tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post3341885651165909018..comments2024-01-03T21:18:04.198-08:00Comments on In Your Neighborhood: Come Fly With The South Sound Bird NerdHigh School Confidentialhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17350238752693393750noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-69971299756307632342008-06-12T19:54:00.000-07:002008-06-12T19:54:00.000-07:00Sometimes early in the morning, when I am out walk...Sometimes early in the morning, when I am out walking the dog before work, I hear woodpeckers and the occasional owl. It is joy to be greeted by the birds!Stephanie Friezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317117338063884811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-54029934398724721992008-06-12T19:28:00.000-07:002008-06-12T19:28:00.000-07:00Surprised to see a pair of gray ringneck doves on ...Surprised to see a pair of gray ringneck doves on my deck railing today. I think that's what they are,anyway. Has anyone else seen this type of bird? Is it a common bird here?<BR/>Also have a lot of flickers, woodpeckers, finches, grossbeaks, towees, tree swallows, junkos. I am becoming an enthusiatic birder!Kris Assinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02159429572522008752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-38243655709870916722008-05-08T17:57:00.000-07:002008-05-08T17:57:00.000-07:00Oh, Lorraine, how I eny your show!Oh, Lorraine, how I eny your show!Stephanie Friezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317117338063884811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-72865980435483862642008-05-08T16:13:00.000-07:002008-05-08T16:13:00.000-07:00Hi Bloggers (or rather Birds of a Feather Flock To...Hi Bloggers (or rather Birds of a Feather Flock Together)! <BR/><BR/>Emerald Princess, your robins sound delightful. Couldn't you just watch that all day and not get bored with it? Joseph, with your view, the birds much be super cool. And Lorraine, I know from personal experience, that your neighborhood is loaded with birds--it's a real treat to come over the bridge for me. <BR/><BR/>Right now I am sad that my little hummers (I have three different ones, all Anna's Hummingbirds, 2 females and one male) have not been by this afternoon!Kim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05256817929710524024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-36822086302908986432008-05-08T15:59:00.000-07:002008-05-08T15:59:00.000-07:00We have the purple martins back, white and gold-cr...We have the purple martins back, white and gold-crowned sparrows, the hummers all around the back deck, the red-headed sapsucker and the flickers in the treeline...not to mention the smaller hawks, crows and ravens. Down by the water it's a beautiful combination every day...scoters, mallards, grebes, herons...and of course the stars of the show...the osprey and eagles. My spyglass, scope and bird book are always at the ready!Lorraine Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01116210981761633646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-82041387266678182132008-05-08T15:38:00.000-07:002008-05-08T15:38:00.000-07:00There are crews of blackbirds that come hunting in...There are crews of blackbirds that come hunting in my neighborhood in the early morning and the evening...<BR/>every now and then, some gaudily dressed robin comes parading around our second story windows...<BR/>some strange birds have decided to nest in the flu connected our two dryers in our laundry room<BR/>and out of the corner of my eye, every now and then I catch a humming bird hovering near our bird feeder...<BR/><BR/>just like this post, the birds are sooooo coolJosephMcGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13059894814761761857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-34676921500614373532008-05-08T13:41:00.000-07:002008-05-08T13:41:00.000-07:00Directly out my window is a tree that is home to a...Directly out my window is a tree that is home to a veritable flock of robins. They provide continuous entertainment as they balance gingerly on the telephone cable that stretches across our backyard and proudly perch on the tree branches displaying the latest worm catch dangling from their beaks. The babies begin to chirp their sweet songs seemingly before the first visible rays of light each morning.Jaynie Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18030744076443715894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-45332650237177327222008-05-08T13:29:00.000-07:002008-05-08T13:29:00.000-07:00Oh, how odd. Weird experience. When we were in Haw...Oh, how odd. Weird experience. When we were in Hawaii recently, I saw a bunch of wild turkeys. Apparently they go around in harems (one male, and about a half a dozen or so females). That was weird and they were weird. They came out of nowhere. Not quite Hitchcockian, though. <BR/><BR/>I think crows are interesting. They are survivors and they seem quite fearless.Kim Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05256817929710524024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4456617944315372118.post-91144128469447000582008-05-08T11:57:00.000-07:002008-05-08T11:57:00.000-07:00We get robins and Steller's Jays, but my favorite ...We get robins and Steller's Jays, but my favorite are the crows. I know lots of folks don't like them, but they are so smart and help keep us picked up.<BR/><BR/>I had a weird experience a month or so ago at our house at the coast. I came out of the house to get my suitcase out of the car and seagulls were circling around in our little side street and then landing on the roof and fence of the house across the street. I thought of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds came to find immediately. A couple of crows were in the frey (we have a crow tree behind a neighbor's house), but they landed in the street and stared at the gulls right along with me. It was very weird. There were back the next morning, but seem to have found other people to freak out.Stephanie Friezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04317117338063884811noreply@blogger.com