Bird Watching

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  • pizzamyheart
    pizzamyheart Posts: 1,836 Member
    I was watching these birds and it looked like they were performing some sort of mating ritual. After The police knocked on my door and had a discussion with me I realized what I had been watching was just my neighbors getting it on. Simple mistake.
  • newmeadow
    newmeadow Posts: 1,295 Member
    amorfati601070 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdRQxgtZtI

    What does this sound like to non-Australians?

    Sounds like a hospital I once worked in.
  • iMago
    iMago Posts: 8,714 Member
    amorfati601070 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdRQxgtZtI

    What does this sound like to non-Australians?

    like the world's most effective and annoying ringtone
  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    Ah the laughing kookaburras, such characters.
  • amorfati601070
    amorfati601070 Posts: 2,862 Member
    newmeadow wrote: »
    amorfati601070 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdRQxgtZtI

    What does this sound like to non-Australians?

    Sounds like a hospital I once worked in.

    Hahahah ahahaha hhahahah....oh no.
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    My ex and I used to have 200 acres of old growth forest here in OK, just 30 min out of the city.
    I loved to walk through the woods looking at the birds.
    I catalogued one year,
    I identified 73 species.
    I also cared for a Blue Jay for 11yrs.
    He was an ***!
  • Birdlover88
    Birdlover88 Posts: 6 Member
    It's a parrot native to New Zealand, they called it Kea.

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    This is so pretty! 😍
  • robertw486
    robertw486 Posts: 2,386 Member
    nooshi713 wrote: »
    Yes. I love to bird watch. I am the Bird Whisperer. An emu walked up to me one day. I live in southern California. I guess he was lost. That was my proudest moment. Here is my emu friend. i2hrszmy6d0a.jpg

    Well that doesn't happen often. Should we address you as Emooshi713?


    monkeefan1974 wrote: »
    I don’t watch the birds as much as they watch me when I’m running by :D

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    Cobra chickens!!! :D

    Those Cobra chickens watch EVERYTHING!

    And they don't yield to vehicles either. In this area they just often don't migrate, and a few neighborhoods were overrun to the point that the state got involved to remove a bunch of them.




    No good photos to share but we have a fairly large variety in this area. Plenty of marshland birds, and some massive osprey nests to be found. There are a few Bald Eagles in the area as well.

    There was a large Red Tailed Hawk that was dominating the residential area where I live for a couple years. It used the fences of yards to stop easy escape routes for the rabbits. It would often sit on the peak of a house or light post and just observe until a rabbit was in "the zone" and then swoop down silently. It became very efficient at that hunting method, and I saw it grab several rabbits.

    I've spotted a few owls, but they are hard to catch out in the daylight usually. I have an area that I go for deer spotting on my bike (roll in almost silently) and one day found a large owl munching on a snake.
  • accebersmith
    accebersmith Posts: 96 Member
    Yes! My son (12) is a budding ornithologist, and we love to watch birds around us. We're trying to figure out how to set up a feeder in this new neighborhood, where there is a substantial feral cat population. We don't want to just lure birds in to their death. Glad to know there are others of us out there and on here :smile:
  • honeybee__12
    honeybee__12 Posts: 15,688 Member
    edited June 2019
    amorfati601070 wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdRQxgtZtI

    What does this sound like to non-Australians?

    Omg! Like construction and monkeys and crows cawing, and cars, etc.
    Also like an engine turning over,
    How bizarre, I couldn’t handle them hanging around my windows.
  • Tankiscool
    Tankiscool Posts: 11,105 Member
    Well shiznit. I didn't know this thread existed and today I saw this raven do something pretty cool and I didn't video tape it. Now wishing I did!
  • _Paparazzi_
    _Paparazzi_ Posts: 463 Member
    edited June 2019
    I don't watch them. But I sure can hear them chatting within each other .
  • 4legsRbetterthan2
    4legsRbetterthan2 Posts: 19,590 MFP Moderator
    I watched a cardinal almost smack into my car this morning, I was holding my breath but he made it! close call

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