Common Birds In Your Neck Of The Woods

I was recently given the idea of creating a thread dedicated to common birds.

It seems that many birds we think of as common might not be to others.

I encourage you to add "COMMON" birds from your area to this thread!

Please indicate what kind of bird it is and where it was photographed with a title as shown below.

One to get the thread started.

Black-capped Chickadee
New York

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One of the most common and my favortie to photograph is the Carolina Chickadee.

They look the same. How do you tell the difference?

Theo551 wrote in post #13985971
They look the same. How do you tell the difference?

Carolina Chickadees are smaller.
Location is another give away.
I added location to the description in post #1.

Beautiful image Duane!
Thanks for sharing.

Barred Owl
Northern Illinois

Seriously? this is a common one, no a sparrow but an Owl? I hate you!!!!

andrewhuxman wrote in post #13986526
Barred Owl
Northern Illinois

From Western Washington -

Dark-eyed Junco:

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Ok in response to Andrews Common Backyard Bird here is mine. And yes it was taken in my backyard.

No Angle wrote in post #13986604
Seriously? this is a common one, no a sparrow but an Owl? I hate you!!!!

LMAO ..they are much more common than one would think. Ok here is a very very common bird for our area .

Very common in my area....

Snowy Egret
Dauphin Island, Al

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andrewhuxman wrote in post #13986899
LMAO ..they are much more common than one would think. Ok here is a very very common bird for our area .

Well you are lucky then, come here and you can sit outside for days and never see an owl.

The Hawks are actually really common around me but they do not always land so close.

Here is one of my 'everyday favorites I just downloaded"

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All taken from behind my house: (Dallas, TX)

Belted Kingfisher

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do these have to be pics taken for this thread? if not I have a few that I posted a few weeks ago that are very common in my yard.