Birb
Prompted by Carruthers' interest in US birds of prey: the Hanover, PA bald eagles nest HD cam. It has IR so the nest is visible at night.
http://www.pgc.pa.gov/Wildlife/WildlifeSpecies/BaldEagles/Pages/BaldEagleCamera2.aspx
There are two eggs there, and the birds switch off maintenance/warming duty. Right now it's raining, and the tending bird has its wings out, keeping a large area of the nest dry.
Camera one, non-IR, so not visible at night, but with sound:
http://www.pgc.pa.gov/Wildlife/WildlifeSpecies/BaldEagles/Pages/default.aspxI went out to get my mail about 10 wearing just shoes. That rain is cold. Cover them eggs baby. :thumb:
Oh that's great!
I'm more a Franklin guy anymore so where's the turkey cam?
Cool.
Thanks for posting this. I love birbs.
It makes me brunk watching the backgrounb when the eagle tree moves in the winb.
Thanks for that link, UT.
No leaves on the trees, 40F/4C and first egg on Feb 20th!
Hard work for the parents by the looks of it.
I hope that the Peregrine Falcons will nest on the county council tower block in Aylesbury later this year.
We don't have too many cliff faces hereabouts, so the local concrete monstrosity seems to be an acceptable substitute for a Peregrine des res.
When the webcam is up and running I'll post it here.
It makes me brunk watching the backgrounb when the eagle tree moves in the winb.
That would have been cool to watch yesterday. They seem to have survived the storm ok this morning.
Sent that link to someone in Texas, he told me to go stand under the tree and wave. I think he wants me to get bird pooped on. :eyebrow:
Tit lovers rejoice. :celebrat:
I have become addicted to checking in on the Hanover eagles nest feed.
I will report in if they have a successful hatching and there are ig-lets to see.
I went out to get my mail about 10 wearing just shoes. That rain is cold. Cover them eggs baby. :thumb:
Just noticed this. Nekkid but for the shoes, eh?
He wanted to know which way the wind was blowin'.;)
Prompted by Carruthers' interest in US birds of prey...
I've more or less given up hope of returning to the USA so I'll just have to be satisfied with spotting UK birds of prey.
This morning I walked down to the post office and within the first hundred yards was treated to the sight of three Red Kites and two Buzzards (US = Hawks).
The Kites are a common sight now and the Buzzards, although far more numerous, are lazy flyers and tend to rely on thermal activity.
I doubt if there was much ground heating up this morning, so I suppose they just had to make the effort to fly or else go hungry.
Pete and I saw three red tail hawks while skiing at Song Mtn last weekend. Pretty dramatic with the bright blue sky. We saw a flock of snow geese as well.
What a bird, gorgeous this morning. (smudge on camera one! who is going to climb up there?)
It got snowy. She just has to endure it
She has one job... and she's doing it.
Been doing it millions of years.
Tonight's check-in was interesting
She's on the nest as usual, and suddenly positions herself differently and lets out a few loud screeches. A similar screech is heard in the distance. She then answers it.
It took him about a minute to arrive. They are near-identical, but he's a little larger. They exchange places on the eggs.
Both male and female parent birbs have a procedure, with the eggs. They don't just plop right down on them. They examine the eggs, nudge them around a little. They do a little housekeeping of the interior sitting zone.
Then they "nestle in" with the eggs. It's a whole big thing, every time. They get into position, and then they reach for the far side of the nest with the beak, and really pull their body into place. Then they do a cute rocking back n forth for about 5-10 seconds, to get the eggs into a solid position under their belly area.
There are about 10 other decent eagle cams out there, but this is actually the best one, with both regular and IR in high def (even with the smudge). And the best birbs. These are really good looking birbs.
Apparently one of 'em got a chipmunk.
Actually this birb is quite good too, and HD, but
not as pretty as the Hanover birbs, and the sound is ugly (at least as I write this)
https://explore.org/livecams/birds/decorah-eagles-north-nestIowa is more plain(s) folks, so not a pretty is expected. :haha:
I could watch her all day.
Every time I look at them, I'm so impressed by that nest. I've never seen an eagle collecting sticks and grass. I've seen a robin do it. To build such a sturdy nest with the interlocked sticks just really blows me a way. They are structural engineers.
Tonight's check-in was interesting
She's on the nest as usual, and suddenly positions herself differently and lets out a few loud screeches. A similar screech is heard in the distance. She then answers it.
It took him about a minute to arrive. They are near-identical, but he's a little larger. They exchange places on the eggs.
Both male and female parent birbs have a procedure, with the eggs. They don't just plop right down on them. They examine the eggs, nudge them around a little. They do a little housekeeping of the interior sitting zone.
Then they "nestle in" with the eggs. It's a whole big thing, every time. They get into position, and then they reach for the far side of the nest with the beak, and really pull their body into place. Then they do a cute rocking back n forth for about 5-10 seconds, to get the eggs into a solid position under their belly area.
There are about 10 other decent eagle cams out there, but this is actually the best one, with both regular and IR in high def (even with the smudge). And the best birbs. These are really good looking birbs.
Apparently one of 'em got a chipmunk.
I'm jealous. I'd really like to see both birbs at the same time, but every time I tune in, it's just one or the other on the nest. Guess I need to check in more often.
