# What birds do you see out your window? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184 "2007-01-16T12:35:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/21 "2007-01-16T20:21:50Z")
Yesterday: Flock of juncos Stellar’s jay pair of flickers robins and a couple of little birds too fast for me ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/22 "2007-01-16T20:27:34Z")
Last night around sunset I saw a big Bald Eagle sitting on a power pole near a creek. Granted, this was out of my car window, but still… That was one awesome looking bird. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/23 "2007-01-16T21:02:45Z")
I have a sunflower seed feeder, a suet block and a mesh bag of nettle seeds. I frequently see a downy woodpecker whom I’ve named Robert; he loves the suet. I see a lot of chickadees who grab a seed and fly off to eat elsewhere. I’ve seen one cardinal (on the snow–very pretty). Also when I sprinkle corn meal on the ground I’ve seen a bunch of this bigger brown bird I can’t identify. And ravens. And once I saw a whitebreasted nuthatch. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/24 "2007-01-16T21:04:22Z")
1 female cardinal 3 Nuthatches 6 Ground doves 1 huge frickn bird I’ve never seen in my life before. It’s shades of gary brown black and white being as big or bigger than the doves. ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/25 "2007-01-16T23:26:12Z")
Here are my daily visitors who come to my house. Eat all my bread. Poop all over my balcony and shriek and scream. [Balcony](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/threnodyangelfire/album/576460762337499532/photo/294928803536679619/0) [Fighting for food](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/threnodyangelfire/album/576460762337499532/photo/294928803536680283/1) [Yay! Bread](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/threnodyangelfire/album/576460762337499532/photo/294928803536690919/2) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/26 "2007-01-17T01:23:11Z")
[QUOTE=threnodyangelfire] Here are my daily visitors who come to my house. Eat all my bread. Poop all over my balcony and shriek and scream. [Balcony](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/threnodyangelfire/album/576460762337499532/photo/294928803536679619/0) [Fighting for food](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/threnodyangelfire/album/576460762337499532/photo/294928803536680283/1) [Yay! Bread](http://new.photos.yahoo.com/threnodyangelfire/album/576460762337499532/photo/294928803536690919/2) [/QUOTE] I was expecting flying monkeys. Darn! ---
**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/27 "2007-01-17T02:10:18Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] I was expecting flying monkeys. Darn! [/QUOTE] Heee! Fly my pretties! They’re just as noisy and messy as 'em. But they’re getting to the stage where I can touch them and handfeed them. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/28 "2007-01-17T03:10:26Z")
Occasionally we’ll get a bluejay or a cardinal, and sometimes robins and whipporwills, but mostly sparrows or blackbirds. They perch in the bushes around our neighborhood in spring and the song trickles through like a river, especially during the quietest parts of dawn. There’s a chip of plaster missing from one of our porch pillars out in front, just below the roof, and every winter a bluebird comes there to build his nest… ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/29 "2007-01-17T11:08:36Z")
Mourning Doves White Winged Doves Cooper’s Hawks House Finches House Sparrows Juncos Scrub Jays Flickers Robins Crows Sometimes there is a thrasher or a White Crowned Sparrow. I used to see a Collared Dove, but I think one of the hawks got it. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/30 "2007-01-17T13:07:06Z")
This morning: 2 Male cardinals 2 Female cardinals 1 Chickadee 1 Sparrow ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/31 "2007-01-17T15:45:28Z")
Out the window, at the feeder are Mostly chickadees (dee-dees). Up in the sky are Crows, Bald Eagles, and recently Swan. South Central BC, here. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/32 "2007-01-17T17:13:30Z")
In or near my back yard on a semi-regular basis: Mockingbirds Blue Jays Cardinals Doves (Mourning, Banded-neck and White Wing) Red-winged Blackbirds Grackles (both common and boat-tailed) Osprey Some sort of hawk (red-shouldered, possibly) The occasional woodpecker shows up–I think pileated mostly I hear quail, but never see them. I hear owls, too. And whipporwills. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/33 "2007-01-17T17:32:57Z")
I’ve got Quail the size of softballs running around the back yard and lately there has been a Falcon of some kind lurking around. Thousands of little sparrows and such as well. All trying to get into my garage and all shitting on everthing in the yard. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/34 "2007-01-17T18:05:49Z")
Humming birds in the trumpet vine plants Crows on the water fountains Pigeons perched on the downspouts under the eaves ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/35 "2007-01-17T18:11:01Z")
Junco and Black Capped Chickadees ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/36 "2007-01-17T19:09:28Z")
Oh, I forget, we also get these little finch-sized birds. I’m not sure what they are, but they are kee-yoot! ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/37 "2007-01-17T19:23:49Z")
OMG, thank you for reminding me – I now live on the second floor and can hang a bird feeder! **Hamish** will love it, and so will the cats (don’t be alarmed, they are never let outside; they’ll just enjoy a new program on Cat TV). Besides the usual urban birds, my mom gets goldfinches, chickadees, nuthatches, and the occasional cardinal at her backyard feeder. Up at the cottage, my grandfather used to get ruby-throated hummingbirds, blue jays, pileated woodpeckers, occasional grey jays, and great blue herons and common loons down at the dock. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/38 "2007-01-18T15:44:49Z")
My favorite Woodpecker is back. I can’t identify it, because it doesn’t match the plumage of one I’ve looked at for the last six months. It’s sort of like the red bellied woodpecker with only a small spot of red on top of the head just behind the eyes. It looks close to the golden fronted woodpecker without the two yellow head spots. The chest is white with a bluegray hue. 1 Woodpecker 1 Male cardinal 2 Female cardinals 4 Juncos 1 Blackcapped chickadee ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/39 "2007-01-18T16:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=Mr Bus Guy] About 500-600 Canadian Geese. Imagine the piles of poop they’re leaving out there! [/QUOTE] Nitpick: They’re Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese. About the only birds left around here are crows and chickadees. Perhaps the occasional nuthatch and blue jay. I love the springtime when the birds return. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184/40 "2007-01-18T17:29:23Z")
I’m going to cheat a bit since I can’t see out the window right now. But lately I’ve noticed nuthatches, tit mice, blue jays, cardials (a pair lives at the end of our driveway), chickadees and downy woodpeckers. I’m glad the unseasonable weather early this winter didn’t drive more birds north, though I miss seeing them about. I’ve heard Canadian geese recently, but didn’t see them. until people start saying Africa Lion, India Elephant, Siberia Tiger and America Bison, I’m not calling them Canad **a** Geese. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-birds-do-you-see-out-your-window/388184.md?page=3)