Ornithamateurs - The Birding Thread

Cute.
His hands are so incredibly still, he would make an excellent surgeon.
 
Very nice, Abs!
Errr.. what is it? :)

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IDK - Just a cool little .gif I came across :rolleyes:

This morning I saw something I have never seen before. Two ducks sitting on the apex of a roof. I watched them for about fifteen minutes, I took a photo with my phone, but I'm not sure it's clear they are ducks in the photo. I watched them stretched out their feet occasionally, stretch wings, they seemed relaxed and resting in the sun.....it just seemed such an alien environment for a duck. Maybe it was some other water bird....I saw webbed feet and Bill, but I cannot be certain of feather colouring because of light, that likes rock faces for nesting....but.....they looked like ducks to me....


Hmmm . . . that is unusual, but you never know . . . One day I was looking out my window and saw a goose sitting on a tree branch. Very odd. I also took a photo with my cell phone. It was a couple years ago, but I'll try to find it.
 
and in more positive news . . . so many birds have now arrived, orioles, grossbeaks, bluebirds, cedar waxwings, hummingbirds - the feeders are very busy :)

we might be neighbors in the bird sense. If I could keep the Raccoon's out of the feeders at night.
 
Well Seela, you motivated me to upload my clip of the honking starlings I encountered, but it isn't an mp3 so I can't upload it to tumblr :(

If anyone can upload a 3gp file and wants to volunteer, I would love to email it over and get it on the thread. Thanks :)
 
Well Seela, you motivated me to upload my clip of the honking starlings I encountered, but it isn't an mp3 so I can't upload it to tumblr :(

If anyone can upload a 3gp file and wants to volunteer, I would love to email it over and get it on the thread. Thanks :)

There are free 3gp to mp3 converters online. :)
 
Murmurations. I got so spoiled in my travels, seeing them nightly. I miss them!

Lovely snaps, Tol :heart: More please! :)
 
I was watching a pair of chicadees last weekend. They had babies in a bird house next to the feeder.
They were real tough guys, chasing cardinals away that were 10 times their size.
They bullied a tufted titmouse, too.
He seemed pissed but gave up the fight.
 
I was watching a pair of chicadees last weekend. They had babies in a bird house next to the feeder.
They were real tough guys, chasing cardinals away that were 10 times their size.
They bullied a tufted titmouse, too.
He seemed pissed but gave up the fight.

If there were a free grocery store in these parts, I might live next to it and cause off invaders as well :p
 
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