Thanks. I am ashamed to admit how I did on the quiz. I get a lot of turkey vulture variants up here, and when in doubt, it's a buzzard!
Chimney Swifts
Chimney swifts find their way back from Peru every year without a map.Originally Posted by mudhead
The Bird I listened to most on the trail, was Yard Bird. (Charlie Parker)
Weary
I would choose those Blue Heron's that hang out down near the Potomac River........Or maybe "Mothman"
Sometimes you can't hear them talk..Other times you can.
The same old cliches.."Is that a woman or a man?"
You always seem out-numbered..You don't dare make a stand.
Mothman isn't really a bird.
Important Bird Areas (IBAs)
A few days ago I downloaded and read the Phase I Conservation Plan for the IBA in my township and learned all sorts of interesting things I never knew.
Increasingly, I find more pleasure in observing what's happening near me than in dreaming about exotic locations. I can visit places near where I live often and get to know them far better than distant places I can only ever hope to visit once at best. The more I look close to home, the more I see and the more fortunate I feel to live where I do.
To locate or learn more about an IBA near you, visit Audubon's IBA Home Page and What You Can Do.
How frequently does one spot such birds, and where?
Witch birds?
Saw a GORGEOUS Scalet Tanager two years ago north of Montain Crossings in Georgia. Alas, he was far too quick for my camera. Next year.......?
Bicknell's Thrush
I did a bird count for the Vermont Center for Ecostudies this summer, and was trained to listen for 5 birds.
- Winter Wren
- White-throated Sparrow
- Swainson's Thrush
- Bicknell's Thrush
- Blackpoll Warbler
The song I enjoyed the most was Bicknell's Thrush, although Winter Wren was a close second.
here's a link to their site: http://www.vtecostudies.org/MBW/birdguide.html
I always enjoy seeing these guys on my winter hikes in the Smokies.
The black capped chickadee and the slate junco.
Wow! Owl's are in 2nd place... I feel Humbled.......
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
I voted Ruffled Grouse since they are always taking off from the most unexpected spots and startling me... but after having an Eastern Screech Owl perch near the foot end of my hammock they are now, by far, my favorite.
My favorite bird
One that doesn't wake me up at 5 in the morning.
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute.
But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--and it's longer than any hour.
That's relativity." --Albert Einstein--
Amen to that!! I was kept awake most of the night at Sarver Hollow shelter by an invisible Whipoorwill (believe me, I looked for itOne that doesn't wake me up at 5 in the morning.). Of course, at daybreak, it fell asleep....
Alternatively, at Douglas shelter in Vermont, I encountered my favorite bird, the Ruby Throated Hummingbird. So beautiful
Maybe you would like to add a few posts to our thread entitled Hummingbirds? Don't ask me why I didn't start it in our Wildlife Forum. I probably thought I had a good reason at the time although it now seems misplaced.
Funny you should mention that, a while back my dad & I were at Raystown Lake camping and I hung a red jacket on the tent post while making breakfast and sure enough a ruby red buzzed the hell out of us while we were trying to eat breakfast, apparently the jacket was in danger.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
My favorite sound at night is the owl. . . so I vote for the owl. It's just music to my ears after a long day of hiking.
Nothing beats having a grouse explode at your feet causing you to fall on your arse.
There is a bird living in the higher elevations from Standing Indian north that sounds very much like a flute and has melodic song. Wish I knew it's name.
There is a similar sounding bird in the Canadian Rockies but with a different song.
The trail was here before we arrived, and it will still be here when we are gone...enjoy it now, and preserve it for others that come after us
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