Who likes birds?

[XemaSab]

Who wants to go post on my website?

I'm trying to start the DU of birding.

I need content BADLY. :cry:

[petronius]

1. Link!?

(I always wanted to say that...)

[bluesbassman]

2. Does having them tattoed on both arms count?

I'd love to see your website.:)

[XemaSab]

20. BTW, What species?

:shrug::hi:

[bluesbassman]

25. Eagles, here's a shot of one of them.

[XemaSab]

26. Sweet!

:)

[DemBones DemBones]

36. Dude, you look like King Charles II,

although you need to grow your hair longer.

[TZ]

3. I love birds!

:)

[DevonRex]

4. Oh, of hte birdwatching variety. That's cool. I do have a budgie you can have, tho.

I swear it doesn't bite the shit out of you when you attempt to clean its cage. And it never, ever turns its back on you when you want to talk to it. And it never, ever kills the other (may she rest in peace) budgie you might get him for company.

[960]

5. Yum! Ketchup on chicken is delicious.

[DevonRex]

6. There are 2 things ketchup should NEVER touch: eggs and chicken.

[TK421]

8. You'd be surprised how many people I have come across that drown their

eggs in ketchup :puke: WTF?

But then again..I'm weird too! I like to pour maple syrup on sausage links ( yes, the waitress looks at me funny ) but it is SO DAMNED GOOD!!!

[DevonRex]

10. That's not strange. My father did that. And I do that with my veggie sausage, too.

[TK421]

13. Maple syrup does wonders to sausage...does it not?

:pals: It's good to know I'm not a freak with this; having been to breakfast with others I get the weird glances, but I also suspect it may be a regional thing.

I just might start a separate thread about this! Now, I'm curious....

[XemaSab]

17. According to Special Agent Dale Cooper:

"Nothing beats the taste when maple syrup collides with ham." :D

[arcadian]

21. Maple syrup goes with sausage

They even have a maple syrup variety of sausage.

[pokerfan]

18. How about tabasco?

[TK421]

38. That's different, and I do like tabasco on scrambled eggs

they have to be scrambled though...

[pokerfan]

47. So do I

Which is why I can see why some people would like ketchup on their eggs. I find ketchup to be a rather bland condiment probably because I've long since burned off my taste buds eating five-star Thai. Ketchup is vinegary and mildly spicy so I suppose people like it in their eggs for the same reason we like tabasco.

[Shell Beau]

46. That is about the only way I will eat sausage.

But ketchup and eggs? :puke:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

51. I either put ketchup or hot sauce on my eggs depending on mood

I do put maple syrup on my (veggie) sausage, though.

[Jamastiene]

56. I do both.

Ketchup and eggs and maple syrup on sausage are both great in my book.

[BikeWriter]

27. Oh dayum! I love ketchup on: eggs and chicken!.

[tigereye]

7. even if we don't know nearly as much as you and semillama?

:hi:


I'm still at the "hey bluejays imitate hawks" stage... somehow I had missed that previously. :rofl: Although i heard 2 woodpeckers today, answering each others hammering. That was pretty cool.

[TK421]

9. I do, XemaSab..I just don't know much about them

:shrug: I know there must be several species around here that might be of interest, but the only thing I see ( locally ) are cardinals and the occasional blue-jay

[XemaSab]

11. Pennsylvania has good warblers

Migration should be getting there soon.

Really, all you need are some good binoculars and a field guide. :)

[Sanity Claws]

12. I like birds

Yesterday I saw a woodpecker in Riverside Park in NYC.
Where is your website?

[sohndrsmith]

14. I love birds. Have you read any Gerald Durrel? (My guess is that you have). Not strictly about

birds, but heavily weighted towards them - at least many are...

Is there a difference between birding and bird-watching? I've never participated in any formal "bird" activity, but I've studied them since early childhood, and even raised a few (from a rescued rose breasted grosbeak to canaries and a duck that was in love with my dad (and our dog was in love with the duck - taboo on many fronts since they were different species AND both females...hee).

Birds are incredible. I love them. Good luck!

[Kali]

15. If you want to be the DU of birding you need a lounge

where we can talk about cartoon birds, ask for vibes (or feathers?) or how to cook wild ones or some such ridiculousness

[XemaSab]

16. I have a lounge

Try the "community" forum. ;)

[Danger Mouse]

19. I kinda like birds.

[MajorChode]

22. I'm not really that serious about it.

I won't go out of my way to go bird watching, but I do enjoy the ones that come around. I did build a Blue Bird house and put it up in my back yard, so I'm kinda partial to those. I do enjoy watching the little fledglings come out of the house and wash themselves in my birdbath.

Naturally I hate House Sparrows. I didn't have to kill any this year, but usually I have to exterminate one or two in January or February to keep them out of the Blue Bird house.

[Flaxbee]

23. have you contacted DUer Maestro?

He photographs birds almost exclusively...

I love birds, but don't know much about them. I'll go check your site out!

[Kat45]

24. I LOVE BIRDS!

Though I'm more familiar with exotics (like Grace) and urban birds. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology even has a department/section (whatever they call it) on Urban Birds.

