So apparently the largest hummingbird is a lot larger than I thought they would be.
"having a wingspan of approximately 21.5 cm (8.5 in) and length of 23 cm (9.1 in). This is approximately the same length as a European starling or a northern cardinal,"
That is an absolutely gorgeous male yellow bellied sapsucker. Or at least my amateur bird identification skills have settled on that as the species, though I guess it could be a red-naped sapsucker but they're not supposed to live in the eastern United States and the yellow bellied do.
Lindsay, that is a perfect shot of the Nuthatch! You really captured its characteristic pose. Well done (on all of them)!
Thanks - it's the first time I've taken pictures of birds (outside of zoos). My mother feeds the birds, so I thought she'd like to see what we get "on the mainland" as she lives on an island off the coast. Turns out the titmouse is one that doesn't make it out there. Fortunately, a few years back we bought a camera with 50x optical zoom, so that helps (aside from my shaking hands!).
a bird made a nest in the hanging flower planter thing right outside my front door
it keeps flying away when I come outside and I'm like, "no, be friend!"
A couple of birds (house sparrows?) made a mud nest in the corner of the underside of the balcony by my apartment front door which was cute until the eggs hatched and they swooped at me when I used my door.
Then after a big storm it fell down to the sidewalk and one of my neighbors rescued it and put it in a hanging planter she put right outside my window. Baby left the nest like 2 days later.
We've gotten in the habit of taking any meat that goes bad in the fridge and leaving it in our back yard. That way it doesn't stink up the garbage and while its no longer good for human consumption, its still within the tolerance of wild scavenders.
Slimey chicken and stale sausage makes the corvids happy. Once a whole filet of salmon went bad before we cooked it and that one brought a very dapper vulture to visit!
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
My random web searching claims that Chickadees do not have the eye stripe of the Nuthatch. So (from top to bottom) Chickadees have black-white-black heads while Nuthatches have black-white-black-white heads.
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First picture: black-capped chickadee. Very borb with big head. Tends to hang out on branches. Says "chicka-dee-dee-dee" (you may just hear "dee-dee-dee") and "fee-bee" a lot, and often makes complex gurgle-beeps. A bit more social, so if you see one chickadee you're likely to see a few others around too.
Second picture: white-breasted nuthatch. A little larger and longer, no beard/bib. Tends to hang out on the trunks. Most common call is a rapid "hatch-hatch-hatch" or "awk-awk-awk." Often alone or just with a mate (males have shiny black caps on their heads, and females slate-gray caps - it's hard to tell unless they're side by side.)
I would like to speak to the bird manager right away, how was this allowed to happen?
Text: So apparently I'm the last person on earth to know that owls have long legs underneath all those fluffy feathers. Why didn't y'all tell me?!
Photo: Owls being exposed as the early Merrie Melodies weirdos they are, and apparently always have been
My parents' house has an old milk door - that is, a small rectangular door about a foot wide in the exterior wall. In ye olden days it would have been used for milk deliveries, but currently it just opens into a pocket in the exterior wall. The latch is long gone, leaving a round hole a couple of inches in diameter.
A pair of starlings has been nesting behind the door for quite a few years now, using the hole as an entrance. One year it started to smell inside the house and the parents stopped coming to the nest, so my mom and I investigated. We found two dead nestlings neatly stacked against the door and one living chick still in the nest. We removed the bodies but didn't disturb anything else. Within days, the parents came back, and the surviving baby fledged a week later. I think about that sometimes - how the parents were driven from the nest by the rotting corpses, but must have still been watching closely enough to know it was safe to come back and care for their last nestling.
This year's brood was audibly peeping when I visited my folks last weekend :heartbeat:
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Someone had very clearly landed then had no idea how to get down. Kept doing little movements like it couldn't figure out how to take off.
"having a wingspan of approximately 21.5 cm (8.5 in) and length of 23 cm (9.1 in). This is approximately the same length as a European starling or a northern cardinal,"
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Maine actually. We have a group of about five of them that seem to enjoy eating what fails out of the feeders.
i don't think bird pictures are appropriate for the bird thread, try the podcasts thread instead
Thanks - it's the first time I've taken pictures of birds (outside of zoos). My mother feeds the birds, so I thought she'd like to see what we get "on the mainland" as she lives on an island off the coast. Turns out the titmouse is one that doesn't make it out there. Fortunately, a few years back we bought a camera with 50x optical zoom, so that helps (aside from my shaking hands!).
how to tell?
it keeps flying away when I come outside and I'm like, "no, be friend!"
nuthatches have longer beaks and will walk right up the side of a tree
there are other ways to tell, but that's what springs to mind immediately
A couple of birds (house sparrows?) made a mud nest in the corner of the underside of the balcony by my apartment front door which was cute until the eggs hatched and they swooped at me when I used my door.
Then after a big storm it fell down to the sidewalk and one of my neighbors rescued it and put it in a hanging planter she put right outside my window. Baby left the nest like 2 days later.
Still waiting to see if they try again this year.
Slimey chicken and stale sausage makes the corvids happy. Once a whole filet of salmon went bad before we cooked it and that one brought a very dapper vulture to visit!
Chickadees also say their own name, like a Pokemon.
This is a Chickadee:
They tend to look rounder than nuthatches.
First picture: black-capped chickadee. Very borb with big head. Tends to hang out on branches. Says "chicka-dee-dee-dee" (you may just hear "dee-dee-dee") and "fee-bee" a lot, and often makes complex gurgle-beeps. A bit more social, so if you see one chickadee you're likely to see a few others around too.
Second picture: white-breasted nuthatch. A little larger and longer, no beard/bib. Tends to hang out on the trunks. Most common call is a rapid "hatch-hatch-hatch" or "awk-awk-awk." Often alone or just with a mate (males have shiny black caps on their heads, and females slate-gray caps - it's hard to tell unless they're side by side.)
I would like to speak to the bird manager right away, how was this allowed to happen?
Text: So apparently I'm the last person on earth to know that owls have long legs underneath all those fluffy feathers. Why didn't y'all tell me?!
Photo: Owls being exposed as the early Merrie Melodies weirdos they are, and apparently always have been
A pair of starlings has been nesting behind the door for quite a few years now, using the hole as an entrance. One year it started to smell inside the house and the parents stopped coming to the nest, so my mom and I investigated. We found two dead nestlings neatly stacked against the door and one living chick still in the nest. We removed the bodies but didn't disturb anything else. Within days, the parents came back, and the surviving baby fledged a week later. I think about that sometimes - how the parents were driven from the nest by the rotting corpses, but must have still been watching closely enough to know it was safe to come back and care for their last nestling.
This year's brood was audibly peeping when I visited my folks last weekend :heartbeat:
well, there's some characteristic behaviors to look out for:
It's Nut Hatch? I thought it was a rolled TH sound in the middle, nuTHatch. Like the word nothing but ending in atch instead of ing.
ha ha dumb
a carolina chickadee!
they have that dingy yellowish patch below their wing. Northern chickadees have a grayer patch of feathers there
thus begins and ends the entirety of my bird knowledge