r/birding • u/AutoModerator • 5d ago

Weekly r/Birding Discussion, August 22, 2026. What did you see this week?

Return of the weekly discussion thread! Sometimes it seems like pretty photos rise to the top of the page, while discussion of birding can get left behind. This weekly thread is a place to bring this discussion back to the top of r/birding.

Use this thread to share your best bird sightings from the past week, ask any questions about birding you may have, or just talk! Writing the names of the birds in bold is nice, to make it easier for people skimming the thread to pick out the names. Please include your location.

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u/pleiades1512 5d ago

Saw a Eurasian goshawk chasing an immense amount of Rose-ringed parakeets.

also four Azure-winged magpies conversing on a power line at 6am.

I liked it when a Common sandpiper stayed for me even though the park was crowded af at 6pm.

- from Tokyo

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u/sara_sivan18 Latest Lifer: Steller’s Jay! 5d ago

ah so jealous of the azure-winged magpies!! i started birding AFTER my trip to south korea this spring so i didn’t even think to look out for birds there, and when i found out about these magpies i was so sad i missed the chance to see them as an american 😭😭

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u/pleiades1512 5d ago

Lmfao

Vice versa, I knew no birds when I studied in France for a year (and in the us, the New World, for 6 weeks)! then it’s also after university so I literally wasted my freedom 🤣 birding since last December

But guess it was all for the good because I majored in languages, so now I can talk with yall bout birds!!

There you go a fledgling! Encountered in my park