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Finger Prince posted:Birds are cool. You'd be surprised how many different birds you see when you start actually paying attention to them and looking. I just like watching their behavior rather than looking for rare ones. I really like the ring billed gulls that are super common and everywhere. They're such characters. I live in a high rise so it's cool to watch pigeons soaring from above. They're very agile. We have one local one we call "beauty pidge" who has bright white wingtips and a white tail stripe and is very striking to see flying around. In the winter we get a lot of long tail ducks which we call Ow Owdle Ows because that's the sound they make, and I almost forget they're actually called long tail ducks. They're very pretty and one thing that can brighten a dreary cold winter day is to find a flotilla of them all calling out "Ow Owdle Ow! Ow Owdle Ow! Ooooowwwww." (only like, x100). my heart is touched also killdeer fledglings are adorable and look like cotton balls on toothpicks
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prepuce repurposed posted:ice water toast to the hardest working IK ever, nut it ain’t work if it don’t feel like work 
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Jul 24, 2020 15:06
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in february this year we had a Robining at our bird bath
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i also saw lazuli buntings this spring but they were too shy and i could never get their pictures  e
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City of Glompton posted:i also saw lazuli buntings this spring but they were too shy and i could never get their pictures aww we kept getting indigo buntings but only by the kitchen and by the time I came out to get a pic it was long gone, maybe i will try again today I know there's a purple finch somewhere too  I swear
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looking for any new and good/postable bird pics and found these from 2018 when i stumbled onto a robin's nest while cutting back brush that was growing into my blueberry bushes. knew something was up because a robin kept harrying me and screaming at me and stopped just in time to realize why: 6/13/18 tiny baby robins squeaking for food  6/14/18 more squeaks  6/15/18 starting to look a little big for the nest  6/16/18 definitely getting cramped in there  6/20/18 finally left the nest  6/27/18 one of them returning to the nest area and still not looking like an adult robin yet 
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I tried to creep but it's probably a bad time of day, that being said I found some Norther Flickers  And in the forest I found a Ruffed Grouse (excuse it's demon eye, I panicked and left the flash on) 
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Jul 24, 2020 16:14
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These are my good, good friends the Tall Birds.  They stalk around yoinking unsuspecting bugs from the ground and staring into people's windows. This might be considered poor behavior were you or I to do it, but everyone loves the Tall Birds!
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GODSPEED JOHN GLENN posted:These are my good, good friends the Tall Birds. I love Tall Birds! |
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Jul 24, 2020 17:18
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I, too, love the Tall Birds
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I used to write an occasional thing for lit mag blog, and this one is about the etymologies of bird names: https://pankmagazine.com/2013/12/03/logophily-more-birds-2/ |
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Jul 24, 2020 17:46
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Empty Sandwich posted:I used to write an occasional thing for lit mag blog, and this one is about the etymologies of bird names: https://pankmagazine.com/2013/12/03/logophily-more-birds-2/ interesting and cool read, ty 
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Jul 24, 2020 18:58
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I appreciate all the bird pics! I wish I had a backyard so that it would be easier to attract some. also Luvcow posted:interesting and cool read, ty 
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Jul 24, 2020 19:10
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taken this morning: our porch has some hungry friends you can see the tip of one of their beaks peeking out of the top of the nest
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Manifisto posted:taken this morning: any sign of the parents coming back to feed them and give away their identity (class/race/level)? |
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Jul 24, 2020 19:47
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Luvcow posted:any sign of the parents coming back to feed them and give away their identity (class/race/level)? I think I have seen a parent (robin) perched in a nearby tree glaring at me |
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i used to know a bunch of birds now i'm in a new part of the country and it's all new birds baby i highly recommend the smartphone app called "Merlin" it has helped me ID many birds while afield
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Jul 24, 2020 20:26
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plz do not give Silicon Valley the capacity to spy on birds, many of whom don’t even want smartphones
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the local flock of wild turkeys exiled this guy so I occasionally see him foraging solo
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Jul 24, 2020 20:41
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Is it too late for me to enjoy july and the bounty it brings itt with yall?
