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Barnyard Buddies:  Bird Watching-  |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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 Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 04:28:49 AM
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When I am out at the barn riding Tala I have noticed there are TONS of beautiful birds in the area. So far I have been able to see and identify a Red Winged Blackbird, but have seen at least 20 species. Due to the distraction of training a green horse I haven't been as observant as I would like but I am going to keep looking!
Anyone else a bird watcher or just enjoy seeing them?
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
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YiberryYadeeKarin
True Blue Farmgirl
343 Posts
Karin
Spokane Valley
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 12:28:14 PM
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Alee,
I LOVE watching birds, whether they're in my yard or out and about! I used to be good about putting food out for them and enjoyed all different kinds. My favorites are California Quail! They are so commical, how they run and suddenly realize they can fly! I've had all kinds of birds in my yard from magpies to hawks, robins, goldfinches, grosbeaks, flickers, downy woodpeckers, chickadees, and more. I have lots of great bushes and trees for birds and garden with them in mind.
Right now I'm going crazy with the "cravens" (crow or raven).
I'm not all that great at identifying them all but I sure love watching them!
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
2914 Posts |
Posted - Jun 03 2011 : 8:56:26 PM
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Once I had a "conversation" with a Pileated woodpecker. It was tapping on a tree trunk and kept craning its neck around to look at me. I started tapping on a wooden fence and it tapped back! It was so comical to watch--he seemed as curious about me as I was about him!
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
Visit my blog at http://www.farmerinthebelle.blogspot.com/ |
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naturemaiden
True Blue Farmgirl
2569 Posts
Connie - Farmgirl #673
Hoosick Falls
NY
USA
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LeslieAnne
True Blue Farmgirl
71 Posts
LeslieAnne
Shallowater
Texas
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - Jun 06 2011 : 07:53:08 AM
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I've been a birdwatcher since my son, at 7 years old, made me a birdfeeder out of a milk jug in Cub Scouts... (he's 36 now).. love those little critters!..
Is it okay if I plug my forum over at yuku?.. Hummingbird Watchers Club http://hummingbirdwatchersclub.yuku.com/directory...
LeslieAnne...high desert of westTexas |
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Tina Kay
True Blue Farmgirl
107 Posts
Tina Kay
Deary
ID
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 10:47:41 AM
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I love bird wathching. I have to agree with Connie, chickadees are my favorites. We dont have them here, but I have seen them on trips.
I really got serious about identifying birds in Oct. '10. And have been enjoy all birds since.
Tina Kay
www.harmonyhollow.blogspot.com
Happy it is, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching it’s daily growth.
J.W. von Goethe (the Sorrows of Werther)
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
ID
USA
3557 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 1:27:51 PM
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This was the last new bird at the feeder. A Lazuli Bunting.
Sooo pretty
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
2914 Posts |
Posted - Jun 07 2011 : 6:48:23 PM
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Very pretty bird! We have indigo buntings around here.
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
Visit my blog at http://www.farmerinthebelle.blogspot.com/ |
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french08
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Kim
Sharon Springs
NY
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 2:12:37 PM
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Oh my Gosh! I just found 3 tiny baby birds right outside my veggie garden! What in the world??!! There was nothing there but dirt. I carefully scooped them up with a garden tool and placed them in a nest my hubby found for me a while back. Now what?
~~Kim French~~
Farmgirl Sister #2997
Farmgirl at Heart From The Start |
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prariehawk
True Blue Farmgirl
2914 Posts
Cindy
2914 Posts |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 6:56:11 PM
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Kim--if you secure the nest in a tree, they should be safe and the parent birds will return to feed them. sometimes they fall, or get blown, out of the nest, and sometimes the fledgling babies spend some time on the ground before they can fly. Do they have all their feathers? It's likely that the parent birds are still around, and they'll continue to feed them on the ground. It's hard to keep baby birds alive if you're hand-feeding them--they have to be fed OFTEN and different birds have specialized diets. Momma and daddy bird are probably worried about their babies....
Cindy
"Vast floods can't quench love, no matter what love did/ Rivers can't drown love, no matter where love's hid"--Sinead O'Connor
"In many ways, you don't just live in the country, it lives inside you"--Ellen Eilers
Visit my blog at http://www.farmerinthebelle.blogspot.com/ |
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StrawHouseRanch
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Paula
Holt
Missouri
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 11:57:08 AM
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My favorites are the hummingbirds. A bluebird had a nest in the house on the fence in the part of the yard where the cats hang out. The evening that the babies learned how to fly was quite stressful. I thought one was a gone-er when Clyde pounced on it, but I shooed him away before any damage was done. The baby managed to fly to safety I believe. Talk about motivation to succeed!!
Paula
Farmgirl Sister #3090
A Beehive is the ultimate Home Sweet Home
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Tea Lady
True Blue Farmgirl
645 Posts
Lorraine
Morris
IL
USA
645 Posts |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 5:13:02 PM
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My DH and I love bird watching. I recently got this shot of a flock of sandhill cranes fly over my house. 
Lorraine
(aka Tea Lady)
Farmgirl #1819
www.birdsandteas.com |
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Mariebelle
True Blue Farmgirl
54 Posts
Marie
Clarkston
WA
USA
54 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2011 : 09:57:31 AM
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I like birds too, my husband not so much, because they are messy. A friend of mine made me a Bluebird bird house, but some other bird moved in. I took the old nest out this year in hopes of getting blue birds this year- i don't think any moved in. I have some humming bird feeders out, but i seem to only get one bird every once in a while. We get lots of gold finches at that feeder. used to have quail in the neighborhood, but i think we now have more cats, so all the quail have left a few years ago. LOTS of robins and doves (grayish-look like pigeons) and some small cute brown birds. I guess i should take time and look all these up, i like to watch them and see the pretty different colors. Wish i could keep them from messing up my deck!
Born in the wrong era...
Marie |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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CMac
True Blue Farmgirl
1074 Posts
Connie
Ashland City
TN
USA
1074 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 07:01:34 AM
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I had to research to find out what a bird is recently. She is "fighting/flirting" with her reflection in my craft room window at the farmhouse. It has been going on for weeks now. At first I thought she was a juvenile cardinal because I could not get a look at her being still. Then I heard her singing and knew it was not a cardinal. I finally saw her resting on a power line. Turns out she is a scarlet taninger. I've not seen one here before.
My parents always had feeders and the bird books and binoculars were always on the window sill. Same at my house. We love to watch! We put up bluebird houses scattered around the farm. We had one family the first year. Now all our houses are full every spring. Put them up and they will come!
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
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Tea Lady
True Blue Farmgirl
645 Posts
Lorraine
Morris
IL
USA
645 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 4:17:44 PM
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Its amazing how long they'll flail themselves into the window - over and over again... We had a Baltimore Oriole that did that one year. I thought he would knock himself silly.
We saw a Kingfisher dive through the air today and it looked like he was aiming for a humming bird perched on a windvane???? We've never seen anything like that before - maybe it was just a coincidence, but it sure looked like he was out for that hummer... Fortunately the hummer was fine. :O)
Lorraine
(aka Tea Lady)
Farmgirl #1819
www.birdsandteas.com |
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