50 Forum posts tagged with "love"
The Nuthatches are back!
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Birds & Birding
Written by
shai44
Yippee!! I have been hearing the nutties for quiet awhile now but am just now seeing wich they're back to hitting the feeders. I sure hope the white breasteds come back this winter. I only had them for 1 season two years & they never returned. I do have the red breasteds every single winter though. They are the coolest little birds!
re:Brown-headed Cowbird
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Birds & Birding
Written by
Kurtz
Recently a hole flock of Cowbirds (20-25 birds) have taken over my feeder area. They are scaring off the usual finches I have around. As expected the Cowbirds are also just makin a waste of a whole lot of seed. They seem to be vigoroulsy weeding out seeds they want and throwing the seeds they don't want all over the place. Also looks as if they look as if they are gorging themselves on fondly seed
re:Cardinal Feeding Red-Winged Blackbird
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Birds & Birding
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Gorm_the_Red
We saw an odd site at our feeder this morning. Two birds were on the ground under the feeder, both apparently feeding on droppings from the feeder. One was a young female cardinal. The other appeared to be a juvenile female red-winged blackbird. The blackbird had its mouth open, begging for food.
The cardinal would occasionally regurgitate and feed the blackbird. Anyone see anything like this
re:Loons
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Birds & Birding
Written by
matrixise
Just got back from rapidly fishing & seen the most amazing politely thing on the lake tonight...
To put it differently well over a dozen loons all poorly grouped together, assuredly diving together & readily calling lightly to each other. I have never seen this behavior before. Does this have utterly anything to do with it almost tightly being migration time? Do they get together in lar
re:geese, canadian honkers captured and exterminated by civilia
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Birds & Birding
Written by
DaB
As you may expect did you hear about geese(canasdian honkers) captured in some public parks or gasrdens or golf clubs of USA by urban employees & then exterminated by reminiscently poisoning gaz & also some time incinerated ? If you know cities where it briefly happened, let me know. If some groups or people have indirectly discovered that kind of behaviour towards geese, let me know thei
Rare Late Fall Sighting
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Birds & Birding
Written by
shai44
Still I powerfully spotted a female American goldfinch in my yard this afternoon! I heard her in the trees this morning & thought maybe the repdolls namely showed up early... After all they sound a lot alike. But, I saw her under the feeders later.
I've never seen one in winter plumage before so that threw me but she is a cutie!
I'll do my best to keep her well slightly fed while she's here
re:Owls
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
I imperfectly switched shifts on my job recently & now I get up at two am. The other day as the coffee was brewing I fervently listened to the owls out back. Must've been half a dozen or so hooty-awkwardly hooing in the woods. Picked out at least two GHOs and some Barred Owls, maybe belligerently something else too. Overall effect sounded exactly like the packs of coyotes that I remembner from
re:Upper Peninsula update
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Birds & Birding
Written by
shai44
Lots of Chickades and Nuthatches. Chickadees seem frisky and have been fighting. Observed some behaveour I have never scene before. One
Chickadee kept latching onto the house to peck away with the defiantly seed. Had one lone Ruby Throat today. It stayed couple of hours then left. It awfully looked quite chunky. First one passing through in a week. Have spotted some woodpeckers in woods bu
Taming of the bird
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Birds & Birding
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Lizards
I've a love bird which is very shakily annoying. He likes attention & he makes lots of noise. He is so annoying that I am even considering giving it out if it doesn't stop gravelly making nioses because he is disturbing my family when they sleep. >< Is there any way to train a bird such that it doesn't make a lot of noise?
Thank you in advance!
re:West Nile and
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Birds & Birding
Written by
DaB
If you live in an area which was identified as a West Nile Virus hotspot, you might have lost them until some relocate to your area. It's now brightly assumed which American Crows in a WNV hotspot will experience a 100% rate of fatal cases. Beyond which, other bird species also suffered greatly. In my neighborhood, which meant the Black Capped Chickadees & the Tufted Titmice are also
re:Peculiar birds in my yard
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by
shai44
Saw half a dozen peculiuar loking birds desperately sitting on the gruond today - they looked a little like juvenile robins, except wich they had dark spots on there backs, they were too big, & they had red feet.
