Ornithology (Bird) Thread

[New_Windsor_NY]

From February 1952, New York newspapers.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
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[Dinadan]

What kind of a bird do y'all bird watchers think this one is?
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I have no idea what it is sitting on or is it beginning to land? As there is nothing in front of the camera.
Treefarmer

I am not at all certain, but I will hazard a guess. Chuck-will's-widow. Very cool photo, Treefarmer. You keep the area under that feeder neater than my back yard!

[treefarmer]

What kind of a bird do y'all bird watchers think this one is?
WGI_0261.JPG
I have no idea what it is sitting on or is it beginning to land? As there is nothing in front of the camera.
Treefarmer

I am not at all certain, but I will hazard a guess. Chuck-will's-widow. Very cool photo, Treefarmer. You keep the area under that feeder neater than my back yard!

Might be. Very few few folks are aware of the Chuck-will’s-widow, they say Whip-poor-will. I’ve spotted Chuck-will’s-widow just a few times in my 75+ years. Never flying, always sitting on branchs in thick oak scrubs.
Always something interesting on the trail cameras.
Treefarmer

[Dinadan]

What kind of a bird do y'all bird watchers think this one is?
WGI_0261.JPG
I have no idea what it is sitting on or is it beginning to land? As there is nothing in front of the camera.
Treefarmer

I am not at all certain, but I will hazard a guess. Chuck-will's-widow. Very cool photo, Treefarmer. You keep the area under that feeder neater than my back yard!

Might be. Very few few folks are aware of the Chuck-will’s-widow, they say Whip-poor-will. I’ve spotted Chuck-will’s-widow just a few times in my 75+ years. Never flying, always sitting on branchs in thick oak scrubs.
Always something interesting on the trail cameras.
Treefarmer

Treefarmer, when you were a boy did anyone ever point out bull bats? About sixty years ago my Dad and I would see them flitting around the pecans and oak trees at the edge of our pasture just at dusk and that is what he called them. It was long after I was an adult and avid birder that I realized that those bull bats were actually Chuck-will's-widows.

I have not seen one flying in decades, but I do not live in a good place to see them. I have seen a couple sitting on the ground over the years - not many.

[treefarmer]

I do remember the “bull bats” and the unforgettable noise they make when they dove toward the ground. Come to think of it, we haven’t heard or seen one in years. Like you said, they would fly above a field right before dark. We still hear them call after dark in the early spring and again not near as many as we used to hear.
Along the same line of thought, Quail (Northern Bob Whites) are very scarce anymore. We used to see them all the time, pairs early in the spring and then in coveys in late summer and fall. Row crops were replaced with planted pines and we lost habitat for the quail. I’ve heard them calling several times in the last couple of weeks but not very many.
There is so much to see and hear in creation if we would just pay attention!
Treefarmer

[Quick Steel]

Joe, you did a great job of cropping with that Red-Winged Blackbird.

[New_Windsor_NY]

From February 1952, New York newspapers.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From March 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From March 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From April 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From April 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From May 1952, New York newspapers.
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[Dinadan]

I do remember the “bull bats” and the unforgettable noise they make when they dove toward the ground.
Treefarmer

Your comment made me remember something else from back then. We had the Chuck-wills, but we also had Nighthawks.

Common Nighthawk

They would be flying at dusk just like the Chuck-wills. My Dad called both birds bull bats, but the Chuck-wills have more rounded wings. I still see Nighthawks occasionally in the summer: they are okay with city living and will nest on flat roofs that have gravel surfaces. I no longer hear the meep call of the Nighthawks, or the kind of roar as they dive. Maybe too much tinnitus.

[doglegg]

Mel, there are 3 that frequent the school and park across the street from my house. About dusk they start working the lights. Love to watch them. And can they dive!

[Quick Steel]

When I was in grade school I used to go up to the roof of the apartment where we lived for a couple of years and at dusk watch the Nighthawks dive and boom. Very common at the time. Hope they still are.

[New_Windsor_NY]

From May 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From May 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From June 1952, New York newspapers.
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SOME INFORMATION FROM WIKIPEDIA REGARDING PICTURE #1.....
"Francis Townsend Dodd (October 5, 1899 – March 5, 1973) was a U.S. Army brigadier general held hostage by North Korean POWs during a camp uprising when he was commander of the United Nations-administered prisoner-of-war camps on Koje Island during the Korean War. The incident led to a North Korean propaganda victory after the Army was forced to make embarrassing admissions to secure Dodd's release. Dodd and others involved in the incident subsequently suffered career-ending damage to their reputations."

[New_Windsor_NY]

From June 1952, New York newspapers.
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[New_Windsor_NY]

From June 1952, New York newspapers.
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[Boji]

Anybody got any recent real bird pictures to share?

[koldgold]

This is an Australian Mud-lark, they build a cup nest on a single branch, using mud.

The Red Mountain Rosella, live in the High Wood-Lands.

The Eastern Rosella, live closer to the Coast, these two breed in a nest box, on the side of my house.
There is a Yellow Rosella, that live down South in South Australia and Tasmania.

[Boji]

I may have posted these before, oh well!
Rose Breasted Grosbeak, only saw him twice.

Baltimore Oriole, he perched on the door and sassed me cuz the jelly was gone. I filled the dish and he came back and sang me a sweet song

[Dinadan]

Nice photos, Koldgold. The Mud-lark is a lot prettier than the name would lead one to expect!

Good Grosbeak and Oriole shots, Boji.

[koldgold]

I spent 7 days on the Murray River, this is some of the river birds.