I check in a lot. I've seen the "nestling" a few times, because every 10 minutes the sitting birb will change position and also move the eggs a little.
Nest full of offal right now.:)
According to the
Facebook page for the birbs, which I only just now have found, they had a raccoon attack last night! :eek: Apparently mama gave him the smackdown and the eggs are fine.
Both cams seem offline right now...
damn coons. We have one in our neighborhood. He's been gnawing on the shingles at the corner of my next door neighbor's roof. I put a dart in his side Monday night with my blow gun, but he was undeterred. He stepped away, pulled out the dart, and ambled back. Then on Weds night, he was climbing the gutter of the house across the street, walking across the roof, and down the other gutter. Did it like 3 times. Like he was on the weed. zany
Jerk! hands off the baby birbs!
Birb atak!
The Facebookers are really good at catching and sharing events at the nest. The cam was down for a while and then there were reports of a strange eagle birb attacking the nest. This happened tonight, male-on-male attack.
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Like a boss. I guess eagle numbers are up so prime real estate is in demand? We're seeing an eagle around the homestead. He must be setup on a small lake.
The FB page is now of the opinion that the female hasn't been seen in a while, and it's possible she is injured. The male has been calling out to no avail, and there was another breech of security this morning as the attacking eagle showed up again.
~ drama ~
Maybe she's hooking up with the attacking bald eagle and put him up to it. Just like Kathleen Turner in Body Heat.
The female isn't returning, and now the snow arrives... it looks very grim for the nest :( the eggs won't stay viable, and even if the male manages to keep them, the igg-lets won't stay alive with just one parent minding them.
The game commission, on the update page, says
While the Game Commission does not have a biologist on the ground in the area, it does appear that there may be another adult eagle around the nest. "Extra" bald eagles may be adults that have not yet paired up and claimed a territory; they may attempt to interfere with this pair in order to claim a mate or territory. With the population filling the available habitat in many parts of Pennsylvania, it would not be surprising to see some increase in nest failure as a result of these interferences and competition disrupting the care of nest and young. The big take-away lesson, bald eagles are well-adapted to Pennsylvania. They are well-adapted at selecting nest sites, building nests, and caring for eggs and young. This is one of the great lessons of the Game Commission’s bald eagle recovery effort and its annual monitoring of active eagle nests. As bald eagles are filling available habitat in some parts of the state, there will be some conflicts between competing eagles. We have never in modern history been witness to such conflict events and we will all learn as we go. In most conceivable circumstances, nature will be allowed to take its course without intervention. Should an injured eagle end up grounded, the Game Commission could facilitate it’s transfer to a licensed rehabilitation facility.
I just want to say, how amazing that is. The attack tells us that the eagle population has now recovered to the point where adults are fighting for their space.
20 years ago there weren't many of them in the area, and the spotting of a nesting pair was a big deal. So this is great news. It means the water has enough fish and the forest has enough wildlife for them to prey upon.
Oh this is sad news. I tuned in yesterday and the nest was empty - just the two eggs sitting there in the cold.
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Those eggs. :headshake Under a bunch of snow now.
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Yeah,
This nest is now officially a failure
What happened is the female did not return at all, which suggests that she might have been injured in the attacks. The male incubated for a while on his own, but without the female, it won't work... he has to leave regularly to hunt. Yesterday he left for an hour and that was that. Snow covered the eggs, and they are done for.
The birb you are seeing there is the attacker lady birb. But sometimes the male seems to return instinctively from time to time, just to see if his woman has come back. Apparently, even if he does take up with the homewrecker, which may happen - It's too late in the season to start over with new eggs.
To add,
Apparently the lady birb is bringing sticks to the nest to entice the male into a new pairing.
The FB folks say that the previous female has been on this nest since 2004 with three different mates. She raised many chicks over the years but she is a senior birb and her time may be over.
So I was on the 86 / 17 exchange, kamikaze curve in the vernacular, and three bald eagles appear. One circling lower while 2 and 3 appeared to be in a scrap. 2 was trying to sink talons into 3s back. I chose not to crash by following the action. It could have been foreplay but the 3rd bird makes me think it was a drama like Hanover.
Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre reports
Just a BIT of excitement today at CWRC. A golden eagle! He was rescued from the ocean off Cape Sable Island by lobster fishers who saved his life. He's in surprisingly good shape, doesn't appear broken and does not have lead. We think he's just exhausted but we'll be xraying him and running more tests in the next couple of days.
LOOKIT DAT BIRB.
Sheffield University Peregrine Falcon nest webcams.
I had hoped to be able to see the local Peregines on the Bucks County Council tower block in Aylesbury again this year.
However, due to some technical embuggerance or other, the webcams up there aren't working. Something of a disappointment, to say the least.
Bucks Peregrines 2018 I just saw Lumberjim's post about Sauce's Canyon.
I've been watching them a couple of times a day for several weeks, along with another Santa Cruz Island nest.
Both at once here:
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/photosmultimedia/bald-eagle-webcam.htm
As the chicks grow the Jaws quote often comes to mind: "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
What's the drill for?!
They screw the birbs to the wall when they misbehave.
“embuggerance”! [emoji23]
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It looks like the first of the Santa Cruz Island six bald eaglets is ready to solo. No telling which nest or when, but I am checking in for a few minutes twice a day.
