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

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These are just beautiful birds …

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They’re lovely too the blue and gold Macaws…
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When my work duties included a visit to the wastewater lagoons, there would be barn swallows and chimney swifts lined up shoulder-to-shoulder on the barbed wire and power lines if it was a cool morning. They were waiting for things to warm up so the mosquitoes and fish flies would emerge. These birds feed on the wing.
So I would deliberately kick clumps of grass and weeds to stir up clouds of insects. The birds would take flight and swarm about to catch their breakfast. More than once, one of the tiny birds would zoom between my face and my notebook to snap up a bug.

A few would fly low enough over the water to feed that spray from the aerators would knock them into the drink. Fortunately, there was a pool skimmer handy. So the soggy birds would be fished out and set on the fence to dry themselves out.
 
‘Like’ …no likes left ,and it’s the beginning of my day over here :cry:.
 
@Greenfields - definitely insufficient number of likes when reading various threads!

@Reverent_Howler - I ❤️ your post as I really enjoyed reading it. Such a great experience. I love birds and enjoy watching various ones eat the nectar from my flowers.
 
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Indoors waiting for the sun to come out,I can hear Silvereyes,Sulpher crested cockatoo,my hens 😅,magpies and house sparrows ,and a European starling .Every now and then I hear a blue crane fly over ,his rough cry.Still some apples in the tree,a pair of rosellas at them .The apples have been great bird feeders…and even the bees have been tasting the fallen chewed up ones.
 
Here’s a little trivia quiz for the birdmaster:

Africa has the Ostrich as its ratite.
Australia has its Emus and Cassowaries.
New Zealand has the Kiwi as its ratite.

What is the ratite found in South America?
 
Black crows against a gray sky (making a lot of noise)
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Anyone want to take a stab at the riddle? What is the species of ratite that is found in South America?
 
Yes, the Rhea is the S.A. ratite. There are two species, actually – the Greater Rhea and the Lesser Rhea. Our western hemisphere’s own version of the Emu.

Tad, that’s a clever hint in your reply.
 
A type of model rocket is a boost glider. The glider is launched like a rocket and the glider is released at apogee. On more than one occasion the glider would be harassed by either chimney swifts, barn swallows, or red-wing blackbirds. A swallow followed a glider all the way down on one launch. Another became an escort to a converted space shuttle foam glider, to the amusement of onlookers.
 
I just had three orioles of an unidentified species visit my water feature just now. That’s a first. Usually it’s one oriole every couple of years.

I also had a Western Tanager in recently. I was renovating my water feature and everything was in disarray, but I left a bird bath with a dripper nearby until I was done. I got some cool birds at at that time.

Here’s the tanager.

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Here’s a very warm, young, Brown-crested Flycatcher that came by. Look at that big fly catching mouth. It’s the last thing a bug sees before it dies.

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And here’s a Verdin, our local garden denizen. They’ve been making babies in my backyard so I give them oranges.

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The Western Tanager is such a beautiful bird. Didn’t see any out our way this year, but they’ve been here in the past.

What is that big black spider thingy next to it in the last couple of photos of it?
 
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What is that big black spider thingy next to it in the last couple of photos of it?
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It’s one of my 4 ant rock sculptures. Here’s a better picture of one of them upright with a Black-throated Gray Warbler and again with a Lesser Goldfinch.

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