#bird watcher

[wildlifetracker]

Comparison between mallard (top) and Canada goose (bottom) tracks.

#nature #wildlife #nature photography #naturalist #mine #photography #ecology #north america #animals #wildlife biology #ornithology #birding #birds #bird #bird watching #bird watcher #biologist #ecologist #tracks #animal tracks #ducks #geese #canada goose #mallard #mallards #canada geese #wildlife biologist #original photographers #original photography #north american wildlife

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Snail Kite

^image credit: Andreas Trepte, Wikipedia

Snail Kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis)

The Snail Kite is named because its diet consists almost entirely of Apple Snails. They glide low and slow over marshes, and drop to pick up a snail with one foot from the surfaces of water or plants. They are believed to turn to alternative food sources only when Apple Snails become scarce, such as during drought.

#snail kite #kite bird #birds of prey #bird facts #bird of the day #bird of prey #birdoftheday #bird fact of the day #birdfactoftheday #botd #ornithology #ornithologists #bird behaviour #tropical birds #birdwatching #birding #bird watching #bird watcher #birdwatcher #birdlife #wildlife #bird #birds #bird lovers

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

The Duckling and the Daisy by Roeselien Raimond Via Flickr:

#duckling #duck #baby #eend #eendje #young #cute #bird #jong #vogel #mallard #Bird Watcher #NaturesFinest #VosPlusBellesPhotos #slb-resting #nature #photography #natuurfotografie #canon #roeselien Raimond #nature photography #roeselien #flickr

[timmurleyart]

Day and night Chubby birds. 🌞🌕🌳🐦🌲

#bird art #bird painting #birds of tumblr #birds of north america #birds #birding #birders gallery #birder #bird watching #bird watcher #pop art #contemporary art #folk art #sparrow #nuthatch #chickadee #robins #carolina wren #wren #warblers #warbler #backyard birds #bird feeders #bird bath #birdstagram #bird sanctuary #audubonsociety #audubon society #folk art painting #art for sale by artist

[stearleart]

Raven portrait - ink 26/01/24

Pen an ink illustration, on a4 sketching paper, of a stately looking Raven.

You can get prints with this raven via my store

#ravens #raven #birds #bird #crows #animals #wildlife #wild #nature #ornithology #artwork #art #artists on tumblr #ink #bird art #bird watching #bird watcher #pen and ink #ink drawing #traditional #gothic #goth #corvid #caw #artist on tumblr #natural world

[nyctibiusgrandis]

I’iwi

Drepanis coccinea

Kula - Kailialinu

May 18, 2023 9:18 a.m.

Photography by me

I’ve decided to start using this blog as a place to put the pictures I’ve taken while birding. And what better way to start that than with possibly the rarest sighting I’ve ever had.

This little guy is an I’iwi and was the main bird I was hoping to find when I visited Maui in May. I remember seeing the flash of scarlet through the trees and the hope that it was an I’iwi. I could’ve stood there and watched it for hours.

Something so small and yet so important. Unfortunately, these guys are one of the 17 remaining species of Hawaiian honeycreepers out of the original 56 species. This rapid extinction has been due to the spread of avian malaria, not to mention habitat loss and predation.

If you ever have the chance to see one of these guys don’t just take one glance. Truly stop to look at them. They’re such a marvel of evolution.

#iiwi #scarlet honeycreeper #please do not repost #honeycreeper #Hawaii #Hawaiian honeycreeper #Maui #bird #bird photography #birds #bird nerd #bird pics #I’m proud of this picture #birder #bird watcher #birding #queue

[wingedjewels]

Hummingbird Female. by Bob Rumer. Via Flickr: My Garden. Pa. Many thanks to all who take the time to view, comment and favoring my images. Enjoy the day.

