Any birdwatchers?

[SimonDoom]

https://owlsintowels.org/

Owls are, IMO, the most photogenic of birds. The Great Horned Owl, in particular, is my pick for the most photogenic bird.

 

[Cacatua_Galerita]

Every other bird can fuck right off.

SCREECH! I’m gonna chew your house then snack on your trash.

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[AwkwardMD]

Die mad (jkjk)

 

[Bramblethorn]

SCREECH! I’m gonna chew your house then snack on your trash.

I love these hoodlum birds so much. One of the few things I get patriotic about.

 

[jaF0]

I watch them eat the money I put out for them.

 

[jaF0]

A couple of hundred starlings? That's all? I get clouds of them, thousands. They stretch as far as I can see in either direction as they move from place to place. Hundred will descend on the feeders and clean them out in minutes.

Last year I had a swarm of Cedar Waxwings clean berries off a juniper tree in a couple of hours.

Idiots?


Those would be Mockingbirds.

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[Jackie.Hikaru]

how cute you all are, thinking birds are real lol

 

[Bramblethorn]

Owls are, IMO, the most photogenic of birds. The Great Horned Owl, in particular, is my pick for the most photogenic bird.

These tawny frogmouths aren't true owls, but related:

 

[SimonDoom]

how cute you all are, thinking birds are real lol

Jackie, I wouldn't have pegged you as a conspiracy theorist, but I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

 

[glynndah]

I watch the birds at the bird feeder from my seat at the kitchen table. Over the years I've seen lots of different birds from pigeons with bright pink legs; cardinals, blue jays and red-winged blackbirds; rufous-sided towhees; and assorted little brown birds. My very favorite bird that appeared out of the blue on the deck railing by the sunflower seeds was a peahen, Gloria, who preferred bakery goods.

 

[MelissaBaby]

https://owlsintowels.org/

Owls are just cats with wings.

 

[SimonDoom]

Today was a good birding day. In the span of a little over half an hour, hanging out in my suburban backyard with a glass of wine and a cigar, and with the aid of my Merlin app, I saw and/or heard and identified jays, crows, hawks, warblers, juncos, sparrows, wrens, goldfinches, titmice, bushtits, waxwings, phoebes, hummingbirds, starlings, and a woodpecker. I have a seed feeder, a hummingbird feeder, and a birdbath to help attract them.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

Jackie, I wouldn't have pegged you as a conspiracy theorist, but I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.

I rest my case. Get outta here with that noise.

 

[Bamagan]

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I rest my case. Get outta here with that noise.

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[dmallord]

Any birdwatchers out there in the forum?

It might seem like an odd thing to ask in an erotic author forum, but, after all, they're frisky critters, constantly strutting and making a lot of noise looking for mates.

They're a constant reminder of the beauty and wonder of life around us. Almost everywhere you go, there are birds. There's no better or easier way to appreciate nature around us than by watching birds and their habits.

They sing all the time, adding music to our surroundings.

If you are a birdwatcher, you travel in a different way. You go to new places looking for birds you haven't seen before.

One of the best ways to tell everybody that you're a nerd is when you're with a group of people and suddenly call out, "My goodness, there's a yellow-bellied sapsucker!" I've done stuff like that and enjoyed the way people react, like they're partly impressed and partly sorry for me.

And the coolest thing? They're dinosaurs. I love that. A reminder of the wonder and beauty of evolution.

I have been a casual birdwatcher since I was about 12, which was a long time ago. I have the Merlin app on my phone so I can ID birds by their calls nearby. If you don't have it, I recommend it.

Ha. I've read a couple of stories here by a lady, I believe, who includes birding in her detective stories. Those were fun reads. I've mimicked that element of birding in one of my own stories just for the fun of it. Her main character was a lady hitman. My story wove a popular myth of a Japanese theme regarding the 'Red String of Fate' in the Romance category. The female character takes the male to visit a lake and photograph some birds, with an evolving sense of 'romance' between them. It has a pretty good score, around 4.7.

Now, I cannot recall the other author's moniker or her stories by title, alas. You would enjoy them, as she went to lengths to build up those scenes with the names of lots of birds.

For the past two days, a male cardinal has been repeatedly flying into my back windows. It doesn't seem very bright, as it continues to hit the same closed window two days in a row.

 

[TheLobster]

Owls are, IMO, the most photogenic of birds. The Great Horned Owl, in particular, is my pick for the most photogenic bird.

And, as everyone knows, they are also America’s all-time favorite bird.

…What? What do you mean “bald eagle”? Do you really think it has the same recognition and enthusiasm behind it as the extremely popular, annual celebration of the Superb Owl?

