katherinebird encounters thread :)
cardinal in the tree!!
- one thing i selfishly love about winter is that i can spot the birds so much more easily in the bare branches than when the leaves are out (selfish because that's probably not good for the bird)
- it's so exciting to actually see a northern cardinal because i'm not used to seeing colourful birds like that! sparrow, pigeon, duck, goose, yes, but to see a shock of red in the trees, when i happen to be at a good angle so the bird isn't completely backlit by the sky — what a treat!
- there were some huge gusts throughout the night a few days ago. was happy to see that the big nest up in the tree survived :)
- was walking with my partner this morning and we heard a bird. i said that's a blue jay :) sure enough, a little later, we saw a blue jay fly through and land on a sill of a house nearby :)
- what a pastime! just to be able to listen and look up and around and be rewarded for it all the time
- was walking with my partner this morning and we heard a bird. i said that's a blue jay :) sure enough, a little later, we saw a blue jay fly through and land on a sill of a house nearby :)
- what a pastime! just to be able to listen and look up and around and be rewarded for it all the time
- i hear a cardinal way off in the distance :')) it's very rewarding to have learned to pick up on the sounds myself, so i don't have to rely on merlin sound ID, especially when it's so far off that the sound recording probably wouldn't be able to pick it up! it feels like a superpower
this is my best textual impression of my neighbourhood #birds
house sparrow: tweep twop tweep twop
🕊️ mourning dove: ooooh-whoa, oooh ooh-oooh
🔺 northern cardinal: doo-wop doo-wop, dweeee dweee bup-bup-bup-bup-bup
🐦 blue jay: caaaw caw
🎩 black-capped chickadee: teee-ee hoo
🎀 robin: eep... eep (this is one of their calls that I think is funny because it sounds like the squeak of a chair or something)
Jane@kayserifserif hermit thrush: ooooo w📀👾💾🛜🤖➗👽🛸
Ste Grainer@kayserifserif These are great! We have a lot of the same around here. We also have some gray catbirds that sound like little kittens mewing when they call.
I’ve found I can do a decent impression of a mourning dove call by hand whistling:
