What A Great Day For Bird Watching

YouTube Video (o7jimmy) ^ | 4/06/08 | Revski

[Revski]

This video is of a family watching a red-shoulder hawk and the voices are from o7jimmy, wife and grandson. The hawk sound is of a red-shoulder hawk.

[blackdog]

Bard owls are now sitting on their nests. Arctic snow geese are in full chorus. Robins are optomisticly discussing sun-rise starting around 4:00AM. Sand Hill Cranes have returned and are doing their high flight mating rituals. The turkey vultures are making short work of all the dead animals kept on ice during the winter months.

Yep! Great week for observing our feathered friends.

[Revski]

You are a professional bird watcher I am a novice. Thanks for your comment.

[blackdog]

I'm not anything but a farmer. All that field work, endless hours of being out in the fields has to offer some sort of enlightenment. I love haying time. All the hawks come and work right along side you getting all the shrews, mice, rats, and an occasional eagle shows up. Right around an hour before sunset, all the owls start calling.

One of the most peaceful times is very late at night in extreme winter. It's very quiet, sky is clear to the point the stars look like an explosion. The snow is lit up from the night sky. The rabbits are waiting for me to haul bales of hay to one barn or another, coming out to greet you as you move by. During the winter the bales lose their fines as they are moved with the tractor, leaving a trail of tasty alfalfa for them.

[Darren McCarty]

Sand Hill Cranes have returned

Beautiful birds. Also the loudest birds I've ever heard in my life. I've seen them in groups of 15 around my parent's house. They've hung around that area so long that they've lost a lot of their fear of people - to the point where I was a little nervous when I chased two of them out of mom's garden. They just attacked my ears again with their squaks.

[Revski]

Your story brings back memories to me. I was raised in New England and it seemed there was farms everywhere and I worked on some farms and experience some of the same thing you wrote but mostly I was raised with racehorses and chickens. I remember one rooster that I teased to no end and one day while teasing the rooster with a stick the rooster had enough and run me off pecking at my heals my brother saved me by throwing the rooster on our house roof. I also remember the smells of the farm, some very nice and some not. Well thanks for your story and God bless.
Revski