yesterday, one of my favorite daily visitors:

Male Rivoli's Hummingbird

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[Charlie Spencer]

Saltmarsh Sparrow. Huntington Beach SP, Georgetown SC. Dec 2025. https://ebird.org/checklist/S288114727

Photo lifer from a trip with South Carolina Wildlife Federation in early Dec '25. I saw my lifer on the 2024 trip but didn't get photos then.

[stitch58]

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[Braxton L]

Townsend’s Warbler
https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/648742894