So what birds can you hear or see from where you are now?

With apologies to those inside the office. I work at home a lot, so I can hear the birds through the window...

I can hear a song sparrow at this moment.


will cross post in the birding forum.

A Cessna 402 and a Beechcraft 1900.B-)

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I just heard a robin, too.

at the airport.:hi:

I always laugh though, when we land somewhere and see all the birds eating what have you by the more rural landing strips.

I can tell you several ospreys, a bald eagle, egrets, ibis, and numerous seagulls.

They do love airports.

:rofl: That's what my husband would say, and a geek's answer for sure!



edited to reflect such complexity...

there. Is that still the case? Must be just lovely. Still on my list to visit some day.

Yes it's very nice, though hot this time of year. My parents still live in NC, so I get the best of both worlds.

I went to a wedding for a friend in Tampa a ways back, and it was the hottest I have ever been - I think it was in early June. I was so clueless that I was wearing a 3/4 sleeve dress made out of rayon.

:crazy: I remember running to the car to fire up the AC.

No problem at all.

Yikes, you must have been burning up. June is plenty hot. Middle of the summer here.

have thought. Weird to sweat in December, esp. since I live in PA.

But really summer begins at the end of March and lasts till the end of October. Usually we get our first cold front just in time for Fantasy Fest and Halloween. Higher up on the mainland, I think they cool down earlier.

But I have a pair of cardinals that I hear every morning and every evening, and they've been here for years. I could listen to them all day.

that sounds exactly like a cell phone ringing.

Drives me batty. I have no idea what kind it is.

There was this mockingbird near where I used to live who could make the sound of a trash-truck backing up. Used to drive me batty.

There's a mockingbird around here that meows. They can imitate sounds pretty well. I guess that's why they're called "mocking" birds, huh?

places!

there was a tiny rip in the screen, but there was enough room for the wrens to bring in nest building supplies.
Between the screen and the window looks to be a pretty nice and safe place to raise a family. However, I can't raise the window, but that's all right.

really cute little birds, as I recall.

a canyon wren, and some doves off in the distance, but earlier there were Gila woodpeckers, quail, a Cardinal, ravens, various sparrows/house finces and other small grey things I can't ID

Gila woodpecker, for instance - that's one I haven't heard of.

right on top of the head. Noisy. And they love dog food.

I'm sure you know the type: they swoop in, squawk a lot, shit on everything, then swoop out again.

it's the ones that pontificate endlessly at meetings that used to get to me.

a hummingbird and a baltimore oriole.

I am thrilled whenever I see the hummingbird because before this spring I had probably seen a hummingbird 5 x in my life. This one comes almost every single day to a hanging plant on my porch about 4 ft away from where I sit and it stays forever. :-)

I just put up some cardinalis vine... they seem to like that.

in MA so I feel fortunate to be able to enjoy her this year. :-)

they don't like a lot of sun, though, do they?

geese and seagulls bread.

It's the middle of the day and warm, so it's quiet here. x(

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Speaking of which, what have you seen lately?

Mostly just the usual suspects.

Really, the "best" birds have been the green herons that fly over our yard. :shrug:

At this time of year I have a customer every few minutes.

the little pond fountain. They have their times, morning, mid afternoon and evening. Right now there are a couple robins, sparrows and I think they're called house finches, the ones with the little reddish heads but the size of a sparrow.

This year, I moved the bird bath over by the little pond so they can take their baths in that. Who knew that birds would get upset with bird bathing in the cherub's bowl? So far it's working and I haven't heard any fighting.

It's not very big, a robin can barely fit into it to bathe and that's hilarious when they do. The birds line up, along the wires, neighbor's fence and in a tree to drink from it, usually flying in by twos, as two are flying off. They really do have quite a routine and seem pretty respectful of the "time limits". If some fly in early, they sit patiently on the rock or cherub's head until it's their turn. It's those that chose to bath in the cherub bowl, holding up the line, that would really set things off.

Wish I'd moved the regular bird bath closer to it before.

Outside: bluejays (lots of jays), mourning doves, starlings, grackles, rose breasted grosbeak, goldfinches, LBTs, swallows, hummingbird - the afternoon shift. The mallard ducks and crows will be here this evening.

first come the bluejays, screeching and scolding over the seed.

Then come the grackles, and their sidekicks the redwinged blackbirds.

The mourning doves come next, and then the assortment of wrens, tits, sparrows and other little brown birds that all look alike except for some stripe on their heads or bellies that defines the species.

The scarlet flash of a cardinal comes through every so often for a bite, but he doesn't stay long. His business seems to be elsewhere, along with the rarer oriole or bluebird. There was a goose family that stopped by to help clean up the sunflower seeds on the ground-- Mama Goose, Papa Goose and 6 goslings. A few days later there were four goslings and a week later there were but two. (There are big fish in the waters of this little bay I live on.)

There's fur in between those feathers, too, with the squirrels busily stealing whatever they can and practicing their acrobatics. I can't hate the little buggers, though-- there's plenty of food for all and the squirrels do add some comic relief.

Finally, a few deer stopped by in the yard to clean up the last of the seeds, aided by some white-footed mice.

Something, possibly the crows but more likely the opossums and raccoons, devours the leftover fried rice from Chinese takeout and the fruit peelings I leave out back by the compost heap. the stuff is always gone by the next morning.

grackles, several blue jays (stealing peanuts from the squirrel feeder)

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The 2 adult eagles come out during the day to fish, but it looks like the two babies are about ready to start leaving the nest.

