Bird Watching!

[treesmith]

My wife got some pics of the adult in the pine, and while she was editing it, we saw another juvenile right beside the adult, but it blended so well we never saw it. I can’t get the pics to upload.

 

[treesmith]

I’ve tried over a dozen times to upload these pics. It finally worked! Here are the pics from a few weeks ago of the eagles.

 

[treesmith]

 

[davidwyby]

WA

I used to hike around in the mountains where I escape the heat in summer with a decent cannon. Have a bunch of albums on Photobucket. 😒

Met my friend Jack up there…with his very large Cannon lens.

Red Crossbill | shadeTreeImaging

The Red Crossbill is a member of the finch clan. Their beaks are adapted to extract seeds from conifer cones. There is a wide variation in coloration in both sexes, and they may breed whenever a good…

shadetreeimaging.com

 

[treesmith]

How many of you saw the fledgling in the second pic?

 

[Kaveman]

How many of you saw the fledgling in the second pic?

Me. When I went back and looked lolz

 

[treesmith]

I saw two bald eagles last week. Neither near the house.

 

[davidwyby]

Used to see BEs rarely in WA, was cool, miss it.


Now I see one in the mirror every morning

 

[cory]

Wild stuff

 

[cory]

Watch: Fishing Guide Who Rescued Drowning Vultures in the Gulf Says They Must Have Fallen from the Sky

A Florida fishing guide and his clients found around 150 vultures that were stranded in the Gulf of Mexico after falling out of the sky.

www.outdoorlife.com

 

[Burnham]

That is a strange one. Never heard of such. Interesting, thanks @cory.

 

[cory]

Interesting how the ones that were still alive were eager for rescue

 

[lxskllr]

I think animals aren't as dumb as they sometimes seem. They probably calculated a sketchy uber had better prospects than staying put.

 

[cory]

yes. Apparently vultures are too big and get too waterlogged to take off once down in the ocean

 

[Altissimus]

Bohemian Waxwings , seen them once here a few years back. Good close group sighting as I had to look them up. Thought I saw a group today , as I grabbed binoculars they flew away ... Chance they could have been Chickadees ...

 

[Nutball]

I put birdseed outside a window, now the cat is really mad that birds are within 1ft of him and he can't tear them to pieces.

 

[lxskllr]

There were about a dozen robins drinking out of Spot's bowl, but a bunch took off before I got my phone.

 

[Burnham]

Robins have all headed to warmer climes at this time of year, here. Be back in springtime. But we have small flocks of varied thrushes, which are similar in size and act almost the same. They usually abandon us in warmer weather, mostly but not completely. Pretty birds.

 

[lxskllr]

Robins will absolutely strip holly trees of berries in early spring. It's getting close to that time. Not sure exactly when it happens. Whole tree will be filled with birds, and a couple days later, all the berries are gone.

 

[cory]

About 11pm last nite I woke up and thought I head an owl but it was barely audible thru the closed windows. Sure enough, I stuck my head outside and heard a great horned owl going at it casually for about 40 minutes. Used the app I learned here for ID

 

[Burnham]

We heard exactly the same last night @cory ! This one has been hanging around for several weeks, hear it many nights, especially if we have a bedroom window slightly open.

I really like it when in springtime we hear two different GHO calling back and forth to each other. Same general pattern, but easily discernable different voice tones.

 

[lxskllr]

That owl gets around! Supersonic flight. Did you hear a little boom when it took off?