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

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Thanks Tad, you’re a fine fellow, even though not among the raptors. I shall not hold it against you.
 
Yes, but what happens if you actually do catch the “Snipe”. Then what do you do???

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That would be a baby platypus?Ive never seen a picture before 🙂 Kind of cute
 
It really is a snipe, but most of humankind would not be able to accept this fact, so people call it a “platypus”. Yep.
 
They are in the creek a km from here,but are rare…and not easy to spot.I took my 4 year old for a walk on her birthday along the creek some years back and it was a real gift to see one swimming and playing in the water,
We sat on the bank quietly and just watched 🙂
 
I like a lot of different birds (blue herons, osprey, swallows, loons, Atlantic brants, hawks and falcons especially the small ones - merlins and peregrine falcons? - that I sometimes see perched on telephone lines around here, and of course owls) but one that I especially like are night herons because they seem so mysterious. In fact I like almost all birds except pigeons and starlings. And mourning doves of which there are so many here are the same species as pigeons since they’re all doves so they can’t be all bad.
 
One of my favorite methods of relaxation is to sit out in my garden and listening to Bird Song.
 
There’s a Nankeen night heron here,fairly rare in places but down along the coast I was suprised to see a couple very bold along pier,they must have been waiting for scraps.
I love the sound of the doves. Our magpies are quite different here,the more I watch them the more I apreciate them really.
You have such a wide variety of birds 🙂
 
I like to do that, too.

We live on a second floor, and we have a balcony.

I like to open up the door and listen to the birds, especially when they start to migrate back here in the Spring months.

I like to hear the little birdie babies when they start making their little chirping noises.

The robins are especially plentiful around here in the Spring, and their bird sounds and songs are very distinct. It’s always a pleasure to see them, as they bring the first sounds of Spring with them.

For those not familiar with the North American robins, here is what they sound like:
 
Please don’t be offended, but I think you are a bunch of bird-brains! I’m truly sorry for selling you short. Please forgive me.
 
It’s a Nikon D5500 with a 75-300 mm lens. Sturdy, lightweight, not too big, and take fairly nice pictures.

Binoculars are pretty much required equipment. We all size each other up when we meet out in the field by the quality of our optics. 😆

I’m seeing a lot more birders with cameras. It’s almost become required equipment. Not only is it fun to take pictures but it helps with the documentation. Sometimes if I don’t know what a bird is, I just take a picture, download it to my computer and figure it out later. Sort of like this mixed flock of gulls I encountered in an ice storm in Mt. Tabor Park in Portland, Oregon. There’s at least three species of gull and one hybrid in this picture. Can you tell which is which?

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Well, one of them is actually an Osprey cleverly disguised as a gull. I bet you will never figure out which one either.
 
I think optics are also interesting. If the field of view were somewhat narrow, it would take practice maybe to go straight from eye viewing to the binocs and so forth.

Hmmm, I will probably wait to get into birding big time until I’m a bit older, but maybe not, who knows. I have poor vision in reality, so I miss a lot compared to what others see in the world. My vision is 20 / 40. So that’s far from ideal, but it’s always been so, which in one way is good. 🙂
 
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It’s interesting. St Francis is my patron saint, and I really do love almost all creatures.

Well, I say almost all. 'm not an entomologist so much that I’m crazy about mosquitoes, fruit flies, and the like.

However…I want to show you guys a pic I did take…

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There are a lot more species of hummingbird in South America. It’s known as the ‘bird continent’. I’ve identified 14 species of hummingbird in North America. That’s most of them and most of those were in my part of the country.
 
You know when St. Francis was preaching to the birds? What gospels do you think he was preaching on?

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The robins are especially plentiful around here in the Spring
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They are here too, and every year they do battle with the squirrels until their chicks leave the nest.
We also have a lots of mourning doves, cardinals, goldfinches, and a few woodpeckers.
 
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