Whatbird's Young Birders!

[PalmWarbler]

It’s snowing!

[IKLland]

49 minutes ago, PalmWarbler said:

It’s snowing!

It’s raining here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SirVive]

And the sun is probably blazing down on @Kevin's sweaty head🌞😄

[BirdNrd]

5 hours ago, IKLland said:

It’s raining here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same here. It was down pouring a few minutes ago.

[Kevin]

10 hours ago, SirVive said:

And the sun is probably blazing down on @Kevin's sweaty head🌞😄

Actually not, it isn't raining, but it is overcast. 

[Aaron]

Help 🥶

Going to go through a lot of bird seed next week!

[PalmWarbler]

34 minutes ago, Aaron said:

Help 🥶

Going to go through a lot of bird seed next week!

Yikes

[Charlie Spencer]

53 minutes ago, Aaron said:

Help 🥶

Going to go through a lot of bird seed next week!

“Bugger that for a game of soldiers!”

[Peromyscus]

3 hours ago, Aaron said:

Help 🥶

Going to go through a lot of bird seed next week!

Are those temperatures in C or in F?

[Aaron]

3 hours ago, Peromyscus said:

Are those temperatures in C or in F?

In Celsius, so not as bad as if those temps were in Fahrenheit, but still horrible regardless 😂.

They keep adjusting the forecast to be colder, but I guess it doesn’t matter as I’m not planning on leaving the house! 

[Birds are cool]

It has been nice here in middle Georgia. Low 50s to high 60s we reached 80 degrees a few days ago.

[Peromyscus]

19 hours ago, Aaron said:

In Celsius, so not as bad as if those temps were in Fahrenheit, but still horrible regardless 😂.

No argument there! 🥶

[Quiscalus quiscula]

Been snowing pretty thickly here, a lot of things have been canceled.

[Quiscalus quiscula]

On 11/29/2022 at 10:39 AM, Birds are cool said:

I am homeschooled

A lot of us here are homeschooled! Including me.

[Snake Fingers]

On 12/16/2022 at 4:13 PM, Quiscalus quiscula said:

A lot of us here are homeschooled! Including me.

Nice! Me too.

[Kevin]

27 minutes ago, Snake Fingers said:

Nice! Me too.

Howdy @Snake Fingers! Welcome to the forum!

[Snake Fingers]

This is an interesting incident that happened to me a couple weeks ago.

On one of my walks I noticed a bunch of bird activity at Sanford Health. Orchard Hills Assisted and Congregated Living.(Dell Rapids)

 All this activity was due to the bird feeders which were all over, so I decided to come back another morning with the heavy artillery(gloves, and another pair of binoculars(X20). When I did go there again, I sat down, got out my binoculars, and waited close to the feeders(leaning against a lamp post). Soon after realizing I misjudged the hotspot activity startup time, my fingers began to get really cold, so I did what most sensible people would NOT do. I left my backpack(with my binoculars and everything!) and ran back to the apartment where I lived to get hand warmers and shove them in my gloves. Luckily no one had stolen my stuff(yay!), unfortunately there were caretakers or something waiting for me. Now think for a moment how creepy I looked, black jacket with the hood pulled over my face, binoculars, and a big black backpack(yikes). So they naturally asked A: was that my backpack, B: why you have binoculars. I said I was birding, then they just kinda looked at me and I got the vibe that I should leave.(I did) 

if you read this, thank you for listening to my story.

[Kevin]

 

On 12/12/2022 at 1:50 PM, Aaron said:

Help 🥶

Going to go through a lot of bird seed next week!

Using celsius it is supposed to be -14 here tomorrow. 

[Kevin]

1 hour ago, Snake Fingers said:

This is an interesting incident that happened to me a couple weeks ago.

On one of my walks I noticed a bunch of bird activity at Sanford Health. Orchard Hills Assisted and Congregated Living.(Dell Rapids)

 All this activity was due to the bird feeders which were all over, so I decided to come back another morning with the heavy artillery(gloves, and another pair of binoculars(X20). When I did go there again, I sat down, got out my binoculars, and waited close to the feeders(leaning against a lamp post). Soon after realizing I misjudged the hotspot activity startup time, my fingers began to get really cold, so I did what most sensible people would NOT do. I left my backpack(with my binoculars and everything!) and ran back to the apartment where I lived to get hand warmers and shove them in my gloves. Luckily no one had stolen my stuff(yay!), unfortunately there were caretakers or something waiting for me. Now think for a moment how creepy I looked, black jacket with the hood pulled over my face, binoculars, and a big black backpack(yikes). So they naturally asked A: was that my backpack, B: why you have binoculars. I said I was birding, then they just kinda looked at me and I got the vibe that I should leave.(I did) 

if you read this, thank you for listening to my story.

Sadly you will run into that too often. 🙁 Generally people are just curious, but some people are very rude. If those guys were care takers they do have a reason to wonder what you were doing at least(but if you were watching feeders, wouldn't be a pretty self explanatory?).

I bird on the dirt road I live on all the time, never had a problem till two guys stopped one day. They started out with a solid stream of profanity, wanted to know what I was doing, my name, because they were going to find out what I was doing, and report me. I was so not expecting it, so it got me really off guard, and honestly they scared me a little. I would handle them much better if they popped up again, they gave me plenty of ammunition. 

[Snake Fingers]

2 minutes ago, Kevin said:

Sadly you will run into that too often. 🙁 Generally people are just curious, but some people are very rude. If those guys were care takers they do have a reason to wonder at least(but if you were watching feeders, wouldn't be a pretty self explanatory?).

I bird on the dirt road I live on all the time, never had a problem till two guys stopped one day. They started out with a solid stream of profanity, wanted to know what I was doing, my name, because they were going to find out what I was doing, and report me. I was so not expecting it, so it got me really off guard, and honestly they scared me a little. I would handle them much better if they popped up again, they gave me plenty of ammunition. 

It is very sad.🙁

[Quiscalus quiscula]

1 hour ago, Snake Fingers said:

Nice! Me too.

Welcome to Whatbird! This is an awesome forum.

[lonestranger]

8 minutes ago, Kevin said:

If those guys were care takers they do have a reason to wonder what you were doing at least(but if you were watching feeders, wouldn't be a pretty self explanatory?).

I think the unattended backpack might have triggered the questioning before @Snake Fingers had a chance to resume birding.

[Charlie Spencer]

I've had the local police pull up beside me a couple of times as I was walking around an area.  In both cases, someone had called about my car being parked in a place where cars are rarely parked, with no one around for a couple of hours.  In both cases it was cool; once, when I pointed out a Red-tailed to the officer, he borrowed my binos to take a look for himself.

[Kevin]

30 minutes ago, lonestranger said:

I think the unattended backpack might have triggered the questioning before @Snake Fingers had a chance to resume birding.

True, also being dressed in black, with a hood up... Personally I always where a toboggan, and never pull a hood up unless it is really cold. 

[Kevin]

In other news, I have been really sick all last week, still have some symptoms, but am feeling so much better today!