Bird Watching Club

Nancy BW, I love the woody shots. The little fellow who pck outside my window ( or his Mrs.) got stuck on the bars of the feeder today. Don't know how he managed that. I thought for a few seconds I was going to have to rescue him but he got sorted out and was back a few minutes later.

I am glad the little cat bird was OK. What I love about having a feeder at the window is sometimes I can stand right next to the bolder birds without them flying off. They do indeed have wonderful eyes and expressions. I always find their delicacy so beautiful and fascinating when I can get right up close and just watch them. I remember many years ago the blind was open on my bedroom window which was a good size patio door and I put a new green cover on the comforter. The birds started flying at the window thinking it was a lawn. They were ok and quickly realized and stopped but it was a strange surprise.

Wow, Teka, fascinating photo. I bet he would have some tales to tell if he could speak!

Just did a google. There was a flamingo that lived to 83 and some parrots can live to their 80s in captivity. There was also a crane over 80. Apparently there is a jellyfish that never dies!!

I put this together..the life cycle of a flamingo...not the end though

I just love watching them at the San Diego zoo...

The following was taken from on-line.

The oldest living parrot is Cookie, a Major
Mitchell's cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) of Brookfield Zoo, Illinois,
USA, who was at least 80 years 107 days old as of 15 September 2014.

Cookie's exact age was unknown when he arrived at
Brookfield Zoo in May 1934. His arrival was documented in a ledger dated
May 1934, when he was estimated to be at least one year old. The zoo
gave him a “hatch date" of 30 June 1933, which would make Cookie 81
years 77 days old.

Because the precise day in May was not documented, the age calculation
in this record is taken from the final day of that month (although the
parrot may have been a full 30 days older if his arrival had been on 1st
May).

Cookie (June 30, 1933 – August 27, 2016)

I would stop to see cookie, back when you were able to still see her, when we would take the kids to the zoo. Beautiful peeper!!

This is a red tail hawk that my friend, a police department animal warden, collected on duty. He is ill somehow and was eating road kill, unable to hunt on his own. She took him to an area wildlife center to be nursed back to health.

Look at the hawk talons!

We've never been able to get goldfinches to come to a sock feeder.

;o)

Lisa, I think those are my birds that left Illinois for a warmer climate. I used to have the goldfinches all the time on my sock feeders and then last winter they stopped coming and then this summer they would fly on it and not stay. So it is funny what moves them to do the things they do.

when I was on an Alaskan cruise, I was just standing on the deck early one morning when a bald eagle flew very fast right at my face. Luckily at the last minute he aborted his flight and veered off. Scared the living daylights out of me. 

Wren, You will be happy to know that I ran your suggestion by my oncologist about taking my Arimidex at night instead of in the morning. The situation was if my abdominal ultrasound came back normal then he wanted me to touch base with him again and we would stop the drug to see if my symptoms went away. The US did come back normal and he said it would be fine to take the drug in the evening so tonight is going to be the trial one on this. I am hoping this will work. Thanks for the suggestion.

Lisa, I would be scared to death if I saw an eagle about to collide with me. I forget who posted on here recently that mentioned the famous eagle was going to be on Letterman. I actually took a really bad picture of it. I'll see if I can find it. I took it right off the TV.

Found this little guy on the way home too - sorry not a bird but too cute to pass up

Lovely photos of birds and turtle photo! ;o)

Yes, bird poop!! (

Yuck!