#Hummingbird Female #Hummingbird #Bird #Bird Watching #Bird Watcher #Avian #Wildlife #Wildlife Photographer #Wildlife Watcher #Nature #Nature Watcher #Nature Photography #Montgomery County #Canon RF100-500mm Lens #Canon EOS R5 Camera #flickr

[rhiannatruex]

winter flicker

#queueue #vertical #birdblr #bird #birdwatching #bird watching #bird watcher #Original Photography #photography #my photography #original photographer #photographers of tumblr #photographers on tumblr #lensblr #original photography blog #cottage #cottagecore #cottage core #grandma core #nature photography #nature #uncropped nature #wildlife #wildlife photography #wildlife photographer #critter #animal

[forestgreenivy]

It’s hard to see them here (phone camera) but out on the river today, I got to see plenty of osprey nests and ospreys to go with them. It’s been a while my friends!

For reference:

https://avianreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/osprey-perched-1.x46747.jpg

#I miss my coastal birds so much #osprey #bird watching #bird watcher #birds #coastal birds #lowcountry #southern #outdoors #nature #adventure #wildlife #wild #creatures #river #swampcore #swamp #birdlr

[takunwilliams]

birdie 2024

#bird #animal art #winged #beak #feathers #trippy #colorful #acid #shapes #nature art #bird watcher #rare animal #art #drawing #digital print

[random-bookquotes]

morning mist… a bird watcher changes the lens in his camera

K Ramesh, a bird… a bird haiku

#a bird… a bird haiku #K Ramesh #haiku #bird watcher

[bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Black Grouse

^image credit: Steve Garvie, Wikipedia

Black Grouse (Lyrurus tetrix)

The Black Grouse is an iconic, widespread bird with seven known subspecies. They are well-known for their spectacular communal breeding displays, where the males gather in display grounds known as 'leks' and try to entice females, by strutting around and spreading their white tail feathers and inflating their necks, all the while producing a distinctive call.

#gamebirds my beloved #protect them at all costs... #bird of the day #birdoftheday #black grouse #grouse #lyrurus tetrix #bird fact #bird facts #bird fact of the day #bird behaviour #bird breeding #birds #british birds #birds of britain #bird watcher #bird watching #birding #ornithology #birdlovers #birdwatching

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

The Duckling and the Daisy by Roeselien Raimond Via Flickr: My soft & sentimental alter ego must have taken over....;)

#duckling #duck #baby #eend #eendje #young #cute #bird #jong #vogel #mallard #Bird Watcher #NaturesFinest #VosPlusBellesPhotos #slb-resting #nature #photography #natuurfotografie #canon #roeselien Raimond #nature photography #roeselien #flickr

[timmurleyart]

Orange juice owl. 🍊🦉🍊

#barn owl #night owl #snowy owls #owlcreek #the owl house #owls #superb owl #owlart #owl painting #owls of tumblr #owl hoots #owl #owlblog #barred owl #cute owls #bird watcher #birds of prey #buho #el buho #pop art #contemporary art #fine art #street art #folk art #audobonsociety #owl art #acrylic painting #acrylic art #modern art #neo expressionism

[riofann]

Bird problems

You guys there’s a bird that cascaded down my chimney and out the fireplace this past Saturday(I’m assuming for the first time cuz it was the first time for me to see this) . It flew into a room and I opened the front door started cleaning cuz I needed to anyway hoping it’s gonna follow the wind. So I go into the room it flew into bang around don’t see it. So I closed the front door thinking it’s gone I walk into the next room guess who’s by my foot?! So I jump around cuz it’s flapping it’s wings I can’t even get the door open properly because now it’s chasing me around the house! Eventually I open the door and just leave that area and continue to clean. So as the sun was beginning to set I went banging around didn’t hear anything, so I thought okay it’s gone. Sunday comes I run to Lowes to get an animal mesh something so this doesn’t happen again! Come back fumble with the mesh and command strips all is good, it’s tight enough it shouldn’t get through.

So Sunday passes nothing,  Monday nothing,  this Tuesday, yesterday guess who comes flapping around the fucking corner.