[BikeWriter]

28. Can I complain about loose cats decimating song birds in my yard?

:nuke:

[XemaSab]

29. You totally can.

:D

[BikeWriter]

30. Thank you. I'm for outlawing feral and roaming cats outdoors.

How's that?

[Withywindle]

31. LInk?

I'm all about corvids and vultures. :D

[DemBones DemBones]

34. I love corvids. Do you know about ASCAR?

[EFerrari]

32. Paging Maestro! Where IS Maestro and his beautiful shots of birds?

[old mark]

33. They are pretty tasty.

We have bird feeders in our yard, get some very interesting woodpeckers and will soon see and Eastern Bluebird or two. We have gigantic kitchen windows, and I love to watch them.


mark

[Lil Missy]

35. I don't like birds. They invade my mailbox. And try to peck my head when I leave the front door.

They attack my mom in the yard too.

Goddamned Blackbirds. They are mean. I should get a gun. And shoot the little bastards.

[Sky Masterson]

37. The Eels do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh6Qla-OQ-M
Eels-I Like Birds

[redqueen]

43. Sweet!

:D

I like birds... and Eels. :)

[Sky Masterson]

54. I've been listening to a ton of Eels lately.

:) :hi:

[XemaSab]

53. This is officially the song of the day

:D

[Sky Masterson]

55. Woot!!

:woohoo: :bounce: :hi:

[tekisui]

39. Go to the Photography Group, it was all birds yesterday.

[XemaSab]

48. Thanks for the heads up!

:hi:

[Roon]

40. I love birds..

they are too delicate for me to own one but I enjoy my friends' birds. I also like wild birds too.

[Bertha Venation]

41. I love and adore birds.

I have tons of pictures, most of which Mrs. V. took. If you're looking for pictures, I've got 'em. If you're looking for visitors, count me in. :hi:

[geardaddy]

42. I love birds.

[NV Whino]

44. Go post this in the photo group

It's gone to the birds lately.

[hunter]

45. Birds are interesting.

We've currently got a young sharpie terrorizing our bird feeder (raptor fast food!) but I haven't got a good picture of her yet. She'll stand on the streetlight and leave a big mess on whatever car is parked beneath it.

Our parrot is most interested in the crows, and they are interested in her because she imitates them perfectly. I can watch the crows in the trees looking at her and listening and probably thinking "WTF?"

There's also a raven couple around. Somehow they've learned to capture mosquito fish in our fountain. For months I'd been wondering who was tipping over the plants in the fountain and speculating about everything from cats to kids to herons until I caught one of the ravens at it. I don't think I've ever noticed ravens fishing before, but now that I think about it I have occasionally seen them in tidepools and shallow streams.

We've also got a little hummingbird, a rufous or an allen's, claiming the fountain territory. He's a vicious little beast who will charge anyone who visits. There's a seasonal rotation of humming bird species claiming the fountain -- when one kind leaves another moves in.

[merh]

49. Birds?

Like these?

[tabbycat31]

50. I like them but as a cat owner I can't have any

it would be cruel to the bird to have it when the other pet of the house would look at the bird and think "dinner"

I do however have a lot of seagull pics (they're annoying but fun to take pictures of, and you can "pose" them by feeding them.

[timtom]

52. Hey, I like birds.

Why don't you flip me one?

[BikeWriter]

57. Kicking in support of our native birds.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

58. I'd love to, if I knew where it was...

Won't you please post a link? :hi:

[tainted_chimp]

59. What an utterlly fowl idea.

I love them!

[ChickMagic]

60. In the heart of Dallas

I heard a bird I hadn't heard before. It was smaller than a sparrow and very flitty, so it was hard to see the markings. Unfortunately a few collided with the glass windowed walkway and I learned they were yellow rumped warblers. Migratory.

[BikeWriter]

63. Oh, poor little critters!

[MajorChode]

61. My wife has a pair of finches

I'm not big on caged birds although the finches are fun to watch sometimes. Last year I had a hummingbird nest in an oak tree that was right outside my breakfast table window. That was pretty cool.

[BikeWriter]

62. I think the little finches are so cool, and I've had keets to macaws.

[MajorChode]

65. The wife let them have a litter of chicks a year or two ago

That was kind of cool, but we had someone who wanted the babies at the time. Now she has to remove the eggs to keep them from having more.

[BikeWriter]

66. We bought out an aviary and started raising birds. It was a hoot.

[Digit]

64. I love birds...I even have a parrot who rules the roost at my home

I swear one of these days I am going to have an accident trying to watch hawks flying while I am trying to drive....

Two months ago I witnessed quite a funny sight. Two police squad cars had pulled slightly off the road and several officers were standing around a swan that had decided to settle in the grass at the entrance to a neighborhood. The way the officers were standing back, scratching their heads, I was almost betting they had been threatened by the swan.
The swan just looked like it had taken possession of the area and to hell with everyone else.

Two squad cars, 2+ officers vs THE SWAN.....
...can you imagine the first officer calling for backup?

[Digit]

67. Video of cockatoo dancing to Ray Charles

http://www.maniacworld.com/bird-loves-ray-charles.html