This guy was hanging around yesterday. I think he was looking to snack on a pigeon, or maybe one of the little chickens. I drove right up to him in the truck. He didn't even move when I set the air brakes.
We have a ton of the normal brown chickadees at work. They like to eat up the spilled grain near the grain bins. They are the plumpest chickadees I've ever seen. If I set really still in the Jeep at lunch, they will fly in the open door and perch on the seat and look around. They will also get...
A great blue heron has set up shop at our pong this week. Mallards are around, too. A friend had a heron come to his place last year and it ate every frog in town.
I make up my own names for birds. There was a brown bird with a red head flicking sawdust next to the mill the other day, so he was a Red Headed Brown Sawdust Flicker.:lol:
I'll have to ask my mother for the link, but she uses a website that I think is put up by Cornell. It's supposed to be very good.
edit: I think this is the link: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/studying/birdsongs/
I haven't seen a killdeer in years. I used to see them all the time doing the wing thing. Maybe I'll have to try walking down the road instead or roaring around on a tractor or something.
I had a pheasant at the mill a couple of years ago. I had no idea what was making the racket until I stalked him in the log piles.:lol: I got about ten feet from him a couple of times. They are a lot bigger than I thought they were.
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