What's your favorite bird??

Talk about a feisty little critter.. The American Blue Jay is one tough cookie and will attack anything getting near it's nest. Still they are very pretty... IMO AND very noisy!

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Not to be confused with the Eastern, or American Bluebird.. I actually had a mated pair nest in one of my bird houses..

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I love to feed the birds in my backyard, except for the sparrows, who flock to the feeders and crowd out the other, more interesting birds. My favorite is probably the cardinal. We get many of them, but every once in a while we have a special visit from one of the hawks in the neighborhood.

This guy took a bath right off our deck on a hot summer afternoon.
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Here's a good one of a cardinal introducing a youngster to the feeder. I shot this a few years ago.
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What a great picture!!!!! One of these landed at the town pool last summer. This is an urban area so you don't see the really unusual birds very often. But here was this hawk deciding to eat his squirrel lunch. Everyone gathered to take pictures, gruesome as it was. We have a few vultures too. Those suckers are so big they stop traffic.
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fureverywhere said:
Funny you mention the subject. Only in the last few years have I started to feed and notice birds. But the other day there was the most gorgeous cardinal. We have a huge Burning Bush that has berries. I tried to take pictures but couldn't get a clear shot. He looked like a bright red tennis ball...must be some good eatin' in this neighborhood!
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That's my second favorite bird. I love their vibrant color and the songs of the males. We have tons of cardinals where I live, and I feed the wild birds all the time. Cardinals are awesome beauties and a joy to have in any backyard. :love_heart:
 
I'm not exactly a bird person, but when we sit and have coffee and a muffin outside at a cafe, the little sparrows like to come and sit on the table to share our crumbs, its so sweet.
 
My favourite garden bird is the Wren. There are usually a few that live in and around my garden. Since I also live near the coast, I see a lot of wading birds, gulls etc.

Here are a pair of 'Bar Tailed Godwits' that I snapped last autumn...

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Another bird that is common round here is the Chaffinch. This one took a liking to the car while I was stopped for lunch.
Not the best picture, but it was taken from the reflection in the wing mirror..

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I will have to say crows are my favorite bird because they are so intelligent. For example, c[FONT=Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]rows have such high level of intelligence that it has been observed that if a crow is unable to crack a nut, it puts it on a highway so that a passing vehicle can crack it open. It was also observed that they prefer to wait until a small vehicle is approaching to put the nut on the road so as to insure the kernel will not be reduced to pulp. Also they are opportunists, so when they have food they want to hide but see another crow watching them they will pretend to hide the food in their cache, when in reality, they stash it in their chest feathers. Then they fly off and bury it in another place. But her[/FONT] e's the kicker the watching crows have been observed to to follow the hiding crows, because they know that sometimes they pull a bait and switch themselves.
 
Some birds in Australia have learned to mimic mobile phone ringtones
My favourite bird is the Willy Wagtail they are so interesting to watch
 
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I will have to say crows are my favorite bird because they are so intelligent. For example, crows have such high level of intelligence that it has been observed that if a crow is unable to crack a nut, it puts it on a highway so that a passing vehicle can crack it open. It was also observed that they prefer to wait until a small vehicle is approaching to put the nut on the road so as to insure the kernel will not be reduced to pulp. Also they are opportunists, so when they have food they want to hide but see another crow watching them they will pretend to hide the food in their cache, when in reality, they stash it in their chest feathers. Then they fly off and bury it in another place. But her e's the kicker the watching crows have been observed to to follow the hiding crows, because they know that sometimes they pull a bait and switch themselves.
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We have a lot of very noisy crows who swoop around our neighborhood.
Finally bought a big, ferocious looking owl, with huge beak and eyes, filled it up with stones, and placed it in front of house!
It worked!!! (I guess crows are scared of owls who like to eat them for dinner).
The noisy, swooping crows now confine themselves to the back yards, one of them frequently looking down at us from a very tall tree! :jumelles:
 
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Barn Swallows are cute little creatures. I once had a family of them living under the eaves outside my bedroom window. In the spring they awakened me every morning, but I loved them and watching their offspring grow and fledge.
 
On the salt lakes in Southern Spain where I have my second home, we have hundreds of Pink Flamingos...I love to look at them, but the lakes are beyond the marshes so the closest I can get to them is to take a picture from the roadside of the marshes... but they are soo beautiful...here's just 2 of them..

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I knew this well, QuickSilver, as my mom once owed a pet crow (when she was a girl) and she told us she taught it to say, "I love you".
 
This is the vulture I am familiar with here in the Midwest.. It's HUGE with a wingspan of up to 6 feet!.. People who have been up close to them have said the smell horrible.. as they eat carrion .. and have been know to crawl inside of a large dead animal.. But I agree.. seeing one in flight is impressive

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