Any bird watchers or birders in the house?

[Balok's Decoy]

I'm loving everyone's bird photos! So cool. Keep'em coming!

I'll post a couple pictures I took this weekend when I get a chance. My gf and I tracked down a Fork-tailed Flycatcher and a Gray Kingbird on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Very lost vagrant birds.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Galahs, very common in my suburb, the are often see in flocks of 30 or so in our local parks.

 

[plynch]

My new favorite thread!

I am blessed to live in Upper Michigan, on the shore of Lake Michigan. So we see a wide variety, large and small. Sandhill cranes are such a nuisance to farmers up here, Michigan is thinking of instituting a hunt! Weird. Love the Tasmanian birds! So much beauty in Creation.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Galahs, very common in my suburb, the are often see in flocks of 30 or so in our local parks.

Those look like budgies or parakeets.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Techthey are much bigger than budgies or parakeets. They are about 35 cm (14 inches) long.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I have been a birder since 2003. Most of my birding experiences have been in the southeastern US. I haven't gotten out as much in the last four years since my kids began arriving (my life list is stalled at about 230), but I am a grad student working on ornithology related work, so I have had a number of field seasons surveying birds and my office work involves bird data. We have a lot of catfish ponds surrounded by (essentially) prairie near me, and my most recent cool birds have been White Pelican, Bald Eagle, Cooper's Hawk, and N. Harrier. This summer, we had some vagrant Roseate Spoonbills and a nice local population of Purple Gallinules, and there are always tons of waders around. I want to do some birding out West, in Canada, or in the Northeast someday.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I am not a birder, but I saw this article on the Weather Network website, and thought some of you might appreciate it.

Rare bird sighting caught on camera in Miramichi, NB

Apparently, although this bird is common in Europe, this is the first ever recorded sighting in Canada.

 

[Miss Chicken]

One Tasmanian bird I will never be able to get a photo of. The main dangers to its survival occur while it is over wintering on the Mainland not while it is breeding in Tasmania.

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[Balok's Decoy]

I am not a birder, but I saw this article on the Weather Network website, and thought some of you might appreciate it.

Rare bird sighting caught on camera in Miramichi, NB

Apparently, although this bird is common in Europe, this is the first ever recorded sighting in Canada.

Wow, what an incredible vagrant! Those are always exciting. NB is pretty out of my way for twitching though. XD

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I have been a birder since 2003. Most of my birding experiences have been in the southeastern US. I haven't gotten out as much in the last four years since my kids began arriving (my life list is stalled at about 230), but I am a grad student working on ornithology related work, so I have had a number of field seasons surveying birds and my office work involves bird data. We have a lot of catfish ponds surrounded by (essentially) prairie near me, and my most recent cool birds have been White Pelican, Bald Eagle, Cooper's Hawk, and N. Harrier. This summer, we had some vagrant Roseate Spoonbills and a nice local population of Purple Gallinules, and there are always tons of waders around. I want to do some birding out West, in Canada, or in the Northeast someday.

If you don't mind my asking, what is your ornithological research about? I'm not an ornithologist, just a birder, but I'm fascinated by the science.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

If you don't mind my asking, what is your ornithological research about? I'm not an ornithologist, just a birder, but I'm fascinated by the science.

I have worked most recently on birds occurring on pine plantations in the southeastern US and the effects of live trees retained after harvests. We documented over 100 spp. of birds occurring on recently clearcut units and associated riparian zones. I have also worked with birds in residential developments and in the southern Appalachians.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I have worked most recently on birds occurring on pine plantations in the southeastern US and the effects of live trees retained after harvests. We documented over 100 spp. of birds occurring on recently clearcut units and associated riparian zones. I have also worked with birds in residential developments and in the southern Appalachians.

That is so cool! I'm jealous.

 

[thestrangequark]

I'm not a true birder, but when I was teaching I did a birdwatching unit with my students every spring --NYC is a major migration path, and so there is great variety here -- and I think all your birders will appreciate this story:

To prepare for our birdwatching field trip, I'd assign students birds that they were likely to see to "adopt": they filled out "adoption papers" with all the information about the bird, and learned how to do accurate Audubon-style drawings, etc.

Well, when one of my second grade classes was filling out their papers, Dante comes up to me -- he had been absent the day we learned about habitats, so he points to the question, "What is your bird's habitat?" and asks, "Miss Hannah, what's this word?"
I reply, "Habitat. It means where your bird lives. Where do you think your bird lives?"
Dante looks down at his oriole, thinks for a minute, and then says...

"Baltimore?"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Dante looks down at his oriole, thinks for a minute, and then says...

"Baltimore?"

 

[Balok's Decoy]

So has anyone seen Snowy Owls this season? There's talk of an irruption this year. Several have been reported in my area -- DC, several places in Delaware, one or two spots in Maryland. I went out looking for one reported at Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge a couple weeks ago but struck out.

Anyone have any luck with Snowies?

 

[J.T.B.]

Really enjoying catching up on this thread. Sorry to post quail again, but they are so fun to watch out the back door!

 

[Balok's Decoy]

Finally saw a Snowy Owl. This has been a pretty good irruption year for them. Felt like I was the only birder in the country who hadn't seen one this season.

 

[Finn]

I went on a camping trip earlier this week. I took pictures of many birds. I've been unable to identify one of them. I think it's a type of warbler but the markings don't really match any of the pictures in my field guide. It would help to know it was in the Hill Country in Central Texas.

Warning, the picture is HUGE!

 

[Kilana2]

Crows. I observe them. I put some chicken bones in the garden one day. They carried them away to pick at them. Crows are intelligent.

 

[Miss Chicken]

There is a small flock of about 10 to 12 sulphur crested cockatoos that flies about my suburb. I often see them at a distance, this is the first time I have gotten close enough to them to take a good photo