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/photosmultimedia/bald-eagle-webcam.htmFEATHER PANTS
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Two Decorah, IA eaglets died a few days ago... of a gnat infestation.
But it was interesting to learn why. The pair had their eggs really late in the season; turns out that's dangerous, because the young could not develop enough before the gnat season began.
All in the timing, all in nature...
We have liftoff!
First Sauces Canyon Eaglet took off at 7:47 and the second at 9:10.
The third is thinking it over.
You can back up the live video to find the magic moments.
The other nest still has three.
It now looks like two from Fraser Point brood also took wing just after noon.
Amazing to be the same day.
I'm looking at the remaining Sauces youngster - looks like they banded them? Convenient for the watchers to see who's who; the Hanover nest watchers were always arguing about which female was which. ("Is that the homewrecker?")
Banded 2 or 3 weeks ago. The remaining one still has a lot more juvenile plumage than his/her mates. Most watchers expect them to come back to the nest, if only to get fed.
Probably be living in their parents basement for years. :haha:
Watching them thinking about waking up for the day, pretty damn cool.
The Hanover eagles feed returns Monday at noon EST. They posted an early test video of the pair of birbs doing nest maintenance. New cameras are up, the video appears to be very high def.
At 3:15 they start positioning the same big stick... and for two minutes it's like a married couple fighting over the furniture. She pulls the stick to the left, and he moves it right back. A few times they stop and give each other a look.
Eventually she just leaves. After a few minutes of looking around, at 9:00 he takes that big stick and puts it on the opposite side of the nest! Then he admires it for a while, saying... well done. :D
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I wonder where the honey went, I mean it couldn't just fly away...
I sent that picture to a friend in Canada and she came up with the answer.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondr%C3%A9e_apivoreHoney buzzard don't care! Honey buzzard is a badass!
English version
Apparently it may not be after honey after all, but baby wasps.
Thanks, someone complained it wasn't in English but my browser always asks if I want it translated to English if it's any other language.
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...is cool as fuck.
Now don't be sad...
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...cuz two outta three ain't bad.
got 'im with both barrels
What are those, plastic plugs in the end of the tubing? Never seen that.
Is that the third little pig's house?
What are those, plastic plugs in the end of the tubing? Never seen that.
Copper tubes. I'm gonna guess water/liquid pipes, the plugs keep the crap/birb guts out of 'em?
Copper tubes. I'm gonna guess water/liquid pipes, the plugs keep the crap/birb guts out of 'em?
Clean pipes, but note the impaled-birb crap on the front of the van. :rolleyes:
He stabbed the shit outta that birb!
I've handled over 100,000 feet of that 1/2 inch copper and never seen those plugs. The only copper I've seen sealed is refrigeration tubing, so I don't think it's a clean thing. Maybe to keep the end from getting ovaled if somebody steps on it, or with all the new solderless fittings, to keep the ends from being chewed up and scratched.
Could be used to mask the interior for some sort of exterior coating.
Or maybe that neighborhood just has a ton of birds flying at the 6-8 foot level.
It's not plugs, the birb was in a willow tree that the truck drove through.
That one birb looks like he's open for bidness.
T'is the season, the Hanover iggles are frisky and aigs should happen soon now
have y'all seen that GIF of the Bald Eagle begging for scraps at a fish cleaning station?
I wouldn't call it begging, more like hanging around waiting for a chance to grab some. He didn't grab and run either just turned his back till he was ready for more. Big balls eagle.
Yesterday, I had an awesome bald eagle sighting . . . it was right outside my house, flying along at about 10 feet in altitude, scouting out my chickens.
BASTARD. :mad:
Yeah, my chickens have been outside a lot lately but as soon at we have a murder it's lock down.
T'is the season, the Hanover iggles are frisky and aigs should happen soon now
GET IT AWN!!!!
Does it LOOK like I have eggs??
Any day now... if it's going to happen...
They don't restrict their diet to fish.
Next up, the revenge of Bullwinkle. ;)
Meat's back on the menu, boys!
Now stop acting squrly.
Poor li'l Rocky...Shoulda looked up urr now and then.
Saw a headline today announcing that some eagle egg has hatched one year to the day from last year.
First Hanover aig is out. They captured her laying it, but it's not all that interesting to watch. Buns a-flexin' at about 12:20, and by minute 14 she rises and there it is.
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Now that's a drone strike.
By a trained attack birb.
I'd like to see the video from the drone's pov when the birb got him.
Dawww....
Gotta little Einstein thing going on there w/the head plumage.
But did you see the caption?
Hanover has two eggs now... and will be getting snow for the next 8 hours from this post, I think
She's on duty.
Every once in a while she sticks her head out and shakes it off.
I wonder if eagle down is as warm as goose down?
Neither is as hot as going down...
Both of the nests with cams on Santa Cruz Island have about 3-4 week old eggs. One has two and other lost two but laid another one.
Nests and birds are in great shape.
Decorah Eagles had a late night visitor with a death wish.
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Plot twist: the camera has IR, so it can see at night; the eagle doesn't, so she can't see the mouse in the pitch black. She can only hear it.
And she won't move off the eggs if she can't identify the target.
