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

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For the past 43 years I’ve entered my bird observations in the field into a little note book. Yesterday I started entering them into this stupid phone. I’m feeling a little nostalgic though I like that the phone tracks my time and mileage and I get to stay updated with my lists.

For those of you scoring along at home, Im at 240 species for the year. This info comes to you courtesy of my Android. You
 
Don’t forget phones can break and get lost tad .Ive lost great photos on phones that died.
 
I have zero photos on my camera so far. I’m tempted to break it in half like the do on Breaking Bad.
 
Well here’s a poor quality photo (taken on my cell phone 😠) of a blue bird that I saw yesterday. A common scrub jay, nothing particularly spectacular, except that I never ever see them in my neighborhood anymore. I used to see them all the time years ago, and even the northern mockingbirds here still mimic their call. This one was about five miles inland from where I live. Nice to see they’re still around.

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Very nice 🙂 Are they territorial?
Here’s a hurried pic of some Barbary doves we bought today.They are fairly small .
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Yes, the jays are territorial, and aggressive too. When my younger sister and I were little kids, a blue jay swooped down and carried off one of the little toy figurines we were playing with. I wonder if one of the other aggressive bird species, like the mockingbirds or the much larger crows (which are here now in far greater numbers), drove the blue jays away.

Those barbary doves look like our mourning doves. What do you do with them? Some of the guys I used to work with liked to go dove hunting out in the desert, but that was never my thing.
 
I just enjoy them .They have a place in the garden and seem very content.In the past they’ve had chicks which we sold on to good homes.
 
I saw one of these in the back garden this morning .

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Outside talking with someone this afternoon,down near the coast ,I saw big V’s of Ibis flying up very high in the sky.
 
tad said:
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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Hopefully you are still having fun , Tad .

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Another very unclear photo 🙂 Sulpher crested cockatoos.
 
I never have any fun. 🙂

Doing good. I saw my 244th species of the year and my 109th Oregon bird of the trip yesterday. I’m going to take another stab at Snowy Plovers today. Allegedly they’re nesting on the beach here for the first time in decades. If you can imagine looking for a small whitish bird on 2 and a half miles of sand and driftwood that’s what I’ll be doing again today. A lot of fun.

I’m not sure if I like this phone yet.
 
Sunrise on our first morning in Oregon. @Rob2, you’ll be very interested to know that these are American White-pelicans.(Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
Some more birds from Goose Lake State Recreation Area on the California/Oregon border.
Cassin’s Finch
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Virginia Rail
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White-faced Ibis
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This is what what the area looks like. I’m in Oregon, California is on the other side of the wooden post
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And again. All those leaves made for tough birding. Pretty place though.
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The ‘Oregon’ form of the Dark-eyed Junco. I found this handsome little fella in Mt. Tabor park in PDX. This was one of my wife’s favorite haunts when she was a child.
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Here’s the view from the top.

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That Mtn view is very close to the view of Mt. Hood I had from my dining room window in Lake Oswego.

I loved those cute little Junco’s as well.
 
Woah,that’s a great view.I wonder what the air smelt like,the sounds you heard…
 
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