Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?
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Had a screech owl right outside our kitchen windows the other night. Couldn't see him but sure could hear him. First time we've ever had one - I had to use google to even figure out what I was hearing. The cats were SUPER freaked out - it is definitely a spooky thing to hear in the dark.
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Just saved a life. And deprived someone of dinner.
Went outside and heard a bird screeching. Looked over to my neighbor's front lawn and saw a Cooper's hawk on the lawn. Looked like it was holding something down with its talons. I walked towards it and it took off to the south. A now-free Northern flicker took off to the north.
Human messing with nature.
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I wish the hawks here would go after the rats I keep seeing on the bird cam. We've stopped feeding, and the dogs aggressively chase them down. We will not be using rat poison.
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Crow in our native oak tree had a lot to say
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This retention pond with the grasses is next to the Aldi parking lot.
Link to videoAnyone have a clue who the noisemakers are? We thought it might be birds but there wasn't a single one to be seen. I even tossed a small stone into the grasses to see if I could flush anyone out. Nada.
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View out of our living room window:
Both hawks took off when I went out the front door to try to get better photos. The one left its squirrel tartare on the driveway. One of the birds flew back into my neighbor's tree and has been looking at the carcass remnants for the last half hour. I wish he/she would get a hawky bag and take the leftovers home to eat.
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@andyd You know, I'm not entirely certain, but I think they are immature Cooper's hawks. All the photos I could take were of the backs of the birds (from inside the house and through the mini-blinds!), and most of the photos I see online are of the chest and face! But I did see a few online pics of youngsters, and they had those light splotches on the back.
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Red foxes here in Staten Island recently. Wild turkeys have been here for years.
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In a nearby suburb, a critter does what it was born to do.
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Avian visitors showing up with the warming temps.
American robin, bluejay, cardinal, white-breasted nuthatch, juncos, a pair of mourning doves (yay!), and something I've never seen before, a brown creeper.
Didn't have my bird cam set up so sadly no pics or video.
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A brown creeper!
I had to search, anticipating some toilet humour, instead got lots of running shoes
Lovely forest birds, ours is called a treecreeper and looks identical to me. Usually shy, always seems to favour the hidden side of a tree.
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A brown creeper!
I had to search, anticipating some toilet humour, instead got lots of running shoesLovely forest birds, ours is called a treecreeper and looks identical to me. Usually shy, always seems to favour the hidden side of a tree.
@AndyD said in Faunascrolling--what's visiting where you are?:
I had to search, anticipating some toilet humour
The creeper was on the tree the same time a nuthatch was, so at first I thought I was seeing two nuthatches; they have similar tree-climbing movements. Nuthatches move down a tree head first, though, and the one bird was only going upwards and then flying off and coming back. I finally got out my binoculars and got a better look at both of them and realized one was a newbie to my yard. Apparently my area is part of its winter habitat.
Oh, and we have had a ton of woodpeckers, too. Northern flicker and a couple of red-bellied woodpeckers.
I used to feed the birds during but stopped many years ago. On a whim I picked up a feeder at Costco a couple of weeks ago. It was on a closeout at my warehouse for $25.
https://www.costco.com/p/-/solar-smart-bird-feeder/4000314026
Biggest problem for me is feeder placement. There aren't many places a) where I can get a wifi signal in the yard and b) where the squirrels can't get to the feeder. Lots of trees and shrubs and those rodents are so clever when it comes to figuring out ways to jump up, down, or sideways to get to the seed.
If you haven't seen them, check out Mark Rober's series on squirrels. Here's the first one:
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American eagle in my friend's yard, just a few blocks away. Not a super great video, bird can be seen a bit better if you're full screen on a laptop or monitor.
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