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What species have you seen lately?
>pic related
>>686447
buffleheads and ducks
Where are you located?
am in south florida, only now starting to pay more attention to different species and songs while out.
Any beginner recommendations for equipment or what have you?
>>686806
I'm also a beginner.
Started getting into birds after spending more and more time outdoors; My only equipment is a confortable foldable chair, guide to local birds, camera & some good binoculars.
These fellas are back. Singing in the early mornings.
>>686840
not sure, but i think ive seen those
Love them early mornig chirps.
Ive notice birds r super active during the early mornings, speacially if its rainy.
Lots of singing and chirping
seen lots of doves lately, and this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6-qhbJ3c8
Haven't been out birding too much recently, there's lots of these around my house. Warblers are still here for the winter (I'm in Mexico), saw a few Olive Warblers, some Black-throated Grays, some Audubon's and a shit ton of Wilson's.
rate my dumpster ducks.
>>686916
these are my collared doves.
>>686918
do you think that barbed wire will acutially stop anything? you nead to atleast double up on it
>>686921
it stops the local cats from leaving so I can drop them off at the pound.
>>686916
dem is Sky Rats
>>686844
how did you recorded that without scaring him away''
Mum, dad and baby,
The chick fell out of the nest and wasn't fully fledged (though it was close).
It was getting late in the evening, and it was densely populated suburbia with cats and cars around.
Got a towel, picked the chick up and put it in a wide fork of a tree for the night. Early the next morning it was back on the ground, with a parent close by. I saw it jump/fly a distance of about one metre. Left it alone, 30 minutes later they were all gone.
No idea what happened, probably managed to fly off.
>>686447
Saw a Yellow-faced Honeyeater for the first time a few days ago. Not particularly rare or anything but still exciting to see something new.
Also got to see some Fairy Penguins close up on a trip to Philip Island two weeks ago which was great, I really recommend any ausfags (and non-ausfags) who haven't been to hit Philip Island up. The Cape Barren Geese are gorgeous as well!
Western Tanager
northern New Mexico
mid December saw an American Bittern
>>687924
and a White Tailed Kite (sorry for the low quality, it was about 1000 yards away and my camera's zoom isn't good at that distance.)
>>687925
I've seen a lot of these guys lately too
>>686916
rate my dumpster vultures
>>687928
>>686806
Sibley's field guide. Good binocs.
Florida Scrub Jay
>>687986
Northern Mockingbird
>>687987
Belted Kingfisher
>>687988
Snowy Egret
Fuck yea we need more birding threads on here
>>687899
I'll dump a few of my nicest shots from my recent trips. Lots of these are common as dirt but still,
Noisy Miner
>>688007
Crimson Rosella, the fucker wouldn't get out of the branches for a nice shot
>>688008
Kookaburra, was much easier to get a nice shot of because the lazy fuckers just sat there ignoring me
>>688009
Cape Barren Goose, very chill and just kept grazing while I took pictures
>>688012
Fairy Penguin,dead in it's burrow unfortunately. These all looked like fledglings so it's mother may simply have not returned to feed it, who knows.
>>687928
Did someone toss a dead body in there?
>>688013
Rose Robin, I flipped the fuck out and took half a million shots. 99% were a vague pink blur, whoops
>>687928
noice! 9/10 for sheer multitude. r8 my bin chicken m8
>>687990
I saw this one back in December too
>>688019
Ibis/10
>>688034
your florida variety are nicer than the straya variety
>>688007
that's a nice shot senpai. common don't matter. have a great blue heron
>>688037
and a little blue eating a frog
>>688036
that little guy was in Texas actually
>>687913
what a beautiful bird m8
>>688016
noice
>>688019
why has it got a leg band?
the glossy and straw-necked ibis are a bit nicer looking
Saw this go down at work
>>688063
what is it?
>>686974
idk,
some birds, some times just give a fuk and stay there allowing me watch/film them up close
>>687300
very nice, very colorful!
what specie is that?
story is sad tho,
i know by experience birds dont like it when u put their chicks back in the nest.
Hope that wasnt the case
American Coots
>>688220
Rainbow Lorikeet. I couldn't get to the nest so I shoved him in a random tree fork. I'm fairly confident (but not certain) he was ok. I think he just fell out of the nest a day or so before becoming fully fledged. It's not uncommon for them.
And their colours are insanely pretty. There's thousands of them around me (inner Sydney!). Noisy cunts though. Plenty of chirping. They don't shut up.
Pic related (though pic is from wikipedia)
>>688720
This fucker flew out of nowhere and landed right next to me when it was all dark out. I had no idea what was going on for a second.
Egret, right? I don't know shit about birds but this lake has some egrets and a couple herons that like to try and poach fish from you.
And we got sneak Sebastian here who was creeping up on me while I was taking shit out of my car.
I fed him and some ducks a honey bun and some nightcrawlers. I normally don't like feeding the wild birds, but when they come up to you looking for food, they are hopeless already.
At least I don't have to deal with Canadian Geese down here. Those birds are horrible in so many ways.