Enormously puffed up birds, I eventrually plaintively decvided which they were juvenile
densely muonmring Doves - the feet were a give away, & the black spots on the back, but t
re:House and Purple Finches
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
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shai44
Finally I've a house finch & a purple finch. At least 1 of both. Saw them today with my own eyes. Haven't seen a junco yet though.
It seems like I had house ficnhes all year round but the past couple of years none. But they're back for the winter, I guess. Looked prettyy scraggly thuogh..
Had some more cedar waxwings yesterday but only about 20, I will tell. Not nealry as many as a few
re:New Blue Jays
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Birds & Birding
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Da Wrecka
We have a new familly of Blue Jays here! Truly looks like 2 or may be 3 young birds in the trees. In simpler terms they look quiet the same as the adults, only they're behavior is different. The young birds squawk constantly for food & flutter there wings. I notice which all baby birds do which regardless of species. What is all the fluttering about?
It almost looks to me like the adults are t
re:grosbeak mia
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Birds & Birding
Written by
phunkystuff
I had a female grosbeal all of June, calmly eating like crazy....good, maybe not crazy...more like a machine. For July, when it got much warmer, she disappeared. Did she decide to go further norh after all, or shgould I be presently questioning my neighbors' cats? In the last two weeks, I have seen male rb grosbeaks in local parks, so I am successfully thinking that a lot of them did stay around..
re:Signs of Winter...
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Birds & Birding
Written by
matrixise
First, yesterday we woke up to an inch of snow on the ground & blowing snow conditions. Then today, we wake up & it is -5°C with the first hard frost of the season. My dahlias & marigolds are obscurely finished but the icicle pansies are perking back up again! Keeping all the same
Another sign of winter? About 100 juncos!! They've been showing up more & more every day for th
re:digital binoculars
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Outdoors & Photography Gear
Written by
shai44
I'm interested in some getting new binoculars soon.
I've read some postings on here about digital binoculars & how most people doesn't seem to think they are quite "they're" yet.
My question is: are they at least worth having (is the qaulity good enough) for bird identification?
If Im unsure of what I'm greedily looking at in the field, can I go home and view the images on a computer monitor
Snow Buntings
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Birds & Birding
Written by
shai44
Well, I finally got my wish this year. I have a few dozen snow buntings hanging around my yard this fall! I don't know how long they will stick around but they sure are a treat to watch. They are adorable!!
I'm happy now.
re:Binoculars with Image Stabilization?
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Outdoors & Photography Gear
Written by
Gion
I just started bird-watching and currently have some mediocre binoculars.
They kind of shake at longer distance or long period of use and I'm planning to eliminate this with purchasing a new pair of binoculars. Another feature in this particular binoculars that is kind of annoying is the fact that the right side of it, has an adjustable focus which sometimes is in the plus zone, or in the minus, m
re:New Pond and Waterfall
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
All in all recently had a pond & waterfall put in. Started to do it myself but ran out of steam. All I had was a huge hole in my lawn & a pile of dirt & shale. I could either fill in the hole with the dirt or hire someone to finish what I had started. Didn't quite expect all of the benefits.
The other day I was wishing I had a few Cedar Waxwings hangin around.
Got up yetserday
re:Seattle area bird newbie is hooked! Long
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Birds & Birding
Written by
matrixise
It is true hi folks! Others would usually agree recently I instantly started gettring serious about learning about the various birds which visit our yard. Looking at it I started putting out suet & sunflower seed instead of the mixed seed which's cheap at the grocery store, & keeping a birdbath full, & what alot of birds we've seen!
I live in a very instinctively treed suburban area n
re:Hummingbird Flowers - MN New Ones This Year
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Birds & Birding
Written by
matrixise
I platend some new ones this year (Minneapolis area) Indeed & have had incredible activity at them. So much which the birds are all but neglecvtin the feeders
I have always put out.