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Evil Bob posted:Is it too late for me to enjoy july and the bounty it brings itt with yall? it is never 2 late to bask in the july with friends
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Jul 24, 2020 20:57
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Looks like I stopped in just in time. While you all seem much more educated about our feathered friends than I, I do share an affinity for birds! The crows in my neighborhood are awesome, and in the evenings during summer i usually see huge murders of crows flying due south east toward down town. Back in the good ol days when I used to work in an office 5 days a week (were those the good ol days?) I would see Bald eagles usually monthly, one time one flew right past my window probably 15 feet away right as I was sitting down! Loads of red tailed hawks too. Then there is my homie the RUDEBWOY blue heron who hunts snakes around the pond outside my office window. I like the birds.
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blue herons own. i wonder what other colors there are
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prepuce repurposed posted:blue herons own. i wonder what other colors there are we have green herons arond here
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nut posted:plz do not give Silicon Valley the capacity to spy on birds, many of whom don’t even want smartphones "birds gone wild! voyeur edition" |
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prepuce repurposed posted:blue herons own. i wonder what other colors there are Grey, tricolor, umm.. is night a colour? |
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Jul 24, 2020 22:08
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red herons puke acidic anger blood to subdue their prey |
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Finger Prince posted:Grey, tricolor, umm.. is night a colour? "night heron" is a deece uname imo
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yoshi gets a different temporary ability depending on what color of heron he eats
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prepuce repurposed posted:blue herons own. i wonder what other colors there are Great Grey Herons, for one.
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alnilam posted:i used to know a bunch of birds now i'm in a new part of the country and it's all new birds baby you were gone a while. how was your move? are you going to make a thread about it in BYOB or was it not a BYOBable move (like there were no snails, no birds, no ernest, etc.)? |
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Prof. Crocodile posted:you were gone a while. how was your move? are you going to make a thread about it in BYOB or was it not a BYOBable move (like there were no snails, no birds, no ernest, etc.)? my move was stressful. moving sux!! but the place I moved to owns big time. i wouold make a thread about it but i'd rather just move past the experience of moving.
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alnilam posted:my move was stressful. moving sux!! but the place I moved to owns big time. i wouold make a thread about it but i'd rather just move past the experience of moving. that is fair. i have moved a few times and i find that moving can be exiting if it only takes a day or two, but if it takes weeks it it just terrible. this rule also applies to other things like visiting amusement parks, swimming, or eating a sandwich e: i meant to say that the rule applies in general, not to imply that i have spent weeks eating a sandwich, although I have Prof. Crocodile fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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Moving has its exciting parts for sure. Mostly after the fact though - getting to set up the new place, and if you are moving out-of-city, exploring the new area/region, are exciting. Over the last few weeks I keep feeling like we're on vacation / travelling somewhere cool, and suddenly I remember that we live here now. I also enjoy packing and unpacking a truck or pod. Packing the house up into boxes, no fun. But once everything is boxed and prepped, the big loading day of my buddy and I playing tetris to get everything in the pod, not to mention getting a nice workout carrying poo poo, was actually pretty fun (also concludes with pizza and beer ofc) The moving itself, across the whole country with a wife, a baby, a cat, an anxiety-prone senior citizen who is afraid to fly, in the middle of a pandemic (and happening to fly on the day the airlines decide to surprise everyone and sell the flights to fully booked even though they promised when we bought the tickets that it would be 2/3 capacity, surprising even the flight attendants) is most definitely not an experience i would recommend
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alnilam posted:Moving has its exciting parts for sure. Mostly after the fact though - getting to set up the new place, and if you are moving out-of-city, exploring the new area/region, are exciting. Over the last few weeks I keep feeling like we're on vacation / travelling somewhere cool, and suddenly I remember that we live here now. whatever happened to your chickens? 
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one of them died and since it's unkind to keep a chicken solo, and since we had the move on the horizon, we immediately gave the other one away to our friend who was getting some young chickens so she could be the alpha rather than being picked on as a new flock member. We saw her before we left and she is living a great life
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re: heronchat there was just one poking around the underbrush maybe 20 feet away from me I had the temerity to approach and try to take a photo and he flew away lol owned I guess
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