Spoiler alert, nothing really happens. At about 3 minutes, the camera focuses in on the pair. Eventually the mouse wanders off. Never knowing the danger he was in.
In the light of day, death wish fulfilled. (probably. they aren't sure where it went after she grabbed it.)
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And it wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
...they aren't sure where it went after she grabbed it...
♪ ♫I believe I can flyyyy♪ ♫BIRB"S GOT ASS SNEEZES!!
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The birb's expression says "That wasn't a fart!"
A glorious ƒucking parrot:
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I think that should be its name.
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MoarLive with a parrot for awhile and you'll be ready to trade it for a cat that's clean and ignores you. :haha:
A former buddy used to have a parrot. He went on a state-sponsored get-away. He left his bird w/a friend. When he got back he got his bird, and it was making little coughing sounds, and sat around going "Motherfucker!", and "Fuck you. Fuck you."
I lurve that picture (#118), btw.
a project run by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum — we're keeping a close eye on the hummingbirds' progress as they head our way. In recent weeks, we've seen an explosion of activity in the south, with the northernmost sighting in Irmo, South Carolina.
So far, they're a little behind schedule compared to 2018. Last year at this point, they had made it as far as North Carolina.
I don't understand how those tiny birds make that migration of hundreds or a thousand miles?
Hummingbirds eat like a wood chipper, voracious. They eat more insects than nectar. They can lose 10% of their body weight overnight while sleeping, unless they go into a torpor where they only lose 1% but are extremely vulnerable. So how do they eat enough and travel?
Fly with their mouths open? Worked for me when I rode my motorcycle.
I's just comb my beard when I got home.
Enough bugs for a sammich.
Home tweet home
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The two Bald Eagle nests with spycams on Santa Cruz Island are bustling.
One has one young chick and the other three rapidly growing ones.
This morning the Sauces nest (bottom) Mom has a bloody beak and tail from the breakfast Dad brought awhile ago.
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/photosmultimedia/bald-eagle-webcam.htmSorry, Mom above is at Fraser Point.
And getting no rest because the little bastards won't settle down. :haha:
Golden Gate Osprey nest cam, one of the birbs brought a stuffed monkey back to the nest. Well the little one will hatch soon and they can have a toy.
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Hanover Iggles are on any-minute-now hatching watch. People say you can hear the baby birbs chirping from within the aigs.
Hanover chicks are hatched out, mama's feeding the lil puffballs. They get raw fish from day one.
Dahlgren Naval Station osprey, beating the Golden Gate osprey, now has 4 stuffed animals :D
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Ospreys are supposed to fish, not raid daycare centers.
I fear for the brood.
You guys didn't have stuffed animals when you was babbies?:eyebrow:
The most majestic birds of prey of North America
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ALACHUA, Fla. (AP) — A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea attacked and killed its owner when the man fell on his property in Florida, authorities said Saturday. ...
… a cassowary killed the man Friday on the property near Gainesville, likely using its long claws. The victim, whose name was not released, was apparently breeding the birds, state wildlife officials said. ...
… The San Diego Zoo's website calls cassowaries the world's most dangerous bird with a four-inch, dagger-like claw on each foot.
"The cassowary can slice open any predator or potential threat with a single swift kick. Powerful legs help the cassowary run up to 31 miles per hour (50 kph) through the dense forest underbrush," the website says. ...
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An endangered cassowary roams in the Daintree National Forest, Australia on June 30, 2015.
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Pretty birb, right?
Wrong, birbbrain, body paint!!:
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A number of sites around the UK are favoured by Peregrine Falcons at nesting time.
These tend to be the spires/towers of cathedrals and churches and ledges on other tall buildings.
The County Council HQ in Aylesbury has had Peregrines nest there for several years but unfortunately the webcams are not working.
I had the good luck to see one 'in the flesh' last year over the town centre and I was surprised at the size of it. I had assumed that they were Sparrowhawk size.
However, the webcam is working at Chichester Cathedral in Sussex and is worth a look.
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Link to live stream.
www.chichesterperegrines.co.ukPossession is nine-tenths of the law is not a legal principle which troubles the average gull.
Enjoying your chips, grease burger or other edible health hazard on the beach runs the risk of it being stolen by a sea bird.
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Desperate times require desperate measures...
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Winnie the bald eagle and her handler Kyle Smaldon patrol the seafront at Lyme Regis in a bid to stop seagulls pinching tourists’ chips.
The local council is deploying Winnie and fellow bird of prey Kojak throughout the Easter weekend and so far the troublesome gulls seem to be keeping their distance.
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"Excuse me, Miss? I would like to return this birb what I bought in this very boutique not half an hour ago..."[/Cleese]
Also:
What is that racket?
Grab that Gull by the throat. :bitching:
And swing it around a few times...
Also:
What is that racket?
I think it's the wind around the gargoyles. :eek:
Certainly wasn't there earlier in the day.
Baby birbs are the least cute of all types of animals.
It's
amazing how these two have grown in three weeks since hatching. They are a little smaller than footballs now. They have pin feathers - you can see all those spikes growing out of them, those will become more srs feathers and replace the fluff they have now.
And what I learned is, these birbs knew upon hatching how to take a shit outside the nest. Built-in behavior, they squat, bend over like they're mooning ya, and SQUIRT right over the edge.
