Bird Watching!

[lxskllr]

Here's an android app that might be interesting to some. I'm sure there's a thousand of these on the playstore with varying degrees of spyware added, but this one should be clean, and the source code can be examined if desired. ID bird songs...

whoBIRD | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Recognize birds by their sounds, anywhere in the world!

f-droid.org

 

[Cobleskill]

Merlin from Cornell is a good one.

 

[stig]

That is the one I use.

 

[cory]

Meet the Falconer Who Earns $20,000 a Month

You do what? A Long Island native traded book publishing for birds and never looked back.

getpocket.com

 

[stig]

We must have been working in a migrating corridor today.
Had some hundred Barnacle Geese passing on their way to Svalbard ( I know that, because the Greenland corridor is further to the west)
6 Honey Buzzards on the way to Sweden and an Eagle on the way to god only knows.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Nighthawk.

 

[lxskllr]

 

[Burnham]

We have been enjoying more than the average number of Western Tanager sightings this summer. I'm especially glad of it, since it seems that for the last several years they have only been declining in numbers. They are a particularly beautiful songbird.

Western Tanager

A western counterpart to the Scarlet Tanager, this species occurs in summer farther north than any other tanager -- far up into northwestern Canada. Western Tanagers nest in coniferous forests of the...

www.audubon.org

 

[lxskllr]

The name "tanager" is familiar to me, but I don't know from where. I'm wondering if I saw one of the varieties around here and looked them up. I might have to dig around, and see if I could expect to find one out this way. A quick look on wikipedia says they're mainly tropical birds, but that doesn't mean they all are.

 

[Burnham]

The scarlet tanager is native to your area, John...for breeding anyway. They migrate from Central and South America.

 

[Maximalist]

Today I found a nest on fir made of twigs, various wires and thin ropes -

 

[pigwot]

We have scarlet tanagers that come through each spring and fall during the migrations. Two days ago a group of four blue-gray gnatcatchers came through.

 

[lxskllr]

All my trees have woodpeckers. That's a good thing, right? :^D

I was watching a couple pileated woodpeckers in my pine spar. Super cool birds, and they can really move some bark/wood. Pic didn't turn out great cause it's on max zoom, but it's what I've got...

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Better the spars than your house.

 

[lxskllr]

A bunch of years ago I was at a friend's house, and next door there was a woodpecker drumming on a piece of aluminum on the barn. Holy hell that was loud :^D

 

[Dave Shepard]

I spent my entire childhood listening to woodpeckers drilling the siding on my house.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I always leave a couple dead spars on my place just for them. They still screw with my pump shed from time to time.

 

[lxskllr]

That one at my friend's place is the only time I've seen one mess with a structure. I only see them in trees.

 

[Kaveman]

Pileated woodpeckers are super rare and people adverse in these parts. I've only seen one.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Years ago I had a timber framing project that I was working on in an open-sided pole barn near a pond out in a huge corn field. Periodically a pileated should strafe the edge of the pond alongside the pole barn making their usual racket. It was just like getting machine gunned by a warplane. I don't know if the bird had a nest nearby, or had just watched too many old war movies.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Pileated woodpeckers are super rare and people adverse in these parts. I've only seen one.

Come get some of these peckers then.

 

[Kaveman]

Come get some of these peckers then.

Workin on it. Having Ford problems, so I'm working on finding an alternative.

 

[Mrs.B]

Lots of different woodpeckers here, lately. I love watching the pileated. They sure can squack up a storm at times. I hear them before I see them.

 

[treesmith]

We just got back from a camping trip at a nearby state park. I had hoped to see some eagle at the lake, but didn’t. As it turned out, after we got home, when our middle daughter left our house headed home, she spotted a pair of bald eagles in a hayfield a half mile from our house. So we rode up there in the car to see them. The adult flew up into a pine about 200 yards away, while the juvenile circled above us. Beautiful and majestic birds they are.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

You'd love Shaver Lake a couple hours from here. Osprey nests and diving for fish. Eagles too.