BIRDS

I had this very persistently noisy Blackbird visitor all of last week, then since Saturday it hasn't turned up :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFR-azBialE

an alarm call but i do love that sound. reminds me of walking along hedgerows on a summer evening

yeah that is the sound of evening

they're not terribly good at the old relaxing before bedtime thing

damn i had been sitting on my porch and noticed a nest build atop a lampbox fixture its prob like 50 ft away and had just seen for the first time clearly the bird nesting there (robin i think) and i went inside to do some laundry etc for idk like 20 mins?? and came back out and the nest was GONE

ther are some bushes in my line of vision to below it & i walked over sorta near it & did see a broken eggshell & mess but didnt see the nest really anywhere…i guess it mustve fallen? it was a lil precarious and the spot is right above a door idk and i saw the robin come back to the lampbox & like sit like it was trying to nest looking confused omg this is the saddest shit ever

Ugh noooooo

Idiot!

j/k poor fucker

had me googling are birds conscious idk jurys still out maybe

http://www.boredpanda.com/crow-rides-eagle-bird-photography-phoo-chan/

http://i.imgur.com/57oz9x4.jpg

new symbioses: the next stage of avian evolution

http://www.irishexaminer.com/media/images/h/heron2_large.jpg

http://www.irishexaminer.com/video/news/video-herons-gather-on-street-for-fish-scraps-in-cork-340614.html

woodpecker outside the house is really going to town on a tree. don't kill it, woody!

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/v/t1.0-9/12717797_10154536310207137_2092846437496941064_n.jpg?oh=dd3536b942503cc308dc9f9c9a79e918&oe=57651410

pretty though.

https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl1/v/t1.0-9/12744542_10154536313937137_5395022595720415546_n.jpg?oh=f401d98b773739fad5c1c493d90639fc&oe=572B6F4A

hey imago:

https://twitter.com/Rutland_InFocus/status/701017120759480320

ty that is superlative

although my favourite aspect of it is the twitter handle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emvgfx/live/c8xp5v

^ Springwatch birdcams. red kites, grey wagtails, swallows, wrens nests...

bloke stood under a tree on the way to work with a falconry glove on, looking up forlornely. didn't see the actual bird.

(this was white city, the trees in question are often full of parakeets when i'm leaving in the evening, perhaps this was for that. i know they use a raptor in paddington station to scare away the pigeons)

Look how still this kingfisher keeps it head while hunting, incredible! #Winterwatch pic.twitter.com/QW8saez9Qo

— BBC Springwatch (@BBCSpringwatch) January 28, 2018

That's great. We all know that itching feeling that can occur when you're trying to intently focus on something specific (at 0:37)

Absolutely :)

Had a redwing in front of house today. Never seen one before.

Red-tailed hawk in the park the other day. Not sure whether Pale Male.

Sunbathing crow.

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

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

you say vulture i say culture

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.

verified barred warbler sighted around the outskirts of sheerness. feels quite exciting. i'll probably alert the rspb

even Jonathan Franzen thinks so

self-lol

― gabbneb, Wednesday, January 23, 2008

pvmic

I finally refilled the backyard feeder and we have a newcomer to this yard, a male rose-breasted grosbeak.

Yes it's real. pic.twitter.com/GxRESJeJFv

— Bobbie Hineman (@HinemanBobbie) May 17, 2020

and my bird

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

they have a vast vocal range. there's at least one youtuber who has chatz with theirs

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.

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

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

turns out searching for 'finch' and 'wagtail' helps

1) double barred finch maybe

2) willie wagtail

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.

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.

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.

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.

Noisy Miner? https://ebird.org/species/noimin1

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.

(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.)

I'm hoping the goldfinches come back in the spring (when I think they were last around).

Curious if any Europeans envy us Americans our goldfinches like I envy you yours?

looks like a siskin, but brighter

looks like a small, stubby oriole

There’s a feral euro goldfinch population that lives in prospect park. I am jealous of european robins tho