Backyard Birding List

DUCKULA · Post by **DUCKULA** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:49 pm

Burbank, CA

[x] American crow
[x] Anna's hummingbird
[x] California scrub-jay
[x] California towhee
[x] Dark-eyed junco (studio City)
[x] House sparrow
[x] Lesser goldfinch
[x] Mourning dove
[x] Northern Mockingbird
[x] White-crowned sparrow
[x] Yellow-rumped warbler

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:56 pm

what bird makes the sound that is like the "new message" alert in slack, but longer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iGyCdA0xk

alexshred420 · Post by **alexshred420** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:04 pm

Mt Tabor, Portland, OR:
So many fuckin' crows
A screech owl
Saw a bald eagle the other day
Coyotes (not really a bird but still cool)

01001010 01010101 01000100 01000001 01001000 · Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:11 pm

saw me a dickbird

DUCKULA · Post by **DUCKULA** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:14 pm

MIKEYM?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_-3zNENvSc

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:38 pm

We put in a feeder by the window and they're eating us out of house and home!

We have:

Mourning doves (a pair!!)
Lesser goldfinch
House finches I think? Finchy with a little bit of red?
Definitely some hummingbirds

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:55 pm

Carolina Wrens

2

kmikeym · Post by **kmikeym** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:12 pm

DUCKULA wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:14 pm MIKEYM?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_-3zNENvSc

that must be it, there are a ton of crows in atwater!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:34 pm

I've been watching this owl's nest cam for weeks and it's such a pleasure. Sometimes I forget I have the tab open and I'll hear loud hooting <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8emLVvA ... e=emb_logo

(hi! first post!)

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 3:46 pm

Our friends Lake and Alex just installed a screech owl box and something called a "Bat BnB" at their house in hopes of attracting some screech owls (& bats obvi). Apparently it can take up to year to get an owl to use the box, but once they do they pretty much take care of any rodents in the neighborhood.

josh · Post by **josh** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:24 pm

yourfriendclaire wrote: ↑Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:38 pm We put in a feeder by the window and they're eating us out of house and home!

We have:

Mourning doves (a pair!!)
Lesser goldfinch
House finches I think? Finchy with a little bit of red?
Definitely some hummingbirds

We put a feeder on the window and have had almost exactly the same experience! I don't know anything about birds but I am learning. And IDing birds with the Merlin app.

We had lesser goldfinches and house finches, too. Cute little couples will land and feed away, replaced by another couple a few minutes later. It's my new favorite entertainment.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 5:55 pm

I can't wait until our house wren, Sharif, comes back to his favorite hole.

tim · Post by **tim** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:05 pm

X female kingfisher i think!!
X these two cardinals often
X so so many common starlings (are these as common on the west coast?)

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:12 pm

location: Orcas Island

[x] 9 vultures circling yesterday, probably a neighbor's chicken was loose or dead
[x] woodpecker on the tall dead snag out front constantly
[x] omnipresent ravens
[x] always bald eagles
[x] hummingbirds getting conspicuous in the flowering currant
[x] crows at the dump
[x] these really long horned cows in the neighbors' pasture
[x] unknown diving sea birds at the beach today
[x] seagull sitting in the sand in the middle of the big empty beach
[x] 2 Canada geese flew over honking loud right at eye level
[x] the head of a half eaten lingcod on the rocks, otter leftovers probably
[x] the neighbors' cat came in the cat door at 5am and sprayed in our bathroom

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:36 am

our friend Sarah saw a PHEASANT yesterday
Lotta downy woodpeckers
Mourning dove pair
tons of hawks
goldfinch
junco
house sparrow
loud-ass cardinal

DUCKULA · Post by **DUCKULA** » Fri Apr 03, 2020 9:12 am

I’ve also been walking to the local tanning salon to visit this creature, seems they’ve left her behind to guard the Gatorade

willowowow · Post by **willowowow** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 4:47 pm

pilliated woodpeckers
hella crows
dark eyed juncos
hummingbirds

haven't yet seen the yellow-breasted buddies that hung out all last summer, but hoping they return soon so I can learn their names

Post by **joni** » Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:45 pm

Who is this?

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 1:12 pm

Looks like a female western bluebird to me!

https://i1.wp.com/www.onthewingphotogra ... n-4390.jpg

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 3:23 pm

I'm really loving the house finches with the red breast and face. Very fancy.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 5:23 am

For several years a female house finch named "Joan" has come to our yard and lived in it all spring/summer. We know it's her because she has a weird white cap. It's crazy to think of this little bird flying down to Brazil or wherever for the winter then coming all the way back to our specific backyard, multiple times. Avoiding cats and airplanes and poison and pesticide and windshields and somehow making that journey. It breaks my heart.

Lately Gary has been observing an unusually dull-colored male finch trying to get a date. He hops and sings and fluffs around his lady while she affects disinterest. Gary says perhaps the less fancily-feathered men must perform harder to get someone to make eggs with them. Probably he will be a better mate than the handsomer fellows although who knows. "LETS MAKE EGGS HONEY"

It's also bear season now, when all the bears come into town and destroy people's bird feeders. No more birdseed in our yard! And soon I will start battling the birds for the blueberries on our bush. We have tried everything but nothing works. If you net it, no matter how carefully you do it, you will always wake up in the morning and a freaked out bird is inside there panicking and flapping and it is unbearable. This year we are going to try bird-scaring balloons. I will report back.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Mon Apr 06, 2020 10:51 am

Joan, what a trooper!

