Grand Birdy Station

[solarbird]

Birds around the feeder right now:

1. White belly, robin-red flanks, black back, black wings with white diamond shapes; they're gorgeous, whatever they are.

2. We're also Finch Central.

3. Lots of woodpeckers; woodpeckers who have found the metal chimney on the roof and like it way too much. GOOD MORNING HERE IS YOUR FIRE ALARM oh wait stupid flicker

4. A black-headed finch with light grey belly, black stripe at wing-edge, darker tannish grey above that, and then a reddish-tan back.

5. Eastern robins, I think.

6. Light grey belly, grey head, brown wings with hints of black stripes.

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Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

PICTURES, MUST HAVE PICTURES

Number four might be dark-eyed juncos.

For some reason, the last couple of years the Flickers haven't pounded on our rain gutters. I guess they found better acoustics elsewhere. They still show up to eat the suet and peck at their reflections, though.

[solarbird]

My digital camera broke. (Got knocked onto the ground at the garden show. ;_;) It only focuses in wide-angle mode now. Otherwise: you betcha!

I want a good digital camera. Maybe in the summer. Or hell, maybe I can set up the film camera. But that's not exactly quick.

[firni.livejournal.com]

Wait! You're an artist... DRAW the birds for me! ;)

p.s.

[firni.livejournal.com]

I thought my fuschias were dead but I saw green sprouts. THEY'RE ALIVE! ALIIIIIIIIVE!!!!

[aerialscribe.livejournal.com]

Re: woodpeckers.....it's their mating call. Just think, lotsa woodpecker sex, happy hatchings, and this year about 20 yearlings pecking on your metal chimney!

Yay for bird sex!

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

You know my woodpecker / metal chimney story, right?

[firni.livejournal.com]

My cousin had acorn woodpeckers drilling holes in his cabin, so he went out (on the advice of another cousin) and bought one of those fancy, carved wooden owls.

The woodpecker quite enjoyed filling up that fake owl with acorns.

[solarbird]

I know that you had a woodpecker that decided the metal flashing out there was t3h best thing ev4.

[kensaro.livejournal.com]

I used to have woodpeckers outside the window of my student appartment.
Sodding way to wake up.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

You're shrewd, petty, and evil? I'm skurred

[solarbird]

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<かいじょうのばか！>
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<fuck OFF you stupid bird>
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<I DO NOT CARE ABOUR YOUR SEX LIFE fucking flickers fuck OFF!>

[deneethe.livejournal.com]

"White belly, robin-red flanks, black back, black wings with white diamond shapes; they're gorgeous, whatever they are."
Probably a Rufous-Sided Towhee. According to "Birds of North America", my favorite field guide, "Common in brush, heavy undergrowth, wood margins and hedgerows. Note the rufous sides, white belly and the long rounded tail with it's large white spots. Female differs from the male only in replacement of of black by brown. In the West, the back is spotted with white...The iris of the adult male is red in most of North America, but may be white or orange in the Southeast, iris of immature is brown..."
Very striking looking bird!

Boids

[(Anonymous)]

A woodpecker used to hammer on the metal shade around the light outside the house when I lived in Wilmore..maybe woodpeckers are just possums with feathers...Scott