Backyard bird watching

[justplugit]

Ya Rav nuthatches, at least i have one this winter without having
seen one since last spring.
Their eye sight amazes me along with that of owls, hawks, eagles and sea gulls.
Amazing how there will be working gulls so far out you can only see them
with field glasses and suddenly the gulls leave the beach to join them.
Prolly a combo of eyesight and hearing?

[basswipe]

Getting every type of bird lately.No hawks yet.

[saltfly]

N/E wind,flurries,suet cakes=Blue Birds.They don't seem to come around unless there's a storm a-brewin.4 Males 2 Females.

[Raven]

[QUOTE=justplugit;
Prolly a combo of eyesight and hearing?
[/QUOTE]

They work together and announce food sources...
and the dinner bell gets rung...

many times i have noticed when filling feeders
how the calls go out alerting others to the new cache.
~ when out in Cal....

one day i hiked way up into the mountains with a backpack
...my lunch and a quality twenty pound bag of bird seed
of a mixed variety
and carefully selected a spot... of smooth rocks and trees...
and not a single bird to be seen or heard anywhere.

the perfect conditions........

i carefully placed it in every crevice imaginable especially in trees
and then spread the rest out in the open in a circle then i ate my lunch
and took a short nap... and hour and a half passed and nothing was seen or heard.

Then one small Bird happened by...
and rather than just eat....it flew up higher in a tree and started calling
and that brought more birds and then more birds called....

soon there was more than fifty...of many different species
and they were having a ball and i listened as each type made there dinner bell call
bringing in more of the same.

I've been doing this type of experiments for my whole life.

[justplugit]

Kewl stuff, Rav. But I still wonder how the gulls can see or hear
birds on bait 1/2 mile or further out.

[Raven]

well Eagles can see at around 1.5 miles so a gull seeing a half to 3/4 mile isn't so hard to believe
...but i'll never forget the day when i heard voices from a mile away... (of course i have exceptional hearing) they were coming from the opposite shore which was about a mile across so sound travels fairly easy across the water.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Raven

They work together and announce food sources...
and the dinner bell gets rung...

many times i have noticed when filling feeders
how the calls go out alerting others to the new cache.
~ when out in Cal....

one day i hiked way up into the mountains with a backpack
...my lunch and a quality twenty pound bag of bird seed
of a mixed variety
and carefully selected a spot... of smooth rocks and trees...
and not a single bird to be seen or heard anywhere.

the perfect conditions........

i carefully placed it in every crevice imaginable especially in trees
and then spread the rest out in the open in a circle then i ate my lunch
and took a short nap... and hour and a half passed and nothing was seen or heard.

Then one small Bird happened by...
and rather than just eat....it flew up higher in a tree and started calling
and that brought more birds and then more birds called....

soon there was more than fifty...of many different species
and they were having a ball and i listened as each type made there dinner bell call
bringing in more of the same.

I've been doing this type of experiments for my whole life.

what about the mushroom experiments

[Raven]

Originally Posted by striperman36

what about the mushroom experiments

Birds don't eat them....but the red squirells dry them on top of the pine branch bows...

one per hundred pounds body weight

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Raven

Birds don't eat them....but the red squirells dry them on top of the pine branch bows...

one per hundred pounds body weight

your'e consumption?

[Raven]

Originally Posted by striperman36

your'e consumption?

2.25-3 same as Reindeer

[striperman36]

New birdhouses go up tomorrow. It's time