Wild Side Ornithology Club

[freedombecki]

Thanks, Ernie. Great show.
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The Summer tanager has a following at you tube it seems:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3pZ3t2i4E]Summer Tanager[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3pZ3t2i4E"][/ame]

 

[freedombecki]

Song of the yellow warbler
and a little nest-building, too.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pgQfRnw3LI]Yellow Warbler Singing & Building Nest - YouTube[/ame]
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[Si modo]

Upon seeing the title, I thought this was about del.

After seeing the content, it is!


(Joking, del...)

 

[freedombecki]

Indigo bunting singing

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJTaV95E9Qg"]Indigo Bunting - YouTube[/ame]​

 

[freedombecki]

A Trio of Blue Birds
Eastern Bluebird, Indigo Bunting, and Blue Groesbeak

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNXmcPT565w]Blue Songbirds.mov - YouTube[/ame]
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[freedombecki]

The Sound of Spring in Birdsong

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9RO_v52e4]The sounds of spring - bird songs - YouTube[/ame]
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[Foxfyre]

The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.

Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URTdcHpPm0k&feature=player_emb]CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Si modo]

I thought this was a cool finding when it first came out: City mockingbirds can tell the difference between individual people : Not Exactly Rocket Science

 

[freedombecki]

Sunrise with Songbirds
Lovely Birds of Texas

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIQ0o2DEbg]"Sunrise with Song Birds" 15min Sunrise w/o Music - YouTube[/ame]


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[freedombecki]

The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.

Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:

CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube

What a character, Foxfyre.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Another take on To Kill a Mockingbird....

Bird Bullies Cat EPIC FAIL!!! w/YouTube Editor - YouTube
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Cat might have been looking for the nest and the chicks. One brave bird.

 

[Big Black Dog]

I am a little confused about the purpose of this thread. I was prepared to post a picture that could be used as the "standard" for all small measurements. Sorry.

 

[freedombecki]

Another take on To Kill a Mockingbird....

Bird Bullies Cat EPIC FAIL!!! w/YouTube Editor - YouTube
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Cat might have been looking for the nest and the chicks. One brave bird.

That's exactly what I thought, Baruch, but someone already had a panacea that the bird was just vicious and that the cat refused to be its victim. The cat probably ate the eggs or chicks, too. *sigh*

I love mockingbirds. They're such characters.

Sorry, Baruch. The popup says <you have given out too much reputation in 24 hours. Try back again later.>

 

[Foxfyre]

The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.

Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:

CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube

What a character, Foxfyre.

They really are. They can make a cat or dog or even a coyote's life miserable when they know they can do it safely. And they seem to know.

However this isn't really about the bird, but this footage of an angry mother rabbit attacking a snake is one of the most amazing things I've seen. But note the curious bird who approaches to watch the show.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_SxwbotS0]Rabbit Attacks Snake - YouTube[/ame]

Science has long taught us that these are creatures operating on pure instinct with no ability of independent thought. I have never believed that and the older I get, the less I believe it.

 

[freedombecki]

I am a little confused about the purpose of this thread. I was prepared to post a picture that could be used as the "standard" for all small measurements. Sorry.

Mea maxima culpa, Big Black Dog. Glad you made it to 1500 today. I still have two to go. *sigh* to 1000. <hint, hint>

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I am a little confused about the purpose of this thread. I was prepared to post a picture that could be used as the "standard" for all small measurements. Sorry.

If that is what you are looking for, here is the internet standard:

 

[freedombecki]

The Roadrunner is New Mexico's state bird. We get a lot of videos of them, but it is almost impossible to get a home video of a roadrunner really stretched out running full steam because they are so fast. But they are highly intelligent, funny with a sense of humor, and sometimes pretty sociable.

Kudos to this homeowner who got this footage of a roadrunner playing with their cat:

CAT AND ROADRUNNER - YouTube

What a character, Foxfyre.

They really are. They can make a cat or dog or even a coyote's life miserable when they know they can do it safely. And they seem to know.

However this isn't really about the bird, but this footage of an angry mother rabbit attacking a snake is one of the most amazing things I've seen. But note the curious bird who approaches to watch the show.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E_SxwbotS0"]Rabbit Attacks Snake - YouTube[/ame]

Science has long taught us that these are creatures operating on pure instinct with no ability of independent thought. I have never believed that and the older I get, the less I believe it.

Rabbits will attack predators. It's hard to say whether the rabbit diverted the snake away from her underground nest or was trying to get her babies back.

I reran the video three times, and the bird has the head shape and a suspicious v-neck marking that wants me to say it could be a Western Meadowlark, but I'm not 100% certain. Most of the meadowlarks in Wyoming, where we lived for 35 years, were very, very shy. However, it could be that curiosity got the better of the bird's no-contact senses or it could've thought while the rabbit's away... baby rabbits can be quite tiny at first.

 

[freedombecki]

The Western Meadowlark has a truly beautiful song. It is the state bird of Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, and Wyoming. On our ranch in Wyoming, you can hear and sometimes see them, but they don't like to be on the human radar scope and will hide, with one exception. Sometimes they will sit on a fence for hours.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk4S2spFdcs"]Western Meadowlark - YouTube[/ame]
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[freedombecki]

The mockingbird

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMpe34Aign4]Northern Mockingbird Sings - YouTube[/ame]

Hope you enjoy this link as much as I did: Do mockingbirds have their own special call or do they mimick other birds?
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[Foxfyre]

Rabbits will attack predators. It's hard to say whether the rabbit diverted the snake away from her underground nest or was trying to get her babies back.

I reran the video three times, and the bird has the head shape and a suspicious v-neck marking that wants me to say it could be a Western Meadowlark, but I'm not 100% certain. Most of the meadowlarks in Wyoming, where we lived for 35 years, were very, very shy. However, it could be that curiosity got the better of the bird's no-contact senses or it could've thought while the rabbit's away... baby rabbits can be quite tiny at first.

Maybe, but I've never seen rabbits be concerned about the meadowlarks that are both herbivorous and carnivorous but seem interested, at least to me, in smaller insects. And I don't know. You may be right that the bird in the video is a meadowlark, but if it is, it is an unusualy large one. Or maybe I'm just not remembering them all that well as we have been gone from Kansas a long time now.