Jeff Mann
@becausebirds.com
Birder since 2013. I enjoy bird photography, recording, programming, data, design, home lab, OLKB, and Charli xcx.
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Jeff Mann
@becausebirds.com
· Dec 30
Looking back at my 2024 birding stats is wild.
📷 11,541 bird photos taken
📝 122 eBird checklists
🐦⬛ 257 species seen
⏳ 116 hours of birding
I uploaded 106 photos (less than 1%!) and 124 recordings to eBird. 🪶
#birdMath
📷 11,541 bird photos taken
📝 122 eBird checklists
🐦⬛ 257 species seen
⏳ 116 hours of birding
I uploaded 106 photos (less than 1%!) and 124 recordings to eBird. 🪶
#birdMath
I had the privilege to take my friend and her bird-loving 7yo for birding this weekend. She loved hearing the birds sing with the parabolic mic.
Listen to the birdsong and our cute dialog as she hears a White-eyed Vireo and Golden-cheeked Warbler. 🪶🔊
Listen to the birdsong and our cute dialog as she hears a White-eyed Vireo and Golden-cheeked Warbler. 🪶🔊
April 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I had the privilege to take my friend and her bird-loving 7yo for birding this weekend. She loved hearing the birds sing with the parabolic mic.
Listen to the birdsong and our cute dialog as she hears a White-eyed Vireo and Golden-cheeked Warbler. 🪶🔊
Listen to the birdsong and our cute dialog as she hears a White-eyed Vireo and Golden-cheeked Warbler. 🪶🔊
Tonight, February 26 Barn Swallow season has officially started! The big cold front just left central Texas.
It's the fourth year this nest is being used. 💯 bird build quality. 🪶
It's the fourth year this nest is being used. 💯 bird build quality. 🪶
February 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Tonight, February 26 Barn Swallow season has officially started! The big cold front just left central Texas.
It's the fourth year this nest is being used. 💯 bird build quality. 🪶
It's the fourth year this nest is being used. 💯 bird build quality. 🪶
Better.
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February 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Better.
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It's a hard life out there for a bird. 🪶
February 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
It's a hard life out there for a bird. 🪶
February 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I don't like TikTok but don't support banning it either. We should treat the root cause of social media manipulation and astroturfing not the symptom. #socialmedia
January 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I don't like TikTok but don't support banning it either. We should treat the root cause of social media manipulation and astroturfing not the symptom. #socialmedia
Looking back at my 2024 birding stats is wild.
📷 11,541 bird photos taken
📝 122 eBird checklists
🐦⬛ 257 species seen
⏳ 116 hours of birding
I uploaded 106 photos (less than 1%!) and 124 recordings to eBird. 🪶
#birdMath
📷 11,541 bird photos taken
📝 122 eBird checklists
🐦⬛ 257 species seen
⏳ 116 hours of birding
I uploaded 106 photos (less than 1%!) and 124 recordings to eBird. 🪶
#birdMath
December 30, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Looking back at my 2024 birding stats is wild.
📷 11,541 bird photos taken
📝 122 eBird checklists
🐦⬛ 257 species seen
⏳ 116 hours of birding
I uploaded 106 photos (less than 1%!) and 124 recordings to eBird. 🪶
#birdMath
📷 11,541 bird photos taken
📝 122 eBird checklists
🐦⬛ 257 species seen
⏳ 116 hours of birding
I uploaded 106 photos (less than 1%!) and 124 recordings to eBird. 🪶
#birdMath
Let's ring in the New Year like a Cedar Waxwing by eating our weight in fermented berries. 🪶
December 29, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Let's ring in the New Year like a Cedar Waxwing by eating our weight in fermented berries. 🪶
Honey, I shrunk the birds!
This Christmas, I miniaturized my first decade of bird photography into something extra special and extra tiny. I created and mailed out over 50 unique mini framed bird photos as gifts to my friends. 🪶 📷
This Christmas, I miniaturized my first decade of bird photography into something extra special and extra tiny. I created and mailed out over 50 unique mini framed bird photos as gifts to my friends. 🪶 📷
I crafted 50 tiny, framed bird pics to send to friends this Christmas
In 10 years of birding I took 45k photos and saw 440 species. This Christmas, I sent 50 unique birds in tiny frames to my friends.
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December 24, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Honey, I shrunk the birds!
This Christmas, I miniaturized my first decade of bird photography into something extra special and extra tiny. I created and mailed out over 50 unique mini framed bird photos as gifts to my friends. 🪶 📷
This Christmas, I miniaturized my first decade of bird photography into something extra special and extra tiny. I created and mailed out over 50 unique mini framed bird photos as gifts to my friends. 🪶 📷
This morning, after 10 years of birding, I photographed a bird butthole.