Guys love chicks that squirt.
Don't shit where you eat
Also, that.
Baby birbs are the least cute of all types of animals.
Owls excepted.
Hummingbirds aren't too bad.
Also penguins!
Checks out!
I check the progress of the baby Bald Eagles on Santa Cruz Island off Southern California every day.
There are two nests at the link.
One has a single chick and the other has three.
I can't help but wonder how differently the solo one must view the world so far.
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/photosmultimedia/bald-eagle-webcam.htmMore food less competition
I have pix of birdies to share with you. Some editing in the phone is required first though.
When it's rainy, mom provides shelter for the little ones. Now that they're not so little, she can't keep them completely covered. But they're big enough now that they can survive it.
All this instinctive behavior is really amazing. Just built right in.
Split-second thought upon see that pic:
That eagle has the biggest knees I've ever seen on an eagle.
We visited the
finnriver cidery last night and saw this beastly raven.
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Seems it was really something to crow about...
:D
Test of workflow successful. I took the picture last night using the camera in my phone, resized it using a newly downloaded app (PhotoResizer, cryptic, I know...) and uploaded it from my phone. This was done using the hotel wifi, but could also have been done using mobile data.
Yay!
Resizing, *not* merely cropping pics on the phone has been a giant post-blocking pain in the ass.
I didn't know that hawks had canard wings:
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Oh, it's another birb...Must be a canardinal.
TIHAW, try the wings.
Birbiplane...
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Two red kites look rather like a biplane in a picture by amateur photographer Wayne Lewis that captured them flying in formation at Bwlch Nant-Yr-Arian feeding station, near the village of Ponterwyd in Aberystwyth, Wales.
The native Red Kite population was persecuted almost to extinction in the 19th century and just a small number were left in mid-Wales.
Since then a local re-introduction project has increased the numbers substantially and they are now a frequent sight hereabouts.
We had one land in the front garden a few years ago and occasionally they settle in the tall trees behind the house.
Sadly, I found one bird that had flown into a power cable and severed a wing.
I took the poor soul to a nearby wildlife hospital and they were hopeful that it would survive in captivity as the point where the wing was severed is the point used in amputation and doesn't bleed too badly.
Unfortunately, it succumbed about a fortnight later.
It's a Kingbird.
Good catch, and thanks for the ID.
A kingbird was photographed in 2009 defending its young by landing on and sinking its talons into the back of a red-tailed hawk and pecking its skull until the red-tailed hawk gave up and flew away...The genus name means "tyrant".
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WikiOne of steve biro's pictures...
On 5/31 last year I reported that the Bald Eagle chicks on the Santa Cruz Island live cams took their first flights.
It looks like the first ones will do so today or tomorrow.
The three siblings on the bottom cam are really active this morning.
https://www.nps.gov/chis/learn/photosmultimedia/bald-eagle-webcam.htmWatching the stream from Sauces Canyon and Fraser Point I don't see chicks, just one adult at each nest.
The chicks are as big as the parents, who have white-feathered heads and tails.
Sometimes the feed gets stuck and they show previous highlights.
Two chicks (of three) at Fraser Point and both parents spent at least part of the night and can be seen by viewing earlier video by clicking on the timeline.
The rowdy youngsters have torn the crap out of the nest in the past week or so.
At 0844 Thursday there just one of the "babies."
Always only "Solo" at Sauces.
Yeah, I looked again later and saw chicks.
The Hanover birbs are "practicing", they're getting about an inch of air
The single eaglet (Solo) at the Sauces nest finally soloed.
A landing at 0825 today lacked a little grace, but was nice to see.
https://explore.org/livecams/bald-eagles/channel-islands-national-park-sauces-bald-eagleOne of the Hanover youngsters was accidentally knocked out of the nest during a food delivery. The eaglet landed on a lower branch and is okay. Experts say he may find his way back to the nest by climbing, or may gain enough confidence to try flying off. Experts figure it is time to fledge; they have all the proper feathers to get started.
An interesting event in an otherwise great year for them.
The four eaglets on Santa Cruz Island are gone almost all of every day and night with an occasional visit with the hope of a meal.
Only one birb in Hanover nest right now, looks ready to take the plunge.
While looking for the name of the African Goshawk I'd seen a few days ago, I came across this statement By a Gordon Ellmers at
the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
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But I can find nothing on the Tennessee site, or any other site, to back that up, and I think it's a bullshit claim by Ellmers Fudd.
The Hanover eaglet that got knocked out of the nest was gone for a few days, but it got up its will, and learned to fly during that time. Now it's back on the nest, flying on and off it regularly. The other youngster has not taken up the task yet.
The newly-flying birb knocked 2 out of 3 cameras out of alignment. One more and the viewing season will be over.
I suppose relative to its body length, a Rufous hummer may be speedier than a falcon, but about 50 mph seems tops.
They do chase and eat insects, especially when fueling up for migration, but otherwise would rarely need 200 mph for nectar gathering.
While looking for the name of the African Goshawk I'd seen a few days ago, I came across this statement By a Gordon Ellmers at the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
But I can find nothing on the Tennessee site, or any other site, to back that up, and I think it's a bullshit claim by Ellmers Fudd.
I'd like to know the context of fast. Wingbeat, maybe? Level flight, maybe?