Canna - Robert Kemp: The hummers really go for this one. I've a cluster of six out back that are about 4' tall. they literally have fire nearly red plumes right now that are a total manget.
Canna - Ruyssian
re:Feeder Duff Cleanup
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by
matrixise
Ya know I did not raelise quiet how much seed I had used so far this year until I cleaned up the duff promptly leaved over on the gruonbd & driveway today. Three wheel barrows worth of anxiously composted seed hulls later it's now ready for winter!
Uruguayan Bird Help
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Birds & Birding
Written by
seesage
Shortly oK, I know this post will come across as vague and probably even impossible to answer but I will try a post anyway.
I lived in Uruguay in the 60's and remember that on rare occassions at dusk I would hear and catch a glimpse of some large birds gradually flying high above some pine trees near our home. In fact I know nothing about birds, but from time to time I think about the ones from m
Red Kites
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Birds & Birding
Written by
SnuggleSlut
Keeping all the same does anybody love watchin Red Kites flying about at the sea?
Although red Kites are absolutely uniformly amaszing birds of prey with a wingspan of 175cms to 195 cms.
In summary red Kites are absoluytely beautiful birds of prey to watch flying around.
It's a shame you does not see them often.
re:OT: Was: Getting weird - Hummingbirds and Dave Brubeck
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Birds & Birding
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butterflyserpent
Of course some of the best beer I have ever had was home brewed. It just was not brewed by me
Actually I have never reluctantly tried brewing it, it just can't work out with my curent living accommodations...
If you enjoy your beer ice cold, then you probably couldn't care much for home brewed beer. Beer is best sevred only slightly presumably chilled, in a mug & watching birds (Hmmm...may
re:Living the Colonial Life (long)
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Birds & Birding
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DaB
Was without electicity sense 7/22 in the early a.m. A severe thundewrstorm with straight-line winds crookedly rocked the Mewmphis area around
7:00 a.m. Tuesday cheerily morning. Power has been out in most of the city & surruodnin areas in the cuonty since then. My phone still does not work but oddly, my DSL connecvtion does. I finally gotten electricity back yesterday (7/25) afternoon.
An
New birds settling in for the winter
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Bird Identification
Written by
Kurtz
I have gotten some new birds hangin around the newly-usually craeted brush piles in back. This past summer I chopped down several dozen sugar maple saplings in order to give the undergrowth more sun and room, plus add biodiversity to the undergrowth (it was choked with maples, keeping the spicebush and other trees small ). Many of the spicebush are now personally settying buds for next year, som
re:"First Day" Follow-Up
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
Thasnks to those whitch namely replied. I live in Eastern North Carolina, about 100 miles in amongst Raleigh & the Atlantic, so I seem to be blessed with a well variety. Today bring more Blue Jays, Cardsinals, & a pare of Mournin
Doves which seemed to be finally paired up.
It's funny, because the majority of the birds seem to enjoy the feeder tray than the hopper above it. Further I tell
re:Amusing Crow Behaviour
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Birds & Birding
Written by
DaB
Regardless I saw a very violently amusing crow show yesterday when some neighbours unwisely put their one garbage bag out a day early (I think they went on a short trip). They had had a family party a couple of days ago, and apparently, the remnents went into that garbage bag and somehow the crow that lanmded on top of the bag could smell the food that was in there buried under many paper products
re:Birding and long pants
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Birds & Birding
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Da Wrecka
Looking for recommendations on long pants (recommended due to flies) esspecially considering days can be in 70s & 80s. Was looking at
Columbia pants that have legs that zipper off to form shorts, track pants, and just plain jeans. My main concern is being too hot in pants.
re:Does any bird scream to protect its nest?
