My wife got me birds of Europe last year because I once mentioned it's a neat book (my parents have it). Next thing I know I buy some binoculars for birdwatching and started tracking the birds that visit my garden. It's not a spectacular list but I am proud of it because I used the book to identify the birds and got it confirmed with birdnet. The list: house sparrow, blackbird, goldfinch, swift, common house martin, common linnet, greenfinch and blue tits. Edit: and wood doves
I love this list! OP, go out hiking in the spring and see some more. It's incredible to experience.
This is me.
I love watching the crested pigeons and turtle doves, and trying to understand their culture.
I still think it's beautiful. Just listen to songs they've made in pursuit of getting some.
Listen to the songs people have made with the same agenda. Pretty good too.
I feel like I've seen this exact joke in several different web comics
My cousin at 31 years old said this weekend, "I know I'm getting old because I was sitting on a swing at a friends and thought to myself 'This would be a great spot to watch birds from'."
Birds are super cute, but younger people are often too focused on themselves to even see how cool they are. :)
Except of course if they can get Instagram likes for the pictures of birds, then it's interesting... :p
Yes I'm stereotyping here.... I'm aware.
This made me laugh. I'm in my early 40s and in the past six months I've been using the Merlin app to identify birds by their song. It's really fun to see what's going on around me in terms of birds. I had no interest before.
What kind have you spotted?
The craziest bird sighting I made was a pileated woodpecker. Man those things are big!
That's because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.
Relatable. Birds are suddenly really interesting in your 30s.
I'm in my sixties and still don't care about birds. Conversely, I've started to really enjoy killing rats though
Lol the fuck is wrong with you
I dunno why, but I've always been fascinated by the twitchy, blank-eyed movements they make. Also, there are some fantastic high def videos of birds that my kiddo's cat loves to watch with me.
You can see the dinosaur in them
I love how birds are named. Look Debbie, it's a Coloredpart Sounditmakes.
Oddly enough, other than the "part" thing, the Grey go-away-bird follows that formula. Not so much with the sad flycatcher (who'll be alright, he just needs to process it all), the little bustard or the drab seedeater , who was clearly named by a dude who hates birds 😂
"Drab Seedeater" really was named by an ornithologist who was just god damned done that day, huh?
🤣🤣🤣
Today I totally realized this. Thank you
My favorite of this pattern has to be the ruby throated hummingbird.
I love my Tits
Black cap,blue,long tailed tits,great tits I love em
Plane watching is basically birdwatching for nerds.
Very relatable. I started leaving food for some local magpies about a year ago, and now they wake me up every morning at 6.
I once had a problem when suddenly some tits arrived and started stealing all the food. A huge magpie would take like one hazelnut and be on its way, while these small fuckers would eat like pigs, and then hide what was left. They'd take the nuts and shove them somewhere between the flowers on my balcony. Tough the magpies too have often burried nuts in the soil below the flowers, only to dig them out again.
And it was so cool to watch some sparrow coming and going a dozen times to pull out some weeds that have been growing (I left the pots with the flowers outside over winter, the flowers died and weeds started to grow), and then carry them to a hole in a wall where a brick is missing which presumably is the nest.
But it was so so cool when I got woken up a few days in succession to a silhouette of a majestic crow standing on my balcony (my bed looks directly through the balcony window facing north-east). Crows are so cool, and magpies are really beatutiful, though extremely skittish.
That's cool.
I have these three ravens who like to hang out in my backyard every morning and walk around looking for stuff. They're pretty chill and don't give me too hard if a time. I think they like the compost pile with bugs, and we leave some water out for them.
But holy shit when they throw a house party and on Saturday afternoon you realize you've got a dozen crows on your roof making a racket, does it ever get noisy!
Look, Raymond. A yellow crested warbler.
I got into birding this spring as a hobby, thinking to myself "it's free, you just need to use your eyes and ears", withing a month I bought a $350 pair of binoculars. I've managed to fight off the temptation of a decent camera so far, thankfully. I found a great park at the tail end of spring migration about 10 minutes from my apartment, and the dawn chorus was almost sensory overload, the was so many different species singing and calling. I'm looking forward to what new birds I'll see during this fall migration and especially next spring migration.
“Look Raymond, a yellow crested warbler”
bIrDs ArEn'T rEaL pEoPlE! Spy drones!
Sorry Jesse Case, I think I must have been born old. I've always noticed birds, if I see or hear a species I can't recognise, especially if near where I live, I must id it to restore my inner peace. I'm yet to see this change as I age
My 63yo mom likes to memorize birds names in the same way 90s kids did with pokemons. I think she does it since she was a child. When we're taking a walk together she points to the birds and say their names. And I learn to much with her, I love when she does it!
So Lemmy believes in birds?
We're still in the age of dinosaurs.
Some even taste good.
Can confirm, I got into photography a few years ago and now I basically just follow birds around. I post some of the better ones I manage to get here :) https://pixelfed.social/yogthos
I spent 10 years photographing useless stuff. Birds opened my eyes.
I find I enjoy nature photography in general, but birds just have so much variety to them. :)
Actually, that's a Vexlers Northern Swamp Warbler- you can tell by the gorsach veining on the pin feathers.
The older I get the more I do know about birds ...but enjoy fucking with borders more.
Birds aren't real.
I know it's the entire point, and "lol u mad," etc., but boy do I hate this meme.
Putting this on my list of whitest sentences of all time