Sunbathing crow.
― koogs, Friday, 1 June 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
recently a Goose in Florida had a friend die and has taken to destroying windows, attacking children at buses and hanging out with quote unquote lawless ducks
― Ross, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 15:46 (five years ago) link
I guess yesterday was International Vulture Awareness Day and i thought this tweet salute to the bearded vulture deserves its own recognition. “I am the MOST METAL culture because my diet is mostly bones” must be a lyric somewhere.
Vultures are amazing, and very important. Did you know: vultures are often a "dead end" for many common diseases spread by carrion? Rabies, botulism, anthrax, & more can't survive a vulture's digestion! #IVAD #VultureAwarenessDay #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay #LoveVultures pic.twitter.com/vi2jjOyXkj— Jennifer Miller (@Nambroth) September 1, 2018
― Hunt3r, Monday, 3 September 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
you say vulture i say culture
― Hunt3r, Monday, 3 September 2018 16:20 (five years ago) link
First swifts of the year in w12 yesterday. That's easily two weeks later than usual. Plus I've only seen two at any given time.
― koogs, Monday, 20 May 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
verified barred warbler sighted around the outskirts of sheerness. feels quite exciting. i'll probably alert the rspb
― imago, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
even Jonathan Franzen thinks so
self-lol
― gabbneb, Wednesday, January 23, 2008
pvmic
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
I finally refilled the backyard feeder and we have a newcomer to this yard, a male rose-breasted grosbeak.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
Yes it's real. pic.twitter.com/GxRESJeJFv— Bobbie Hineman (@HinemanBobbie) May 17, 2020
and my bird
― j., Monday, 18 May 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
one of the ravens has left the tower (they are still quorate though). but someone posted this video in response and i've bever heard a raven before.
We are so sad to hear this; we loved Merlina and always looked out for her when we visited. Here she is in 2019 in conversation with Jubilee. Wherever you might be, sleep well, petal. xx pic.twitter.com/fzOAebrsiy— 𝒪𝓉𝓈𝒾 𝒲𝑜𝓁𝒻 🐺 (@otsiwolf) January 13, 2021
― koogs, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
they have a vast vocal range. there's at least one youtuber who has chatz with theirs
― imago, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Had a redwing in front of house today. Never seen one before.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, March 2, 2018 10:04 AM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Saw one in the park the other day, ditto.
― ledge, Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:02 (three years ago) link
This seems to be a growing thing every year: webcams on peregrine falcon nests in Flanders (mostly church towers) - scroll down to the map & you can click on them
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/03/29/jaarlijks-komen-200-slechtvalkkuikens-uit-hun-ei/
e.g. here in Mechelen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpLZ59y6Ivg
― StanM, Sunday, 4 April 2021 09:34 (three years ago) link
ok, aussie bake-off often has (brief) shots of birds around the tent shed. kookaburra are obvious, the magpies are wrong but also obvious, but there are a couple i can't find on oz garden bird websites:
1) like a goldfinch but unsaturated
2) like a pied wagtail but solid black on top, solid white on bottom
― koogs, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link
turns out searching for 'finch' and 'wagtail' helps
1) double barred finch maybe
2) willie wagtail
― koogs, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
I think I saw a goldfinch once where I live and a red woodpecker where I lived previously but they were unknown in my childhood so perhaps not unusual but still special for me. The birds are really loud now at dawn or maybe I missed it before.
― youn, Friday, 17 December 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link
at Home we'd get 8 or 10 goldfinches at a time visiting the feeders, but around here it's the odd one or two, typically sat on tv aerials chirping away.
the woodpecker tree in the park blew over about 8 years ago and i've seen a lot fewer since. i still hear them from time to time.
― koogs, Friday, 17 December 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
Goldfinches are such joyous little things. People would keep them in cages as song birds before ready access to canaries and the like. I was walking into the woods the other afternoon and there was a goldcrest in the hazel poles at eye level, about 3 feet away. It's rare to get have such a close up of them. They're tiny - smaller than a wren - but with the same puffed up 'don't fuck with me' quality and its mohawk was pulsing as it dodged about. Awesome.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 17 December 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
actually, the final show ended with a montage of the birds. the double barred finch wasn't, was too big for a finch
http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/birb.jpg
unfortunately the orange light in this room did odd things to the photo, turned it blue, so i've desaturated the whole thing because the actual bird was greys and blacks. beak and legs were bright orange though.
