Ok people get off your duffs

[amazona]

I go out of town for a few days and I come back and there are no new posts? I am looking to the day when I go back and there are 1,396 posts! Come on, if you have an observation, post it. Good stuff in the backyard, post it.

Hell, bad stuff in the backyard, post it.

[blindpig]

1. Just waiting with bated breath

for your IBWP sighting!:>) Practically in your back yard.

Not too excting lately; did get a Black Throated Blue Warbler and surprisingly a Black and White Warbler, thought they'd gone north by now. Two houses being used by E Bluebirds and Tufted Titmouse.

Question for ya: Do goatsuckers call from perch? I didn't think so but for the last few nights a Chuck-wills-widow apparently has been from an undisclosed treetop location by my carport. Position of the call really seems to be fixed, calls are repeated sporadically for a couple of minutes. I can imagine them perching like a pootoo.

[amazona]

3. I can imagine it too but don't really know

It is sad to say but I have never seen chuck-wills-widow, although I remember hearing them call persistently when I was camping further north. I'm not sure if I have ever heard them calling in the state of Louisiana, although they do occur and other people hear them. But maybe not in my little area of the southeastern part of the state.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[blindpig]

5. actually saw one once

Flushed one off the nest in a overgrown pine plantation in panhandle Florida 30 years ago. The bird rose off the forest floor like a ghost, those things are pretty big, leaving a single egg sitting in a bare spot in the duff.

[Stepup2]

2. Well I had one really unusual hummer

I swear it was copper colored. I have yet to see a ruby throat. (I am in W. Michigan)

I have seen the following, usual suspects, in my yard daily: Scarlet Tanager, Baltimore, Bluebirds, House Wren, and a Chesnut Sided Warbler.

On my walk yesterday I was escorted along the edge of the bay by a pair of Belted Kingfishers, and assorted swallows.

[amazona]

4. look up Rufous Hummingbird and see what you think

In fact, I'll try to grab a picture off the internet:




It might be someone's copyrighted image so I'll take it down in a couple days after you've had a chance to see.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Stepup2]

6. Thanks! That looks like the bird I saw

It buzzed back into the white pine tree near the feeder, but I managed to get a glimpse; the copper flash I saw was obviously not a ruby throat.

I do have two ruby throats battling over a feeder today!

Thanks for the fun post!

[amazona]

7. heh heh thought so

Rufous Hummingbirds are very good wanderers.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[XemaSab]

8. Had 15+ cowbirds in the yard the other day

there. are you satisfied????????

:-)

[semillama]

9. I spent the last 2 1/2 months working outdoors at one place

Mid march to end of may. I kept a list of "flyovers".

Located in SW Ohio.

I got 29 species (in rough chronological order):

Red-Bellied Woodpecker
Pileated Woodpecker
Red-Winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Canada Goose
Turkey Vulture
Red-Tailed Hawk
Cooper's Hawk
Robin
Eastern Phoebe (heard)
Mallard
Northern Flicker
Great Blue Heron
Eastern Meadowlark
Northern Cardinal
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Harrier
Blue Jay
Barn Swallow
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Osprey
Baltimore Oriole
Northern Rough-Winged Swallow
Red-Eyed Vireo (heard)
Eastern Kingbird
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Common Nighthawk
Chimney Swift
Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher

[LWolf]

10. I just moved,

so I'm getting to know the locals. I can't find my glasses, and I've been busy unpacking and setting up, so I haven't spent much time watching. So far, in the new place, I've spotted:

mountain chickadees
the ever-present house finch
stellar's jays
pinon jays
california quail
doves..sound like the mourning doves I know, but I haven't had a close look
flickers
crows and ravens
some woodpeckers and raptors that I didn't see closely enough to identify
robins

[XemaSab]

11. Where did you move to?

Sounds like an interesting list.

[LWolf]

13. Central Oregon,

just east of the cascades. High desert with rivers and trees, mild summers, cold winter/spring/fall.


I also forgot to mention the mountain bluebird, the black-billed magpie, meadowlarks, a varied thrush, Bullock's oriole, and some flycatcher types that I haven't seen close enough to identify. Nothing uncommon, but I enjoy their company.

The pinyon jay was new to me; I had to look it up. The rest were familiar.

[semillama]

12. Do you ever get antsy thinking about birding in a new place?

I do.

I was thinking hard about going to my cousin's wedding in Denver just so I could get a day in the mountains with my binoculars...but it conflicts with a planned trip to Massachussetts in August to visit my girlfriend's family (and to hit the sea shore with the scope!).

Reading about Texas birding gets me truly jittery at times.

I probably need help!