I saw a golden tit and a rose-breasted booby this morning.

ChudFusk wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 12:06 pm I saw a golden tit and a rose-breasted booby this morning.

A white-throated swallow perched on my branch this morning.

I was just thinking about how I’d like to be in a hardcore noise band called Dickcissels.

The birds were chatting it up hard when I got to work today. One of the first things I do when I get to work in the morning is hike into the canyon to make sure nothing weird happened overnight. The warblers, vireos, cardinals, wrens, and hummingbirds were PARTYING.

Weird sounds coming from the canyon rim. Roadrunners doing their bill rattles. The snakes are waking up from hibernation and the roadrunners are out looking for reptilian snacks. They do that bill rattle to let the other roadrunners know not to get too close.

Roadrunners are my indicator species. I’m only comfortable living where they range.

Have wrens in the garden regularly, but have managed to downsize further over the last couple of weeks, with our first pair of goldcrests. Guessing they're migratory ones heading east to Scandinavia, as we've never spotted them before.

Dave N. wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 4:04 pm The birds were chatting it up hard when I got to work today. One of the first things I do when I get to work in the morning is hike into the canyon to make sure nothing weird happened overnight. The warblers, vireos, cardinals, wrens, and hummingbirds were PARTYING.

Weird sounds coming from the canyon rim. Roadrunners doing their bill rattles. The snakes are waking up from hibernation and the roadrunners are out looking for reptilian snacks. They do that bill rattle to let the other roadrunners know not to get too close.

Roadrunners are my indicator species. I’m only comfortable living where they range.

fuck yeah. i would love to hear a recording of the canyon party sometime!

The flycatchers are back. This is the 4th or 5th year we've had a pair that make a nest on the outlet weather head of the ceiling fan for the little 1/2 bathroom in our mudroom area by the back door. It's like the outlet of a dryer vent, only up high underneath the balcony above. Nest is largely mud and moss. In the past they've hatched 2 broods over the course of a summer, each with 4 or 5 chicks. I have no idea if it's the same pair of birds, or kids from previous years that come back. Last year they reused the nest from 2023, but this year had to start over as a winter storm took the old nest down.

One for all you ornithologists out there… I present to you, the great Jimi Hendrix parakeet invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019 ... ver-london

Gramsci wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 6:49 am One for all you ornithologists out there… I present to you, the great Jimi Hendrix parakeet invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019 ... ver-london

Beautiful birds, but there are *tens of thousands* of them!?

I'll have to seek them out when I'm in London next week. I, for one, welcome our new parakeet overlords.

jfv wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:15 am

Gramsci wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 6:49 am One for all you ornithologists out there… I present to you, the great Jimi Hendrix parakeet invasion.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019 ... ver-london

Beautiful birds, but there are *tens of thousands* of them!?

I'll have to seek them out when I'm in London next week. I, for one, welcome our new parakeet overlords.

Hampstead Heath is inundated with them.

Bird thread! Yes!

Almost every day I'll see a red tailed hawk and they never cease to impress me. They look and sound amazing. People in California generally don't seem to care meanwhile I'm ready to cause a 20 car pileup to get a good look

Top bird moments in my life

1. "Hey, want to see a California Condor?" - in Zion National park, the ranger had one nesting on telescope

2. Was canoe'ing with spouse on Lake Nipissing Ontario where I grew up. We got out of the canoe, and 10 feet away from us a massive Golden Eagle took off from a small tree, flew directly over our head and we felt the wind from the wings.