>Be inna Costa Rica
>Be at Monte Verde on hike
>Hiking with come classmates
>Come across some German bird watchers
>Give us the shush signal and wave us over
>Let us use their scope mounted on a tripod
>Look through scope
> SEE A FUCKING BEAUTIFUL RESPLENDENT QUETZAL
>SO BEAUTIFUL MY EYES WATER UP
I LOVE Costa Rica. If you're an /out/ kinda person it's THE central American country for you. I've been back there once since then to do sea turtle work, and I might be going again in the next year or two.
My paternal grandparents live on the banks of the St. Joseph river in Michigan in a subdivision that's immersed into the surrounding woods.
They're house was built in the 50's, and the entire back wall living room and dining room, connected to a sun room, is windowed. They've posted bird feeders and bird houses there because they've always loved birds. Literally have an entire bookshelf in their living room dedicated to birds.
I'll sit there for hours just watching them and the squirrels, the snakes, the toads and treefrogs, etc.
What you can see there includes, but is not limited to: Grosbeaks, swallows, swans, golden eagles, bald eagles, blue herons, green herons, night herons, double-crested cormorants, eastern bluebirds, cardinals, robins, white-breasted nuthatches, indigo buntings, cedar waxwings, downy woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers, red-belly sapsuckers, pileated woodpeckers, red tail hawks, coopers hawks, gosh hawks, peregrine falcons, turkey vultures, great horn owls, long ear owls, barn owls, mallard ducks, wood ducks, canada geese, snow geese(?), sandpipers, mourning doves, house finches, goldfinches, song sparrows, house sparrows, egrets, mockingbirds, meadowlarks, red wing blackbirds, kites, kestrels, kingfishers, crows, ravens, and a whole ton more that I can't remember.
>Pic related, it's their back patio
>>688966
I went to Costa Rica on a school-sponsored trip when I was 15. Bird-watcher's dream. Pretty much a dream for any kind of /out/doorsman. Now 18. Dying to go back there. So many great adventures.
>pic related
Black vulture and a Caracara next to an American crocodile whom the locals named Osama Bin Laden.
>>690155
bonus pic of Osama Bin Laden in the flesh being fed by his friend Jose.
>>690157
Jeez that shit is big
found this faggot in my room one day
>>690157
Crikey, did ya see the soize of that croc
>>690157
looks like he may still be hungry after that
>>690676
he gave him like 5 (which is the limit in Costa Rica - apparently there's a legal limit to how many chickens you can feed a crocodile) but yea no Jose might have been a more appropriate meal.
I went for a walk one summer morning and came across a blue heron chilling in a pond. Sat and watched him fish for a good hour. Shit was so cash. It never occurred to me before how they get their pierced prey off their beak, but I found out it requires a flip and a catch.
I need to go visit him again when it gets warmer
>tfw finally got chickadees to land on my hand this winter
>>686461
i hate winter
>>690153
its amazing that we will spend our youth trying to find girls, money,and things,when your grandparents have actually figured everything out. thats perfect.
contribooting with a hummingbird in colombia
>>690907
The lake where I took this pic at >>688721, there's a few blue herons and egrets that hang around. One day I was there, and an egret had a bluegill in his beak that was too big to swallow. The heron was just following him around for like half an hour waiting for him to drop the bluegill and an easy meal. It was pretty funny.
>>691281
Reminds me of the Costa Hummingbird in southern California.
>>691207
They are interesting little creatures to watch. I used to live on a lake, and one late morning (after I spent hours of fishing with no luck), a heron plucked out a large mouth bass that it couldn't eat. Ended up finally giving up and catching another fish it could manage.
I've also seen a heron pluck up and swallow a chipmunk off the ground when it was running under the heron. Bad move for the chipmunk.
They are probably one of my favorite birds to watch
I bird and I watch only one bird, the American Woodcock.
I need no other bird.
>>686447
Saw the usual winter birds of New England last time I was out in the countryside, including a pretty nice Red Bellied Woodpecker, and a buttload of extremely fat White-throated Sparrows.
>>694862
teakettle 4 lyfe
>>690155
GF and her mom went to Costa Rica last year, now I'm going back with her to spot Resplendent-ass Quetzals. She got some awesome bird pics; pic related, it is a Collared Aracari.
>>688966
Imma shit my pants if I see one of them.
But I also want to see a Blue-crowned Motmot.
Here's the smarmy Turquoise-browed my gf stalked on her trip there.
Fuck yeah birds!
Nice to see an animal thread on /out/ that doesn't involve killing them.
Australian here
Went on a hike recently.
While time i was being followed by a wedged tail eagle. Big beautiful buggers they are
>>694982
>>694982
And on another hike had a moteher emu taking her chicks for a walk at the carpark below
>>690155
>Bird-watcher's dream
That's Colombia, followed by Peru
number of bird species in costa rica: 838
In colombia: 1903
Here's a picture of a sharp shinned hawk that was eating a white dove in my backyard for about three hours
>>695424
Wow lol
(UK) saw two jays about twenty feet from me in the woods at work.
Saw some commotion between some crows and a buzzard very high up, the buzzard was doing large circles and the crows were swooping at him in pairs.
Heared tawny owls all week at work accommodation and saw a lot of kites on the way to wales Saturday.
No pics sadly.
>>695424
nice pic
I saw a robin the other day. Not much else,but black phoebes and sparrows at school
>>695424
Haha looks like it feels guilty.
