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Old 04-21-2020, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Scooterboy
A little more bird watching for inside the house today.


Our little Blue Bird of happiness. We have about six that shoe up twice a day. They take turns at the suet feeder.


This guy has me worried. Either there is something dead in the woods next to the house or he saw my last physical report. There are several in the woods and they take turns warming up on the neighbors roof.
Here's a blue bird (Mountain bluebird) that I saw on the side of the road yesterday, when I was riding my ElliptiGO. It wasn't happy at all. Poor bird! I passed by and then went back. I've only seen the flash of the bright blue as they fly so I wanted to look closer. I put it on a mailbox rack.








On July 8, 2019 I saw this on another ElliptiGO ride and was really curious what was going on.











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Old 04-21-2020, 03:55 PM
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Looks like they are either drying their wings or warming up in the sun.

Years ago in my old apt, one of the enclosed balconies was maybe 20 feet from the balcony on an office building next door. For awhile two vultures would roost on the railing. I got an up close view of them. Definitely really ugly.
Old 04-21-2020, 04:19 PM
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Patty, what are they?
Old 04-21-2020, 04:37 PM
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I believe they are turkey buzzards.
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Originally Posted by Scooterboy
I believe they are turkey buzzards.
That’s what we call them.
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Originally Posted by jukngene
That’s what we call them.
Yep.
Old 04-23-2020, 10:08 AM
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The feeders are quite busy today. This is the first time we have seen both the male and the female Red Bellied Woodpecker.


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Nice shot Scoots.
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Nice Dave. I've had the red bellied in my yard a couple times. What is the difference between the male and female? More red somewhere?
I got a shot of a bluebird today, not in my yard, and a few more shots of the tree swallows and a savannah swallow also not in my yard.

The goldfinch are really hanging out on the feeders, eating lots of seed.
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Surprisingly our goldfinches don’t touch our thistle feeder. I’m wondering about the placement so in the next few days I’m going to move it and see.


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