What birds do you have in your yard?

[short bus president]

I don't know any of 'em by their proper names. I have a jibbity bird, who sings "jibbity jibbity jibbity" over and over again, and a whataweenie bird who sings "whataweenie whataweenie" repeatedly. There's also a Horshack bird who sings "oooooooo! oooooooo! ooooooooo!" and that I suspect may actually be an owl...

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

1. Don't forget that stupid rooster who WON'T. SHUT. UP!!

x(

[amazona]

2. your owl is a morning dove

Nah, I'm just kidding. But check around for a dove if you are new to birding. Where do you live? Could even be a Eurasian Collared Dove.

There's a birder in New Orleans who has had over 180 different species in his yard. I'm about half that but I plead a tiny yard.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Blue jays, Mockingbirds, and the occasional Cardinal

The Mockingbirds are freaking out the cats right now; dive bombing the felines like crazy because they have babies in their nests.

[purr]

4. I have about 5 gold finches on my feeder...

Couple grackles on the ground and looks like only one dove.

[LaurenG]

5. lolol what a weenie and with that * picture.

I have cardinals and finch and mourning doves and alot of rascally robins. I love your bus picture.

[ScrewyRabbit]

6. Lots

Acorn woodpeckers, stellar jays, thrushes, juncos, grosbeaks -- and those are just the ones I know!

I can hear owls and hawks on occasion, but I rarely ever see them.

[Dudley_DUright]

7. We just put up a humming bird feeder and have been

getting lots of ....

humming birds. :-)

[amazona]

9. I love hummingbird feeders

Lots of action and no seed hull trash on the ground.

[mike_c]

11. if you have cats it's great fun to lower the feeders about an inch...

...a day until, well, carnage ensues. The cats love it, and without an occasional culling you could lose an eye in my backyard. :evilgrin:

[BikeWriter]

21. Excuse me? I am a bird lover reluctantly fostering feral cats...

in my home. Perhaps you'd care to be civil.

[mike_c]

22. it was a joke....

Sheesh.

[BikeWriter]

24. Thank you. It was a rude, crude, and socially irresponsible joke....

In my opinion, of course. I'm sure you would not appreciate me making that sort of joke about the feline lives I'm caring for. Would you?

[mike_c]

29. with all due respect....

I'm just not wound that tightly. See my comments earlier today regarding cats and microwave ovens.... And for the record, I POSITIVELY LOVE cats. I'm fond of birds too-- why do you think the hummers are so thick in my backyard on summer evenings that I feel like I need eye protection?

[BikeWriter]

32. Damn, you do go to extremes, don't you? ...Okay, I'll make you a deal...

I'll try to remember you're a bird lover despite what you say online, if you'll promise to duck quickly if you say anything like that in my actual presence. Deal?

[mike_c]

35. deal!

:pals:

[BikeWriter]

36. LOL! Okay, cool. I'll take the cats out of the Maytag before Rinse...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. morning doves, chickadees, blue, jays, finches, swallows, thrushes.....

woodpecker, robins, humming bird, cardinals, sparrows, a great blue herring, ducks, wild turkey and my chickens....oh and my 3 parrots

[Cocoa]

13. blue herring reminds me of a joke

The rabbi says, “What’s green, hangs on the wall, and whistles?”

The student says, “I don’t know.”

The rabbi says, “A herring.”

The student says, “Maybe a herring could be green and hang on the wall, but it absolutely doesn’t whistle.”

The rabbi says, “So it doesn’t whistle.”

:-)

[FLSurfer]

15. When I read your list of birds, I thought

Herring? isn't that a fish? I looked it up and I guess its the same as a Heron?
We have cardinals, titmouse, red bellied woodpeckers, blue jays
All with distinct personalities. I watch them most every morning from an upstairs porch.

