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

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I’m not sure,owls there are plenty of .
I’ll have to find out 🙂
 
There is one bird that always grabs my attention and brings back memories whenever I hear it. When my son used to practice soccer on the football field in the evening, and I would help the coach, there was a kind of swift or swallow that would fly around eating all the flying bugs, who were attracted by the bright stadium lights. I never really saw the birds clearly, but I recognize the sound they make instantly, almost like a kind of sonar or echolocation.
 
I just spent some time looking online for a recording of the bird sound I was writing about, but so far I haven’t found it 😔. Oh well, I know it when I hear it here in real life 😀.

It doesn’t sound scratchy. More like two short whistles repeated over and over, and not very high pitched.
 
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Our could be quite different then.There’s a lot of different birds making noise in this clip,you’ll hear the small call this swallow of ours makes.

 
What also complicates it, I think, is that the same bird might make one sound while it’s flying around feeding, and then a different sound when it’s calling for a mate or defending territory.
 
This is what I and the crows I see every day are likely thinking

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I am rather fond of the Sparrow Hawk and often see them perched on utility wires hereabouts. I have also encountered song sparrows, wrens, jays, cardinals, robins, orioles, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, swallows, grackles, cranes, herons, loons, ducks, geese, killdeer, pheasant, turkey, owls, crows, hawks, and the bald eagle.

Black Capped Chickadees have landed on me and even called into an ear! Hundreds of swifts and swallows would line up on the barbed wire fence and utility wires in the morning at the wastewater lagoon and wait for me to kick up clouds of flies and mosquitoes. They would swarm around me to feed upon them. As I wrote down utility readings, some would swoop between my notebook and my face! Sometimes, one would crash into the water and be fished out with a pool skimmer.
 
😅 That’s also horribly true.
I woke before when I heard the notice sound from Skype and thought it sounds like a strange bird call.I’m becoming bird brained
 
Is it possibly a Western or Cassin’s Kingbird? I’ve seen them hawking insects around stadium lights at night. My only other idea would be a Common Poorwill, or maybe some sort of swallow. Check out the call for Northern Rough-winged Swallow. Their call sounds a little bit like your description.
 
Thanks for those suggestions! I’ll look into their calls later today when I have more time.
 
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My fav bird.
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Run to the peaches, my beloved Chicky Roo. They’re as sweet as you. God has now entrusted your care to St Francis until we are reunited at the Rainbow Bridge where we will enter Heaven and eternity together.

Chicky Roo (2016-2018)
 
My brother took this photo on Mt. Kilimanjaro. I don’t know what it is.

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That’s one hefty beak 😅

There was a little hawk hassling my poultry yesterday ,but thank goodness he flew away with just a sparrow and not the little chicken.Funny how even the big heavy geese were afraid .
 
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