Another day at the bird feeder

[Champakian]

Birds have a gizzard to grind food up...

 

[Champakian]

Join date 6/21, 13000+ posts.

Mehbe you should go outside more.

Offer your eyeballs to a hawk.

He's positively OCD on the political boards.

A busybody level of fatal attraction.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You know what's fun if you have a picture window? Put a bowl of birdseed on the sill outside it for six days. On the seventh, move the bowl to the sill inside!

I was working in the next room and heard a big crash. Ran to the window and the hawk was standing on the ground, its feathers in disarray. It either attacked its reflection in the window or couldn't pull up fast enough after missing a sparrow.

 

[WillJ8787]

I was working in the next room and heard a big crash. Ran to the window and the hawk was standing on the ground, its feathers in disarray. It either attacked its reflection in the window or couldn't pull up fast enough after missing a sparrow.

Yikes.,..I had two near misses on my front porch. Two hawks full speed right under the porch and close enough for me to feel their wind as they passed by. Definitely dont want to find out about those gallons.

 

[ericalauren]

I'm going with Sharp Shinned Hawk. I guess I'll need to start putting some meat in the bird feed.

Aw, what a handsome animal!

 

[Saint_Ann]

I was a little chocked this thread is actually about birds but very exited !

We can talk anout anything on the GB but sex.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Well as my name and tattoo suggests, I enjoy birds. I was just talking to a friend today about how I haven't seen an owl in so long. Would love to see pictures if anyone has cause them on camera

We had one here last summer. Started crooning at midnighr everyday for a week. Never saw him in the day tho. It's both creepy and wonderful. Owls have ancient spirituality and power.

 

[renard_ruse]

So you put out seed so a murderous stupid bird of prey can more easily find 'food"?

"Birds of prey" tend to be very stupid. I quit working at the wild bird rehab center because they loved these stupid killing machines so much.

Every time they had to put down a hawk or an owl because it was "unreleasable" I would volunteer to do it but I was I wasn't trained for that.

The strange fetish for these dumb murderous birds is why I stopped volunteering at the wildlife hospital after 9 years. I just got tired of saving these things. I wanted to help the nice animals. I did learn a lot about birds and to a lesser extent about medicine.

 

[renard_ruse]

Crows are the most intelligent birds with doves on the other end of the intelligence spectrum. Most birds of prey are much closer to the stupid end of the spectrum. Hawks and owls are mostly just dumb killing machines. Sparrows actually tend to be surprisingly intelligent but of course it varies by species.

 

[Saint_Ann]

It's cheaper than cable.

 

[jaF0]

With the price of seed lately, I'm not so sure.

 

[Champakian]

So you put out seed so a murderous stupid bird of prey can more easily find 'food"?

"Birds of prey" tend to be very stupid. I quit working at the wild bird rehab center because they loved these stupid killing machines so much.

Every time they had to put down a hawk or an owl because it was "unreleasable" I would volunteer to do it but I was I wasn't trained for that.

The strange fetish for these dumb murderous birds is why I stopped volunteering at the wildlife hospital after 9 years. I just got tired of saving these things. I wanted to help the nice animals. I did learn a lot about birds and to a lesser extent about medicine.

Birds of prey have to eat too...

Circle of Life

When they die, the worms will dine.
These evil predatory wriggling worms
and don't get me started on the carrion beetles.

Just knowing they are out there in the R&R struggle: Beatles V Byrds...

 

[Champakian]

With the price of seed lately, I'm not so sure.

I am not about to let the Biden economy punish them too!

They are the innocent victims and pretty much
Democrats since they have come to rely
upon my continuous largess...

They don't even fly off
when I fill the feeder.

 

[Saint_Ann]

I am not about to let the Biden economy punish them too!

They are the innocent victims and pretty much
Democrats since they have come to rely
upon my continuous largess...

They don't even fly off
when I fill the feeder.

Mine aren't there yet. They hide in the bush til I'm gone.

 

[Champakian]

On one side of the sidewalk is the ash tree that holds the bird food for the birds

and on the other side if a huge Forsythia thicket that they love to hang out in.

 

[Saint_Ann]

This new guy showed up.

 

[Champakian]

Every year in the past, we've always had a healthy dove population
but they are just not here this year.

Makes me wonder...

Virus or Predator?



I got stared down by a chickadee as I walked past the feeder.
How dare I disturb the mighty tiny soul of a raptor?

 

[water_moutina]

Wait, this is actually about birds

 

[twister947]

Putting out suet year 'round was a game changer here. A yellow bellied sapsucker is our latest addition.

 

[Champakian]

I keep suet out too, especially during the migrations.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Finally got the little fucker.

 

[pecksniff]

Next time you admire a pretty bird, think Alfred Hitchcock.

The evil little bastards are only biding their time, waiting for their chance . . .

 

[Saint_Ann]

Next time you admire a pretty bird, think Alfred Hitchcock.

The evil little bastards are only biding their time, waiting for their chance . . .

Did you see the Simpson's parody of that? Instead of birds, it was babies.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Is it a woodpecker??

Downy WP I think. They're really skitterish and pick 1 sunflower seed at a time and fly off with it.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Buggars! We have a pilated WP that's frequented the tops of the trees this summer. It was huge and very loud. Never heard anything like it before !

I haven't heard pecking in forever.