If you have an iPad or iPhone you will not find a better app for birding or for that matter book than Ibird pro. I literally use it to call in birds to my house. I can call in several types easily using that app and a monster blue tooth speaker. For example I had several Pileated woodpeckers at my old house but hadnt seen one here at my new place. I put the call out several times one day and nothing. But the next morning there he was in all his glory eating worms at the base of a tree in the yard. Since then I go out every few days and call him and his mate to the yard just for a flyover and a peek. I can do the same with doves, titmouse, red bellied woodpeckers, and the list goes on. The calls are actual calls of the birds. As for identification you just put your state and then what you seen and it will narrow your birds. Highly recommended it. It covers every detail of the bird and allows you to just select what you saw, like color size location and then it will give you results for you to pick what you saw. You can also favorite your birds to easily call them up later and make notes on when and what you saw,

I've taken several pictures of birds sitting on concrete and at the same angle. All were after they had hit one of our windows. The droopy wing is a common characteristic during the recovery. I don't know if some of them die later from the collision, but many do fly away. We do what we can to prevent this, but during migration time, it still happens occasionally.

Cookie, is is a Gray Catbird. They are such cool little birds! I bet they would like you more if you gave them some of the food they like. They LOVE suet..especially peanutbutter suet dough, jelly and oranges. Normally each year we have them coming up to our feeders on our deck but not this year. I miss them! Donna

Webcat, it was part of a demonstration of the use of raptors for hunting in the Viking era at the Viking Center in Ribe, Denmark. Thus the jesses and leash. I think I remember the presenter saying it was a North-American owl, and that they couldn't use a European owl because they are all protected. People were especially warned against going within pecking range of it, as it was very bad-tempered.