Our feathered friends, birdbrains, and wingnuts

[Changing4Best]

Nightingale songs

 

[Changing4Best]

There is a sparrow that keeps fluttering at car mirrors and attacking them here! It is hilarious to watch, but I pity the poor little fellow, who thinks his woman is being seduced by another male. I watch him day after day, being puzzled when he flutters behind the mirror and the "enemy" is not there! Then he goes back and starts over. Since we have a parking lot here, he has several mirrors to attack, and flitters from one to the other, over and over again, day after day. I wonder how long he will be able to keep this up!

 

[bellbird]

There is a sparrow that keeps fluttering at car mirrors and attacking them here!

It might be that he is actually catching spiders.
It's a very common behaviour of male sparrows; fluttering their wings quickly to hover in places they find a spider web and picking out the spiders - along fences, under roof awnings, around car mirrors etc.

 

[Changing4Best]

He has been doing it for days, non-stop, so I don't know if that is the case this time or not. Could be, but I kind of doubt it.

 

[Changing4Best]

It was a cloudy, raining winter's day. I saw this. Had to do a painting of it. I was not able to photograph it, due to having been on a fast moving bus at the time I saw it.

 

[HealingInProcess]

Funny birb video

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/aq0qjb

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[Changing4Best]

Sitting outside early in the mornings, I sometimes hear a dozen or so birds singing. I wish I could record it and play it here for all of you!

 

[HealingInProcess]

Sitting outside early in the mornings, I sometimes hear a dozen or so birds singing. I wish I could record it and play it here for all of you!

This happens to me sometimes to! There's flocks of sparrows, robins and cardinals around here. Also some eagles.

 

[Changing4Best]

Robins are here! Spring has arrived!!! I watched today as two males fought just about to the death over some territory and a female. It was awesome to watch as well as dreadful. They seemed very equally matched. Neither won. I'd guesstimate that it was a stalemate.

 

[Friday]

Because this lot will probably get a kick out of it...

Someone has managed to get the lid off of my mom’s 5o pound tin of birdseed. I suspect the crows, as they teamwork various projects together, and the squirrels just aren’t that organized.

There is currently a teeny tiny songbird Scrooge McDucking in the birdseed! Swimming around, and shaking off like a dust bath, eating a few seeds, swimming around again :hilarious:

I figured maaaaaaybe he was too heavy too fly, so I stood up to investigate, and zip! Off he went. Okay. You fly fine. Did I put the lid back on? :sneaky: Of course not. And he’s back. This is one ecstatically happy bird. Just swimming around in the birdseed. He’s cracking me up something fierce.

 

[bellbird]

Someone has managed to get the lid off of my mom’s 5o pound tin of birdseed.

Swimming around, and shaking off like a dust bath, eating a few seeds, swimming around again :hilarious:

Omg, Tweeter would love this!!!

The first morning after we brought Tweeter home, we woke up to the sounds of a very small bird (he was a wee fluffer back then) kicking the seeds from his seed dish out behind him (action: very much like a dog, digging). Until there was just a layer a few seeds deep in the dish and he would get in there and roll around in them. Like 360 degree rolling; either front- or log-.

Such a ratbag, but the happiest cutest one ever.

 

[bellbird]

Bird of the Year 2019
New Zealand Bird of the Year 2019 voting is now open :cool:
Think it's pretty obvious who I voted for
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