#birdeing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #birdeing, aggregated by home.social.
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Red-tailed Hawk! At Bloor & Christie
While I was looking at it two separate groups of children with parents also stopped to admire the hawk.
The squirrels were being very impertinent.
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Is it snowing? Raining? Snaining? Whatever it is, the dark-eyed juncos are happy to be out in it and have arrived for an evening snack.
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And yes, the dark-eyed juncos are loving this. Ms. Cardinal also just dropped by to arch a bright red eyebrow at me as she peered through the window.
https://status.nevillepark.ca/@nev/statuses/01KKKXNP8R25ABJCA1GRWZ0TTN
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Winter ducks from this afternoon!
Much of the lake this side of the breakwater is frozen, so there weren't many spots to see ducks. Still, there were mergansers and goldeneyes (I think) as well as the ever-present mallards and swans. The view was beautiful in a cold austere way.
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woke up to cardinal's PEWWW, PEWWW, PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW "star wars space battle" call
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Saw some hawk flapping around and heard a totally new bird call which Merlin identified as a Cooper's hawk? At first I assumed it was the call of a red-tailed hawk because, well, they're the only hawks I've ever seen around here, but it was neither MAJESTIC BALD EAGLE CRY or Clinically Depressed Seagull. It was more...mewing? Alas I forgot to save the recording. The bird was apparently right over my building so I couldn't actually see it, just hear it.
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Heard MAJESTIC BALD EAGLE cry 🇺🇸 and ran to the window to catch a very low *triple* red-tailed hawk flyby!
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- 20-30 cm snowfall forecast, has been snowing heavily all night, schools closed
- one (1) photon from the Sun hits the building
- I hear the gentle *bonk* of an impatient dark-eyed junco pecking at the windowsill -
the house finches (_Haemorhous mexicanus_) are back!
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capping off 2025 with one last Feeding of the Juncos (who are absolutely loving the "snowing sideways" weather right now)
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Nearly every other living thing is huddled inside today, but the juncos are living it up!
They are the bird version of that guy who's outside in a T-shirt and shorts when it's 0°C out.
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the rain turned to snow and I swear *instantly* the juncos appeared
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Windowsill visitors: dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis), white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis), black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus). Wish I'd gotten the chickadee's face but you know how they are, they only land for an instant!
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Woodpecker! In the Tree In the Garden #BirdCallOut
Like I've seen them before and even on adjoining properties but never actually in one of the trees in the yard!! It scooted up and down the trunk a bunch and fed particularly from one crevice before taking off.
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VERY INTERESTING #BIRDEING UPDATE: for the first time ever, a red-winged blackbird has come by to sample the sunflower seeds!
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Oh man!! Having coffee in the garden when a very large and splendid swallowtail butterfly flutters in, and is seemingly about to land on a young cup plant when—a blue blur out of nowhere! The blue jay just barely misses. It sits on the fence looking back at me like, "What?"
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TWO red tailed hawks just flew overhead and landed on the edifice of Queen's Park!!!
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the house finch couple has been returning regularly
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A house finch (_Haemorhous mexicanus_) couple dropped by at the same time as the cardinal couple! (About 10 seconds after I put out sunflower seeds.)
The cardinals seemed more tolerant of the house finches than of the house sparrows, whom they will hiss angrily at, like cats, and chase away from the windowsill.
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cardinal couple: *scared of humans*
cardinals: *chirping extremely loudly every time they visit the windowsill*
*i look at them*
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speaking as a spider person the hardest thing about identifying birds to family is that they all have the same number of eyes and mostly they're arranged the same
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a starling is making its amazing noises in the vacant lot behind my building ^_^
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The light fixtures outside the Tommy Thompson Park Nature Centre are surrounded by the mud nests of cliff swallows (_Petrochelidon pyrrhonota_). Every now and then one would peek its little head out. My sister and I assumed they were chicks waiting to be fed and were baby-talking to one of them when it suddenly launched itself out of the nest and flew right over our heads. We screamed and ran away. It turns out this is what the adults look like.
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just got back from a day out at Tommy Thompson Park with my sister! it was a great bird day. we were jumpscared by swallows and heard a truly bizarre bird which is apparently a bobolink. but for my money the best sighting was this canada goose sleeping perfectly snugly on this concrete pillar