What is your favorite bird? And every fowl encounter you've had under the sun

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The blackbird song is terrific, but early! Here in the UK that is, I expect it’s the same wherever they are. Robins also have a lovely song. Funnily enough we had one some years ago which used to sing in short bursts all night. It was odd and quite annoying, it was due to the street lamps being on all night, it had become used to it and the lights must have disrupted its normal rhythm.

Most small non predatory wildlife without sharp teeth or fleas are great. Hold on, I think that just leaves worms and snails 🐌
 
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Someone was complaining about too many bird posts on the main forum which made me think I’m falling down on the job. Here’s 2018 year bird #273 Gilded Flicker. I know it looks a lot like a Northern Flicker, but it’s not. It’s Gilded. You have to come to the saguaro forests to see one.🌵🌵🌵

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I went for a walk yesterday, and was reminded how magpies used to swoop us kids on the farm.My younger brother also had dark hair so they would mistakenly think I was him…after he’d climbed up to look at their eggs in a nest .
I think I’ve only been hit on the head once by an angry beak,but it was enough to draw blood and really hurt.
The rest of the year magpies are very polite 🙂

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My favourite footy team when I lived in Australia were the Collingwood Magpies. 😎
 
A rare photo of a mother wrench feeding her young

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My sisters used to walk to school when in Australia and we’re often swooped and buzzed by crows, when the film birds came out they said it had been like that.

I helped a blackbird chick once which had fallen out of its nest because it’s nest had been destroyed by a cat or a magpie. I had an old bird cage and so I put it in that in a tree so it wouldn’t get attacked or fall out again and while I was doing it I was swooped by a male blackbird and he either banged me with his wing or pecked my head. I certainly felt it. The blackbirds came and fed this chick through the bars, it worked like a treat. When it was big enough I let it go and they fed it in the bushes somewhere.
 
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I’d like to watch ‘Birds’ again ,it’s been 28 years or so 😁
What a great idea for the young black birds survival Lee!
 
Thanks, I was very happy to help because usually you can’t do much for them.

That film is actually quite scary even when I last saw it several years ago.
A classic really.
 
I watched part of it one night when having a short stay on a dairy farm and Livery stable helping out.I was sharing a caravan with some others and it was ccold!
I think it was in Berkshire or Oxfordshire in November,
everything was frozen when we would take the horses out in the morning.Beautiful and pristine.
 
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My wife was watching The Birds this weekend. Being a birder I can’t help but try to identify the birds in the mobbing scenes. The crows and seagulls are understandable, but there’s a shot of of a finch aviary superimposed over the screen which makes the scene completely unbelievable, especially when many of those finches depicted are these lovely residents of Australia, the Gouldian Finch.

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Ooh, scary! The idea of being pecked to death by crow sized Gouldian Finches! The horror!
 
Here’s a young Harris’s Hawk learning to scream. Taken from my back yard.

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Tippi Hendron Barbie.

I think she’s for display, and not to play with. But still! 😳
 
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Last winter we had a fieldfare in our snow covered garden looking to share in the seed I’d put out for my sparrows and blackbird. The fuss was incredible! The blackbird and this interloper fought as though to the death, I’ve never seen such fierce competition. Actually I’ve just remembered another occasion when two sparrows landed on the path in front of me locked in mortal combat, and they wouldn’t let go of each other even when I raised my voice. Anyway there were feathers all over the place from the fieldfare mostly. Beautiful bird in real life, better than this picture.
 
Hope no cats take advantage of the birds scuffle over food 😺

I’m a bit ashamed to say there Is a starling nest beside the chimney (the highest point of the roof my ladder can’t reach and I’m not going to lie down on the roof and reach over to pull it out…)
Four days ago I was listening to the smallest of new hatchling cheeping ,today I’m amazed at the strength of their eager loud cheeping as the mother comes in with worms…how quickly they are growing!!
 
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Not quite birds,but the other night out in the garden I could hear small bats making their high pitched calls.
I could also hear the Skylarks still singing after dark …it was very still and sounded lovely .So many stars out.
 
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