the cardinals look so pathetically bedraggled today (it's cold and windy and rainy)

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is that brown bird thrashing through the leaf litter a Brown Thrasher or a Hermit Thrush

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everything is terrible but a couple of chickadees dropped by and one took half a peanut from my hand

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❌ "O Canada"
✅ "Oh Sweet Canada-Canada-Canada-Canada"

nothing but respect for MY national anthem

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In #birdeing news, yesterday i had a conversation with a neighbour about how it was so nice out, and there are so many birds...She was like, "I like those ones that are all black with a little red on their wings"

Me: "oh, the red-winged blackbirds"

Neighbour: "what"

Me: "the red-winged blackbirds...they're called that because they're all black, with red on their wings…you know what, never mind"

Oh no. Oh no. The red-winged blackbirds and starlings discovered the sunflower seeds. Two of each stopped by.

I'm probably just gonna have to do what I do with house sparrows and squirrels and stop putting out seeds until they forget about it. Or only put out a batch first thing in the morning so only the earliest risers get it.

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i don't particularly care for public displays of affection but the male cardinal is feeding the female seeds which i find inutterably cute

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Controversial take: North American robins > European robins

European robins:
- scrawny
- territorial
- just a small splash of red
- normal looking eggs
- average song

North American robins:
- beautiful liquid song
- good bird size
- full red breast and belly
- happily hang out with each other (and starlings, and grackles, and blackbirds, etc.)
- very pretty blue-green eggs

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ran out of sunflower seeds on a stat holiday and the chickadees are PISSED

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Red-tailed Hawk! At Bloor & Christie

While I was looking at it two separate groups of children with parents also stopped to admire the hawk.

The squirrels were being very impertinent.

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