TexasCobra Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Grackles swarm the Dallas area! https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Birds-swarm-Texas-parking-lot-video-16764757.php?utm_campaign=CMS Sharing Tools (Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email Warn Tippi Hedren!!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 22 minutes ago, TexasCobra said: Grackles swarm the Dallas area! https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Birds-swarm-Texas-parking-lot-video-16764757.php?utm_campaign=CMS Sharing Tools (Premium)&utm_source=share-by-email&utm_medium=email Warn Tippi Hedren!!! There's a major crow roost in suburban Vancouver, where many/most of the crows in the city flock home in the evening. The estimate is apparently 13-20000 of them. The roost has been developed and is now a semi-industrial / box stores kind of an area, and it's hilarious to see that many crows hanging out in e.g. a McDonald's parking lot. We have huge overflights of crows in the evenings - I was in a park one afternoon keeping a casual list and had to include 1300 crows in my count - an eagle flew across and had about 300 follow it to chase it off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jodi Nielson Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 A friend just sent this to me...made me giggle? 3 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 (edited) Stolen from another site. Edited January 13, 2022 by chipperatl 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpa Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 17 hours ago, Jodi Nielson said: A friend just sent this to me...made me giggle? My girlfriend got me a similar mug a while back https://alwaysfits.com/products/fowl-language-bird-coffee-mug 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmWarbler Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 2 hours ago, chipperatl said: Lol ? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 3 hours ago, chipperatl said: Stolen from another site. That’s great. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 A not so great surfing royal tern 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted January 13, 2022 Share Posted January 13, 2022 5 hours ago, chipperatl said: Stolen from another site. That is GREAT, I laughed sooo hard! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmWarbler Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 31 minutes ago, Kevin said: That is GREAT, I laughed sooo hard! Me too ? it is kinda true though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 That non-birder's guide to backyard birds is the gift that keeps on giving 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipperatl Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 13 hours ago, PaulK said: That non-birder's guide to backyard birds is the gift that keeps on giving That was the one where I wondered if someone from here created this. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aveschapinas Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 On 1/12/2022 at 8:52 PM, Jodi Nielson said: A friend just sent this to me...made me giggle? They forgot the nicest tit of all - Bushtit! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor L. Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I now present you to... HERONS ON ICE https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/405975961 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVive Posted January 15, 2022 Share Posted January 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Trevor L. said: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I now present you to... HERONS ON ICE https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/405975961 Fancy figure skating moves no less? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpoetmarcr Posted January 19, 2022 Share Posted January 19, 2022 Conducting the orchestra 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulK Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Really appreciate this 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickadeeXT Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 I went to the zoo the other day and I was SO excited to post these here: "I'm FLUFFED" says the cattle egret An African Crowned Crane watches a grackle fly above its head. Hilarious result. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 the SASS from this bird... https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/408584251 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpoetmarcr Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpoetmarcr Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Up periscope... 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpoetmarcr Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 "OK, now you're standing straight. Thought for a minute it was I who had too much to drink!" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirVive Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Excerpt from an old book I was enjoying once again the other day. Its called Far Away and Long Ago. An interesting story in general and a lot of birding mixed in. "One evening I told him and our eldest brother that I had seen a strange thing in a bird which had led me to find out something new. Our commonest species was the parasitic cowbird, which laid its eggs anywhere in the nests of all the other small birds. Its colour was a deep glossy purple, almost black; and seeing two of these birds flying over my head, I noticed that they had a small chestnut-coloured spot beneath the wing, which showed that they were not the common species. It had then occurred to me that I had heard a peculiar note or cry uttered by what I took to be the cowbird, which was unlike any note of that bird; and following this clue, I had discovered that we had a bird in our plantation which was like the cowbird in size, colour, and general appearance, but was a different species. They appeared amused by my story, and a few days later they closely interrogated me on three consecutive evenings as to what I had seen that was remarkable that day, in birds especially, and were disappointed because I had nothing interesting to tell them. The next day my brother said he had a confession to make to me. He and the elder brother had agreed to play a practical joke on me, and had snared a common cowbird and dyed or painted its tail a brilliant scarlet, then liberated it, expecting that I should meet with it in my day's rambles and bird-watching in the plantation and would be greatly excited at the discovery of yet a third purple cowbird, with a scarlet tail, but otherwise not distinguishable from the common one. Now, on reflection, he was glad I had not found their bird and given them their laugh, and he was ashamed at having tried to play such a mean trick on me!" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinHood Posted February 11, 2022 Share Posted February 11, 2022 Say aaah, and hold up your leg at the same time - trust me, it's a new diagnostic tool. (American Coot which should not be here at this time of year). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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