Birds you saw today

[lutra]

Cannot recall if I ever saw a stork, or a couple of storks together usually, here at my whereabouts. Been here for 20 years now and I think I'd remember if I did.. so think they're not really many of them nearby in this region. Butz?

Love 'em.. impressive birds.. the sound they make is nice as well. 'Klepperen' I think it's called officially but I have no idea what it is in proper English. 

Those little mistakes naming birds in English are easily made (no worries) and I've done similarly so quite often/that many times I make sure to double/triple check nowadays. What I do a lot (when in doubt/often so) is look for an animal, other stuff, in Dutch on wikipedia and then check the name by clicking on 'English' in the list on the leftside a little lower down the Dutch page. Is helpful for German too. Other languages..

['andersom']

I used to do that Wikipedia trick. But on the phone I have to do it by searching for the Latin name and then find the English page. No menu on the left with a range of languages, alas.

Hardly a trip to the east or the north goes by without seeing a stork or two. Beautiful birds. In a month or so they'll start flocking together. A field with 50 or more of them is an awesome sight.

[Phoenix]

That is something I would love to see

['andersom']

Past few days, Eurasian blackcap, thrush, tits, bullfinch, robin, blackbird (turdus merula), another finch, some wood nuthatches, short toed threecreepers.

Most puzzling were a few brown small birds. Some a bit scruffy, all pretty audacious. They looked so familiar, but could not come up with what birds they were. By chance found what they were. And immediately understood whey they were so familiar. Juvenile robins. Already on their own, without a ruby chest.

[Phoenix]

Saw 5 of these beauties today hanging out at a local farm. Turkey vultures.

[Phoenix]

I have a ton of redwing blackbirds in my yard. I love their markings. Reminds me of that kids craft that is paper which is all black, but if you scrape the black, there's rainbow colours underneath.

[Phoenix]

Lots of black capped chickadees around. I like these fellas because they're very animated and curious.

[Parts]

A pair of red-tailed hawks heard them calling before I saw them passing over

['andersom']

Mewing sounds in the sky. Went out to see. Family of buzzards going for a Sunday "stroll". Mama, papa and three kids. Nice sight.

[Bastet]

Who are you stalking now?

[renaeden]

We see these birds a lot and they're quite noisy. We in the west call them 28s. I remember Kayleigh wasn't here for very long and I was driving us somewhere when one of these parrots flew past. I said, "There goes a 28". Kayleigh asked,"What the hell is a 28?" Her being from Victoria.

[Lord of the Ales]

Good necro  You have such colourful birds in Australia.

Today saw a very well camouflaged thrush in the leaf litter out walking, along with assorted coots, moorhens, mute swans, mallards and canada geese around the lake, the waterfowl all have chicks this time of year which are fun to watch.

Is it true that in North America you look at canada geese as aggressive? If so I assume that's because you aren't acquainted with European geese. They're feisty. 

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

These, eastern rosellas, are probably the most colourful birds that we have visit, along with the rainbow lorikeets of course



But the rainbow lorikeets are so common, it's like seeing a sparrow in the UK.

[renaeden]

We don't get many rainbow parakeets in the West.

[Parts]

We get monk parakeets they are not so pretty and are loud as hell,  normally I don't even see them just hear them squawking as they fly by