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

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They’re chicken sized. Here’s a size comparison with my rock turtle.
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Wow,they are huge ,and pretty and sorry to say possibly quite yummy 😁
 
I bet. I’ve never eaten one. You’re allowed to hunt them though. I shot a Spruce Grouse once when I was bored to death deer hunting. It was one of the tastiest things I’ve ever eaten.
 
Depends. Spruce Grouse are a little larger than Gambel’s Quail.

I really am off to Texas now to visit my recently widowed Aunt. I’ll be back in a few days with lots of pictures, I hope. Ya’ll see something rare for me.😃
 
I have two sets of fresh hatched ducklings in the lake near my home, but no camera.
Thanks for posting your picture. I love watching them grow and change.
 
I’m back. Looks like the Gambel’s Quail decided to make a nest in the fountain I converted into a planter while Iwas gone. There’s 11 eggs in it.

My wife and I had a good trip to Texas. We went to visit my aunt. My uncle died last October and I was very close to them. She lives out in country where the birding was pretty good. I managed to get 40 species just by taking short sorties out around her property. This is one of the more spectacular residents, year bird #190, the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.

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Ladies and Gentleman, introducing 2018 bird #184, North America’s most colorful songbird, the Painted Bunting. (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.)
This is what a breeding factory for Painted Buntings looks like.
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It’s called the cross timbers.
 
Thank you for sharing your photos of this beautiful bird. I’d never heard of the Painted Bunting before you posted the photos. Is this bird’s singing colorful too?
 
Here’s the song of the Painted Bunting. My cat Sasha loves it and is looking around for the bird! 🤣

 
This is a local Texas specialty, the Black-crested Titmouse. I think he looks like he’s wearing a biretta.

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I thought I’d give everyone a June baby bird update because I know how Catholics like babies. The second batch of Mourning Dove babies have grown up and flown away and now mother is now sitting on her third batch of eggs. There’s another Mourning Dove nest in the eaves of my back porch. There’s at least one active House Finch nest back there as well.

The Gambel’s Quail is still sitting on her eggs. We’re getting used to each other. The guy who was supposed to water my garden when I was in Texas neglected to water the planter that the nest is in. The poor thing! Imagine her selecting a nice, lush, hidden spot and then having it slowly dry up and die around her. I’ve been rehabbing my plants which is a struggle finding watering times when the quail isn’t on her nest.

Though I doubt they were hatched in my yard, I’ve got juvenile Verdins and Lucy’s Warblers coming to my water feature. They’re funny because they look almost identical. Small and gray. (the English call them LGJ’s, ‘little grey jobs’.

Here’s a picture of an Eastern Phoebe in Texas. As is their habit, she had a nest on my aunt’s front porch. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Thanks for the updates…I think those doves are amazing ! What a quick turn over.
 
I’ve noticed so many Hawks,kites and owl around here at the moment …early Winter and they are after the mice.
I’m glad the owl numbers seem to be increasing 🙂 I counted five the other night as I drove for 20 minutes,a couple of near misses 🙂
 
I’m going to be off the grid for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully, someone will keep this thread going or else I’m going to have to start one of my own when I get back. 😁

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Sure,we’ll keep it going 🙂 have a good trip and please bring back some photos of birds tad .
 
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