My backyard birds

Jul 18, 2016 07:31


Hi bird friends, I don't have any lovely photos of birds to share, but I do have cool stories to share.

Regretfully our neighbourhood has all the regular birds you would expect in a North American city - sparrows, robins, house finches, magpies and crows. Ducks and Canada geese fly overhead. Occasionally I spot a small hawk or merlin.

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replyhazy July 18 2016, 16:02:07 UTC
Whereabouts do you live?

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calzephyr77 July 18 2016, 21:14:32 UTC

Canada.

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leesa_perrie July 18 2016, 17:10:47 UTC
That's great, that you have a pond to go and birdwatch at! Maybe I shouldn't laugh, but your story of the poor magpie being smacked down by the crow made me smile - ah, birds!! :)

The other day, an Eurasian blackbird (I live in the UK) gave a grey squirrel a couple of whacks with its claws!! I've never seen that before! Squirrel seemed quite surprised too!

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calzephyr77 July 21 2016, 18:33:59 UTC
LOL I love the drama filled lives of birds. The squirrel probably wondered what he did wrong. Years ago a pair of crows were fighting near my bus stop and the loser swooped on a wild rabbit that was feeding nearby. I guess the crow had to make itself feel better :D

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light_of_summer July 18 2016, 21:20:20 UTC
Thanks for your stories! They made me smile. :)

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ozswede July 21 2016, 08:13:21 UTC
I think there's nothing quite so satisfying and enjoyable as watching the local birds. You've got to know them and some of their quirks and it's lovely to feel that connection as well as the wonder at something unusual like a heron taking flight.

I freely admit that I shamelessly attract birds to my garden with food, so we get huge numbers coming there. People are always saying to me that they never see birds, but I tell them to just open their eyes and look around and see what is flying through the air or perched on a branch. They don´t know what they´re missing.

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calzephyr77 July 21 2016, 18:31:33 UTC
I totally agree with you! I love watching birds. I wish I knew why - maybe it comes from having pet birds most of my life.

I'm having lunch right now in a park downtown and I bet folks don't realize how organized the little gang of sparrows that lives here are. I feel like a dozen pairs of eyes are on my sandwich and I have already had one drive by :)

The only place I can recall not seeing birds was in Las Vegas. Not even some humble pigeons hanging out on the rooftop!

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