Birds

[Funkworks]

It has come to my attention that there are bird lovers on the forum, so why not talk about it.

Here’s something to start with.

https://www.fws.gov/library/collections/threats-birds

 

[Hobie1dog]

and pictures

 

[Funkworks]

I once wanted one of these but luckily grew out of it.



Birdwatching is now more likely to be in my mid-to-long term future.

 

[Ronz Rocketz]

My flock. The grey on the right likes to eat my rocket fins. He bites through the clear coat, paint, glue, and balsa. I don't let him out of the cage anymore.

 

[bjphoenix]

I watch them sometimes- ordinary birds in our backyard:

 

[Blast it Tom!]

Had this pair outside the kitchen window. I'm glad they didn't find much to pick at, but then, maybe that's not what was on their mind!

 

[smstachwick]

 

[Blast it Tom!]

And this is not professional grade, but I caught this little chickadee leaving our feeder:

 

[smstachwick]

And this is not professional grade, but I caught this little chickadee leaving our feeder:
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“CHEESEburger!”

-A chickadee

 

[Blast it Tom!]

And this red bellied woodpecker just hanging around:

And this lovely scarlet tanager stopped by with a friend one day. The friend kept hanging around, but this one was in some kind of distress, and unfortunately passed away shortly after this picture was taken. Which wasn't nearly as bad as the time an ill turkey vulture wandered onto our land and died.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

And we generally have a family or two of bluebirds each year:

 

[Blast it Tom!]

And at the other end of the scale:

 

[DigBaddy]

Bird loving family here. Almost all of this small set of pics were from our back yard.

 

[Blast it Tom!]

And I've had as many as 50 of these at a time:

Hey girls! Hey girls! Over here! C'mon sweeties!

Then we watch the hens and chicks grow all summer. Almost had a "National Geographic" moment one year when a red fox got in the midst of them, but the three hens raised a fuss and the chicks flew off. He wasn't up to messing with the hens. Then coyotes moved in and last year, down at the end of the lane, I found a huge mess of feathers and broken eggs...

 

[bjphoenix]

And at the other end of the scale:

We have those too.

 

[Onebadhawk]

My sweet lil green chicken Kiwi crawled into a soup pot on the kitchen counter once when he was young..
We took pics but they all came out blurry..

I hafta ask Sandy, but I think he's about 25 now..

Teddy

 

[Hobie1dog]

Love Hooded Mergansers:

 

[Onebadhawk]

A lil better pics..

 

[Funkworks]

I don't know why I get this in my feed:

 

[Hobie1dog]

I don't know why I get this in my feed:

wow,I never knew that they existed, fascinating

 

[Onebadhawk]

man,
is that a big boy,, lol..

Teddy

 

[Blast it Tom!]

I don't know why I get this in my feed:

I feel like that big fella may have helped inspire this guy:

 

[dpower]

Saw this Keel-Billed Toucan in Panama last fall.

 

[Hobie1dog]

different colored eyes:

 

[dmaaero]

Hooded Merganser in new Bern, NC
I have lots of bird pics. an bears, i love bears. I have seen as many as 26 bears in one day here in eastern NC

 

[Hobie1dog]

speaking of Hooded Merganser

 

[Hobie1dog]

fantastic markings just perfect

 

[Hobie1dog]

close up of the head

 

[cautery]

Saw this Keel-Billed Toucan in Panama last fall. View attachment 560066

How is Panama? Haven't seen it since 1988.

When I was stationed there, green parrots used to line the power lines like sparrows, etc do here in the states.

And they have "Ant Trees" and "Black Palm" there... I'll tell those stories some other time.

 

[Hobie1dog]