Any Birders here?

[SDMF]

for kicks I used my pot call and got it to register as a turkey.

I would've thought it to register as either Cheech, Chong, or Spicolli.

Swaro has a new set of binocs out that when it sees the bird (or other critter depending on setting), it'll tell you what bird/critter you're looking at.

AI Swarovski Binoculars

 

[Sum1]

That is one bird i have never seen in ND. I have always wondered why so many school mascots were Cardinals when we dont have many around.

It has a very distinct call also. I remember the first spring that I heard it made me stop and think “I have never heard that call before” and looked for the bird making it. Everytime I would hear I would look for it and it was always in behind his house which is across the street. Then I caught a glimpse of him up in tree. I was very suprised cause I have never seen one. I think this is the third spring he has come back. It’s kinda cool cause I’ll walk outside on a warm spring morning and can hear him calling from his back yard and I’ll know he’s back again. Kind of a neat deal.

Also my ex lives a Couple miles away and the boy said that he has heard the same call over by her house. Makes me wonder if it isn’t an offspring of this one

 

[bucksnbears]

Had a Flicker woodpecker land on a steel drum early this morning.
He wound hammer away, look around for a few minutes then start his calling.
Went on for bout 1/2 hour.
Kinda cool to watch.

 

[luvcatchingbass]

I would've thought it to register as either Cheech, Chong, or Spicolli.

Swaro has a new set of binocs out that when it sees the bird (or other critter depending on setting), it'll tell you what bird/critter you're looking at.

AI Binoculars

Haha after I typed it I was wondering if a comment like that would come out, I would have been disappointed if someone didn't.
Those Swaro's sound neat

 

[svnmag]

It has a very distinct call also. I remember the first spring that I heard it made me stop and think “I have never heard that call before” and looked for the bird making it. Everytime I would hear I would look for it and it was always in behind his house which is across the street. Then I caught a glimpse of him up in tree. I was very suprised cause I have never seen one. I think this is the third spring he has come back. It’s kinda cool cause I’ll walk outside on a warm spring morning and can hear him calling from his back yard and I’ll know he’s back again. Kind of a neat deal.

Also my ex lives a Couple miles away and the boy said that he has heard the same call over by her house. Makes me wonder if it isn’t an offspring of this one

You are being told to buy an Electric Vehicle.

 

[Prairie Doggin']

Turkeys showboating for the ladies tonight as I was sucking at golf.

 

[SDMF]

Haha after I typed it I was wondering if a comment like that would come out, I would have been disappointed if someone didn't.
Those Swaro's sound neat

You can click the link in my previous post and see the AI Birding binocs for yourself.

 

[BDub]

You can click the link in my previous post and see the AI Birding binocs for yourself.

they are pricey but appear to be a really cool toy.

 

[Davey Crockett]

You can click the link in my previous post and see the AI Birding binocs for yourself.

Those are cool , id like to find a camera app like that if anyone knows of one .

 

[CAH]

Those are cool , id like to find a camera app like that if anyone knows of one .

Merlin ID does that

 

[Davey Crockett]

Merlin ID does that

Oh, nice. I was under the impression that it was only audio, I'll check it out.

We have lots of woodpeckers , must be mating call to peck on loud stuff , watched one hang upside down from plastic Oriole feeder right by the house rattling away it was loud, I ended up chasing him away
Once in a while we hear pileated woodpeckers. They remind me of a machine gun and seeing what they can do to a tree, looks like it was shot with one too.

 

[SDMF]

Those are cool , id like to find a camera app like that if anyone knows of one .

The binocs have a 13MP camera built in.

 

[Allen]

Oh, nice. I was under the impression that it was only audio, I'll check it out.

We have lots of woodpeckers , must be mating call to peck on loud stuff , watched one hang upside down from plastic Oriole feeder right by the house rattling away it was loud, I ended up chasing him away
Once in a while we hear pileated woodpeckers. They remind me of a machine gun and seeing what they can do to a tree, looks like it was shot with one too.

Yes, the hammering on hard surfaces is exactly that, a mating call. Want him to quit, you will have to either shoot him or get him a date.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Purple Martins surprised me this morning, seems early, at first there was a pair and last I saw there were 3 of them.
I don't ever recall seeing it snow after Martins show up. Haven't saw any Orioles yet.

 

[svnmag]

Yes, the hammering on hard surfaces is exactly that, a mating call. Want him to quit, you will have to either shoot him or get him a date.

I used to be in the same way.

 

[svnmag]

Anyways; another plug: "The Big Year".

 

[Rowdie]

The swallows showed up today. May 1st this year. It's always the 1st week of May 27 years in a row.

 

[MSA]

So I have about 25-30 turkey vultures that roost in a radio tower above my house. You think if I tossed a dead carp, or a cleaned deer carcass in the back yard they'd come in? Probably put me on all the neighbor's shit lists.

 

[Davey Crockett]

They would probably wait for it to get ripe. I stopped on a gravel road right beside 4 of them fighting over an old rank skunk carcass, It was like 90* in august and I rolled down the window and it stunk so bad that I almost puked. We have them close to the yard , In the spring when the adults are feeding the young they sound just like a bunch of monkeys in the woods and seem to go almost non stop. If they weren't federally protected I'd recommend the "Quiet pellet gun" thread.

 

[MSA]