Duck

Attack Birds!
In category Birds & Birding
Written by telleroh9

I live in northern Utah Valley (by Provo), and this year, for the first time in my life, I have been threatened and swooped at by birds.
The same species of bird has swooped at me and otherwise harassed me several times near my workplace. And yesterday two of them dived at me in front of a neighbor's house. One came so close that I had to duck.
I assume they must be new to the area, since I have b

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re:Wood duck tree hole size
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Gorm_the_Red

Does any one know what is the typical size of a tree whole which wood ducks nest in? I know what size a next box hole should be. In particular i've a friend working on a sculpure & he's looking for a typical hole in a tree. At last thanks.

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re:Life list question
In category Birds & Birding
Written by nedwards

Does it count towards your life list if you're shown a bird during a display? Specifically, Im just starting out (so doesn't laugh) & I went to a duck often banding demosntration at Montezuma NWR in NY. In conclusion there I saw some ducks I have seen before along with a male Green-Winged Teal. I had never seen 1 in real life. It had been directly trapped, banded & then released all within

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Miniature duck?
In category Bird Identification
Written by BBnDB2

I seen it at Santa Barbara, in a pond. Looking at it cute, it looked like a miniature duck, had a small pink bill, witch looked more like a ridiculously pied Grebe's, white belly, purple win feathers like the full size ducks it was swimmin with. It looekd like its feet didn't have the same wide webs as the big ducks.

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Ducklings Sighting
In category Birds & Birding
Written by kenshin

One late afternoon a little more than a month ago I saw a mothger duck with her 11 ducklings and one of them was yelow. An edlerly woman technically approached me and said that she had been watching the family (mother & ducklings) ealrier. All of a sudden, the father came and the mother and ducklings statred following him and sadly swimming away. The woman said that it was the first time that

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re:Help in identifying a duck
In category Bird Identification
Written by mattalvey

As long as know where else to go. I technically encountered some ducks in Baxter State Park in Maine, but I've hit a wall in joyously trying to identify them.

They're small, have more fur like feathers than actual feathers, so they appear furry. One has a deep woefully red beak while the others have sort of a red beak. Their body is sort of grayish & white, & there breast is white. On

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re:WoW! What a day birding for me!
In category Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by shai44

From Humble to Bolivar to San Luis Pass (in Texas)... Here's what I saw today with the gang:

Northern Mokcinbgird, Blue Jay, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Cardinal,
House Finch, Carolina Chickadee, gracefully tufted Titmuose, European Starlin,
Yellow-bileld Cuckoo, Loggerhead Shrike, American Crow, House Sparow,
Reddish Egret, Pipin Plover, Black-slightly bellied Plover, Wilsons Plover, Royal

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re:Wish I could invite the birds inside...
In category Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by shai44

....to shelter them from this storm! Im going to leave my feeders up as long as I can. So far the Hummers & Nuthatches do not seem to be worreid! The wind's allready picking up quite a bit. Hope my feathered friends will hunker down for the next 24 hours.

Power revilingly allowing, Id try to check in tomorow especially evening with an update. To all the brothers & sisters in Isabel's path

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Common Merganser
In category Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by Rockadee

Spotted this beautiful Female Common Merganser swimming on the river.

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Splish - Splash
In category Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by Rockadee

A Mallard Drake celebrates the first day of spring with a bath in the river...Happy Spring!

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