Recent birds thread.
Bagged a red headed woodpecker a few weekends back, it was a juvenile but still awesome.
Anyone else see anything good lately?
(pic related, but not mine obviously)
Nothing too exciting, but the Old Squaw ducks are back in Toronto Harbour for the winter. I love the calls they make.
Pigeons were going nuts outside my window just now like there was a hawk around, but I don't see the hawk.
Here's a fuckin turkey that keeps appearing and reappearing around Harvard Yard, right in the middle of the city. Over the years it's been caught and removed but it (or one like it) keeps ocming back. Anyway I've been seeing it around a few times the last couple weeks. Vid is from 2014 but related.
https://youtu.be/W-pYSwHbEbE
>>633003
I havent been birding in ages. Once you start mushroom hunting the birding falls to the wayside, you cant watch the canopy and the floor simultaneously
Mrs. Anon however, has almost 200 birds on her life list now I think
Not recent but a couple of years ago I got to see a flock of Sandhill cranes land. They go almost verticals and look like umbrellas.
>>633008
Those are some cool looking ducks. I've never seen ones like it at nearly the same latitude in Minnesota.
>>633003
What even is the big deal though with birds? They are just sky fish.
>>634016
They breed in the arctic and winter on the Great Lakes, so you might get them along Lake Superior.
Here's what they sound like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f099LEmP84o
November to March that's what I hear when I'm down by the lake.
>>633003
i see this woodpecker everyday
>pic related
also filmed this one not long ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6-qhbJ3c8
>>634246
forgot pic
>>634250
that's beautiful. what is it?
>>634026
or are fish sea birds?
My favorite woodpecker that I've got on my list is a Three-toed Woodpecker.
Heronposter here, if this is a woodpecker thread here's one that was taking a shower in the garden hose this summer.
>>634297
Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula). If I'm remembering the other posts correctly that anon is from Colombia.
Lots of cool birds there. I'd like to go someday.
had a new visitor to the feeder this morning actually. believe it was a downy woodpecker.
>>634297
>>634668
Isn't it a Golden-olive woodpecker?
And yes, there are like 2000 bird species in Colombia. Lots of amazing hummingbirds, toucans, tanagers....
>>633003
You put them in a bag? Why? Also how? What?
>>634922
I see, thanks clarification anon
>>634809
I usually just put 'em in my pants
>>634250
what country are you from?
>>636174
Colombia
I've had a barred owl show up nightly for the past week or so. It usually stops by just after I put the chickens away for the night.
I assume it's eating squirrels and mice, but I haven't found any pellets yet.
>>637028
Did some research. I think it is actually a Spot-breasted Woodpecker. pic related.
>>633003
There are wild parakeets in Fullerton california if anyone is interested.
>>633003
Painted bunny I got a while back, had my teacher hold him for a picture.
Saw some buffleheads today, shitty though light becase cloudy and just before sunset.
>>638512
*shitty light though
>>638512
>>638477
in Chicago too, apparently
Double crested cormorant. He was banded which was a first for me.
>>638535
Kill it with fire. They used to be a rare and exciting visitor here, now they're an invasive exotic out the wazoo. They kill all the trees they roost in with their shit. destroying nesting habitat for native species (this spot used to be impenetrable thickets of willow full of heron nests).
>>638563
Damn, never knew that. Where are they native? And where are you?
>>638565
I'm in Toronto, Canada, on Lake Ontario, where they showed up sometime in the mid to late 90s and have now made a big colony on the outer harbour. Not sure what the native range is (and if they're native where you are disregard my admonition).
As yet the colony is fairly localized, but it keeps spreading as they kill all the trees.
>>638567
I didn't know this. Crazy
I also had a solid weekend on Thanksgiving with longtailed ducks, an ash throated fly catcher (for some reason decided to come through new England) and a dick cissel with some house sparrows.
>>638567
You're actually in the native range.
Their nesting colonies do that. Eventually the dead trees will start falling and the colony will disperse to some other area. It happens in cycles around the Great Lakes, but it's more noticeable on Lake Ontario for some reason.
>>638534
People let their pets out and now we have parakeets. They're pretty at least.
>>639447
Probably because the Lake Ontario shore is so heavily developed, at least at this end, and there aren't any trees to spare.
I visit B&H a lot because it's my favorite place to buy audio and tography gear. Anyway, their deal of the day right now is a spotting scope/tripod/backpack kit. It's /out/ as fuck and I thought I'd post it here because it might be of interest to some of you guys. Seems like a great deal, but it's only good for a couple more hours before it goes back up to $150
Sneaky little fucker didn't want me to take his picture. He kept popping in and out of view.
This guy has been watching me. Really hard to get a picture, and I'm real shaky. It's big.
>>642988
This guy was on my deck for hours one morning. I think it's a falcon?
>>642991
One more while I'm at it. These were nesting in my apple tree. Green heron or bittern maybe.
>>642992
dang.
>>642991
Looks like a nightjar.
>>642994
Sweet Green Herons!
>>633003
snapped this on the AT in ga.
Been a heap of migratory birds around on my local sandflats (QLD, Aus). Seen big flocks of sandpipes, whimbrels and a few estern curlews which is super cool. Also saw a little friar bird in the mangroves for the first time last week.
