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In reply to the discussion: What is/are your favorite kind of bird or birds? Mine is the hummingbird. [View all]Easterncedar
(2,351 posts)I will always have a soft spot for the jays.
But I love them all. Especially the crested and pointy-headed ones: jays, titmice, cardinals, waxwings and mergansers.
And the haunting singers: woodthrush, hermit thrush and vireos and loons!
Oh! And owls! Who cooks for you?
And funny upsidedown creeping nuthatches.
And friendly chickadees and towhees.
And spring singing robins and song sparrows and buzzing redwing blackbirds.
And soaring swallows scooping mosquitoes.
And laughing pileated woodpeckers with their amazing wingspan.
And eastern bluebirds, bringing good fortune.
And indigo buntings, flashing iridescence across the fields.
And woodcocks with their funny beeping call and spiraling, wing-whistling aerial courtship.
And grouse running across the road, neck outstretched.
And busy paddling, dabbling and diving ducks of all kinds and colors, in companionable pairs.
Booming bitterns, rails sounding like frogs, and stately herons, looking like pterodactyls in flight. And kingfishers, scolding my passing canoe.
Terns and plovers and sandpipers. I love the way the pipers scurry along the shore.
And turkey vultures. I met one once; it had a gorgeous ivory beak and wise aware eyes.
And all the raptors; so dramatic, from tiny merlin to golden eagle.
And of course, hummingbirds!
(And these are only those I see here in Maine, and I left out the finches and kinglets and warblers. Apologies to all those I missed. Im just inside resting from shoveling. 8 inches of snow and its still falling. Happy me!)
In Japan I was thrilled to hear nightingales.