― koogs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Noisy Miner? https://ebird.org/species/noimin1
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
yeah. looks like it, thanks.
i thought the mask was more like a goldfinch, but it's not. and the beak shape and the odd yellow eye thing is an exact match, so yeah.
― koogs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
(Perhaps all photos of birds, except crows and those little brown birds that seem to be everywhere, should be taken in colour. But photographers may have other reasons or views.)
― youn, Saturday, 18 December 2021 17:31 (two years ago) link
I'm hoping the goldfinches come back in the spring (when I think they were last around).
― youn, Saturday, 18 December 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
Curious if any Europeans envy us Americans our goldfinches like I envy you yours?
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
looks like a siskin, but brighter
― koogs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
looks like a small, stubby oriole
― imago, Saturday, 18 December 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
There’s a feral euro goldfinch population that lives in prospect park. I am jealous of european robins tho
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 18 December 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
American goldfinch looks a bit like a yellowhammer too.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 18 December 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
looks like a cross between a finch and a yellow warbler
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 18 December 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link
i saw a hawk on my fire escape in bk!
― surm, Saturday, 18 December 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
Thread’s making me jealous of Brooklynites too now!
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
:-) i think there's something going on on my roof bc i see a lot of cardinals and bluejays stop on the FE b4 flying upward.
― surm, Sunday, 19 December 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Yes we have a peregrine couple living on top of our 6 story apt building in Williamsburg BK, it is a treat whenever they are glimpsed. Bird life otherwise not very exciting in this zip code. Yearly one-day invasion of grackles to eat all the berries (I assume?) is always nice. Closer to prospect park/the cemetery obv lots cooler bird action Also the reservoir which I’ve never been to
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 19 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Those Noisy Miners (a.k.a. "mickeys") are the coolest birds, super intelligent and engaging. When I worked in Newcastle they used to take my lunch from my hand (and not because I was offering, I would hear a brief rustle behind me and a mickey would zoom past and snatch a beakful of burger on the wing).
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 19 December 2021 21:56 (two years ago) link
silly looking bird!
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 19 December 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
aw I think they're beautifulhttps://www.collinsdictionary.com/images/full/noisyminer_204104716.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 20 December 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
How is ur starling jon?
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 December 2021 08:23 (two years ago) link
Ah. Merlin is no longer with us. Last winter my wife noticed a weird fatty bubble growth under his wing so we took him to the bird vet and they found in his blood work that he had bird leukemia. He soldiered on until a couple of months ago. He didn’t seem to be in any pain through it all, ate hearty until his last day. He was 14. He leaves us with many weird catch phrases he uttered during his younger days. Honey mustard Mayor beebee ORITCH (seemed to be his word for fruit/berries)Good morning good morning Just make snake paymentsIt’s the snake universe MARITZA (also seemed to mean “fruit”)And many more. He went through a phase of using penis in his word salads when he was 2 or 3, lots of good ones in that time (“yes bird. Just my penis. Just the thickest.”)It’s not easy to raise a lost starling chick (you have to feed them every 30 minutes all day long) but the result is a tremendously entertaining and playful pet. Which shits A LOT.
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 20 December 2021 14:58 (two years ago) link
It's the snake universe ;___;
― imago, Monday, 20 December 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link
RIP li'l buddy
Honey mustardMayor beebeeORITCHGood morning good morningJust make snake paymentsIt’s the snake universeMARITZA
this is the tracklist of my new hyperpop album fwiw, Beatles cover and all
― imago, Monday, 20 December 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
If you want to do a deep dive, the Twitter account @mybirdsaid was my wife’s repository for his sayings during his most voluble years
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 20 December 2021 15:06 (two years ago) link
Aw, ty
― imago, Monday, 20 December 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Condolences jon. He is babbling nonsense to god now.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 December 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
In his wake, parakeets have come. I’m afraid I allowed mrs JNJ to go a bit parakeet crazy during the isolation of this pandemic. Also one Java Finch
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 22 December 2021 22:09 (two years ago) link
❤️
― surm, Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:16 (two years ago) link
yikes, that sounds like a thing
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
Quiz question (for which I don't have the answer): what type of bird does Alain Delon/Jef Costello have in his apartment?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 23 December 2021 10:59 (two years ago) link
huge:
http://thebigpicturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Samourai-4.jpg
a finch of some kind
― koogs, Thursday, 23 December 2021 11:21 (two years ago) link
white rump, black cap, buff belly = female bullfinch
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 23 December 2021 14:54 (two years ago) link