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PaperclipPerfector  11mo ago (text post)   2348 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 9, 2023

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What’s your favorite bird?

I’ve been watching the local Great Blue Herons. Majestic, yet goofy. Love ‘em.

I still want to go somewhere I can spot a Green Heron. Basically all the same advantages, but they tuck in their neck and look like a completely different bird. This amuses me.

I like my local pileated woodpecker. Comes to the feeder and yells.

Recently, I saw a few waxwings. Never seen them before in person, so that was cool.

Bird I know we have locally, but I don't see as much of as I'd like: plover types (killdeer, etc).

Bird we don't have locally that I'd like to see: woodcock.

A good, thorough answer!

I happened to see a pileated or maybe downy woodpecker in the only nearby conifers. Very neat.

Waxwings are also excellent. I can only second your desire to see the stilt-type birds, which I find incredibly charming.

You might have seen a Hairy Woodpecker. They're about halfway between Downys and Pileateds in size, but look exactly like Downys in all other aspects.

Woodpeckers in general are just nice. We've also got some red-bellieds, and a Northern Flicker or two, which I believe are adjacent to woodpeckers, but ours just seem to enjoy throwing mulch halfway across the yard as a daily activity.

We used to see lots of hairy woodpeckers in my area, but the council cut down the woods, so now we just see lots of hairy peckers.

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