What is this thread all about?
Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
Does not need to be Q related.
Magical moment on my walk: two swans flew directly overhead. Stunning.
I totally get this! I have 3 red breasted nuthatches coming to my feeders. They're rare. I'm blessed!
Had to look them up, very pretty. I get a good mix feeding in my UK garden, collared doves are my favourites and robins, their songs match the nightingale's. Get woodpeckers, jackdaws, sparrows, blue tits, magpies, wrens, blackbirds, starlings and occasionally sparrow hawks. Wood pigeons get shooed away as the scoff all the food in nanoseconds. Wish I had a deterrent to persuade them life is better elsewhere.
Thanks! Western Wisconsin here. I think my favorite is the Tufted Titmouse
Sweet! So many of our beautiful birds have vanished over the years: lapwings and thrushes being the most notable. Such a shame. Butterflies too, there used to be so many, very sad.
That would be cool.
Speaking of birds, we’re on pip watch down here in FL with eagles Harriet and M15 expecting their eggs to hatch any day. Usually, one will hatch and a few days later, the other since they were laid a few days apart. It’s amazing to see the whole process. I’ve watched for several years now. If you need a break, I promise daily amazement and awe.
https://dickpritchettrealestate.com/southwest-florida-eagle-cam
Also want to add that there are Great Horned Owls on the property in the west pasture also nesting right now. It isn’t uncommon for the owls, who are also protecting their territory, to sometimes swoop in and knock the eagles off their perches in the evening hours. The GH owls are smaller and stealthier than the eagles- they make almost no sound when they approach so it’s alarming to see the eagles get “attacked” but they’re used to it and deal with it. Usually one eagle will sit on the nest with the eggs or eaglets and the other perches and semi sleeps and keeps watch and usually the one on the perch is attacked. If you end up following this eagle pair, expect this to happen. Remember the eagles are bigger. It’s hard not to get attached to them but it’s just part of their lives.
Stunning! I would love to see bald eagles. You live in an amazing country! A break would be heavenly - when non-vaxxed entry restrictions are lifted. Live in hope...
Also, my daughter saw a Great Horned owl swoop down and grab a rabbit in Seattle as she and her husband were walking home one night. Amazing.