Bird watching

[Smithy]

Does anyone here love bird watching on there walks?

I certainly do, I go out with a camera on a dog walk to see what birds I can find.. it's mostly the little birds.
Blue tits are the most popular bird I see on my walks, outdoors.

 

[Cpvr]

I see birds all the time when I'm outside on my patio. It's awesome watching them fly and sit down on some of the roofs.. I've seen hummingbirds and blue cardinals a couple of times.

 

[Nomad]

I like bird watching, but sadly in the city I live there are not many places where I can watch birds. There is one national park about 30 kilometers away, and I sometimes go there and watch birds.

 

[Joe Riley]

Year after year, I am amazed to realize that these are not the SAME birds, or looking at a tree and thinking these are NOT the same leaves.

 

[Mary Stetler]

The birds have been changing over the last decade, it seems, with the tilt of the axis. I can enjoy them right out my kitchen window, in my apple tree.

 

[Krystal]

We have all kinds of beautiful birds in our yard. When the weather gets warmer, we sit in the backyard and watch them. I like watching the purple martins and the tree swallows. They do a "fly by" and get really close to us, when they are chasing bugs and skeeters in the air. They look like little jeti's flying around. That is probalby where Spielberg got his inspiration for the jeti's in Star Wars.

We also have had a loud hoot owl; hoot, hoot, hooting almost every night for about the last 2 weeks. I think it is mating season.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I loved bird watching in London...

 

[Nancy Hart]

I've been backyard bird-watching for the last 4 years. The first two years I watched closely in the winter and saw many migrating species I've never seen before. The last 2 years I've concentrated on the native birds, particularly the smaller ones---chickadees, wrens, nuthatches, and tufted titmouse. Also cardinals, mockingbirds, bluebirds. Three years ago I put up a bluebird house and had 2 takers immediately. Last year a chickadee house was successful.

The squirrels are a challenge. The more food you put out, the more squirrels show up. {sigh}

 

[Yvonne Smith]

In north Idaho, where I grew up, it is by a large lake, and there are Ospreys that nest near the lake each year. Because people enjoy watching the ospreys, the city set up camera that show the nest, and each year, the ospreys come back in the spring to their nest.
This year, a pair of geese arrived before the ospreys did, and the geese have taken over the ospreys nest, and the mother goose is setting on her eggs.

The ospreys came back, and apparently they tried to chase the geese away from the nest (there were pictures of the fight); but the geese are not leaving. No one is sure what happened to the ospreys, and whether they will wait for the geese to leave and then reclaim their nest, or if they will just nest elsewhere.
Here is a link to the webcam and you can see the mother goose setting on her eggs in the nest.

https://ospreys.sandpointonline.com/

 

[Tony Page]

I've been bird watching for many years enjoy seeing different type. I only view birds that come to my yard. I usually have at least 3 feeders out. 2 with seed, one with a suet.
I've mentioned in other post that I got a birthday feeder with a camera for a Christmas gift. I'm enjoying seeing the photos. See below.

 

[Tony Page]

Got a weird photo from my bird feeder with a camera. Look at the birds feet. You could barely see the birds body at the top of the photo. The only thing I could think happened is the bird was taken off as the camera snapped a photo. What do you think?

 

[Krystal]

Baby Tree Swallow. They are cool little birds. You can get pretty close to them.

 

[Smithy]

Baby Tree Swallow. They are cool little birds. You can get pretty close to them.

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Lovely picture!

 

[Krystal]

Female Cardinal at our bird feeder and the male Cardinal sitting on our pine tree limb.

 

[Tony Page]

A mourning dove enjoying a meal at my feeder

 

[Nancy Hart]

Great Blue Heron out at the lake. He was scrunched up, standing very still, hoping not to be noticed.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

In north Idaho, where I grew up, it is by a large lake, and there are Ospreys that nest near the lake each year. Because people enjoy watching the ospreys, the city set up camera that show the nest, and each year, the ospreys come back in the spring to their nest.
This year, a pair of geese arrived before the ospreys did, and the geese have taken over the ospreys nest, and the mother goose is setting on her eggs.

The ospreys came back, and apparently they tried to chase the geese away from the nest (there were pictures of the fight); but the geese are not leaving. No one is sure what happened to the ospreys, and whether they will wait for the geese to leave and then reclaim their nest, or if they will just nest elsewhere.
Here is a link to the webcam and you can see the mother goose setting on her eggs in the nest.

https://ospreys.sandpointonline.com/

The mother goose hatched out four goslings on the osprey nest, and today, she called them all down from the nest. The tiny babies can not fly, but they were fluttering their little wings as they jumped out. I hope they landed safely !

 

[Nancy Hart]

The mother goose hatched out four goslings on the osprey nest, and today, she called them all down from the nest. The tiny babies can not fly, but they were fluttering their little ings as they jumped out. I hope they landed safely !

I wonder if they are as afraid as we are watching them. Looks like they went straight down.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I have been watching the website (link in my first post) to see if anyone has reported whether the little guys made it down alive or not. It seems like a long ways.
However, when I looked at the YouTube channel, I can see that geese have taken this nest before, and there are also pictures from a long time ago of the babies waddling down to the lake with their mother goose, so i think it is a good chance that this group made it down okay, too.

 

[Nancy Hart]

I have been watching the website (link in my first post) to see if anyone has reported whether the little guys made it down alive or not. It seems like a long ways.
However, when I looked at the YouTube channel, I can see that geese have taken this nest before, and there are also pictures from a long time ago of the babies waddling down to the lake with their mother goose, so i think it is a good chance that this group made it down okay, too.

Birds weigh so little, they probably just float down like a feather.