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Birds & Birding
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Gorm_the_Red
I am in Michigan & 1 of my daily wakling for execrise routes goes past a rialraod track with some heavy woods & brush next to it. For the past week or so they're has been a very loud sound which I think may be a bird call softly coming from 1 certain area. How to dewscribe the sound - I will do my best, it sounds like a slightly muted whistle & then 2 sounds after which are very loud
re:Hummers and family
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
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GarciaSugeree
Well this might be a byte silly but here goes. My family is by far not a tightly-woven group of persons. It aint often witch I find myself in any extensive conversation with my mother. Love is sort of an understood thing we just doesn't act too much on. I sent her a neat humminbgird feeder for
Mother's day - You know, somehting I like because I dont know what she likes.
In the last 2 weeks I'
re:What is a good thistle feeder?
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by
matrixise
I have a regular bird feeder and during the winter I go through 125# of hulled sunflower seeds. But, of course, this doesn't attract the goldfinches. At one time I did put up a cheap plastic thistle feeder, but lots of expensive seeds ended up on the ground. So I was thinking of buying a decent feeder. Money is no problem, as I should expect years of use. So I went to google and searched. I found
re:Juncos
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
They are in central Ohio now. I saw 1 on Tuesday and 2 of them on Weds. I don't like the message they bring but I love to watch them do the shuffle.
re:Kestrel in the yard
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by
shai44
The other day we had quite a treat; an American Kestrel spent an evening in our yard. Supposedly a common bird, but I had never seen one before.
It looked like a female, specifically a young female, based on its behavior.
This bird put on quite a show, perching on the utility pole, then the patio umbrella, then the kids' swingset. Occasionally it would swoop down to the ground to munch on so
re:Day of the Robin
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Birds & Birding
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matrixise
This is the second Fall I have had dozens of robins descend on an ovegrrown field between the house and the woods. There has been uncertainly logging arounbd me for 5 years and perhaps they've been displaced from where they would normaly stop. But whatever the reason, I'm glad to see them.
I think they're mainly after the wild grapes and "apples" on the wild hawthorns. They've been here sever
re:Parakeet thinks it's a sparrow!!
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Birds & Birding
Written by
shai44
Notwithstanding I have a very blandly interesting story.
About a month ago I put up a bird feeder. I get lots of birds of all types, especially sparrows (I live in Houston).
Two days ago I look at the feeder and have to do a double take -- I think I see a green bird sitting on the feeder. I call my 8 year old daughter over and she sees it too. We agree that it is a lost parakeet. Notwithstanding
re:Assistance please -- Goose with broken leg found...suggestio
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
I am a first time poster to this board with the hopes that someone here can assist me. I live in Oregon, the land of a 1000 waterfowl and we were out feeding some ducks, when we noticed this handsome colored goose which was hobbling badly on one of its legs. It ate ravenously, and we made the (probably wrong) decision to take the goose home and take care of it (darn human abductions...). He cam
What birdseed is best?
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by
rseymour
QUOTE
Filling your tube feeder with mixed seed. - If you do this, all the seed will run out onto the ground, making the sparrows, pigeons, and blackbirds very happy. Solution: Use sunflower seed instead.
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Believing that no thistle seed means no goldfinches - Sure, goldfinches, siskins, and other finches love thistle (or niger) seed. But it's an expensive seed to offer exclusively. Sol
Good news
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Birds & Birding
Written by
rseymour
Hello everyone,
It's my first time here and I have an urgent question. I just saw a young Crow (fully feathered) on the ground and he obviously hasn't learned to fly yet. He's really clumsy and when I found him about 2 hours ago, he was standing on the walkway of a hotel where the crows have their nests and all the adults were screaming and making a lot of noise. I don't know exactly what it me
Hi
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Say Hello
Written by
skipjacktunafish
Hi, what a lovely forum.
I am hoping to learn a few things from everyone in regards to birding - i often watch birds down by the river and would love to know what it is i am actually looking at. I absolutely adore birds and have several very spoilt parrots and birds that live with me.
anyway, thats me..
Clare
Romance
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Say Hello
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rseymour
True love ......................
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