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OfflineMarkostheGnostic
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Re: Bird watching [Re: cez]
    #19474331 - 01/25/14 10:31 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

Yeah, well, after over half a year of having every window and sliding glass door attacked from dawn to dusk by stupid Cardinals who mistake their reflection for a competitor, I had to purchase bird netting and have begun to cover their favorite windows of attack. I'm using spring clothes pins attached to the rails of the accordion hurricane shutters. I have translucent drop cloths duct-taped to two large windows in the den which allows light in but prevents the birds from seeing a reflection. If I wasn't against violence, I'd have soaked bird seed in Ativan by now and put them to sleep - permanently. I know their chirp now, and I hate it. I have had to chase them away numerous times (they hit with a bang) or throw a pillow at the bottom of the glass door next to our bed. They've been driving us crazy. I don't mind the Ibises, Snowy Egrets, or the Bard Owl that swooped me years ago. A Blue Heron is quite the site. I never saw Cardinals in Miami before, but one did this for one day in NJ some 26 or 27 years ago at my parents' house. This however is anything but amusing.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
    #19474497 - 01/25/14 11:11 PM (10 years, 5 days ago)

After your stories about your Miami hood, I'm surprised you go for sliding glass doors at all.... I live downtown in Portland with deadlocks that have to be key unlocked on each side of wooden doors (apparently that's illegal in Cali).  Sometimes I'm not so sure if that won't come back to haunt me in a fire/emergency scenario, if I need out and misplaced or don't have time for my key... I figure I could still jump out a window, but who knows. :shrug:


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Re: Bird watching [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #19474773 - 01/26/14 12:17 AM (10 years, 5 days ago)

I rarely lock my doors. :shrug:


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19474790 - 01/26/14 12:20 AM (10 years, 5 days ago)

"Come on in!" said the spider to the fly.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19474955 - 01/26/14 01:21 AM (10 years, 5 days ago)

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Icelander said:
I rarely lock my doors. :shrug:




I never used to when living in SE OH.... My first rental was a farmhouse when going to school in Athens, OH.... not so much as lock on my car, door, or window... Then I moved to Old Town E. Columbus, OH -> Cap. Hill Seattle -> Sunnyside Portland = locks, locks, locks.  These lifestyles offers me money and cultural opportunities that I didn't have access to then, but undoubtably am missing out on advantages I had then.  You win some, you lose some :shrug:  Should I live to a ripe age, I do see myself dying with no locks.... dreamingly in Maui, at consolation maybe Bellingham, WA :shrug:


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If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence.

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Re: Bird watching [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #19475622 - 01/26/14 07:39 AM (10 years, 5 days ago)

Well when I leave the house there is usually still a 110 lb. pit bull mix sleeping near the door. :grin:


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19476745 - 01/26/14 01:07 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

My favorite is the song sparrow, but the Jays are the most amusing to watch. The Jays used to compete with the squirrels for peanuts, now they just watch where they bury them and collect them later.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: falcon] * 1
    #19477280 - 01/26/14 03:21 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

Corvids are fucking smart.  I've had them outsmart me and I'm a huge genius. :imspecial:

Btw we have a lot of gold crowned and white crowned sparrows here. Very beautiful imo.
http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/white_crowned_sparrow_4.htm
http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/golden_crowned_sparrow_3.htm


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19477312 - 01/26/14 03:29 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

Something comes yearly in the summer to my neighbor's tree across a fence....... and makes a truly hideous call that I can only describe as vomiting inverted..... I think I've seen it once, and may have a pretty, long pointed blue tail... :shrug:


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If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

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Re: Bird watching [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #19477329 - 01/26/14 03:32 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

Scrub jay?
http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/western_scrub_jay.htm

Another corvid.  (crow family)  Corvidae are known for their nasty voices.


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Edited by Icelander (01/26/14 03:34 PM)


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19477351 - 01/26/14 03:36 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

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Icelander said:
Scrub jay?
http://sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/western_scrub_jay.htm

Another corvid.  (crow family)  Corvidae are known for their nasty voices.





YES! SCRUB JAY!  100% positively identified, damn you're good :lol:



Fuck that noise!  Check at 1:42, that's precisely the noise it makes.


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If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence.

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Re: Bird watching [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #19477373 - 01/26/14 03:39 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

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Penelope_Tree said:
The "group-think" you're describing could be considered swarming. It's the behavior that allows starlings to form massive, cohesive groups. Fish swarm, too. Surprisingly, humans do, too (big surprise: we're followers).

