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Eating a bug

Eating a bug (photo 3 and photo 4)

Eating a moth (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183748679).

Variable Checkerspot (Chalcedon Checkerspot) larva - Euphydras chalcedona, Tickwood Trail, Mount Diablo State Park

Any ideas on what this Phoebe is eating?

On Ray Hartman ceanothus

Townsend's warbler on Ceanothus- it seems to have either a growth or some buildup on its beak, although not to as extreme extent as another warbler seen the same day.

eating buds among sprouting Blue Oak leaves.

female

Group of ?bushtits? at my Salvia clevelandii. Very tiny, with dark Grey on some of the heads, and high pitch chirps frequently.

Eating what looked like caterpillars off Ribes sanguineum and salvia spathacea

In Creosote Bush. *Very chirpy!

Five individuals eating berries from a bush

First photo shows it eating what is most likely an insect.

Feeding at Arbutus unedo. Unlike her flock mates, she was too excited about the fruit to fly off!

Bluebird eating a fat caterpillar.

Monument Peak Road

What birds are eating the berries?

eating yellow-green unripe berries

Appeared to gather nesting material from Baccharis salicifolia and then took it to Salvia mellifera

A group of bushtits were eating fennel flowers at the baylands.

eating coffee berry

Aprox 5 in - appeared to be eating insects in Oak Tree

travelling with 2-3 house finches and a white crowned sparrow. Saw it eating seeds and a caterpillar.

eating fruit of Hollyleaf Cherry

Flock repeatedly returning to seeding Tule. I believe they are likely eating Tule seeds, but did not get any evidence for that claim. There is a squirrel near them in the Tule, eating lots of seeds.

Eating a worm

Eating flower detritus and aphids

eating Lerp Psyllids on eucalyptus leaves.

In madrone tree. Others of it's species nearby.

A large flock was chowing down on cotoneaster berries. Constant and loud chatter.

Eating a bug

Eating a fat worm.

Oriole eating a grasshopper.

Large flock eating berries from this tree

It was eating bees
. It thrashed off the stingers by beating the abdomens against the tree.

Warbler eating a big fat juicy caterpillar.

I watched it catch and eat a large black and yellow bumblebee.

Eating a large insect

Eating a bee

Eating a bee

Eating flowers and seeds next to the trail.

taking an earwig back to the nest

one of several in the flock seen flower-piercing recently bloomed honeysuckle flowers for nectar

eating caterpillar

Eating a grub of some kind.

Eating the mustard flowers. Mated pair

Observed a White-crowned Sparrow diving into the shrub and coming out with some flower petals (presumably to eat).

Eating an Autographa californica moth, probably caught at the flowers of this Red willow.

Eating aphids off arugula plant

Eating young leaves of a tree I can't ID.

Eating flowers.

feeding on Madrone berries and, or insects between the berries. I saw 7 individuals and all were in fruiting Madrones.

So many different sp. of warblers in one toyon, taking advantage of a termite emergence. At least a pair of BTGW were there.

So many different sp. of warblers in one toyon, taking advantage of a termite emergence. At least a pair of TW were there.

Enjoying the berries.

Local parrots in our China berry tree.

Eating an insect larva

Eating seeds. Immature white-crowned?

Even when it's pouring, birds gotta eat.

Found this adorable bird with white stripes eating from honeysuckles in the yard today.

Seen both feeding from gum tree flowers and "hawking" for insects midair.

sparrows appeared to be eating the Common Lippia (Phyla nodiflora) plant

Eating pine nuts.

Coot climbing tree to nibble on willow catkins.

Eating fresh Avena seeds?

feeding on swan neck agave?

Three individuals in a mixed flock with sparrows, moving from bush to bush and feeding, moving gradually south along the east bank of the lagoon.

Small flock feeding on flower buds (weather was very Spring-like).

Probing Tree Tobacco trumpet flowers for insects, unless it learned something from Hummingbirds and is drinking nectar?

In a young Valley Oak that started flowering.

White patch on back seen clearly, but I wasn't able to photograph it. Smaller than Nuttall's WP.

In Grevillea robusta (silk oak) tree.

Found in blooming Silk Oak Tree