Any birdwatchers?

[liqueur]

Why do we pay so much to feed these flying feathered fecal factories? Seems like I spend more on food for them than me.

What I'd like to know is why it costs so much. When covid came around, the price of sunflower seeds at least tripled, maybe more. It's never gone down again. Classic case of “oh, we can get away with it!”, it seems to me.

 

[SimonDoom]

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Been photographing birds for a few years, here’s a white-breasted nuthatch, midwest USA.

Nice shot! I like nuthatches. I get them in my back yard from time to time.

 

[yowser]

One of the few birds that can hop headfirst downhill on a tree trunk.

 

[old_prof]

A passerby saw my camera and gave me a look like I was taking photos of pigeons in New York's Central Park.

I've often taken pictures of pigeons in a downtown. i kept a picture on my wall for several years that I had taken on our honeymoon (in the early 80's) of a local feeding pigeons on the way up to Montmartre. It was one of my favorite 10 or 20 pictures (of nearly a thousand I took) from the trip.

And no, before someone asks, none of the pictures were the sort that are no longer allowed on this site. If nothing else, those were the days of getting your film developed by some real person.

 

[SimonDoom]

And no, before someone asks, none of the pictures were the sort that are no longer allowed on this site.

Naked pigeons?

 

[Bamagan]

Naked pigeons?

Collared doves, I suspect. They like BDSM.

 

[Jeb56]

First day of Winter is tomorrow, here’s a female cardinal I photographed a few years ago in a snowstorm.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I got a bunch of little guys all dressed up for a formal dinner.

Black hats and neckties, white collars and grey dinner jackets.

Maybe the size of a small sparrow.

 

[liqueur]

I got a bunch of little guys all dressed up for a formal dinner.

Black hats and neckties, white collars and grey dinner jackets.

Maybe the size of a small sparrow.

Chickadees?

 

[old_prof]

My SIL gave us a smart bird feeder, which takes pictures what's eating there and mostly identifies them. My wife gets an image sent her phone for each interesting bird it sees.

Nuthatches and finches so far mostly.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I got a bunch of little guys all dressed up for a formal dinner.

Black hats and neckties, white collars and grey dinner jackets.

Maybe the size of a small sparrow.

Maybe a junco? They live in the arctic in the summer and fly south to the northern part of the US for the winter. In Maine, we call them snowbirds, because they always seem to show up with snowstorms.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Chickadees?

Yup. Dat be dem!

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/assets/photo/302472691-480px.jpg

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Chickadees?

You aren't WC Fields, are you?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

And then there are the geese. I've heard several flocks, but with the repeated cloudy days, I've only seen a few. The sound is unmistakable, but as with planes, you have to learn not to look where you think the sound is.


The one I saw yesterday was flying ... west?


Maybe they needed a new compass?

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

I was chased by a goose in a park yesterday. Fuck geese.

 

[old_prof]

I was chased by a goose in a park yesterday. Fuck geese.

Geese are the assholes of the avian world

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I was chased by a goose in a park yesterday. Fuck geese.

You can't do that on Lit.

 

[SimonDoom]

Geese are fond of open grassy spaces, so they can be a pain in the butt on a golf course. They get in the way of one's shot, and they can absolutely cover a fairway in goose poop.

Still, seeing them flying in large flocks in their v formations is always impressive.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

What's impressive is hearing them talk to each other so clearly when they're a few thousand feet up. AND, you can see their wings in motion.

"Jul 18, 2025 Typically flying between 2,000 and 5,000 feet during normal migration, Canada geese have been recorded at altitudes of up to 9,000 feet, putting them on par with small aircraft. "

https://bird-life.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-understanding-the-altitude-records-of-geese-1-13159/

 

[SimonDoom]

What's impressive is hearing them talk to each other so clearly when they're a few thousand feet up. AND, you can see their wings in motion.

"Jul 18, 2025 Typically flying between 2,000 and 5,000 feet during normal migration, Canada geese have been recorded at altitudes of up to 9,000 feet, putting them on par with small aircraft. "

https://bird-life.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-understanding-the-altitude-records-of-geese-1-13159/

I hear geese in the sky very often where I live, especially around this time of year. I always hear them first, and I'd say I spot them only about half the time, because they're so high that by the time their call reaches me they've moved on.

 

[SimonDoom]

As much as I like hearing geese, for my money there's nothing like the calls from a flock of sandhill cranes. Their croacking, warbling call seems like something you'd hear from the Mesozoic era. When you finally spot them they appear to be barely moving in the sky, hardly flapping their wings.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

You can't do that on Lit.

You can if they’re sufficiently anthropomorphized.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

As much as I like hearing geese, for my money there's nothing like the calls from a flock of sandhill cranes. Their croacking, warbling call seems like something you'd hear from the Mesozoic era. When you finally spot them they appear to be barely moving in the sky, hardly flapping their wings.

I saw my first Sandhill cranes last week! Now those are majestic.

 

[SimonDoom]

You can if they’re sufficiently anthropomorphized.


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I can imagine a lot, but it's hard to imagine goose porn.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I can imagine a lot, but it's hard to imagine goose porn.

You've never been Goosed?