[Cush]

10. lots in Norhtern VA

Cardinals, Morning Doves, variety of Woodpeckers (Red Headed, Downy), Rens, Crackels, Robins, Sparrows, Chickadees, Golden Finches. We do have Hummingbirds, but haven't seen any this year (might be looking at the wrong times)

Here's one of our Finches:

[Darth_Kitten]

12. I don't have a yard, but I have a bird, inside a cage

:)

She's a cockatiel, she's molting a bit and gets kind of cranky at times. :)

Takes after me (not the molting, just the crankiness) ;)

[micrometer_50]

14. mostly doves here in the deseret

[BikeWriter]

27. Doves... They are among the most beautiful of our wild birds!

[CatWoman]

16. none right now

however, I just ordered a birdbath to place inside my retaining wall. I've just about completed my planting project (planted cannas and daylilies), and by the time it arrives, every thing will be all set

check it out:

[Cocoa]

17. blue jays, pigeons, woodpeckers

and once in a while a disoriented egret will wander through.

[uppityperson]

18. Various chickens, ducks, goslings, turtle doves

juncos, thrushes, sparrows, hummers, crows, little brow with yellow bit tree birds, and that damned rooster although the doves in the cage on the porch are worse since they start going coooo, cooo, COOOO, cooo, cooo, COOOO, cooo, cooo, COOO at 4:40 am. At least the rooster is across the yard and locked in the coop.

[BikeWriter]

19. I have a few birds here the cats haven't killed yet.

I see a Mockingbird, possibly a mate to the one the cats killed that had been coming here for years. There's another BlueJay that has eluded them, too.

[Saphire]

20. bluejays, mockingbirds, grackles, cardinals, wrens and

sometimes roadrunners.

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Mockingbirds, bluejays (breeding pair), Nuttall's woodpecker (pair)

Barn Owls (breeding pair that raisers 2 - 3 young ones every year in the old maple tree- FUN!) Hummingbirds (Anna's), and of course, the LBJ's (little brown jobs).

[datasuspect]

25. the carcasses of the ones that don't get away.

[Tallison]

26. Some juicy-looking ones that want salt, says housecats.

[BikeWriter]

28. Whose housecats?

[Tallison]

30. Me Five!

And they are quite strictly house-bound and hunter-virgins.

[BikeWriter]

33. Housebound cats... I like you already, Newbie. Welcome home!

[carpetbagger]

31. Typical San Antonio suburban trashbirds

White-winged, Inca, and Mourning Doves, Carolina Wrens, Blue Jays (used to have Scrub Jays until a nearby lot was developed), Mockingbirds, Cardinals, Great-tailed Grackles, Golden-fronted Woodpeckers, House Sparrows, Curve-billed Thrashers, House Finches, Black-crested Titmice, Carolina Chickadees. I have Black-chinned Hummingbirds and Western Kingbirds in summer, and Yellow-rumped (mostly "Myrtle") and Orange-crowned Warblers, Chipping Sparrow, and Ruby-crowned Kinglet in winter. Other birds pop up in migration or from time to time, but those are the ones I see on a daily basis.

[BikeWriter]

37. Whole lot of song birds! :-)

[carpetbagger]

38. Yeah, takes some of the pain out of walking a 70% GOP precinct

It used to be much better, as I said, when there was still an empty lot on the end of my street. I had regularly visiting Western Scrub Jays, White-eyed Vireo, Bewick's Wren, Eastern Phoebe, Killdeer (which I still hear most nights, but rarely see), and occasional Roadrunners. But a 12 minute commute to a major medical center has its price.

[BikeWriter]

40. It has been years since I've seen Road Runners! We used to see them...

All over! Anyone saying our birdlife hasn't been cut to a tenth of what they were fifty years ago is whistling Dixie! By the way, do you ever see Horned Toads up there? I once caught five in my Dad's yard in ten minutes, yet they'd just as well be extinct now.

[carpetbagger]

43. Regarding Roadrunners and Horny Toads...

Roadrunners are still common, although they are particularly sensitive to habitat change, requiring long pathways and greenbelts for population stability. They are still common where they occur, it's just that in San Antonio and surrounding counties you need to know where they occur after all the development. They are doing well, overall, throughout their non-urban/exurban range, as you can see here...

