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

  • Thread starter Thread starter JamalChristophr
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
The Curlews are beautiful!

I also love this little birdā€“Iā€™ve never seen them flyā€“they only seem run aroundā€“especially around the grocery store parking lot. If I knew what they ate, Iā€™d include them on my grocery list šŸ˜ƒ I donā€™t know what they are, though, but hereā€™s a picture

a961ec9bb678c1bea8f30f10a6e5618c0d92f39a.jpeg
 
Black-throated Sparrow in Sabino Canyon last Sunday

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Itā€™s baby eagle season again! There are two live-cams close to where I live, one in Big Bear and another on Catalina Island. People here seem to prefer following the Big Bear eagles, but I like the Catalina cam, since Iā€™ve spent more time on Catalina Island and can see it when I walk down to the beach.

 
Here is a picture of the appropriately named Pigeon Guillemot. I saw my first one this morning.

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Itā€™s a great day for rarities. This would be a first for Arizona as well as my first Whiskered Tern

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Hey, I saw one of those in the Bataquitos lagoon on my way to work this morning. Only it had red whiskers. Is there a Scottish subspecies?
 
I love birds and have enjoyed this thread so much. For all lovers of Cardinals , a great story for you to enjoy is a classic, ā€œThe Song of the Cardinalā€ by Gene Stratton-Porter, Grosse and Dunlap, 1903.
 
Who needs a bird pic? This is a Verdin, a tiny, hyper-active denizen of our desert gardens. Theyā€™re really hard to photograph.

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
A favorite Red Wing Blackbird returns with his announcing - a comforting song. Had one ā€œbossyā€ fellow that kept attacking my door wall - smack, smack, smack. Thought he would pound himself into forever - had to hang an old shower curtain to cover it for a couple of weeks! He did this for two years in a row!
 
So, last Sunday I was spending some quiet time observing the birds in my backyard when I starting hearing unfamiliar, soft, warbler-like chips. When I finally tracked it down I was delighted to discover it was a Gray Flycatcher, my 117th backyard bird. Imagine my surprise when moments later, a bright yellow dot in my neighbors mesquite tree turned out to be a Rosy-faced Lovebird, backyard bird #118. Now, there are established populations in Tucson of escaped birds, but I think this was a caged bird because just as I was making a last minute check of my backyard before mass I heard it squawking from the top of one of my mesquite trees only to then see it taken out by an immature Cooperā€™s Hawk. It was really sad to see.

Hereā€™s a few photos I got of her last moments in life. No pics of the flycatcher. It was just moving through. Suffice it to say, it was gray.

(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.) (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Last edited:
Beautiful. Amazing how fragile they seem but manage difficult survival. I hope to drive to a rural location, not to far away, where the Kirtland Warbler nests. Waiting for a nice break in our Spring weather.
 
Iā€™m at the Seattle airport with a long layover. I was tempted to take the light rail to the waterfront to look for seabirds but itā€™s too wet outside
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top