Here is the cloaca of a Bewick’s Wren! 🤣🫣🪶
Here is the cloaca of a Bewick’s Wren! 🤣🫣🪶
December 14, 2024 at 9:36 PM
This morning, after 10 years of birding, I photographed a bird butthole.
Here is the cloaca of a Bewick’s Wren! 🤣🫣🪶
Here is the cloaca of a Bewick’s Wren! 🤣🫣🪶
Woodpeckers love more than just trees 🌵🪶
December 10, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Woodpeckers love more than just trees 🌵🪶
Any Killdeer enjoyers?
Been a huge fan of this bird for a while.
I often hear them singing as they fly around dawn or dusk.
Recorded this cutie with the parabolic mic on October 13. 🪶🔊
Been a huge fan of this bird for a while.
I often hear them singing as they fly around dawn or dusk.
Recorded this cutie with the parabolic mic on October 13. 🪶🔊
December 7, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Any Killdeer enjoyers?
Been a huge fan of this bird for a while.
I often hear them singing as they fly around dawn or dusk.
Recorded this cutie with the parabolic mic on October 13. 🪶🔊
Been a huge fan of this bird for a while.
I often hear them singing as they fly around dawn or dusk.
Recorded this cutie with the parabolic mic on October 13. 🪶🔊
My husband always refers to cormorants and Anhingas as “the bird with fleas” 😭.
They don’t deserve that rap! 🪶
Do you hear about other birds with unfair reputations?
They don’t deserve that rap! 🪶
Do you hear about other birds with unfair reputations?
Look twice and you might spot an Anhinga slinking through the waters.
Like cormorants, a lack of waterproofing require them to dry their wings in the sun.
Recorded these cuties in Orlando on 11/23 with a Parabolic mic.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky #photography
Like cormorants, a lack of waterproofing require them to dry their wings in the sun.
Recorded these cuties in Orlando on 11/23 with a Parabolic mic.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky #photography
December 6, 2024 at 5:31 PM
My husband always refers to cormorants and Anhingas as “the bird with fleas” 😭.
They don’t deserve that rap! 🪶
Do you hear about other birds with unfair reputations?
They don’t deserve that rap! 🪶
Do you hear about other birds with unfair reputations?
Look twice and you might spot an Anhinga slinking through the waters.
Like cormorants, a lack of waterproofing require them to dry their wings in the sun.
Recorded these cuties in Orlando on 11/23 with a Parabolic mic.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky #photography
Like cormorants, a lack of waterproofing require them to dry their wings in the sun.
Recorded these cuties in Orlando on 11/23 with a Parabolic mic.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky #photography
December 6, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Look twice and you might spot an Anhinga slinking through the waters.
Like cormorants, a lack of waterproofing require them to dry their wings in the sun.
Recorded these cuties in Orlando on 11/23 with a Parabolic mic.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky #photography
Like cormorants, a lack of waterproofing require them to dry their wings in the sun.
Recorded these cuties in Orlando on 11/23 with a Parabolic mic.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky #photography
This drama bird has a cutesy forehead shield and a tongue-twister name.
I recorded this Common Gallinule last month in the marshes of the Wildlife Drive at Lake Apopka in Florida.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky
I recorded this Common Gallinule last month in the marshes of the Wildlife Drive at Lake Apopka in Florida.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky
December 6, 2024 at 3:13 AM
This drama bird has a cutesy forehead shield and a tongue-twister name.
I recorded this Common Gallinule last month in the marshes of the Wildlife Drive at Lake Apopka in Florida.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky
I recorded this Common Gallinule last month in the marshes of the Wildlife Drive at Lake Apopka in Florida.
🪶🔊 #Birdsky
After a decade of birds I only recently started birding at dusk.
I was immediately treated to a new song from a bird with a bizarre name.
This is the Chuck-will’s-widow I recorded at Government Canyon this summer. 🪶🔊
I was immediately treated to a new song from a bird with a bizarre name.
This is the Chuck-will’s-widow I recorded at Government Canyon this summer. 🪶🔊
November 28, 2024 at 2:55 PM
After a decade of birds I only recently started birding at dusk.
I was immediately treated to a new song from a bird with a bizarre name.
This is the Chuck-will’s-widow I recorded at Government Canyon this summer. 🪶🔊
I was immediately treated to a new song from a bird with a bizarre name.
This is the Chuck-will’s-widow I recorded at Government Canyon this summer. 🪶🔊
Which titmouse is best?
