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Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Coxswain Balls posted:

Are you telling me I can get high on birds?

Well, most birds have no trouble getting high

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Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





Tree Bucket posted:

Well, most birds have no trouble getting high

Birds love to get absolutely trashed.
Keruru in NZ regularly get banjaxed drunk on fermented fruit, to the extent that they have to be collected in baskets to save them from getting eaten while plastered. Various species of Waxwing have gigantic livers to cope with all the boozing they do every day.
tl/dr Birds are barflys whenever they get the chance.

Nordick
Sep 3, 2011

Yes.
Re: birds with delightful songs, it's that time of the year again when the first blackbirds are appearing here, and it makes me so happy. They tend to sing a lot at the wee hours when most other birds are quiet, so it really stands out how immaculately clear and melodious their sound is. I could listen to them for hours on end. (except I can't, because the sound is super soothing to me and I fall asleep)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wav6-GPBHZI

Unsinkabear
Jun 8, 2013

Ensign, raise the beariscope.





Nordick posted:

Re: birds with delightful songs, it's that time of the year again when the first blackbirds are appearing here, and it makes me so happy. They tend to sing a lot at the wee hours when most other birds are quiet, so it really stands out how immaculately clear and melodious their sound is. I could listen to them for hours on end. (except I can't, because the sound is super soothing to me and I fall asleep)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wav6-GPBHZI

Rightfully so! I could also listen to this forever, except my cat came over within seconds and started trying to hunt my monitor.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/4WGXGJe.mp4

Plant MONSTER.
Mar 16, 2018



I was watching simpsons at 0.75 without knowing until a scene where homer and bart were getting back massages at a hotel and the noises they were making were super drawn out like a youtube poop
The rooster was at that shop again. I just love it when he visits.



How rare is it for roosters to be chill?

ynohtna
Feb 16, 2007

backwoods compatible
Illegal Hen
That's a drat fine rooster!

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys


These are corellas. They're loud. Really really really loud. This was but a fraction of their stupidly huge flock, but my zoom lens wouldn't go any wider.
They're loud.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Thousands of these come to trees near my place to hang out every spring and OP above doesn't do justice to just how loud they are. I've been to raves where I couldn't get too close to the speakers or my stomach contents would shake to the bass and that wasn't as loud as these guys get.

lord funk
Feb 16, 2004

I have no idea how to embed an Instagram video but here we go.

"The birds outside my window at 5am"

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqbKdo5gc-Z/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

mystes
May 31, 2006

Thank you for the parrot for scale so we know how big the banana is

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦

I'm seein double! Four bananas!!

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



This just came up on SAD, and will be a cross post in several threads of pyf. If you have items that are on imgur you want to keep, now would be a good time.

https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1648883351233896448

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys


I don't know why, but this horse had a bodyguard of half a dozen egrets. Whenever he took a step, they'd bunch up and follow him, watching in all directions. I don't know enough about horses or egrets to say why.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



stork patrol

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Tree Bucket posted:



I don't know why, but this horse had a bodyguard of half a dozen egrets. Whenever he took a step, they'd bunch up and follow him, watching in all directions. I don't know enough about horses or egrets to say why.

Those are cattle egrets. They eat all the bugs and small critters stirred up by the horse moving around and eating grass.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/1649605045707747328?s=20

mrmcd
Feb 22, 2003

Pictured: The only good cop (a fictional one).


Mockingbirds are the best. A couple of years ago there was a pair on my block who would harass my neighbors cat, to the point where I actually saw them sitting on the neighbors deck yelling and screaming at the cat, while the cat was inside his own house. It got to the point where we could tell whenever the cat was around because we could hear the mockingbirds losing their poo poo outside even with the windows closed.

Tree Bucket
Apr 1, 2016

R.I.P.idura leucophrys

Cythereal posted:

Those are cattle egrets. They eat all the bugs and small critters stirred up by the horse moving around and eating grass.

Cool!
I wonder if there was a dinosaur equivalent.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
https://twitter.com/swausejon/status/1649646334620893184?s=20

SubponticatePoster
Aug 9, 2004

Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.
Slippery Tilde
Very :smith: face right there

Ariong
Jun 25, 2012

Get bashed, platonist!


It can’t be that dumb. It’s such a good writer.

uber_stoat
Jan 21, 2001



Pillbug

SubponticatePoster posted:

Very :smith: face right there

it would be tugging at its collar if it had one.

Potato Salad
Oct 23, 2014
Probation
Can't post for 4 hours!

what is that bird

FutonForensic
Nov 11, 2012

Potato Salad posted:

what is that bird

Looks like an Eastern Bluebird. I'm very fortunate to regularly see them in my backyard.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦

(May 2020ishly) nature is healing...

MissKeewi
May 19, 2013

Yellow Ant posted:

Birds are so freakin cute!

They hit a different cuteness factor than those robins, but I can’t wait to see the American Robins return soon.

I joined some birding Facebook page a while ago and I loved this comment someone left on a bird photo:



So true!

That's cute, around where I am the American Robins show up when it snows. Still see a couple now that it's getting warm, but not as much as back in January.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/KK0VOkX.mp4

its all nice on rice
Nov 12, 2006

Sweet, Salty Goodness.



Buglord
Saw some new birds in our backyard over the past few days. White-crowned sparrow and a red winged blackbird.
Thought the sparrow was a nuthatch, but the beak and coloring didn't match.
The merlin app is great for identifying birds.
Wasn't able to to get a picture of either, so here are ones from GIS.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

its all nice on rice posted:

a red winged blackbird.


This bird looks like a Canucks jersey from the 80s.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/oKrweJ5.mp4

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/JJHkyZC.mp4

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/725261377702199338/1101422808426356838/rapidsave.com_cruise_control-fd3fry3nnjwa1.mp4

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
https://i.imgur.com/xdpWHZp.mp4

MissKeewi
May 19, 2013


These ducklings made my day. I need to take a picture of all the goslings I walk by every day. There are like, 5 families with goslings right now.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



https://i.imgur.com/amFETiF.mp4

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK
Sep 11, 2001



Sound:
https://i.imgur.com/bnaytln.mp4

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
Teenage birbs all seem to look just like the adults except slightly scruffier, and constantly helplessly screaming for food which they apparently have the appetite of a forest fire for. ...okay, not much different.

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