Have you tried bird scare tape or discs? The tape is shiny holographic stuff that hangs in strips and blows in the wind. The discs are like big earrings, silver circles on wire hooks that you can hang. I'm fascinated by all of it, by the strangeness of these objects! They might repel birds, but they attract me.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:50 pm

I found another owl nest live cam, so now I'm watching two. This one has baby owls and they are incredibly dumb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI32NeIutvI

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 4:44 pm

2 Blue Jays (one taking a bath)

A couple Starlings

A Song Sparrow I watched for hours

G

jamessumneriii · Post by **jamessumneriii** » Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:15 pm

(only meme birds are real to me but i respect your beliefs)

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:36 am

Canada Geese been honking more and more

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 12:27 pm

Phil wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:36 am Canada Geese been honking more and more

Too much traffic

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 1:57 pm

There's a couple Lesser Goldfinches partying in our mallow this week. Seem pretty great to me

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:00 pm

Canada geese in their low, Flying V are one of my all-time favorite sounds to hear at night. They fly loud and low like stunt pilots and my heart flies away with them.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:10 pm

I think I live in a "breeding season" area. There are few species here year-round, including corvids and raptors.

As the season warms, Robin is the first passerine to settle in and shoot his shot. Starlings* follow in greater volume. Corvids live here year-round, as do smaller raptors (they have lots of territory with so many agricultural fields). My friend Sharif the house wren is the size of two Brasil nuts and he migrates a vast distance to nest in our house.

The greatest thing I have ever seen here was a huge juvenile cowbird begging to be fed by a tiny sparrow host, neither the wiser.

* I don't like starlings. They are aggressive assholes introduced to the U.S. by a crazed Shakespearean fanboy. this year I'm going to be a naturalist and not let any of them nest by our house.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:19 pm

Here is a begging baby cowbird (hope this image works):

The one I saw was so fledged and capable that it was following its tiny parent on the ground and in the air. Easily adding weeks to the sparrow's usual breeding and fledging schedule. Fucked up but funny.

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:10 pm

RCH wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:00 pm Canada geese in their low, Flying V are one of my all-time favorite sounds to hear at night. They fly loud and low like stunt pilots and my heart flies away with them.

Mine is a loon! Or, even, better LOONS.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 9:27 am

My favorite bird is flying honking Canada goose for sure, I've always said it and I'll say it again

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 10:55 am

I'm sorry, could you repeat that??

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:31 am

A friend of mine from Tucson is doing a project while she is studying in Paris if anyone wants to help her. Thought I'd pass it on to you birdos. She posted this:

I am doing a project collecting videos and sounds from around the world and I need your help.

Can you make a 30sec to one minute video on your phone, horizontal
of the nature in your city, hopefully of BIRDS
from where you are,
at your house,
from the window,
on the street,
or in the yard with the sound of birds or water.

I want to make a map of sound-scapes from around the world, so write where you live, too.

Send it to nicole.disante@gmail.com or send with WEtransfer if it is too big a file.

What do you think? I am so excited to get a video from you.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 4:33 am

Wow this sounds like a job for GARY-19

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 11:19 am

SPOTTED: Northern Mockingbird (I think)

GARY-19 · Post by **GARY-19** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:27 pm

A Song Sparrow

A White-Throated Sparrow

A Northern Cardinal (singing)

A Dark-Eyed Junco

An American Robin

An American Goldfinch

A Fish Crow

A Mourning Dove

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 12:30 pm

I just watched an American Robin eat a straight-up Worm

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 1:53 pm

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:15 pm

Two red male cardinals wrestling in the clay-colored leaves

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Sun Apr 12, 2020 9:07 pm

Wow! My high school mascot was the Cardinals, those guys are so stylish and jaunty!

I saw a sparrow eat an earwig today and I literally said "YES!" because our house is infested with earwigs (drank one in my coffee by accident last week) and it was one down

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:19 am

SICK

We have a bird bath and it is so fun to watch the birds take their hot tubs. But the funniest bird is always a big fat male cardinal, so bright red and giant compared to all the little hoppin' birds. He plops down right into the middle of the bath and just sits there while we take a million pictures trying to zoom in just right on his dumb face.

uncleboatshoes · Post by **uncleboatshoes** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:26 pm

How can you tell if you've seen a bird?

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:52 pm

cheep chirp

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 3:59 pm

I may have seen a loon.
Some kind of good looking diving sea bird today during the afternoon beach time.
Also a vulture circled me looking corpse-like in the sun on the round rocks. I yelled "come eat me I'm dead" but it didn't work.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:29 pm

I remember as a kid driving in some blighted West Texan landscape and my parents saying hey look vultures, and I forced them to pull over to the side of the road and let me lie down in the dirt to see if they'd come try to eat me. I remember my mom saying "honey it won't work" but when I asked "why" it was like it was too tiring to explain so instead they just pulled over and let me lie in the dirt for awhile (it didn't work).

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:45 pm

uncleboatshoes wrote: ↑Tue Apr 14, 2020 1:26 pm How can you tell if you've seen a bird?

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:49 pm

Once, in the Ohio winter of 1999, I looked outside the window to see 3 birds standing side-by-side on a fence. Standing out against the shining snow were a bright red cardinal, a bright yellow bird, and a bright blue bird.

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:53 pm

Phil: I think Loon is a fresh water birdy. Could it have been a cormorant you saw diving out in the sea?