Awesome Hawk shots Johnny!
Carole, lovely shots of the King Parrot.
As to the new thread every month. I'm sort of divided. I think a year would be intimidating to new people plus a year can get into a pretty long thread. I think it was originally done monthly to make it easy for people to reference -- what birds are where in what month type of thing plus it keeps the individual thread much shorter & as was already mentioned -- the intimidation factor.
I would like to propose splitting the difference. How about change threads with the seasons? Spring, summer, fall, & winter. It doesn't have to be on the exact day that season begins either; just close enough will do. I would be very happy with that set up.
OK, I put in my 2 cents, now it's everyone else's turn.
And I'm going to remind everyone that in 4 days is the Global Big Day Bird Count
https://ebird.org/news/global-...