I took the Black-crested for granted without realizing it’s a Central Texas exclusive! 💅🏻🪶🔊
Plus, finally nabbed a recording of the Tufted in Florida last weekend.
I took the Black-crested for granted without realizing it’s a Central Texas exclusive! 💅🏻🪶🔊
Plus, finally nabbed a recording of the Tufted in Florida last weekend.
November 28, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Which titmouse is best?
I took the Black-crested for granted without realizing it’s a Central Texas exclusive! 💅🏻🪶🔊
Plus, finally nabbed a recording of the Tufted in Florida last weekend.
I took the Black-crested for granted without realizing it’s a Central Texas exclusive! 💅🏻🪶🔊
Plus, finally nabbed a recording of the Tufted in Florida last weekend.
Just found a cute Downy Woodpecker who drilled this huge hole!
He climbs completely inside, grabs wood shavings, and then yeets that shit into the wind!
Nature is amazing.
🪶🌬️🌳 #birds
He climbs completely inside, grabs wood shavings, and then yeets that shit into the wind!
Nature is amazing.
🪶🌬️🌳 #birds
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 AM
Just found a cute Downy Woodpecker who drilled this huge hole!
He climbs completely inside, grabs wood shavings, and then yeets that shit into the wind!
Nature is amazing.
🪶🌬️🌳 #birds
He climbs completely inside, grabs wood shavings, and then yeets that shit into the wind!
Nature is amazing.
🪶🌬️🌳 #birds
With the tiny Bananaquit, I complete my photo collection of a bird trio that I feel could qualify as a Pokémon evolution set.
Bananaquit > Social Flycatcher > Great Kiskadee
🪶🍌
Bananaquit > Social Flycatcher > Great Kiskadee
🪶🍌
November 21, 2024 at 11:06 PM
With the tiny Bananaquit, I complete my photo collection of a bird trio that I feel could qualify as a Pokémon evolution set.
Bananaquit > Social Flycatcher > Great Kiskadee
🪶🍌
Bananaquit > Social Flycatcher > Great Kiskadee
🪶🍌
New kind of crow just dropped.
Spotted my first Fish Crow in Florida. 🪶🔊
Review: Travel-sized, cute noises, hangs with friends. Says “Uh-uh”.
10/10.
Spotted my first Fish Crow in Florida. 🪶🔊
Review: Travel-sized, cute noises, hangs with friends. Says “Uh-uh”.
10/10.
November 21, 2024 at 12:42 PM
New kind of crow just dropped.
Spotted my first Fish Crow in Florida. 🪶🔊
Review: Travel-sized, cute noises, hangs with friends. Says “Uh-uh”.
10/10.
Spotted my first Fish Crow in Florida. 🪶🔊
Review: Travel-sized, cute noises, hangs with friends. Says “Uh-uh”.
10/10.
3, 2, 1, totally caught this rocket launch by happenstance in Cape Canaveral today. 🚀
November 18, 2024 at 9:05 PM
3, 2, 1, totally caught this rocket launch by happenstance in Cape Canaveral today. 🚀
Love this.
Word of the day : Cratylism
Cratylism is a philosophical theory that holds that there is a natural relationship between words and what words designate. It reflects the teachings of the Athenian Cratylus, Socrates' interlocutor in Plato's eponymous dialogue Cratylus (Wiki)
Cratylism is a philosophical theory that holds that there is a natural relationship between words and what words designate. It reflects the teachings of the Athenian Cratylus, Socrates' interlocutor in Plato's eponymous dialogue Cratylus (Wiki)
Some birds are like Pokémon and say their own name.
A famous example is the Eastern Phoebe. Named for the fee-bee sound she makes.
Love how her whistle turns into a buzz. 🪶🔊
A famous example is the Eastern Phoebe. Named for the fee-bee sound she makes.
Love how her whistle turns into a buzz. 🪶🔊
November 17, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Love this.
Some birds are like Pokémon and say their own name.
A famous example is the Eastern Phoebe. Named for the fee-bee sound she makes.
Love how her whistle turns into a buzz. 🪶🔊
A famous example is the Eastern Phoebe. Named for the fee-bee sound she makes.
Love how her whistle turns into a buzz. 🪶🔊
November 17, 2024 at 5:39 AM
Some birds are like Pokémon and say their own name.
A famous example is the Eastern Phoebe. Named for the fee-bee sound she makes.
Love how her whistle turns into a buzz. 🪶🔊
A famous example is the Eastern Phoebe. Named for the fee-bee sound she makes.
Love how her whistle turns into a buzz. 🪶🔊