Backyard bird watching

[ProfessorM]

Mockingbird calls are in my top 4 for sure. Some have been known to do 50 different calls in a row. Catbirds are pretty talented too but they never shut up. Got an affinity for the Carolina Wren but they are loud and early and wake me up some mornings, but probably my favorite bird. Beautiful to look at too. Also luv to listen to the Baltimore Orioles song too. Probably my fav though is the Robin. Listening to the robin as it starts to get dark in early spring as it sits high in the leafless tree is the best sound you can hear as it means the days are getting longer and warmer weather is coming out way. Brings me a smile all spring long.

[2na]

Tim, I've had them land on the feeder in my hand as I was hanging it in the spring. I've read about how to wean them away from fear by putting a little seed on a table next to you, then putting your hand on the table, next move it closer to the seed, then finally get the seed in your hand, but I just don't have the time. It would be cool, though.

Paul, I lived in an apartment next to a marsh way back when, and the mockingbirds would call nonstop straight through the night. It was the only noise in the neighborhood. I've read that yearlings do that.

[Backbeach Jake]

Catbirds watch me mow the lawn. Makes it easy for them to pick the worms and grubs out of the grass. Some times when I don't need to mow they'll sit in the Privets and bitch at me.

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by ProfessorM

Mockingbird calls are in my top 4 for sure. Some have been known to do 50 different calls in a row. Catbirds are pretty talented too but they never shut up. Got an affinity for the Carolina Wren but they are loud and early and wake me up some mornings, but probably my favorite bird. Beautiful to look at too. Also luv to listen to the Baltimore Orioles song too. Probably my fav though is the Robin. Listening to the robin as it starts to get dark in early spring as it sits high in the leafless tree is the best sound you can hear as it means the days are getting longer and warmer weather is coming out way. Brings me a smile all spring long.

Turkeys roosting and Owls hootin

[justplugit]

P. another favorite of mine is the wood thrush singing in the summer
evening. Had one nest in my rhodies near the front porch one year.

I think they are related to the robin family as they like to stay in the
marshy areas of the woods.