I'd find it difficult to believe that a Rufous hummer could be faster than a Peregrine in a stoop.
FAYI (fer all y'all's info) speed is not mentioned
AT ALL on the Rufous' Wiki page. If it were faster than a Peregrine, I figure it would be shouting that fact all over the page.
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In the last 45 seconds, the younger Hanover birb flies for the first time. It's not much to see; kid finally gets up his gumption. But it's lovely they captured it.
The rest of the video is mostly younger birb wingersizing, and making the trip up and back from the branch next to the camera. You can almost see him thinking, big brother did it, I should be able to do it...
Nice!
I have a hen hatching chicks right now, somehow less dramatic than an eagle. :us:
...and only slightly less dignified.
It'll give their squadron more functionality.
These guys are cute as hell and love to eat rubber off cars. Our bus driver gave a tourist hell for molesting one, she was asking for it.
In other En Zed bird news:
New Zealand kakapos hatching in record numbers, boosting endangered native parrot's numbers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-18/record-number-of-kakapo-chicks-hatch-in-new-zealand/11030582
They love their birbs.
I am not a dedicated bird watcher but I do like to see wildlife of all kinds especially anything that's a bit of a rarity.
I'd been told of a Great White Egret taking up residence on a nearby canal so thought that it might be worth having a look for myself.
The location isn't too far away so it was reasonably easy to nip out for a short while without causing too much domestic upheaval.
In the end I had to make three visits before getting a decent sighting.
On the first occasion it was just disappearing from sight as I arrived, the second time it was nowhere to be seen so I thought that I would give it one last go this afternoon before the approaching storm sets in and I struck lucky.
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They are gradually moving up from southern Europe via France to the UK and successfully bred here for the first in the Somerset Levels in 2012.
They're about the same size as Grey Heron and one decided to push in on this chap's fishing patch after he'd made a catch.
Sorry about the poor focus but I'm not a photographer, I just take snaps!
I love watching those beauties fly.
Their slow wing beats seem like what pterodactyls must have looked like.
We have Blue Herons and Sandhill Cranes. And yes they are beautiful Birbs.
And Pelicans in the spring.
And Pelicans in the spring.
That brings back happy memories.
I remember one occasion driving north in deepest Wyoming in June when I caught sight of four large birds coming the other way.
It took a few seconds for me to register that they were Pelicans. I just couldn't believe the size of them.
Happy days! :)
You were mistaken, Pelicans can't fly they're too nose heavy. They have stunt doubles for the flight sequences.
If they actually flew they would look like this...
I'd quite forgotten that there is a small colony of Pelicans on the lake in St James' Park, London.
I'd assumed that their wings had been clipped but apparently not.
One individual made a habit of flying to Regent's Park (London Zoo) and stealing fish from the Pelican enclosure there.
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So, instead of flying over 4,500 miles to see these magnificent birds, I could have travelled about 40 miles and been home in time for tea.
OTOH I think it unlikely that I would have seen Bison roaming around Trafalgar Square. ;)
LinkThe Hanover eagles' nest collapsed away to nothing, after serving its purpose. The family would only visit it every once in a while.
It was interesting to see the progress of the nest, and to realize: this collapse happened on purpose.
When they build, the eagles complete the basic structure of the nest with just sticks; then they start bringing straw/dry grass to the middle, and they keep on bringing that until the eggs hatch. That makes the nest comfy, with a safe resting place for the eggs.
When the nest is just sticks and a little straw, rain can easily just seep through. It drips away, and the eggs stay dry. But as the birds are are always bringing straw, it builds up. Eventually, the bottom layer stays damp with rain that has dripped through the top layers. After a while, that layer turns to mulch.
This creates a very solid platform. (It has to hold up to 75 pounds of moving/landing birds.) The original sticks are like the beams, and the straw/mulch is cement and planks between them.
As the youngsters grow, the nest "fills up" and the mulch bottom layer gets thicker. Now all that mulch is rotting the sticks away. Once enough sticks are rotted, the whole thing becomes unstable.
The timing of all this has been worked out over millions of years. The birds start with a stick size that will take 6 months to rot away - just enough time for the youngsters to fledge. They bring just enough straw to make this rot happen with the right timing. So the Hanover babies learned how to live outside the nest, and three weeks later, the nest collapsed. Hand of evolution.
Wow. I just learned a thing.
Yeah, I knew they built a nest every year and often in the same tree, but figured the weather destroyed the old one. I didn't have a clue it was engineered that way.
I wonder how that knowledge is passed down, think they Google it? :lol:
Nah, they'd use DuckDuckGo.
The highest concentration of raptors in the world is a choke point in Mexico of the north/south fly way.
Just look up and see a thousand or more raptors of all types.
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Crap, gotta watch on youtub
That's what I said, gotta watch on you tube. So click on the notice when it opens and it takes you to it.
That's what I said...
So you did. Perhaps I should
read these posts...
I'll be glad when the dog-lips GIF moves off the page.
It s not in the millions but Hawk Hill just north of the Golden Gate, has about 30,000 raptors from 25 varieties. pass over in a short time every year.
Its advantages are that it is only 100 miles from me and the folks in the area less prone to murder and hostage taking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_Hill_(California)
I'll be glad when the dog-lips GIF moves off the page.
