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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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. 🪶
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
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. 🪶
Curiosity got the best of me. Merlin can ID bird butts. Technology is amazing. 🪶 #computervision
December 15, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Curiosity got the best of me. Merlin can ID bird butts. Technology is amazing. 🪶 #computervision
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. 🪶🔊
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
Apparently, moor means a tract of open, uncultivated land.
I love when the common or Latin names of birds give clues on where or what to look for. 🪶 #waterfowl
I love when the common or Latin names of birds give clues on where or what to look for. 🪶 #waterfowl
December 6, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Apparently, moor means a tract of open, uncultivated land.
I love when the common or Latin names of birds give clues on where or what to look for. 🪶 #waterfowl
I love when the common or Latin names of birds give clues on where or what to look for. 🪶 #waterfowl
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.
How to structurally compromise a tree branch in four images. 🪶
November 23, 2024 at 2:09 AM
How to structurally compromise a tree branch in four images. 🪶
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 for the Lincoln’s Sparrow! 🪶
One of those birds I notice only when birding.
One of those birds I notice only when birding.
November 18, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Love for the Lincoln’s Sparrow! 🪶
One of those birds I notice only when birding.
One of those birds I notice only when birding.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo is cuckoo for caterpillars! 🐛 🪶
November 17, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Yellow-billed Cuckoo is cuckoo for caterpillars! 🐛 🪶
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. 🪶🔊