And it’s coming from a room I visited earlier in the day! I look at the wire mesh I’m seeing small feathers so I’m like okay did you get through?! Or were you in hiding?! I had left the house briefly for an appt. So I decide this time I’m going to open the back door and the front let it choose its exit. Everything is open concept can’t trap it in a room. I text my friends they suggest when it’s flying towards you run out the door. I tried that, little shit hit a U-turn and returns to the same fucking room it flew into initially. So I’m like okay let me clean up! I can’t focus on work I abandoned my work laptop all together (they would have to get in touch with me via postal mail at this point, because the laptop was in the one of the rooms it was ping ponging through) 

The thing about this bird it doesn’t CHIRP/ MAKE A SOUND! Just flaps its wings! So I can’t locate it if I wanted to trap it, because all I hear are fucking wings, flapping through the air!! Scary ass sound! Had it chirped or tweeted I probably wouldn’t be scared shitless, but it DOESN’T. So I hear it flapping around I runaway I can’t deal. Air is flowing through the house from both doors so eventually it leaves. I don’t know when all I know it wasn’t in the house when I had someone come and look early evening around 5/6PM.

Now picture this I’m banging on everything looking like a crazy bitch, broom in hand I’m banging on top of kitchen cabinets, fridge, I’m getting under the couches, on top of the china cabinet all of that! Because fucker you ain’t staying in this house terrorizing me!!! The guy that came to check it out said hey let’s put boxes in front of the fireplace until you get a screen for the top of the chimney. Perfect I fill in some spaces with Styrofoam from the box my work laptop came in. I go banging around one last time before I retreat to my room. Silence, nothing, my body is starting to calm down. 

I’m traumatized at this point because the thing chased me around the house 2x!!! So this morning I’m still shaken! I have to get some stuff from the living room but I stay in my room till afternoon! I do the same thing I did the night prior grabbed the broom and went banging around just in case.

 As soon as late afternoon hits TODAY! The HORROR sounds of WINGS FLAPPING coming down the CHIMNEY!

So I hop up off the couch, abandon work again, and grab the first thing I can and start banging on the box!  I’m screaming, I’m making noise. Not today not tomorrow I can’t do this with you birdie! I get some more Styrofoam reinforce the spaces between the box and the rock fireplace (it’s not a flat surface) so I’m banging around trying to scare it thinking okay you can’t get in anywhere so you should just fly on up this chimney and GTFO!

The little shit hasn’t left!

I have declared psychological warfare! I turned on YouTube and I am playing 48 hours of scary bird sounds! The next is a weird sound that irritates birds. 

In between all this I’m texting my mother what does she suggest?! Feed the bird! Give it some water! She loves birds! I’m like you aren’t getting chased around this house lady! I have calls to lead and attend how do you want me to do that with a bird that doesn’t chirp but it’s wings sound supersonic flying around the house?!

And yes I have looked for a nest I’ve swept beneath and on top of all surfaces there’s nothing that I found. 

Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. My theory is that it’s a baby bird but still like no adult bird came looking for it. I don’t hate birds I actually like them, from a distance! Emphasis on a distance. But this bird it’s just eerie it when it gets in it refuses to leave one particular room/space. I can’t coax it out so the best thing I can think of is to make it inhabitable in the fireplace and inaccessible to my home. 

Do any of you bird lovers/watchers know what type of bird it could be? Or why it doesn’t chirp? Its a black bird with some white feathers, it’s not big like crows/ravens, just a small little black bird. I’m located in the south east of USA. 

Edit: A butterfly flew towards me and I about came out my skin. Soooooo I’m gonna need some time to recover mentally lol this damn bird. 

#bird proofing #bird problems #wildbirds #birds #garden birds #mute birds #bird expert #birdlovers #bird lovers #bird people #usa birds #american birds #bird watching #bird watcher

[wingedjewels]

white-necked jacobin (Florisuga mellivora) 2 by Mike X-d

#Panama #Parque Nacional Soberanía #National park #Bird Watching #Bird Identification #Bird ID #Bird Watcher #hummingbirds #flickr