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

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  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 23,027
    lastexitlondon said:
    What bird is that. I wish we had such beautiful birds. 
    I did see a kestrel killing a mouse about 10 feet from me on a golf course last week
    Pretty sure that is a BlueJay
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  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,026
    edited June 2024
    Beautiful . We have a jay that is smaller and pretty. But only has one blue feather on each wing. That this looks great


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  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 23,027
    lastexitlondon said:
    Beautiful . We have a jay that is smaller and pretty. But only has one blue feather on each wing. That this looks great
    They are beautiful looking birds, but they are very mean!
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    2009 - Toronto
    2010 - Buffalo
    2011 - Toronto 1&2
    2013 - London, Pittsburgh, Buffalo
    2014 - Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit
    2016 - Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Ottawa, Toronto 1
    2018 - Fenway 1&2
    2022 - Hamilton, Toronto
    2023 - Chicago 1&2
    2024 - Las Vegas 1&2
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 NEW YORK Posts: 11,189
    lastexitlondon said:
    What bird is that. I wish we had such beautiful birds. 
    I did see a kestrel killing a mouse about 10 feet from me on a golf course last week
    Blue jay, yes they can be super territorial … I learned the hard way cleaning my gutters… was up on the ladder and o guess near their nest without knowing a few buzzed me, real close… few inches from my noggin. They have some girth to them 😜

    I live on the north shore of Long Island, just down the street we have a few American Bald Eagles that appeared a few years ago …. Photographers galore everyday, it’s majestic when I drive near the harbor and they take flight over the water… it’s beautiful . 
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 NEW YORK Posts: 11,189
    A few pics
    one is young, no white cap yet

    ill look in my phone later for some flight shots, think I have a few
  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,026
    Birds of prey are my absolute favourite creature 


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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,998
    Wow..super pictures 
  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,551
    Those eagles are beautiful.
  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 NEW YORK Posts: 11,189
    There’s a beautiful road ( fort Salonga for you LIers) and I take it to my office, it’s treelined rd and some days if traffic slows, I see them fly over my car and it’s like holy shit did that just happen 


  • CROJAM95
    CROJAM95 NEW YORK Posts: 11,189
    The young one was taken at my boss house, right in front.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,022
    Blue Jays are absolutely, 100% assholes. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Blue Jays are absolutely, 100% assholes. 

    Stellar jays are rather obnoxious, especially while camping.  I figured out a long time ago some of the jay/English translation.  The phrse they use most often around campers early in the morning is "Wake the f#ck up, asshole!"

    On the other hand, scrub jays are a lot mellower and grey jays are just plain sweet birds!

    Scrub jay:
    California Scrub-Jay Identification All About Birds Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    Grey jay:
    Canada Jay Identification All About Birds Cornell Lab of Ornithology



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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,022
    Blue Jays are known for killing other birds for absolutely no reason at all. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,998
    Darwins theory. I know nature seems cruel to us for sure. The idea is the stronger sneaky ones get away and live to breed other smarty pants birds. Ya know.
    Something like that. 


  • lastexitlondon
    lastexitlondon Posts: 15,026
    edited June 2024
    Circle of life . Lots of birds kill other birds and steal eggs all sorts of mischief.  Nature is a mutha F



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  • McGruff
    McGruff Island Of The Goon Posts: 51

  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,998
    Awesome birds
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 40,022
    Loujoe said:
    Darwins theory. I know nature seems cruel to us for sure. The idea is the stronger sneaky ones get away and live to breed other smarty pants birds. Ya know.
    Something like that. 


    lastexitlondon said:
    Circle of life . Lots of birds kill other birds and steal eggs all sorts of mischief.  Nature is a mutha F

    my understanding of nature is that animals kill for reasons, like territory, or food, or competition of some kind. I've read that Blue Jays basically do it for sport. Which seems like asshole-y behaviour to me. I haven't heard of other animals doing this. 
    Your boos mean nothing to me, for I have seen what makes you cheer



  • CarryTheZero
    CarryTheZero Posts: 3,551
    My mom used to have a couple of wrens build a nest every year and have some babies. A blue jay would always try to swoop in and either bother the babies or try to take food. Parents were pissed! My mom would tent the hanging flower pot in foil and sometimes sit out there on her patio to deter the blue jay. She did not like that bird!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,778
    McGruff said:


    Pileated Woodpeckers, marvelous!  I've only seen one ever.  How cool!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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