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Feb 17, 2013 05:13AM
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Don't start me! My name is the name of a native bird in this country. In spring the tuis drink the nectar in the tree that flowers outside my office window.I could go on forever about our beautiful and disappearing native birds. I'd better just shut up now.
In a way I am. I get bored easily when there isn't much going on but I do like to watch Hawks and other birds of prey when they are flying. And at the risk of sounding cruel even though don't mean it this way I also like watching them hunt. Watching predators hunt has always been something I like because there's something about how they move and go about hunting prey that interests me.
Jennifer, I see many hawks near my house and soaring on the breezes. They are glorious to watch. I've even had the great privilege to once be visited at home by one of the rarest of birds, a native NZ falcon. He was probably visiting from his home on our nearby mountain.
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My mom would sit on her porch and watch her hummingbirds for long periods of time.
I like mostly any bird, but love the colorful ones.
OKAY! Here we are discussing birds, so I feel I just have to mention the book Jonathan Livingston Seagull. It's a mind/body/spirit novella written from the point of view of an advanced seagull soul. Anyone else read it?
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I have not read it, but it sounds interesting.
It was all the rage in the seventies. It was a beautiful volume with semi-transparent pages overlaying one another with seagull-in-flight images. You may be able to get it as an e-book but you'd miss that graphical element. But the story would not have changed and would stand alone without any images. The author is Richard Bach.
I just checked and there is no e-book, but you could get it at the local library probably.
I like watching birds, especially at a feeder or a nest. I like watching them interact. My cats also love watching them through the patio door. They are entertained w/ out the birds being scared away. I especially love bluebirds, hummingbirds and one I don't get to see often, but love...the owl.
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I bet your cat loves watching them. lol. I'm sure those birds could entertain your cats for hours.
Yups! Fortunately, there are lots of birds near my home and occasionally a pigeon or two almost enter my room :)
I gave up my most expensive ergonomic pillow so that my cats (yes, I do have two and Lilliput is loved as much as Pasha) can snuggle into the middle hollow (fighting over it at times; then they watch the bird feeders all day long.Bright red Cardinals right now; then later come the yellow Gold Finches.
But Arkansas is also known as having the majestic Bald Eagle. Here, on the lake, we are fortunate to have quite a few nesting sites. In my "Moments of the Heart," I describe a little adventure of two little (nice) old ladies thrashing about on private land to view them...luckily, the gun-toting landowner forgave our trespass and let us stay.
Wait! There is a Pileated Woodpecker! (I am writing next to a large picture window overlooking the woods/golf course...how different from the walls of the cities I used to live in! Happy exile, indeed.
I don't really bird watch I only Bird Watch if I am bored.
