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Do you like to watch birds?

I do!  It is amazing just watching them fly, walk, eat, swim, perch.
Sometimes they chirp. 

Hummingbirds are very interesting.


Chrissy

I do. I used to have a Northern Flicker show up every spring. He'd stand in the aluminum gutter and drum away. At like 5AM.  :laugh:

Hugs, Devlyn

I do. I have 2 bird feeders I put up in my front yard. I watch them when I can.

I do. I'm lucky I have several nature reserves on bus routes and the coast river and woodland  are all nearby. 
Quite a wide variety  of  birds seen including  goldfinch pied wagtail robin sparrowhawk  kestrel  buzzard many ducks waterfowl  and waders. Seen a few rarities including bittern long eared owl and water rail

Naturally, coming from the US I had never seen a wagtail before I got to the UK... they're great!

I saw a wild turkey.

I turned heads when I was out hiking.  It was two owls though. 

All well.  At least I did not scare them away!



@Devlyn

Owls you say?  ;D

Quote from: Devlyn on June 09, 2025, 07:59:13 AMOwls you say?  ;D

HOOTERS

Is that an owl sanctuary?  :D

Something like that.  ;D

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn on June 09, 2025, 08:49:57 AMSomething like that.  ;D

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definitely would like to be like those at  Hooters.

Many of those "owl" places are closing I hear as they do not get enough business.

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on June 09, 2025, 09:30:01 AMMany of those "owl" places are closing I hear as they do not get enough business.

It's more fun to watch them in the wild.  ;D

Lots of them out on the wild beaches here in Barcelona. Including mine!  ;D

Hugs, Devlyn

Quote from: Devlyn on June 09, 2025, 09:48:25 AMLots of them out on the wild beaches here in Barcelona. Including mine!  ;D

Hugs, Devlyn

You all are such a hoot!


Chrissy

It is fun to sit down with a nice friend and just watch birds.


Chrissy

Saw a beautiful  Little Egret by a pond while on the bus last week. Lots of migrating geese heading  to the marshes and the fields we haven't yet  built on.
Redwings and Fieldfares here  now, a sign winter is coming.

My wife is the real bird watcher in our family.  She keeps a pair of binoculars on the kitchen counter so she can have a good look at them, and she feeds them in the winter.

I like to look at them, but I am not much good at identifying them, although I can tell the difference between a blue jay and a cardinal.  (!)

One thing that I love to watch is the daily roosting migration of the crows.  In winter, every evening just after sunset, all the crows for miles around fly over our house to a communal roost down the valley.  They return every morning just before sunrise. 

I saw them for the first time this season on October 1st: a small group of about a dozen crows.  Within days, the group had grown to 200, and within a week 300.  My wife counted them!  Now, they are in full winter mode: thousands of crows, no exaggeration, streaming overhead in groups of a couple of dozen, one group after another, in a steady stream that lasts for half an hour.  In nice weather, they might be 1000 feet up, but in wet weather with fog and low cloud, they might barely be above the treetops.  I have seen where they roost: driving by that forest in the evening, the trees were heavy with roosting crows.

If I am outside when they fly over, I can't help but drop what I am doing and gaze up at them.  (I know that, with seagulls, the rule is "Don't look up!", but the crows seem to be better-behaved.)  It is a truly magnificent spectacle.

I was reading that there is one type of bird that can fly way high, at the heights of many commercial airplanes. Way more than 30,000 feet high.  I have not seen one of those when flying though.  Fortunately for flyers it is probably good that there are not many birds that fly that high.

I saw a Roadrunner today. My neighbor says he has seen it out there several times and thinks it lives on his land.

I hadn't seen one since I was a kid growing up in the Mojave Desert. They are fun to watch.

Quote from: Lori Dee on November 04, 2025, 06:44:24 PMI saw a Roadrunner today. My neighbor says he has seen it out there several times and thinks it lives on his land.

I hadn't seen one since I was a kid growing up in the Mojave Desert. They are fun to watch.

I saw a roadrunner in Arizona.