Bird Watching!

[stikine]

Kinda sad that you have only seen a couple over the years.

 

[Burnham]

Sure is. Happening with more and more of the iconic species. I only see a handful of western tanagers each year now. Used to be pretty common.

 

[stikine]

Birds in general are getting hit pretty hard. Just another indicator of how things are going climate and pesticide wise.

 

[Burnham]

True, those and habitat loss.

 

[stikine]

Yup

 

[cory]

Nearly 3 Billion Birds Gone

A new study finds steep, long-term losses across virtually all groups of birds in the U.S. and Canada

www.birds.cornell.edu

 

[pigwot]

Down near Richmond on the James River is a Great Blue Heron rookery. Been lucky to have been there in the Spring when there are thousands of them nesting.

 

[Altissimus]

I have several customers with ponds , that used to be full of Fish ... the Herons are willing to stay until they're done

 

[lxskllr]

A little OT, but some of you might like Bird Note. It's an audio segment a couple minutes long that plays on a local college station. It's kind of a discount syndicated show, but it's pretty interesting with articles on birds that generally feature what they sound like. It's US centric, but other areas popup every so often.

BirdNote Daily | BirdNote

BirdNote Daily is a two-minute radio show that combines rich sounds with engaging stories, to illustrate the amazing lives of birds and give listeners a momentary respite from the news of the day.

www.birdnote.org

 

[cory]

Thx for the link. Btw, how is that off topic?

 

[lxskllr]

Well, it wasn't about anything I saw. It's kind of adjacent to bird watching.

 

[cory]

Let's go with all things Bird!

 

[Altissimus]

Charlie Parker ...

 

[stikine]

Find the GBH.

 

[stikine]

A Trump nickel

 

[cory]

‘Extremely Rare’ Snowy Owl Sighting Transfixes a California Suburb

What brought the owl to the city of Cypress, in Orange County, remains a mystery.

www.nytimes.com

 

[lxskllr]

I could count the wild owls I've seen in my life on one hand. Seeing a snowy owl would be fantastic.

 

[cory]

I've seen a far number of barred owls around here over the years.

I've seen exactly one Great Horned Owl in my life, up high in a huge hemlock tree out in the boondocks.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm trying to find the owl I got real close to years ago, but time has faded my memory. It was big, and feathered kind of like a great horned, but I don't remember seeing horns. I'm thinking it was a barred owl with especially dark plumage. I was within grabbing range, and walked around him and checked him out for a few minutes before I got back to work. He never budged.

 

[cory]

He never budged.

Same with this rather chill Gangster

owl caught in car grill

 

[Dave Shepard]

I don't see them often, but I hear them all the time. "Who cooks for you? "

 

[Bermy]

We had a great horned owl rest in our garden, in Bermuda! It was a local record, only the second sighting of one ever. Vagrant arrival. Hubby got a picture and it got into the official records.

 

[pigwot]

There were irruptions of snowy owls in our area the prior three years. Have not seen one yet this year. Karen will drive hours to see them.

 

[Burnham]

We hear owls with almost nightly regularity. See them at least once a month. Either screech, pigmy, great horned, barn, barred, spotted, or sparred.

Owls are special, no lie.

 

[lxskllr]