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HamRHead wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 1:15 am 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.

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.

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

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.

HamRHead wrote: Sun Jan 11, 2026 1:15 am

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

Leucistic California Towhee from recently.

https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/648294631

From yesterday, one of my favorite daily visitors:

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.

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