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

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Those kookaburras are tame, I assume. The’re not all like that, are they?
 
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Yes, they look pretty tame,although the wild ones seem to become quiet around people too.
 
My geese,ducks and hens are moulting at present Jamal.Its Autumn and they are growing their new feathers.
They look a bit scruffy at the moment and are doing a lot of grooming.
They look beautiful in full feather when the grass grows back green.
 
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Do a birds feathers change during the winter to keep them warmer?

My osprey is asleep on the webcam. I was just pondering this and that.

I don’t feel so bad now about sleeping longer since learning that birds sleep 12 hours a day.

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I’m so glad that you’re enjoying the Osprey cam. 😀

If you get a chance, take a look at some of the other birdie cams. that are linked, up at the top of the same page.

I also like looking at the tropical feeder that live streams at the lodge in Panama.

Those birds are so colorful and beautiful.

If you remember, I posted that cam. some time back, as there were Toucans at the feeder when I posted it. It’s fun to see them trying to pick up the fruit with their large bills. ❤️

I couldn’t tell what the birds were being fed at first, but I figured out that they are given pineapple slices, orange slices or sections/pieces, watermelon slices and bananas. They eat it as fast as it’s put out, and they are fed several times a day, too.

There is also a squirrel that comes to visit, and also a possum.

The camera is kept on at night too, but it goes on black and white and off of color at night when it gets dark there.

Editing to add that I also think that they are also given some other fruit when they have it, like mangoes or maybe papaya, too? I’ve seen it there too on the feeding area, but it’s mostly the other fruits that I’ve listed above.
 
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Saw a red car yesterday that was splattered so liberally with bird dirt that at first I thought it was a funky paint job
 
Puffins. I just have a thing re puffins and when I was too ill even to go anywhere, they became symbolic of health and freedom
Never seen them in reality.

Last September, when I was on the ferry, one flew past the boat… HOPING and planning to watch them later
 
Then there was the big white gander I owned… He was aggressive in the extreme ( I realised watching the geese that they are short sighted and thus cannot see exactly who or what is coming towards them so they attack just in case

When I went out to feed the critters when he was very new to me, he raced towards me, honking, wings spread to look as huge as possible

I was carrying an empty plastic bucket so in self -defence I walloped him loudly with it and he never attacked me again… there are some things in this life I am scared of but a goose full of hot air is not one of them.
 
Rose I was cornered in a shed by a big angry turkey gobbler when I was 4 ,no one heard me crying and I had to beat him off with a metal pipe.At that age their red and purple blobby faces look particularly scary and angry
and the way they puff them selves up ,make their mean voices …
 
In one of the Jeeves stories, by P. G. Wodehouse, Bertie Wooster is unable to pass some hostile geese (or swans?) on the road. As a result, he is caught in a brief rain shower, without his umbrella, of course. After a while, Jeeves comes to the rescue. He approaches the geese at a quick pace, raising his furled umbrella before him like a sword. The geese are unimpressed until Jeeves comes closer and suddenly unfurls the umbrella toward them. This frightens off the geese, and Bertie is able to safely pass.
 
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Anna’s Hummingbird’s naturally look chunky and dark. That’s what you got there.
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I notice now that the pugnacious male lets at least one other hummer use the feeder, and I’m assuming that is his mate or some other relative. That bird is more skittish and flies away if I’m at the window, but the male is bold.
 
Hmm, I wonder. I always thought male hummingbirds had no allegiance to their mates or played any role in raising their young. Watching my feeders it did seem like the females would ‘tag team’ the male. While the male would be chasing off one, the other one would slip in for a sip.

With Anna’s Hummingbirds, young males resemble females before their gorgets grow in. They can be awfully full of themselves. Occasionally, they’ll over come their antagonism for each other, drop their guns and tolerate each others presence. It’s funny watching them sitting in the same tree a few feet apart glaring at each other.
 
Yeah. They actually do have attitudes. They also have interesting little personalities.

We had a kid clubhouse in the back yard. Some of the neighborhood cats would climb on the roof to sun themselves.

We had one black cat who would consistently do that, watching for birds in the adjacent tree limbs to snag. But we had a couple hummers that would come up, hovering just out of the cat’s range, and squawk at him. It was just too funny for words. You could tell the hummers were saying, “nayh, nayh, you can’t get me. You can’t get me, ha ha ha HA ha.”
 
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Hmm, I wonder.
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Then I wonder if Anna’s just chase off other Anna’s. You mentioned black-chinned, and I think I have seen these at the feeder too. What I’ve seen is one hummer drinking, and then another shows up, and out of nowhere the dominant Anna’s swoops in with its scratchy battle cry chasing the second one off but leaving the first one to drink in peace. It’s all very interesting and entertaining.
 
No. Last night I was watching the Anna’s take on a Broad-billed Hummingbird. However, you have piqued my curiosity. I’m going to have to pay closer attention to see if you have a point.

Maybe the Anna’s has some sort of truce with the other bird. It seems to me that some birds fight so much at some point they just try to ignore each other. 😆
 
Are you referring to my mother-in-law?

Yes, but never again will be too soon.
 
can’t believe you just said that.

I’m deeply hurt … on the verge of pulling a few feathers out.
 
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