 

[SimonDoom]

Another good birdwatching day. In the space of only about 15 minutes in my backyard, in addition to most of the birds I heard/saw before, I heard or saw a chipping sparrow and white-crowned sparrow, a pair of mourning doves, mockingbird, spotted towhee (one of my favorites, but I only heard it, didn't see it), and western bluebird.

If you have any interest in learning more about birds, this is the time of year to do it. They're feisty and noisy and looking for mates.

 

[Belegon]

Then you haven't experienced starlings. They're a parasitic import. Ugly, no song (squawk like a squeaky gate hinge), aggressive with other birds while they clean-out the feeder, descend on resources in big flocks - just nasty birds in general. We will jump away from the breakfast table to run them off.

my ex-wife absolutely hates starlings.to the point where I considered buying her a new shotgun and putting a note on it, "for running off the Starlings."

 

[Comshaw]

Bird watching? Yeah, sometimes. Blue Jays are bright colored strutting cunts and scatter the grain from my feeder all over the ground looking for the one they want. And thier cousin, the Canadian Jay is a bastard. We called them camp robbers as kids because if we were out camping and leave any kind of food out they would swoop in right under our nose and help themselves.

We've got a few Owls 'round here. I love the Barn Owl. I put up an owl house on one end of my barn to get them to move in. I do love me some mouse eating owls. Cats with wings is a great term! And I put up a much smaller owl house to get a Saw Whet Owl to inhabit it. Years ago we had one hit our front widow. It didn't kill it but stunned it badly. We called the raptor center and they came and got the little fella. They brought him back a week later to release him. Their policy was too release recovered birds in the same are they were found. They are tiny, about the size of a Chickadee.

Being situated along the Pacific flyway we get a lot of migratory water fowl too, Canadian, Lesser Candian and Snow geese, Swans (I saw a flock of those in a grain field a couple of days ago) and oodles and gobs of ducks, Widgin, Mallards, Pintails and more.

And sea birds, lots of flying racoons (seagulls) Rhinoceros auklet and Cormorants.

Once in a while we get the state bird (Gold Finch) stopping by our feeder.. And of course the little hyper guys, hummingbirds. I keep a feeder out alll year long because Anna's Hummingbird over winters here.

So, not really a "birder" but I do appiciate those flying bundle of feathers.

Comshaw

 

[glynndah]

Gloria and her favorite breakfast, bakery goodies.

 

[nymphic]

SCREECH! I’m gonna chew your house then snack on your trash.

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ah the beautiful and majestic demons from hell. we have so many cockatoos on our street and they are so funny and cute to watch (when they are not destroying your yard or screaming in a chorus loud enough to give you tinnitus).
I love birds, I'm lucky to live in a country with so many unique, beautiful, and silly little guys.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I've got a few feeders in the garden, but we tend to only get blue and great tits, wood pigeons, some sparrows and starlings, and the odd robin. And some greedy squirrels. We're the meeting point of the territory of three local cats, who like fighting on the shed roof, so that deters the birds. Boyfriend is an avid birder though and was very excited to see the Little Owls which are now nesting on Clapham Common.

I wrote a story about birdwatchers in response to one of the prompt threads here: Jack and Jill go up the Hill. A short fun venture into LW, aka birdwatching in the Peak District.

 

[Izanami9]

Not at all. I'm sure there are many people here who thoroughly enjoy watching great tits.

 

[Izanami9]

I’m too casual to consider myself a true birdwatcher, but I grew up with birds and appreciate them very much for the fluffy dinosaurs they truly are. I hang out with them wherever I can, too.

Here’s a pair of coastal ravens who often visit me at a particular beach, and even brought their four hatchlings last year:


I also sketch birds when inspiration strikes, although I often don’t finish:

 

[MorraRose]

Any birdwatchers out there in the forum?

It might seem like an odd thing to ask in an erotic author forum, but, after all, they're frisky critters, constantly strutting and making a lot of noise looking for mates.

They're a constant reminder of the beauty and wonder of life around us. Almost everywhere you go, there are birds. There's no better or easier way to appreciate nature around us than by watching birds and their habits.

They sing all the time, adding music to our surroundings.

If you are a birdwatcher, you travel in a different way. You go to new places looking for birds you haven't seen before.

One of the best ways to tell everybody that you're a nerd is when you're with a group of people and suddenly call out, "My goodness, there's a yellow-bellied sapsucker!" I've done stuff like that and enjoyed the way people react, like they're partly impressed and partly sorry for me.

And the coolest thing? They're dinosaurs. I love that. A reminder of the wonder and beauty of evolution.

I have been a casual birdwatcher since I was about 12, which was a long time ago. I have the Merlin app on my phone so I can ID birds by their calls nearby. If you don't have it, I recommend it.

I love birds! I mention a few in a book I’ll upload some day. I was going to make a coy comment about woodcocks, but, geez, come on. Anyway, I was thrilled last year to see and identify for my first time a kinglet in my weed garden.