1. Bird Pictures: Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher “Springtime is exciting after a long, cold Ohio winter. Migrants are in their best colors, especially the males, and getting some nice shots is my goal.

A rare sighting of a blue rock thrush was made by ... with the settings on his Sony mirrorless camera with a Tamron 18-300mm f3.5-6.3 lens and managed to capture several images before the bird ...

After posting his photos to Facebook, Sanchez learned that his pretty bird was none other than a blue rock thrush, a native of Europe and Asia that is beyond rare in North America.