Bird words

[FanGirl3..milady]

This is a new thread for all non-Stevie's-canaries-related avian discussion.

I have started it because I've noticed there seem to be a lot of pied wagtails about at the moment.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

I've not seen a pied wagtail in years.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

I did recently see two jays in my garden. I've never seen two jays in my garden simultaneously before.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

Then a magpie chased them off.

[Butterfield]

I don't know what a pied wagtail looks like.

I do see and am able to identify robins and blue tits though. We have a lot of wood pigeons and aforementioned magpies though which I think scare the little birds away.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

A pied wagtail looks like a small, slender magpie and keeps waggling its tail around.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

[Butterfield]

I don't think I've ever noticed one of those before, although I do know the name "wagtail". I think my mum, as a casual bird spotter, has mentioned them before.

[FanGirl3..milady]

A pied wagtail looks like a small, slender magpie

It's their mini-magpie appearance that I like

[FanGirl3..milady]

The reason I keep seeing them in car parks is that they 'find insects easier to locate in such barren environments'

Good for them. Long may they continue to run frantically round in car parks

[Butterfield]

I like it when wildlife adapts to random human creations.

All I need now is confirmation that birds like listening to fireworks.

[Butterfield]

Today's featured article on Wikipedia:

The red-backed fairywren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-backed_fairywren

[Stevie-Baby]

There are quite a lot of Wagtail round here also, I put it down to a certain sl*tty canary waving her batty around in the window last summer.

[FanGirl3..milady]

I notice the fallen tree, and piles of cut branches, are attracting lots of birds. I suppose they're hoping to find delicious insects on the wood.

[FanGirl3..milady]

These last few days I've noticed a lot of sparrows and blackbirds with their feathers puffed up, and abandoning their usual fear of humans in their dedicated quest for something to eat.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

I've not seen any birds. I think they've all decided to go to sleep until it's all over.

[Call_of_the_Wendigo]

There is a set of bird footprints in the snow in my garden. They're the first that have appeared in my garden since the snow starting falling last Monday.

[FanGirl3..milady]

Live birdage! A pair of crows are standing on the roof of that house beyond my garden, eating something, and seagulls keep swooping over them trying to steal it.