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Everything!! It was a really cool course and I loved and learned every bit.
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Both me and my mom have heard the barred owl courtship, It truly is amazing!! They sound just like monkeys, and the sound is so crazy and loud it even made our dog stop and listen. The mottled wood owl sound is very cool, and I would die if I heard the bobcat or the fox at night.
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Fish owls surprise me, usually you would't think of an owl as a fish eating animal, but apparently they are! It also surprises me how some eat birds.
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I have only seen a Great horned owl at a distance, but where I live in central North Carolina is packed with barred owls, although they are hard to find and or see, they are easy to hear, they make a racket in the morning, and I have actually called back and fourth with one multiple times after I learned how to imitate their call.
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I was out early one morning at around seven walking around the lake, as usual, there was a little group of bufflehead ducks that I managed to get pretty good pictures of in the light, they used to hang out in the middle of the lake where it was hard to get pictures of them with a 300 mm lens, but now they come closer to shore, especially the females.
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I went into-my local woods to approach the birds respectfully, There was not that much activity in the woods but there was but there was a plethora of activity by the lake, I Found this beautiful hermit thrush eating berries in the shrubs, and it let me get very close!
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This was taken with a mirror-less Canon Rebel T6 with a Tameron 70- 300 lens, This yellow bellied sapsucker was just hanging out in my local woods, I would love to one day maybe nave a dslr camera, with a zoom lens,I have always been a birder but i started paragraphing them when I was about 11. (i am thirteen now) And I love doing it
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I went into our local woods for this and there was a bunch of activity, there were a lot of winter visitors in North Carolina, such as White throated sparrows, Yellow bellied sapsuckers, Bufflehead, and a Ruddy duck.
I have never before seen a ruddy duck in the lake, but today must have been different! There was a lone immature or female swimming around , and I managed to get some pretty close shots. these are mainly dark because the bird was in the shadows, which is tough to get good shots. These where both taken by a Cannon Rebel T6 with a Tamron 300mm lens
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Even when I lived in New York, I never really saw them, except for in city parks
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1.No, but I think I saw a song sparrow wit a missing foot, other than that no, I haven't seen any sick birds. 2. Generally I have not seen any aggression except for some playful chasing.
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2. Yes, I didn't know that crows had such weird sex lives, but then again so do humans. It depends whether it could be beneficial or not, depending on the relationship
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Harder, because crows have a higher cognitive ability than most birds, making their decisions in conflict with feelings, crows also have more options than most birds, making decisions hard.
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There is a barred owl that lives in the woods down the street from my house, me and my mom often watch the owl, and imitate its call so it calls back. One day while me and my mom where following the owl, and noticed a bunch of Crows following it around and doing what seemed to be a coordinated attack. We followed the crows into the woods, and eventually found them mobbing the owl, which i didn't get a picture of, because it flew away. In the evenings proceeding that night, it seems the crows where perched in various spots of the woods, keeping a lookout for the owl.
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1. Yes, but they usually don't stay in one place, trying to find the perfect spot, mainly in the fall
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1. Yes, only really in the fall and spring, I don't really know why. The size of the flocks are probably over 850 individuals.
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2. Crows don't really compare with other any other birds I've seen except parrots. Parrots have close family ties and are very intelligent
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I thought that crows would have lived way longer than 13 years.
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Blackbirds are small, and you can see their pupils. Crows are larger , have broader bills, and have dark eyes.
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Blackbirds are small, and you can see their pupils, crows are larger , have broader bills, and have dark eyes.
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I am, the swans that live not to far from our house now have eggs!
Here are some pictures I got at the Local bog garden 
I went into-my local woods to approach the birds respectfully, There was not that much activity in the woods but there was but there was a plethora of activity by the lake, I Found this beautiful hermit thrush eating berries in the shrubs, and it let me get very close! 
This was taken with a mirror-less Canon Rebel T6 with a Tameron 70- 300 lens, This yellow bellied sapsucker was just hanging out in my local woods, I would love to one day maybe nave a dslr camera, with a zoom lens,I have always been a birder but i started paragraphing them when I was about 11. (i am thirteen now) And I love doing it 
I have never before seen a ruddy duck in the lake, but today must have been different! There was a lone immature or female swimming around , and I managed to get some pretty close shots. these are mainly dark because the bird was in the shadows, which is tough to get good shots. These where both taken by a Cannon Rebel T6 with a Tamron 300mm lens