It s not in the millions but Hawk Hill just north of the Golden Gate, has about 30,000 raptors from 25 varieties. pass over in a short time every year.
Its advantages are that it is only 100 miles from me and the folks in the area less prone to murder and hostage taking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_Hill_(California)
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It s not in the millions but Hawk Hill just north of the Golden Gate, has about 30,000 raptors from 25 varieties. pass over in a short time every year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_Hill_(California)
Those Hawk Hill birds join the other two fly-ways in the bottleneck at Veracruz.
"...the largest bird that can go years without landing."
What is the smallest?
A footless free flyer? :p:
Excellent, I doubt we'll find one smaller. :haha:
Washer birb looks like he's sayin the same as this cockatoo:
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It's like the puppy chasing the car...
Now you've caught it, whatchya gonna do with it?
The look like aliens but they're only baby Owls.
My grandmother and her sisters had sayings for every thing.
Reach exceeding grasp, eyes bigger than stomach and bite off more than can chew come to mind here.
Nobody told this eagle that birds have light and fragile bones:
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/predator-vs-prey/eagle-tumbles-down-cliff-face-clutching-prey-in-hair-raising-hunt/I was expecting a trans-Atlantic trip to Bernheim Forest in Germany or Austria.
Nope, Kentucky.
That was interesting.
If I see them I'll tell them you said Hi.
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Monitor hawk is watching you wank
Sit outside an Austin coffeeshop on a pleasant fall day, and many urban birds present themselves for perusal: strutting, sardonic grackles, chatty parakeets, bustling sparrows.
Austin has wild parakeets?
I must protest the Shoebill being declared a Birb, under the muppetry exemption. :headshake
I've never seen a parakeet out of its cage. Besides, the grackles are everywhere and will fuck up any smaller bird that tries to butt in on their territory.
So parakeets are small parrots?
A smart Owl in an armored abode...
Barn Owl showing off this years fashion...
Ladies and gentlemen of The Cellar, I, Gravdigr, humbly submit, for your holiday reading pleasure, the story of
That Time A Hollywood Icon Made A Duck Centipede, shamelessly copy/pasted from Cracked.com:
Errol Flynn was the greatest action star in the Golden Age of Hollywood: Hard-fighting, hard-drinking, hard-molesting -- Flynn always strived to act first and think later. But as a young man, the actor had more cerebral ambitions. Instead of just wanting to be a danger to himself and the occasional minor, he wanted to be a danger to animals instead.
In his vodka-soaked memoirs, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn recalled how much he admired his father Theodore, a zoologist and professor of biology at the University of Tasmania. In fact, young Flynn began his own zoological experiments, which lasted until the age of eight or nine, when he both made his first big scientific breakthrough, and broke all the laws of nature and decency.
Flynn observed that if he gave a piece of pork to one of the ducks in his backyard "something in its intestinal make-up caused the bird to pass the pork within a minute or two." So the next day, he tied a juicy bit of meat to a piece of greased string, fed it to a duck, waited for the duck to pass it whole, and then fed it to the next one. After stringing up half a dozen ducks bill-to-cloaca, Flynn closed the loop, creating a "living bracelet" of which he was more proud than any "scientist inventor of an antibiotic."
Always more showman than scientist, Flynn turned his academic freakshow into a more literal one, selling tickets to his friends who could come stare at the ornithological ouroboros in awe. Flynn's father was less impressed. The sight of the abomination caused Pa Flynn to shout "you cruel little devil," and break his umbrella across Errol's back. And so ended the scientific career of Errol Flynn, who vowed never to experiment again -- "unless my experience with women can be counted."
Go check the first paragraph again if you're curious how that worked out for him.
Merry Ducking Christmas urrbody!!
Unlike other fishing birbs, the Osprey forms itself into a 30-50 mph javelin, and dives into the water.
It is badass:
The UK Osprey population has made something of a recovery over recent years not least due to the sterling work of the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Although I have never seen one here, Ospreys pass through local reservoirs at Tring and Weston Turville on their way to and from their summer breeding sites in Scotland and Scandinavia.
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I was very fortunate in spotting two birds some time ago but had to travel 4,500 miles in order to do so!
They were at Buffalo Bill Reservoir just west of Cody, WY.
The first bird was flying parallel to the road I was on and I wasn't sure what I was looking at at first.
The second bird was sighted just before the road entered a tunnel and was close enough to see its most piercing stare.
I don't know if I shall have ever the good fortune to return to the US but I do have some great memories of my trips.
They really are gorgeous birds. We see the occasional one here and more in the Adirondacks. I found a dead one near my driveway once, I think he had hit the power lines.
Ospreys like the highest point around to nest and building platforms can entice them away from places that are dangerous or otherwise unsuitable.
I just discovered a nest on Christmas that overhangs a nearby lake, but is only 30 or 40 feet above the water. I have often watched them fish in the lake but that seems a special place.
I have it on my calendar to look for activity in the spring.
Unlike other fishing birbs, the Osprey forms itself into a 30-50 mph javelin, and dives into the water.
It is badass:
And when he hits the water talons first...
That owl been drankin' RedBull!!
When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’?
The 3 important rules from audubon will keep you from making mistakes.
