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Out for a walk
🕑 Added 2020-03-18 20:11:05 +0000 UTCLast week when I went out to get bread, I was practically tripping over birds! In the space of about 20 minutes I saw ELEVEN (!!) species of birds! (!!!) Most of them winter in the area and none of them are particularly rare, but I was sort of floored by the biodiversity that can exist within a city. It also made me realize that I pay a lot more attention to life around me than I used to.
I saw:
Chickadees
Crows
Hairy woodpecker
White-breasted nuthatch
Robins (a tree full of them! welcome back!)
Red-bellied woodpecker (wow factor)
[Downy woodpecker]
[Canada geese]
[Mallards]
[Pigeons]
[Cardinals]
[ ] - not drawn here
and since then, I've seen: juncos, pintails, the resident raven, mergansers, house sparrows, blue jays, turkey vultures, a little house wren, countless starlings, I heard a red-winged blackbird, mourning doves, ring-billed gulls, red-tailed hawks!
What birds have you seen lately? And if you haven't seen any–think about going out to have a look, if you are able to! It's a certified stress-reliever and my favourite solo activity.
- Joshua
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Emma Jones
Went for a walk to the local park with my daughter yesterday (park is generous, more like an old quarry) and encountered several loud red robins.
morgan witthoft
Lincoln’s Sparrow and Great Horned Owl, to name the extremes
Jessica Stalvey
We're going for daily walks now. I've seen geese, a mallard, a blue jay, some tiny unidentified birds, and a type of duck I'd never seen before.
Luke Thies
I went out for a walk this morning to ease the boredom, as my college has switched to online classes only due to you know what. I saw my first if the season Pine Warbler and a Red Fox! Theres a nature preserve that I love that used to be a nuclear facility in the 50's and is now a wonderful nature preserve with the most diversity of birds in the county! I've even seen a bobcat and have made "friends" with a skunk there.
Fletchabirb
With all of this social distancing, I'm grateful that there's a hike I can go to within walking distance of my home. I've seen lots of dark eyed juncos, California scrub jays, mourning doves, a few ruby crowned kinglets, lesser goldfinches, hummingbirds, and ravens, and a titmouse here and there. Additionally, over the past month there are some birds of prey in the area that I've heard more than seen, including a Cooper's hawk, red-shouldered hawk, great horned owl, and western screech owl.
False Knees
Hummingbirds in March, that's pretty great
Francisca Kesten
In front of my apartment there's this garden, with a huge magnolia. It's blooming now (a tad too early). I saw the happiest blackbird dancing on a branch. Mourning doves, eurasian magpies, the usual bunch of true /old world sparrows. Just beautiful. Bisous from lockdown France. There will be a LOT more of birdwatching from the windows.
Heather
My feeders pretty regularly have lesser goldfinches, house finches, house sparrows, rosy faced lovebirds, Inca doves, mourning doves, curve-billed thrashers, Anna's hummingbirds, and a Gila woodpecker who thinks he's a hummingbird. Plus the requisite big fat pigeons and collared doves, and the mockingbirds, starlings, and kestrels that hang out on the wires and the ravens I hear croaking every so often. I haven't been out to bird in a bit, but it's on my to-do list once the rain stops!
Julia H
There's a chickadee that *might* be building a nest by my office window, a bewick's wren that loves signing to me in the morning, and a pair of hummingbirds who have been frequenting our bird feeder. Further out, there's a red-tailed hawk who likes hanging out in a tree about a block from us (though poor dude is getting hassled by crows a lot lately). We had a flicker and a downy woodpecker in a tree nearby the other day and I about LOST MY MIND. There's so much life around if you look for it...!
Julia H
One of the perks about working from home is getting familiar with the birds that hang out RIGHT BY MY APARTMENT, even in a pretty crowded/dense city!
