Wildlife Around Your Home (post pics if you've got 'em!)

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    I recently took up "birding".  I haven't been taking too many pics but I might change that so I can post on here.

    Anyone else into birds, lol?!?
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I recently took up "birding".  I haven't been taking too many pics but I might change that so I can post on here.

    Anyone else into birds, lol?!?

    I've been a casual "birder" since the late 80's but I'm not nearly as into to it as the woman who got me started back then (Ex-wife but still friends), or another few friends who are really into it. 

    We have the Sibley's bird guide as well as a Peterson's and a few others that focus on Sierra Mountain and California birds but mainly I use the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America for identifying, the book my ex got me started using.  In the back of the book is an index/ check list for keeping track of birds spotted.  My "life list" (birds I have identified) is a modest 162 species.  I'd have to travel more broadly to add many to that list, but it's a decent list.

    Anyway, yeah, lots of fun.  Let us know how it progresses for you!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    brianlux said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I recently took up "birding".  I haven't been taking too many pics but I might change that so I can post on here.

    Anyone else into birds, lol?!?

    I've been a casual "birder" since the late 80's but I'm not nearly as into to it as the woman who got me started back then (Ex-wife but still friends), or another few friends who are really into it. 

    We have the Sibley's bird guide as well as a Peterson's and a few others that focus on Sierra Mountain and California birds but mainly I use the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America for identifying, the book my ex got me started using.  In the back of the book is an index/ check list for keeping track of birds spotted.  My "life list" (birds I have identified) is a modest 162 species.  I'd have to travel more broadly to add many to that list, but it's a decent list.

    Anyway, yeah, lots of fun.  Let us know how it progresses for you!
    I have an app for my phone, Merlin Bird ID.  It's great.  Really helps w identifying the birds.  I'm only at 14 right now but I haven't bothered to do the common birds like pigeons and seagulls yet.

    One of the cooler birds I have seen so far is called a Hooded Merganser.  Look that one up, lol!
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    I took ornithology as a summer college course for what I thought would be an easy A to knock out my science requirement. It was the absolute worst summer of my life. Every morning up at 4 to take a trip to some swampy ass woods with some creepy professor. We also had to stuff a dead bird.

    I wound up writing a horror screenplay about it for catharsis.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    dankind said:
    I took ornithology as a summer college course for what I thought would be an easy A to knock out my science requirement. It was the absolute worst summer of my life. Every morning up at 4 to take a trip to some swampy ass woods with some creepy professor. We also had to stuff a dead bird.

    I wound up writing a horror screenplay about it for catharsis.

    Bummer!
    I took advance field biology in college in my senior year and it was a really tough course.  The prof was an ornithologist- a damn good one who was published and well respected but he was also a bit crazy.  I always attributed that to his having spent many years in the lab working with chemicals used in bird taxidermy.  But he really know his stuff, that's for sure.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,791
    edited March 2021
    This blue tongue lizard has started hanging out in our garden. He appears from under the fence most days and just sits there, working on his tan!

    The next-door neighbour’s cat keeps taking swipes at it, but this guy isn’t taking any shit from her!


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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,372

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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    goldrush said:
    This blue tongue lizard has started hanging out in our garden. He appears from under the fence most days and just sits there, working on his tan!

    The next-door neighbour’s cat keeps taking swipes at it, but it his guy isn’t taking any shit from her!


    This reminds me of the alligator lizards we used to catch in socal.  Very Cool.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    goldrush said:
    This blue tongue lizard has started hanging out in our garden. He appears from under the fence most days and just sits there, working on his tan!

    The next-door neighbour’s cat keeps taking swipes at it, but it his guy isn’t taking any shit from her!



    Cool!  I love lizards!

    mickeyrat said:


    Beauties! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    I wish I had photos, but two great ones yesterday.  First, in the AM we heard first then saw a huge flock of Sand Hill Cranes way up high.  The sound they make as a flock is gorgeous!

    Then later, on out walk, we saw a huge flock of wild turkeys in a field.  I counted 44! 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,706
    ^^heard those once before, sand hill cranes. Way up high. Heard them before I saw them. Very unique gurgling sound if I remember correctly. Nature is amazing and thankful for being able to tune into it all.

    For me it pulls me back to what's important.
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,706

  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    ^ awwww SweetLou
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
    Gurgle Gurgle
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Loujoe said:


    Mmmmm! Hors d'oeuvres!

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    I’ll add this in the Bird thread too. Out at silver point each club here on Long Island there was a Snowy Owl sighting. One seems to come around every year and I’ve made two attempts to find it but came up short. 
    I went out yesterday and found a she. Female snowy owl. A rare birding treat. 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,706
    ^Fantastic bird to see! Think of the distance they travel. Thrilled for you!!
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 14,892
    Thats amazing Chris 


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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Loujoe said:
    ^Fantastic bird to see! Think of the distance they travel. Thrilled for you!!
    lastexitlondon said:
    Thats amazing Chris 
    I was shocked and very excited to find her.  I called my GF and whispered to her as I saw it hoping that she wouldn't be spooked even though I was pretty far, lol.

    Thanks you two!
  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    Loujoe said:

    Adorable!

    tempo_n_groove said:
    I’ll add this in the Bird thread too. Out at silver point each club here on Long Island there was a Snowy Owl sighting. One seems to come around every year and I’ve made two attempts to find it but came up short. 
    I went out yesterday and found a she. Female snowy owl. A rare birding treat. 
    Awesome!  I’m thrilled for you.  Great find.
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