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Any birdwatchers?

i use that great app called Merlin Bird on iphone at least. It identifies bird song for you! I feel so much more connected when I can hear a great tit! But, joking aside I do know
Green Woodpecker by his laugh
Buzzards by their distant caw-caw
Adorable Oyster Catchers that squeak like a little toy
and fucking pigeons that shag on our roof and have ONE SONG :mad:
 
I was outside early yesterday morning and could hear several owls off in the woods asking each other 'who, who, who, whowho?' Nobody seemed to know.
 
Today was a first. I witnessed an attack by a Cooper's hawk on a mourning dove in my back yard. That's not quite accurate. I was eating breakfast at the patio table, heard screeching and a commotion, and looked up to see the dove flying away and the hawk flying after it. It happened so fast I only caught the aftermath. Apparently, it was a very close call, because the encounter left some of the dove's feathers on the ground. I was astonished how fast it was. It was nearly over by the time I looked up from breakfast.
 
SimonDoom said:
I've never prepared a lifetime list of birds sighted, and I have no idea what the number would be. I'm curious, though.
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Yeah I never even thought about it either . And then I aged 😂. For me it started 25 years ago with an Audubon field guide (well, multiple). I was a counselor at an outdoor focused summer camp from 20-22 and we had multiple guides: The Night Sky, Trees/Mammals/Flowers/Birds of the Eastern US, etc. Always was interested in everything but when I was home visiting my folks and my mom started calling out Chickadees, Finches, Sparrows, Hummingbirds, etc., from our kitchen windows, I saw how excited she was. And she told me how she planted specifically for migratory birds and how thrilled she was when she saw a new or rare bird, I got the bug.

Fast forward to present. I can tell many birds by their song, the manner in which they fly, their habitat, how they perch…and yet I know nothing compared to serious birders.

But there is something incredibly satisfying about knowing about the ones I do. And knowing why and how they live, even to a tiny degree.

Modernity and the digital world make it very easy to forget that we’re part of it all. Sorry for the soliloquy. But I find the more I know about the natural order of things the more human I feel.

Ergo, try birding! 🤣
 
It floors me how often I ask visitors to my park about seeing wildlife on their hike and they say they didn't see any at all. People ignore birds, they only consider furry critters to be wildlife. But wildlife lovers should be tickled over birds, because you always see them. Who cares if the deer and coyotes and bobcats and skunks are too wily to let you spot them today.
 
First confirmed Hummer encounter ... about two weeks early.


I was pretty sure I'd heard them before and maybe even saw a few at a distance. But this one got in my face as if to ask 'Where's breakfast?'

I haven't been putting feeders out due to the wasps though.
 
Five_Inch_Heels said:
First confirmed Hummer encounter ... about two weeks early.


I was pretty sure I'd heard them before and maybe even saw a few at a distance. But this one got in my face as if to ask 'Where's breakfast?'

I haven't been putting feeders out due to the wasps though.
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Thats awesome! He said hop to human servant!
 
My backyard, alas, has become a mourning dove killing ground. I went into the backyard today to find a thick litter of gray feathers on the lawn. No trace of the corpse. The hawk either devoured it completely or flew off with it.
 
SimonDoom said:
My backyard, alas, has become a mourning dove killing ground. I went into the backyard today to find a thick litter of gray feathers on the lawn. No trace of the corpse. The hawk either devoured it completely or flew off with it.
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Must have eaten it right there. Flying off with it wouldn't have left all those feathers.

Were they in like a mat on the ground or more like scattered around? Could have been a cat's doing.
 
Britva415 said:
Must have eaten it right there. Flying off with it wouldn't have left all those feathers.

Were they in like a mat on the ground or more like scattered around? Could have been a cat's doing.
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Pretty thickly concentrated in one area of the lawn. My impression is it must have eaten at least part of the bird in that spot, and then perhaps left with it.

Possibly a cat but not likely. My neighbor's cat is 16 and doesn't get around that much anymore and would be unlikely, I think, to catch a mourning dove.

All the mourning doves I've seen in my yard have mates, so I'm sad to think of its heartbroken and now lonely companion.
 
Hiking the Oregon coast and saw tufted puffins rafting just off the beach! Coincidentally, today is “welcome the puffins” celebration day in Oregon. Right about now is when they come back from their normal life out at sea to breed and roost in the sea stacks along the pnw coastline. Had no idea they spend most of their lives out in the open ocean.

My iPhone pics can’t do them justice, so here’s one I stole from Reddit:

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