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/htm03/trn2003/tr03850.htm

Horny Toads (Texas Horned Lizard) are a different story. Some combination of things are causing them to decline in numbers. It seems to be related to fire ants, but not necessarily as a causal factor. They don't compete with horny toad food (harvester ants), and it's possible that soil changes (the lizards are sensitive to pasture improvment), pesticides, and urbanization are affecting their numbers.

I don't see many horny toads outside protected areas, but then again I have little reason or opportunity to sit around ranchlands.

[BikeWriter]

44. We used to see the Road Runners on the Gulf Coast very often...

back then. Dad and Mom had been raised outdoors and pointed out everything to us. Yes, fire ants replacing their natural prey will doom the horned toads. I'll be sorry to see them go. None of the youngsters around here have seen either species. It's sad.

[Catbird]

34. A raccoon

Of course, a raccoon isn't a bird. But it was on the "squirrel-proof" bird feeder today. It's able to sit on top and reach down for seed, which squirrels can't do. It was so cute I didn't chase it off.

We see the usual southeastern back yard birds -- cardinals, titmice, chickadees, mourning doves, house finches, etc.

[Blue_In_AK]

39. We gets robins, magpies and some kind of little sparrows

or something in the summer. In the wintertime we have chickadees and Bohemian waxwings. Lots of ravens, too, but they hang out in the dumpsters and McDonald's parking lot more than people's yards.

[Ladyhawk]

41. I'll just list some of my favorites.

Tufted Titmouse - very active, lively insect-catchers. Their call sounds like "Snow White, Snow White, Snow White!"

Speckled Towhee (formerly known as the rufous-sided towhee) - a beautiful songbird that won't shut up. :)

Dark-eyed Juncos (Oregon form) - they live in the high country until winter, then come down

Mourning Doves

Red-tailed Hawks

Turkey Vultures

American Kestrels

Nuthatches

Scrub Jays

Acorn woodpeckers

Ravens (immigrants from the high country)

A SHITLOAD of Brewer's Blackbirds

Robins

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them. I won't count the ospreys, mergansers and eagles I see from time to time while hiking, although I did discover that there is nothing cuter than a newly-hatched common merganser chick. :D

[texanwitch]

42. I love red-tailed hawks, there is a pair that live in the woods nearby,

I love to go and watch them.

I also feed birds, I get a lot of old bread, no longer suitable for humans very cheap, every bird two miles around come to my house to eat.

Water is also important in the summer, my birds drink a lot water in one day.

[Ladyhawk]

46. Redtails are great! I'm thinking of getting one tattooed on the back

of my neck if/when it heals, denoting freedom from pain...either that or just a feather with beads and a piece of leather. It will be small so it won't show when my hair is long.

If I get some relief from pain and illness, I want to get a tattoo to commemorate it. So far, I'm going with the hawk idea.

[BikeWriter]

47. You would not believe the immature red-tailed hawk who...

got into the habit of landing on my pigeon cage in my back yard. I got so afraid of his being shot by a rancher I had to run him off. I'm not sure if it were him or another that plucked a sparrow she was feeding almost out of my exe's hand. She wasn't pissed. The hawk needed meat.

[laststeamtrain]

45. Lots of different birds: Common Grackles, Robins, Ring Necked...

...Turtledoves, American Goldfinchs, Mourning Doves, Black Capped Chickadees, House Sparrows, Blue Jays, Brown Headed Cow Birds and a very rare Horned Lark.

[rupturedlumbar]

48. My first post

First post. Today I had two mallards, a shitload of magpies, finches, mourning doves, and crows.

I have had a hummingbird feeder out all summer but have yet to get my first hummer.

[sparky_in_ma]

50. Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

51. Welcome, Ruptured. n/t

[sparky_in_ma]

49. A lot of doves,

blue-jays, some beautiful yellow finches,three families of cardinals. My kitty loves watching them, from inside. The feeder hangs from the eave of the house so they don't become lunch. I like cats but also like the birds. For BikeWriter:toast: