Bird Watchers

[Clementine_3]

Hate the Starlings! There is a small flock that lives across the street, they rarely make it to my back yard though, phew. It's kind of funny, there is some sort of imaginary line that they just don't cross. Fine with me!

Oh and, LOVE the waxwings but they hate me. They come to my apple tree sometimes, such pretty birds. They refuse to let me actually see or watch them though, they fly over a lot...giggling at me I'm sure!

 

[Clementine_3]

Ha, just went out in the yard and my Mockingbird was sitting on the fence glaring at me. The other day my Carolina wren made a rather vocal arrival too. Ah, spring-ish!

 

[lunatic59]

starlings are not grackles.

 

[Unforgiven]

starlings are not grackles.

They both suck

 

[lunatic59]

Indeed!

 

[Clementine_3]

I don't mind the grackles, maybe 'cause I don't get a ton of them. I think they are sort of pretty, all neon flashy.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Grackles are prettier though. I see them everywhere I go.
I don't travel much.

 

[lunatic59]

I don't mind the grackles, maybe 'cause I don't get a ton of them. I think they are sort of pretty, all neon flashy.

Grackles are prettier though.

They're just nasty.

 

[lunatic59]

The first sure sign of Spring ... the lawn care companies sticking flyers in your mailbox.

Now if I could only figure out how to stuff the mailbox with grackles.

 

[Clementine_3]

the lawn care companies sticking flyers in your mailbox

They don't even bother with me, they just look at my yard and realize it's a lost cause

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Try Blackbirds.
You can stuff 4 and 20 in a pie.
Imagine how many you could stuff in a mailbox.
^This emoji looks wrong<

 

[lunatic59]

I use all natural canine fertilizers.

 

[olbriar]

 

[Clementine_3]

Rose-breasted Grosbeaks at the feeder!! New bird for me
Pics later...

 

[Clementine_3]

It's always dark and drizzly when I want to take a pic (through the screen to boot).

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I've never seen this one. Bear with me...
It starts singing really, really loudly about 3am a few weeks into Spring, well before sunrise. I'll try to record it when I go back to work. But does anyone know a bird that gets up that early to sing?

 

[Clementine_3]

Look!! A hummingbird!!! The hummers are here!

@dontpanicbobby, at that hour it could very well be tree frogs.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Maybe. Be back with a recording Monday morning. Interesting theory.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I'm just attaching the sound file to this post it's an .M4A. or MP4 which I converted to .MP3 using a website.

 

[zuben el genub]

Haven't heard our hummers migrating yet but this bird is back:

Taken from chair in family room through a rather rain spotted window.
They perch on top of the pine trees and say "drink your tea-oooo"

Hadn't seen him for a while, he did learn to use the flat feeder as did the juncos and whitecrowns.
Bambi can starve.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

So your thinking Baltimore Oriole? I listened to some clips on YouTube and the pitch is definitely right and a saw a similar looking bird with that black head and orange breast on one of the lawn patches on the plaza as I was leaving Monday at 7:00 AM. That still doesn't explain why it starts singing so damn early and loud.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

Did some more research using the black head and orange breast and I'm now convinced it was an American Robin. When I saw it on the lawn it was larger than Orioles are described and it did not have the white bands on the wings.

 

[Clementine_3]

I think it sounds like a Robin?

Ha! you ninja'd me

 

[dontpanicbobby]

OT: Which file did you listen to @Clementine_3. I think the M4A is a waste of time. It didn't work when I tried to play it back on my phone from the forum even though I recorded it on the phone.

 

[Clementine_3]

Which file did you listen to

Yeah, that one didn't work at all, the mp3 was fine though.