OT Things to ponder

[Ian R]

Do you reckon he's got any food in there?

Why don't you scout around while I crap on the BBQ?

Better than flying around in the rain, anyway.

[geofflambert]

One morning I was woken rather late, in a jolting fashion. The Sun was well up and I heard this cardinal on my window air conditioner. Obviously a male, I could tell (the way you often can when you're just waking, still half asleep) what he was singing. It went like this (the first syllable descending with the last kicking up):

Sooooooooooooooo purdee, Soooooooooooooo purdee, Soooooooooooooo purdee purdee purdee purdee!

He was singing an ode to himself.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

One morning I was woken rather late, in a jolting fashion. The Sun was well up and I heard this cardinal on my window air conditioner. Obviously a male, I could tell (the way you often can when you're just waking, still half asleep) what he was singing. It went like this (the first syllable descending with the last kicking up):

Sooooooooooooooo purdee, Soooooooooooooo purdee, Soooooooooooooo purdee purdee purdee purdee!

He was singing an ode to himself.

Congrats on the mirror-clean windows! Perhaps other birds will hear of it and come to admire themselves.

[fcooke]

Mirror clean windows means the birds fly into them. In NYC there's a morning routine where maintenance folk go out in the early morning to clean up the ones who fly too fast into the shiny skyscrapers.

[RangerJoe]

That is not bad if it is a grouse or something like that. A turkey might break the window. Put up a window cling of a Hawk or an Owl then you won't have birds hitting the windows.

[Ian R]

Dug this up - took it 10 years ago. If one of these is outside your window, no alarm clock necessary.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Ian R

Dug this up - took it 10 years ago. If one of these is outside your window, no alarm clock necessary.

Well, when you have a jungle on your balcony you have to expect kookaburras! Did he laugh at you (per the song)? [:D]

[Will_L]

A pair of mockingbirds decided to nest in the juniper bush in my front yard. I'm glad that I sleep in the back bedroom since they are teaching the chicks their song, a mashup of every single car alarm in existence. They go until around 3:30 in the morning, take a nap and start up again around 4:30. Didn't have them in my area until West Nile Fever killed off a lot of the sparrows and pigeons which we were inundated with.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

A pair of mockingbirds decided to nest in the juniper bush in my front yard. I'm glad that I sleep in the back bedroom since they are teaching the chicks their song, a mashup of every single car alarm in existence. They go until around 3:30 in the morning, take a nap and start up again around 4:30. Didn't have them in my area until West Nile Fever killed off a lot of the sparrows and pigeons which we were inundated with.

The joy of birds in the city is their bird songs. [:D]

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Well, when you have a jungle on your balcony you have to expect kookaburras! Did he laugh at you (per the song)? [:D]

He used to sit on the ledge outside my bedroom window and announce the rising of the sun.

It was like a 30 round mag going through a Bren gun.

This little fellow, on the other hand was the C.O. of a company of about a dozen rainbow lorikeets, who mostly visit in mating pairs, but quite often would all line up on the balcony raid. Smart, curious, and totally unafraid of humans - happy to come and sit on your hand and eat. Omnivorious, but eat a lot of fruit and nectars. They basically thrive in conditions of human development, and are under no threat. You do not often see the juveniles (with a darker coloured beak), so I expect they have them stashed up a tree somewhere when the do their rounds of the silly humans they visit to get free food.

They are also cheeky little buggers.

[Zorch]

This thread is for birdbrains. [:D]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Zorch

This thread is for birdbrains. [:D]

That is why you like it so much. [8D]

That movie was based on a true story. [X(]

[geofflambert]

Jammin'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er0XcerLxiE

[geofflambert]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqdRQxgtZtI

[fcooke]

I've had a couple of interesting bird moments. At a party once in our building when we lived Hoboken. Some type of keet flew in through a window. I eventually convinced it I was a friendly and it let me take it to my apartment. I didn't have a birdcage so I kept it in the 2nd bathroom. It made a bit of a mess of it, but at least it was just the bathroom and not the whole place. Put up flyers but no owner appeared, but someone did come forward to adopt, so that was good.

Later in Hoboken, in our brownstone, we did not have screens on the windows, and a sparrow flew in and settled in one of our lights (a bowl shaped job). It let me hold it and release back out the window. So maybe I have a way with birds.

[geofflambert]

start listening at 1:08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKEPkDvfyz0

[geofflambert]

I don't have a screen on the window I take pictures from. One year a chimney swift flew in. They can only perch on vertical surfaces and if they're grounded they're absolutely helpless and can't get airborne. My cat was in the room and very interested. The bird was flapping and squawking something fierce. I picked it up by the wings just aft of the wrist between thumb and index finger and took a close look at it (I wasn't sure at the time what kind of bird it was) then heaved it back out the window and it flew off nicely. The next year it happened again. This time the bird didn't flap or squawk and was very calm while I picked it up and tossed it out the window. I had to wonder if it was the same bird.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

start listening at 1:08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKEPkDvfyz0

[:D] I didn't know Darth Vader had a pet!

[geofflambert]

I knew an amazon that did the music from Jurassic Park. Perfect for the little T-Rex. When the T-Rex's pupil would narrow from the flashlight in it's eyes, so would the pupils on Bogart the amazon. If you know amazons, that means hide your fingers or they might get bitten off.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I knew an amazon that did the music from Jurassic Park. Perfect for the little T-Rex. When the T-Rex's pupil would narrow from the flashlight in it's eyes, so would the pupils on Bogart the amazon. If you know amazons, that means hide your fingers or they might get bitten off.

Yes Amazons are fierce and will bite things when excited. Be glad if it's only your finger ...