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
Comments
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.
Emma Jones
2020-03-19 08:50:22 +0000 UTCLincoln’s Sparrow and Great Horned Owl, to name the extremes
morgan witthoft
2020-03-18 23:23:30 +0000 UTCWe'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.
Jessica Stalvey
2020-03-18 21:32:55 +0000 UTCI 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.
Luke Thies
2020-03-18 21:27:04 +0000 UTCWith 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.
Fletchabirb
2020-03-18 21:07:35 +0000 UTCHummingbirds in March, that's pretty great
False Knees
2020-03-18 20:20:06 +0000 UTCIn 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.
Francisca Kesten
2020-03-18 20:19:15 +0000 UTCMy 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!
Heather
2020-03-18 20:18:30 +0000 UTCThere'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
2020-03-18 20:15:57 +0000 UTCOne 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!
Julia H
2020-03-18 20:14:22 +0000 UTC
