Check out https://ebird.org/hotspots. If you zoom in several times, you'll see many places birders go and a list of birds seen recently. Hovering over one spot will show the name of the place. Clicking on "View Details" will provide the list. From that screen, you can also work out how to get there.

This is the place experienced birders go.

Yup. That is a picture of a Red-shouldered Hawk. There are similarities, but they are not the same so your's is still a Cooper's. Please reread my points and check out the allaboutbirds link to Cooper's Hawk immature. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Coopers_Hawk/photo-gallery/305687541

I agree it is a really good picture, but it really is a Cooper's Hawk. The tail is much too long for a Red-shouldered, but it is just right for a Cooper's. The white bands of a Red-shouldered are much narrower; these are just right for a Cooper's. The streaks on the breast are thin and dark; a Red-shouldered's in Florida are not. Instead, they are blotchy.

I got my R5 in early March. I had ordered the RF100-500 at the same time. Week after week, I was notified week after week that it wasn't available. When I finally called, they told me they filled firm orders first, so I made one. It was shipped 2 or 3 weeks later, but it arrived a week after I had left for a three-week trip. Interestingly enough, I received one more notice it was not available a week after it arrived. (I had kept checking, and Canon USA also did not have it available throughout that time.) I now have it and like it!

It is indeed a Purple Finch (female). The white line above and behind the eye means it is not a House Finch.

I really like your pictures. Do you have any other pictures of the Avocet? I looks to me like a Bonaparte's Gull. Note the short gull-shaped bill and the black edgings around the wings. It looks like it probably has black on the tip of the tail. The leg looks short and pink.

Nice shot, but if you want it to be realistic, you have overcooked it. Northern Parulas are not that green or blue. Instead, their colors are much more muted.

So sure, let's arm the kids. That'll solve the problem. Even arming the teachers would create an enormous liability exposure for schools, not readily covered by insurance.

Try renting a big lens first to make sure you will like it.

What we usually hear is that we need to identify mentally disturbed people and make sure they don't have access to guns. That is nonsense. It cannot be done because we cannot identify them. The only partial solution that has a chance of working is remove semi-automatic weapons from the citizenry. There is no demonstrable need for us to have them if the result is ownership is more of these mass shootings. Making them illegal will still mean they will be around for many years and the shootings will continue. But, we have to start somewhere.

I believe this one is a Western Sandpiper. Note the drooping bill and the red streak on the back.

Actually, "seagull" is a misnomer. They are gulls. They don't go to sea. People see them at shores, but they are found inland as well as at ocean edges.

My attempt - using Lightroom CC.

Post processing is the next step for me to learn. I would like to see what can be done with this old jpg,dslrd
and what software was used.

Setup: D100, Quantary 28-200 1:3.5-5.6 lens w/uv filter, AUTO mode.

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All birds molt. The picture of the House Finch shows it in the middle of molting. They have to grow new feathers because old ones get worn.

I'm looking at a painting in The Sibley Guide to Birds that looks very much like your picture. Are you looking at adult birds?