Ornithamateurs - The Birding Thread

[rbijon]

I just feed my Blue Birds, they sure love those dry worms

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I just feed my Blue Birds, they sure love those dry worms

That just induces a totally inappropriate picture in my brain

 

[rbijon]

That just induces a totally inappropriate picture in my brain

tisk,...tisk....dry worms taste great with enough ketchup

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

tisk,...tisk....dry worms taste great with enough ketchup

I'm pretty sure that made it worse :l

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[tolyk]

My favourite swan photo that I've captured:

https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7514/27333093076_2b8fff13e3_c.jpg

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

That is a sweet swan pic indeed

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I enjoy the gulls when I'm at the coast, especially the laughing gulls
And taking bread out and becoming encased in a seething cloud of squabbling gulls, I enjoy that!
This fellow looks rather stoic.

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

They are deft, gulls. I rather admire the elegance of their quick thefts. One stole a prawn sandwich from G as he put it to his mouth in the street once. G first felt cross then felt rather like the full was a kindred spirit, so he went and bought another, and shared it with it. I told him he was a fool, but kind of like that he did. (He knows that, but I never admit it)

A crow snatched my chocolate chip cookie like that once
I didn't have another to share, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway. One was enough!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

My little bird box birds this morning... ( have a few pics but hosting is sticky, so will edit in)

http://i1240.photobucket.com/albums/gg491/onceuponatimetherewasapicture/garden2016/f1b59384a7068587ece8dbe97a7773da_zps9diswg07.jpg

Proud owner of his cottage, surveying his lands.
Or, pissed off wife wondering exactly where her husband has strayed off to?

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Yes please!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

He's a big fella

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

And looking rather like a dinosaur in that pic I might add.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Well...i understand that birds did evolve from the dinosaurs. Lol

And when you get to look them in the eye it becomes quite apparent, in my opinion. Watching a pack of grackles hunt bugs in newly mown grass always gives me a bit of a shudder. Calculating little beasties!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

This guy has been visiting my bubbler this week -
Western Tanager.

A beauty!
I believe he's wiggling his tail feathers at us

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Yes! I remember the first time I ever saw dufflebacks.
So striking! And that's quite a bill (beak?) she is sporting

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I would call that a common loon

Oh, I'm not calling that a buffle head (darn phone), if that's what my comment came across as saying. It's just that their white/black colouring is so striking. I love stark white/black colouration patterns in birds. So beautiful.

Editing to add an image.

https://www.beautyofbirds.com/sites/default/files/birds/Ducks/buffleheads.jpg

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[skinnysinner]

https://65.media.tumblr.com/31ae0480016f7b0b3f1b0c53dcdf0ee4/tumblr_ne25n2pF9u1t1cy7no1_500.jpg

So beautiful!

Fantastic! Common loon, over here might be a Great Northern Diver, no innuendo intended.

Glad I found this thread, I work for a nature conservation organisation and as part of my work I have to visit reserves ... So hard!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Fantastic! Common loon, over here might be a Great Northern Diver, no innuendo intended.

Glad I found this thread, I work for a nature conservation organisation and as part of my work I have to visit reserves ... So hard!

You hear that sound?
It's all of us, clamouring for photos

 

[AbsintheFather]

http://www.bentler.us/eastern-washington/animals/birds/western-tanager-buckbrush-lg.jpg

This guy has been visiting my bubbler this week -
Western Tanager.

Pretty - We get the Scarlet Tanagers in our yard from time to time.

http://blog.nwf.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/11/files/2013/05/ScarletTanager_MarkPreston-Flickr_500x330.jpg

In terms of a general update - Lots of baby Orioles at the jelly feeder these days. We had a half dozen baby Mallards, but they're gone already. We also have baby turkey's wandering through the yard - I've seen a family with three babies and the deer feeder where we put corn out.