Spring Migration Birdy Thread (In honor of Swampsniper)

Various | 5/20/2019 | Freepers

[Chipper]

I hope everyone has been able to enjoy Spring migration, when it finally decided to become somewhat Spring-like.

Lifer Golden-Winged Warbler

American Redstart - male

Bay-breasted Warbler

Trumpeter Swan

Blackburnian Warbler - male

Eastern Screech-Owl - red-morph

A week later Eastern Screech-Owl - grey morph in same cavity. Someone else photographed both in the hole together shortly after.

[rlmorel]

Glad you liked it...that is my office window...:)

You might like this one as well:
Click here to see: Squirrel takes a ride on my Yankee Flipper Feeder!

[rlmorel]

Don’t like them? Are they damaging your property?

[MileHi]

We hear owls here. That’s cool every time. Have not seen them yet.

We have great horned owls here. We hear them in the evening. Only seen one once, a ways off, in five years. They own the night.

[tubebender]

We have 8 or 10 Red Crossbills and many Chestnut Backed Chickadees plus various Sparrows and Finches feeding in our garden. I had a fence company build a feeding sanctuary out of chainlink material to thwart the bears in this area ofHumboldt Bay…

[CJ Wolf]

Mark for later posting.

[MileHi]

Are they damaging your property?

They beat the crap out of my stove pipe. They have an obnoxious call. They have no redeeming qualities.

[gundog]

There was one on the hill years ago that beat on a microwave dish on a radio tower. The parabolic dish focused the noise, and it was incredibly loud in the direction the dish pointed.

[rlmorel]

Sounds reason enough for me...I don’t see them around where I live...

[rlmorel]

Sounds reason enough for me...I don’t see them around where I live...

[minnesota_bound]

Billions of Painted Ladies butterflies.
https://www.newsweek.com/california-super-bloom-millions-painted-lady-butterflies-migrating-los-1361001

See 4th video from top. The one with the grass.
Been ongoing for a few months.

[OftheOhio]

Thank you all FRiends for the reminder. Swampsniper was special. I’ve been remiss in my attention to my little feathered friends. They have always been a joy. Pee dee dee dee.

[MileHi]

On the upside, hawks cruise around here all the time, they help with the gophers. I do my part with a 10-22. And we see bald eagles in the spring.

Badgers dig those gophers out too, but I’m worried about them tangling ass with my dog.

[MileHi]

HA! My wife found one stuck in the snow, kept it in here over night. Seemed to be in better shape in the morning (liked a dab of honey) and the weather was better so she let it go. I suppose a bird got it, but she was happy.

[Califreak]

Thanks for the link!

I’m loving that YouTube channel!

[EinNYC]

Here is a male House Finch I photographed at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge with my new digital SLR. Still have a ways to go to really get good with this camera.

And here is a Polyphemus moth from there:

[V K Lee]

You tube: repair a washing machine, enjoy a garden walk, sing along w/a favorite performer. The channel has it all.
Enjoy the link. :-)

[Califreak]

I love YouTube!

I have probably saved thousands of dollars watching repair tutorials.

I like watching YouTube way better than I ever liked tv or movies.

[Silentgypsy]

Thank you!

[rlmorel]

LOL, right you are. We had a Woodchuck infestation, they were destroying our yard, and I don’t live in an area where I could dispose of them with a .22 without having the policed called down on me, so I had to trap them, which is always fun...:)

[rlmorel]

Not bad...I can see you have the electronic zoom turned up pretty high for that House Finch, but...how else you going to get a close up like that without the expensive lens????

Butterflies, are cool, though...they let you walk right up...:)