Backyard Birding List

[alexshred420]

Here's the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4G3VwOzdys

[meadows]

added that book to my list, it sounds so good!

THANK YOU FOR THESE OWLS *cry face*

[alexshred420]

Ok, this isn't birds, but we have a family of coyotes that hangs out in our back hill - 2 parents and 3 younguns.

Yesterday we heard a ruckus around 6am, and saw the parents teaching the kids how to walk down the hill.

This morning we heard them again, and managed to get one on video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o95z7vwhzM

[meadows]

what a special dog <3

[alex]

Any binocular info on this here board? I have decided I probably need 8x42 or 10x42...but other than that, not sure what matters or doesn't. Any reason to get a $500 pair vs a $300 pair? I am primarily interested in being able to see birds out on a lake more closely

[joni]

I'm a Wirecutter person, so there's this: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/revi ... inoculars/

But I don't have a personal recommendation.

[alex]

I, too, am a wirecutter person, and so when I can't find what they recommend for local pickup anywhere near me, I freak out and start asking randos on the net for suggestions

[yourfriendclaire]

We bought the Wirecutter binnies for a friend's birthday last year—she loves them!

[alex]

maybe ill just cave to the amazon

[yourfriendclaire]

I've been cooped up in bed for a week with COVID, doing some epic backyard birding.

Things are a-twitter around here! Our yard is in full feral spring mode, I can't prune fast enough to keep all the bushes from sprawling everywhere and there's enough leaf litter on the ground to invite all kinds of snacks and snackers.

A couple of California Towhees have been going wild in the garden, kicking up pebbles and squeaking to each other. A very nice Black Phoebe visited the birdbath. A yellow Western Tanager flitted around the Palo Verde tree, currently in (yellow) bloom. My friend Anna's Hummingbird finally found the feeder again after a recent relocation. And a California Scrubjay was so bold as to peck at a wasp nest in the eaves yesterday! Someone is nesting in the mallow but I can't get close enough to ID. A finch maybe? And finally a Northern Mockingbird, perched on top of a nearby telephone pole, absolutely won't shut up, day or night.

[meadows]

I love everything about this except the covid virus