Wife and I had been trying to track down a Boreal Chickadee for the longest time, then one day while visiting my parents (who live nowhere near where they are usually spotted) one flies right up to wet it's beak in their backyard, right next to me! Of course no one else was around and my camera was charging inside. But I saw it! I SAW IT!!
you saw a government drone that was partially refracted through swamp gas
i forgot this was a thing and then I was walking home from the gym today and a lightpole had a Birds Aren't Real sticker on it telling everyone the truth!
Ok birb people... there's this bird I've heard over the past year that's been driving me nuts. I can't figure out what it is, and it's birdsong is not like anything I've ever heard in New England before. The closest thing I figured was that it was some exotic bird that was a lost pet and would likely die in the winter; but no, it started chirping again this spring!
Ok, I've been loafin' for too long and am about to inject some hot birbs into this birb thread! Here are some shots I took before my life got overwhelmed with dad duties/covid depression!
(I don't think I'll ever take a better bird photo than this. I have dubbed thee Kylo Wren)
I hope to start getting out again soon. First big trip after the boarders open up is heading back to Australia, and I need to track down my white whale; wild cassowaries!
Ok birb people... there's this bird I've heard over the past year that's been driving me nuts. I can't figure out what it is, and it's birdsong is not like anything I've ever heard in New England before. The closest thing I figured was that it was some exotic bird that was a lost pet and would likely die in the winter; but no, it started chirping again this spring!
My mom thought it was a red wing blackbird, but... it doesn't sound anything like that AFAICT
Doesn't sound like a red-wing blackbird. That being said, bird calls are hard / I'm really bad at bird calls, but turns out the good folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are working on an app to ID bird calls. If you can make an audio file from that recording, you could try submitting it here and seeing what the program being put together by the professionals think.
I think I saw a grey blackbird yesterday. Is that a thing.
Size and shape looked like regular blackbird and it hopped around with a dark brown partner.
Turdus pilaris, fieldfare in English, and Wacholderdrossel in German.
I didn't realize when you were talking about blackbirds before that you meant European blackbirds, which are also in thrush family (American blackbirds are a different family). Location is important for bird IDs!
So this May long weekend I ventured out back to the cabin where the Alpine chickadee first escaped my grasp, except this time I came prepared! Battery on full, camera never left my side, and had some audio recording going. The fellow never did show up, which I expected, BUT there was a bird up at the very top of a birch tree singing a tune a hadn't heard before. I pointed my lense and lo and behold it was another lifer I had not anticipated!
A Ruby throated Grosbeak! So elusive that even my wife hadn't had it on her count yet (she is the more hardcore birder of the two of us), and she still doesn't because once again she wasn't around...
Anyway, look at that little Muppet!
EDIT: ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK, thanks Mayabird. Laughed out of the bird conventions I will be!
Frist (and only) time I saw a grosbeak I was surprised at how much bigger they were than I expected. Even more surprised were the goldfinches at my feeder since grosbeaks don't usually visit feeders.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
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Had a goshawk* fly a few feet over my head today while being out in the park with the daughter in her stroller.
Look like it was chased by two smaller birds in close pursuit through the woods.
5 minutes later it was chilling on the lowest branch of a tree next to the trail.
Wasn't fast enough for a picture though. The smaller birds came back and chased it off.
* Best guess as those are apparently fleeing into the cities here to be safe from hunters and poultry farmers illegally hunting them.
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Forgot to mention but some days ago I saw a raven being chased by two crows. Very easy to tell the difference between the two - ravens being much larger than crows (basically, if you have to ask if it's big enough to be a raven, it's a crow, because you will know if it's a raven), and also their different calls (the crows cawing at the raven, and the raven croaking in likely annoyance).
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https://youtu.be/ml7bK1jg69I
i forgot this was a thing and then I was walking home from the gym today and a lightpole had a Birds Aren't Real sticker on it telling everyone the truth!
Any ideas??
https://youtu.be/dpSTO5pErbw
My mom thought it was a red wing blackbird, but... it doesn't sound anything like that AFAICT
deffo not a rw blackbird
(I don't think I'll ever take a better bird photo than this. I have dubbed thee Kylo Wren)
I hope to start getting out again soon. First big trip after the boarders open up is heading back to Australia, and I need to track down my white whale; wild cassowaries!
Doesn't sound like a red-wing blackbird. That being said, bird calls are hard / I'm really bad at bird calls, but turns out the good folks at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are working on an app to ID bird calls. If you can make an audio file from that recording, you could try submitting it here and seeing what the program being put together by the professionals think.
Size and shape looked like regular blackbird and it hopped around with a dark brown partner.
Light grey on the left, dark brown which looked more like a female blackbird on the right.
Anyway another bird today. Some kind of thrush? Song Thrush maybe
Turdus pilaris, fieldfare in English, and Wacholderdrossel in German.
I didn't realize when you were talking about blackbirds before that you meant European blackbirds, which are also in thrush family (American blackbirds are a different family). Location is important for bird IDs!
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Turdus
These wholesome nerds are hiding something, I can't quite put my finger it....
A Ruby throated Grosbeak! So elusive that even my wife hadn't had it on her count yet (she is the more hardcore birder of the two of us), and she still doesn't because once again she wasn't around...
Anyway, look at that little Muppet!
EDIT: ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK, thanks Mayabird. Laughed out of the bird conventions I will be!
Look like it was chased by two smaller birds in close pursuit through the woods.
5 minutes later it was chilling on the lowest branch of a tree next to the trail.
Wasn't fast enough for a picture though. The smaller birds came back and chased it off.
* Best guess as those are apparently fleeing into the cities here to be safe from hunters and poultry farmers illegally hunting them.
And on a different note
She's the important bird. That's her area.
Is this @Saeris ?
https://youtu.be/GQUmfmvL2AM
right after murdering someone in cold blood with a swapblaster
how dare you