Here is a link to the webcam on the nest - super cool.

http://www.iws.org/bald_eagles/twoharborscam.html

I love going to SF for that reason. I also loved seeing the cormorants.

this spring and they have been incredible to watch.

If you watch the webcam, you can see the two kids, and the parents are coming back from time to time. They seem to be trying to get them to start flying.

And I love the pelicans. In the evening, when they start fishing en masse, it is better than any other entertainment, IMO.

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When we were in SF last time, I just loved watching the pelicans from the bay, and from the ferries. What a pleasure. How I envy you to live there. Someday I will live near a bay, instead of the 3 Rivers!

lone grackle seeing what he can find on the ground underneath. The sparrows are cute but they take over the feeders so I don't get to see the prettier birds too often.

Cool! Just peeked out the window again, and a female cardinal had joined in poking around the grass below alongside a half dozen-plus sparrows.

And of course I can see my parrotlet, Grace, just a few feet away from me in my office.

feeder. That was pretty cool.

The weeds are especially bad this year, since all of my instruments of destruction are broken except for the shovel. It takes longer than a summer to hand-pull 6 acres of knee-high weeks, and they provide a lot of cover for the quail. They're everywhere.

maybe it's good, at least for them.

Many family groups are out there in the cheat grass and wild mustard.

mockingbird...

With all the little ones the parents are bothering everything and everybody.

only usually see them down by the river..


that's hilarious!

"What the hell are you staring at?!"

He hangs out in my driveway and sings his scrappy little song, giving the local outdoor cats something to think about.

x(

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Carolina_Wren/sounds

I had one who would tap on my kitchen window and give me hell if there wasn't any seed in the feeder.
And one day...it was so bizarre...I heard him raising a ruckus on the front porch. I came out, to see if some cat was annoying him or something, and he was sitting in my holly tree with a ruby crowned kinglet. And I'd swear it was as if he was introducing me to his new buddy.

Red Winged Blackbirds,Goldfinches,Sparrows and ducks. Mallards and Woodducks.

:hi: how are ya?

Cardinals, Blue Jays, Woodpeckers.

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sometimes roseate spoonbills (the pink ones!) hummmingbirds, vultures and more.

Outside Houston. Birdland, I tell ya.

spoonbills!

Drove Pip Cat crazy.

It's been pouring all afternoon, though, and the birds (or "fuds", as the wee beasties think of them) have been scarce.

but at home, I usually hear during this time of the year:
Chipping Sparrow
Mourning Dove
House Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Downy Woodpecker
Chimney Swift
Blue Jay
American Robin
House Finch
American Goldfinch
and sometimes Common Nighthawk

And at work, I hear a lot of starlings and house sparrows, some house finches, goldfinches and cardinals, and sometimes even Yellow Warblers in the distance along the railroad tracks...

when I was in Chicago a few weeks ago. Wish I'd had my binoculars with me...

And some robin size yellow bird that could be a female summer tanager. That was today.

Usually I see the red shoulder hawk at least once a day. Mississippi kite, Swallowtail kite, great crested flycatcher and some others, but it was 100 in the shade, heat index above 110 and the bigger birds may be resting.

The smaller birds and the crows come to the bird baths for water and to cool off. I set up a small sprinkler with a fine spray next to the bird baths and they love to take showers when it is hot.

flying into the trees in the nearby large park...


would love to see a summer tanager...

The same as we don't get purple finches, just the not as brightly colored house finches.

Not in the bird bath but taking a shower in the bush next to the sprinkler I've been leaving on for the birds.

Not my photo:

Where are you located that you have such cool birds to see?

And great habitat - open pastures with mixed hardwoods on a ridge between two swampy areas. One of the swampy areas is the head of a protected wetlands stream complex that is a wildlife corridor to the Gulf. So we have thick and thin woods, open land, water sources, etc.

I have not been putting up bird feeders, but the habitat is good enough all the birds really need is water up here at the top of the ridge.

I get chewed out by a robin every morning when I walk to the door. Mommy robin doesn't like me near her nest.

hummingbirds. We hung a bat house on our house about 3 weeks ago and we see them outside every night around 9 , but no takers yet. We so need bats---they can eat up to 600 mosquitos an hour and are dying from this strange disease.

We feed the birds all summer.

making him throw-up, and keeps saying "I thick...I thick...I THICK...amamaw, I thick..., repeat...

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Really cool! I'd never seen them before, and I think they somehow intimidated the sparrows who usually take over the area.

What could be better?

this rooster crows a LOT!

that I can't identify. Loud little guys. :D

how are ya? :pals:


Go to the Cornell Lab website and they will tell you what different birds sound like!

Plus, now that there are flowering bushes in the garden, lots and lots of birds have been by. It's nice.

Barn owls at night. Mockingbirds and Scrub Jays in the mornings and evenings. Geese during the migration seasons. Doves and an occasional wild turkey. Hummingbirds doing their mating dance and whistle around noon. LBJ's don't make any noise, but we get a lot of them around our neighborhood. Oh, and the Grackles that make a racket some times during the season, but I can't remember when to expect that awful noise.

Series. I live near two rivers, and geese fly over head all the time.