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

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Bald Eagles near Paris on Kentucky Lake in Tennessee

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That’s a great shot tad 🙂

My hens ,rooster ,ducks and goose eye the sky for Hawks and give warning and take cover.Sometimes it might be an eagle or a brolga a way up high circling on a current or air.
I had to laugh a couple of days ago when the silly rooster abandoned everybody and ran into the grain shed for shelter…just as a small plane flew overhead :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:🐔
 
A few years back we took a visitor to a wildlife park not too far from here so he could see some Australian animals and birds close up.We saw a couple of emu in a small paddock over in a corner.
It was evening when we began driving home, and there were emus running up the main road in front of our car ,view for free 😸

 
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and there were emus running up the main road in front of our car ,view for free 😸
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That is funny how that happens. 😀
We have lots of Red Tail Hawks around here, and when they start circling overhead the other birds and squirrels disappear. Although I have seen robins attack the hawk if it gets to close to their nest.
 
Those must be tough little birds!
Are you feeding birds now Milt? Or would there be enough natural food sources still about ,seeds and berries?
I’m guessing some birds would have migrated to warmer climates by now?
 
Not yet as there is still plenty of food available for them. Once we get a good snow I will fill the bird feeder with sunflower seeds . The Canadian Geese and hummingbirds have left. Most of the other birds will winter over here.
 
I could imagine it would add to the feel of Winter setting in having those birds leave? And the geese perhaps making a loud announcement in Spring that they are back? 🙂
Before I even opened my eyes this morning I could hear Galahs and Corellas and Sulpher crested cockatoos calling as they flew about my little town.The crops are not far off from being harvested now,and they know it.Canola seed is very small,but I saw lots of Corrella perched on a windrow of Canola pulling apart the pods this week.
 
Belted Kingfisher on Kentucky Lake, near Paris, in Tennessee. This is a female. You can tell by her rusty belly band, one of the rare instances where the female is more colorful than the male of the species.

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I love kingfishers 😍😍😍

I used to watch them dive and catch minnows in a pond.
 
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Sometimes the geese stick around through the winter and I am told it depends on the amount of food they have available. There are none around this year though, and I am thinking the crows may have eaten them out of house and home.
The crows are around in smaller numbers during the summer, but after the crops are harvested they come out in force. There were some huge murder of crows hitting the fields this year and I mean huge.
 
More bird pics from Kentucky Lake, near Paris in Tennessee.

Eastern Bluebird

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GBH

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GBH flying (this image has been majorly mucked with)

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Ok adam,I’m not going to Google …but you can explain to me what that is instead 🤔😅
 
Here are some Carolina Wren’s checking out the zapdos in my dad’s compost pile

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Ravens bedding down for a cold winter’s night


I took this a few years ago
 
We had a couple of them make a nest under our carport. In boxes.
 
Ahhh…I see now 😁😅
Here’s one for you,I haven’t seen any Joe Blakes in the garden this Spring yet.
 
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