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Narrow Stingless Bee (Tetragonisca angustula)Observer
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Same nest as in this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91651137 -- now with three trumpet-like entrances.
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Megachile zapotecaObserver
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Cutting and carrying bits of leaves to build a nest - so cool :-)
(Also shown is a cut leaf found under the nesting site, and the last photo is of a nest that was finished in early March, next to the one just being built now.)
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White-breasted Hawk (Accipiter striatus ssp. chionogaster)Observer
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Immature. Flew in with its prey (a bird, gray belly and brownish upperparts, probably an Orange-billed Nightingale Thrush), perched at midlevel in cypress/pine forest and began feeding.
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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)Observer
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Parents seen clearly and heard overflying nest. One of the parents can be seen here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/76777443
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Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus)Observer
aguilitaDescription
Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus)
2 April 2021
Trinity Park
2401 University Drive
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76107
Small mixed flock of American Goldfinch, Cedar Waxwing and Pine Siskin stopped at a tree next to one of the park's small streams and thence onto the water below, they drank water and bathed late in the afternoon.
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Red-tailed Stingless Bee (Trigona fulviventris)Observer
gpaschDescription
Cutting off leaves from a Tillandsia, in front of their nest.
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Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)Observer
gpaschDescription
Two individuals, close to each other, soaring high in thermal with group of Black Vultures, then gliding on towards the South.
Might it be instead a Swainson's Hawk?
Photo#2 shows a Black Vulture, too.
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Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)Observer
iviteripDescription
Mistle thrush or song thrush?
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Northern Potoo (Nyctibius jamaicensis)Observer
gpaschDescription
Bird "sings"(in its own peculiar way) three times: at the beginning, at second 24, and at second 58. I had left my phone recording as I was getting ready to go out, so there's a few banging noises, and a rooster calling, but as I applied no noise-reduction effects, most of the background is ambient noise, ie, early morning critters.