The incredible thing about swarms is that they look unnervingly complex, but they are actually emergent properties born from a few rules each individual within the swarm follows. For example, starlings swarm based on what the majority of their neighbors are doing. One can appreciate how this simple rule breaks into a ripple effect when the number within the group grows.

So, out of a few variables, this crazy thing arises.

Alignment with only the closest neighbors produces … nothing but a disordered swarm.


Raise the alignment and the chaotic swarm swirls into a doughnut shape called a torus.

You've likely heard of feedback, whether in regards to something simple like getting a grade on an assignment or something complex, like electrical circuits. I think the underlying concept to swarming is that the feedback reaches a critical mass (which is dependent on the total population of the group, as well as environmental factors & prob fucktons of other variables) and sets off a chain reaction. Swarming is the result of a positive feedback loop (a type of feedback that amplifies a reaction, rather than suppresses it).

I got the images from Wired magazine's article How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future. It is definitely worth a read if you're interested in decision making, systems theory, feedback mechanisms, and other stuff like that.




that's great info!
the crowned sparrows are pretty
I like corvids - especially magpies and ravens, but hawks and owls are the best for me.

I have dreamed of being a large red bird with legs like a stork but larger body; I was wading in a river with several others of my ilk; maybe it was during a dinosaur phase in my hypothetical evolution of the soul...


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Re: Bird watching [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #19477483 - 01/26/14 04:05 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

:lol:  I have one that makes my yard part of it's territory. Used to be a pair but one is dead. Likely a hawk.  But I have come to appreciate it. I look for him and put out special treats for him or her. If I remember right corvids mate for life.  I once saw a hawk take one and for two days saw the mate come to the place it happened and look forlornly at the feathers on the ground.  I felt very sad about it I have to admit.  I'm hoping that my jay will find another mate and I will hear them screech out their love for each other once more.  Plus if you look at them closely in very good binoculars they are stunning.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19477566 - 01/26/14 04:22 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

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:lol:  I have one that makes my yard part of it's territory. Used to be a pair but one is dead. Likely a hawk.  But I have come to appreciate it. I look for him and put out special treats for him or her. If I remember right corvids mate for life.  I once saw a hawk take one and for two days saw the mate come to the place it happened and look forlornly at the feathers on the ground.  I felt very sad about it I have to admit.  I'm hoping that my jay will find another mate and I will hear them screech out their love for each other once more.  Plus if you look at them closely in very good binoculars they are stunning.






I was just reading on wiki:

"Recent research has suggested that Western Scrub Jays, along with several other corvids, are among the most intelligent of animals. The brain-to-body mass ratio of adult Scrub Jays rivals that of chimpanzees and cetaceans, and is dwarfed only by that of humans. Scrub Jays are also the only non-primate or non-dolphin shown to plan ahead for the future, which was previously thought of as a uniquely human trait.[7] Other studies have shown that they can remember locations of over 200 food caches, as well as the food item in each cache and its rate of decay.[8] Western scrub jays also summon others to screech over the body of a dead jay, according to new research from the University of California, Davis. The birds' cacophonous "funerals" can last for up to half an hour."

What a nightmare :lol: I'm pretty sure it's just one little guy making all the ruckus here.


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If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence.

I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too.  If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #19477601 - 01/26/14 04:29 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

Like I said I love them.  And don't they just remind you a tad of Crowley RGVs?:haha:

I actually took care of a crow named Cromley.  He could speak and say hello and one or two other words. He'd untie your shoe laces if you weren't watching and take a button to boot.  He was a real pain in the ass at times but very very cool headed and a great sense of humor. He had been injured and could no longer fly.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #19477657 - 01/26/14 04:39 PM (10 years, 4 days ago)

:lol: I was curious to see if I could find anything like that on youtube...



This is cute, it seems like the crow is untying a shoe to distract this person to make a go for his pan...


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Everything is better than it was the last time.  I'm good.

If we could look into each others hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care.

It takes a lot of courage to go out there and radiate your essence.

I know you scared, you should ask us if we scared too.  If you was there, and we just knew you cared too.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: Icelander]
    #24260504 - 04/20/17 09:04 PM (6 years, 9 months ago)

Happy birthday Icelander!

I thought of you when I saw this today.


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Re: Bird watching [Re: falcon]
    #24260517 - 04/20/17 09:10 PM (6 years, 9 months ago)

Happy birthday Icelander :cheers:


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