Bird is the word
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Credit the Clean Water Act and the banning of DDT for this recovery.
We have counted over 200 Bald Eagles at one time here in the spring. As soon as we get open water their here making a racket and shitting all over the place.
Why is there such a distinct line formed along the border? Is that federally-protected land or something?
Edit: Duh. It's a fucking river. I need a nap.
Saw a pair of bald eagles on my walk this morning, along with countless ducks and seagulls and robins. The robins are exceptionally numerous this morning.
Come to think about it, they're probably just as numerous as they are in the spring and summer, but with the trees bare, it's a lot easier to see them. They're everywhere.
Real time Bald Eagle Cam... there's lights way off in the background that look like eyeballs lurking in the dark. :haha:
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The nest is in a Yucca tree.
I just watched her move her eggs and re position herself. So Cool.
She just looked directly into the camera and gave me the stink-eye.
This guy; 1. likes birds, or 2. has a mosquito problem, maybe 3. bugs ate the branches.
"It's not a dangerous dead tree in my yard, it's an art installation!"
"I mean, a wildlife preserve!"
Around here walnut trees are about the only ones to get the white paint treatment.
Birds fly because who wants to walk on those feet.
I don't watch the Hanover Iggles as much as I did last year, but I keep up on the Facebook page.
The female laid one good egg, and then, a few days later, an egg with no shell. Birbologists say it happens often. They caught her laying it on video, and basically, she ate it, as soon as she saw it wasn't a good egg. This instinct removes it from the nest, and keeps the good egg in dry, bacteria-free condition.
You don't see much of the non-egg before it's gone.
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Now, recently, they have had a juvenile bald eagle invading the nest. There's no sound in this video, which is a shame because the female is sounding the alarm. The intruder arrives and she has to kick him off.
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The same birb (probably) is visiting the nest at night, and just standing next to it for an hour, without walking onto the nest itself. DRAMA
Last year's kid unwelcome.
Yeah, that is a possibility! Although the birbologists think it is too old to be one of last year's younguns, there's a chance it's a youngun from a previous year.
Ma, don't cha recognize me?? :sniff:
Pelican catches a bill full of water...
Hanover nest has gone the way of all of 2020 -- their remaining egg has not hatched yet, which means it's bad.
Apparently the birds may not understand this, and will continue to incubate for another 2-4 weeks, unless the shell cracks on its own.
That will be unbelievably stinky when it pops.
You do, you really do. I wish I did.
This guy had big issues with that cowbird in the window.
This Steller's Jay is one of a pair that rule the yard. Here he's patrolling the area under the bird feeder after making a mess at the top.
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Your western jays get style points.
Dang, I hate me some jays.
Harsh bro!
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Harsh bro!
Yes, they are. And bullies, too.
They're pretty and all, but I just find them disagreeable.
And that screeching...The hand off...
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And from Taiwan...
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Could be somebody posing as me. :nuts:
Eagle hunter (with not for) from the Altai Mountains is proud as punch,
The woman looks nervous (mumbling something like crazy old fool).
And the kid is like what's happening, why is Mom standing over there?
That's peak human right there. I would wish for nothing more.
Live Osprey nest cam - Loch Arkaig - Woodland Trust
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Follow the story of our resident osprey pair, Louis and Aila, live from the heart of an ancient Caledonian pine forest.
Head over to our website to join the conversation.
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree...
The story so far.
Our live nest camera, supported by players of People's Postcode Lottery, has been streaming footage of breeding ospreys from Loch Arkaig Pine Forest since 2017.
The camera will be live throughout the 2020 season to bring you a glimpse of forest life from the Scottish Highlands.
Our resident pair Louis and Aila have now returned. We expect other birds to drop in and check out the nest too, and perhaps even the occasional night-time visitor.
Keep tuning in to watch the story unfold.
#OspreyCam #ArkaigOspreys #LochArkaig
Ospreys occasionally pass through Weston Turville reservoir just SE of Aylesbury and also at the reservoirs near Tring but I've never been fortunate enough to see one.
I'm told that those visitors are usually en-route to Scandinavia rather than Northern England or Scotland.
I have seen Ospreys but had to travel 4,500+ miles for the privilege!
Saw two in one afternoon returning from Yellowstone to Cody WY and what a spectacular sight they were.
ETA Peregrine Falcons.
Four cameras on a Peregrine nest on a building in Woking, Surrey.
Woking Peregrine ProjectVery nice, once I could identify three live birds and an inert bird shaped lump of bark.
This was the hilarious moment a pigeon was spotted clinging onto the wing of a plane at Gatwick airport during take-off.
The clip, filmed on August 26, 2019, shows the pigeon bracing itself for take-off by ducking down against the wind.
The filmer, Luke Cambell told Newsflare: "I can't believe I caught it on camera! A pigeon can be seen clinging onto the plane on takeoff!
I was surprised it managed to cling on for as long as it did, to be honest! I thought it was going to be there with us the whole flight!
"The pigeon was unharmed from what I could tell, it just took a bit of a tumble when the wind speed became too much!"
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Shame it wasn't a squirrel.
Rehabbed bald eagle release. go full screen pls
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The next one is cool too...
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same here
chrome's not the issue, at most, it's a symptom.
It works in Edge; but, not in IE for me.
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