# What birds can you see now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 5, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190 "2008-03-05T15:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/21 "2008-03-06T15:53:13Z")
A gull flew over just a moment ago. We’re right by the sea, but that’s irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/22 "2008-03-06T19:19:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] The man across the road has a pair of tits in his apple tree. At least I assume they’re a pair - they might be two odd ones. [/QUOTE] Good Lord! I _hope_ they’re a pair! Otherwise, he’s got TWO naked women in his apple tree! I have a mockingbird outside my bedroom window. First thing I hear every morning when I wake up. And the best part is, it’s the first time in years that mockingbirds don’t seem to be including car alarms in their repertoire. (Damndest thing I ever heard, that!) ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/23 "2008-03-06T19:47:21Z")
I don’t know the scientific name, but there’s the usual bunch of what I’ve termed Shut The Fuck Up With That Racket Can’t You See I’m Trying To Work In Here birds outside my window. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/24 "2008-03-07T00:01:53Z")
March 5th was the 55th anniversary of Josef Stalin’s death. I went for a walk and saw a some finches with RED heads. Then I saw some thrashers with SICKLE shaped bills. Then I saw a woodpecker and it was HAMMERing on a tree. Proof that birds are communist! Right now I see and hear two very angry ringneck parrots. I think it’s past their dinnertime. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/25 "2008-03-07T00:08:07Z")
I saw a barn owl yesterday, and not where I was particularly expecting one, feeding on insects attracted to the lights of the 24-hour supermarket. Other than that, the usual blackbirds, collared doves, ocassional finches, and so on. Robins are all over the place at the moment as well, being brash and staking claim on territory, I presume. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/26 "2008-03-07T02:20:38Z")
My psychotic peach-faced lovebird, Shiva, who is trying to convince me to let him out so that he can stalk the rottweiler. Again. Can you say death wish? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/27 "2008-03-07T08:29:11Z")
I keep misreading the thread title and thinking someone has opened one of those copycat-companion-counterpoint threads, titled “What birds can see _you_ now?”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/28 "2008-03-07T16:17:49Z")
From my windows here at home, I’ve seen robins, nightingales, gulls, crows, ravens, sparrows, canadian geese, mallards,cooper’s hawk, red tails, turkey vulture, doves, pigeons, hummingbirds, cormorants, phoebes, vireos, scrub jays, bushtits, starlings, towhees, juncos and finches. Oops, almost forgot my neighbor’s cockatiel. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/29 "2008-03-07T16:59:09Z")
Few ravens in the trees here by the office (mostly squirrels, though). ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/30 "2008-03-07T18:45:03Z")
I saw my first robin! It must be spring. Okay, the robin and a bunch of pidgeons on the telephone wire. ``` I wouldn't actually kill a mockingbird, but I understand why I'm not the first one to think of it (when I lie awake sleepless at 3:00 in the morning). ``` ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/31 "2008-03-07T19:46:33Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I keep misreading the thread title and thinking someone has opened one of those copycat-companion-counterpoint threads, titled “What birds can see _you_ now?”. [/QUOTE] That would still be a [turkey buzzard](http://www.flickr.com/photos/7161556@N03/2312949594/in/photostream/). They’re kinda creepy… ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190/32 "2008-03-08T00:23:08Z")
Every time I see this thread, it is dark outside and I can’t see ANY birds. So, I’m counting the turkeys that roosted in the trees just a bit ago. I see them every moring and afternoon, so I feel confident that, if I were to shimmy up the pines in the dark, I could at least hear and feel the big buggers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-can-you-see-now/440190.md?page=1)