Please lmk if not allowed - but thought you would all appreciate
Please lmk if not allowed - but thought you would all appreciate
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12609613
Birds
Spent my whole adult life saying I didn't give a shit about birds. Yeah.
- When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago, and their bodies were littering the streets from West Nile virus, I noticed. I noticed the lack of birds in the sky. Seems no one else did.
- I now have 3 different types of feeders and a birdhouse.
- Got my childhood treasures back, uh, there's a lot of antique bird figurines. And I used to collect owls.
- Saw a pileated woodpecker for the first time at camp in December. NEAT! Got a couple of feeders and started learning to make suet.
- Been rolling my own hummingbird food for years.
But I'm not really into birds.
What do you do for hummingbird food? I'm trying to attract them to my apartment's roof garden. I see them up there once or twice a year so I know they get this high up but I want more
Those pileated woodpeckers are so big! Like the size of a chicken, they're so cool.
damn is that a yellow-rumped warbler
... yes
One day you notice a gray hair, the next you notice a gray jay.
I just turned old years old and one of my kids got me a t-shirt that simply reads "i like birds."
and it's true... i like em a lot... 🤓
seeing a group of cedar waxwings for the first time a couple weeks ago had me marveling like a child again...
and also saying... "i thought they'd be bigger" 😁
I absolutely love ducks and own 10 of them. Any time I see ducks in the wild, I love identifying their breeds, or what breeds their parents were if they're hybrids. Muscovy ducks are my fave because they're just so happy. Totally act like dogs. I own three of them and they're a joy.
"Look, Raymond,"
I'm a big fan of cardinals
Thanks for the chuckle on my work break!
I used to argue with guys about punk rock and politics, now I mostly try to parse sparrows. Got a lot of lookalikes here. Don't even get me started on the hawks