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GBBC - TonyLima - 02-10-2026

The Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday (2/13). For more information click here. Usual disclaimers (although I would accept payment from them if they had any money.)

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RE: GBBC - martyup - 02-12-2026

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RE: GBBC - TonyLima - 02-12-2026

(02-12-2026, 03:51 PM)martyup Wrote:  

Why do you hate our feathered avian pals?

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RE: GBBC - martyup - 02-12-2026

(02-12-2026, 07:20 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  Why do you hate our feathered avian pals?

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RE: GBBC - 82lsju - 02-12-2026

(02-10-2026, 08:18 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  The Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday (2/13). For more information click here. Usual disclaimers (although I would accept payment from them if they had any money.)

my partner does the GBBC as well as the weekly bird count for Cornell.  I can now identify a few birds.  Best sightings in our yard have been a barn owl, a red shouldered hawk, a sharp-shinned (sp?) hawk, and a hooded oriole.  This week we had ~50 robins in the yard and in the past have had large numbers (50-100) of Cedar Waxwings.

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RE: GBBC - TonyLima - 02-12-2026

(02-12-2026, 07:55 PM)82lsju Wrote:  

(02-10-2026, 08:18 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  The Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday (2/13). For more information click here. Usual disclaimers (although I would accept payment from them if they had any money.)

my partner does the GBBC as well as the weekly bird count for Cornell.  I can now identify a few birds.  Best sightings in our yard have been a barn owl, a red shouldered hawk, a sharp-shinned (sp?) hawk, and a hooded oriole.  This week we had ~50 robins in the yard and in the past have had large numbers (50-100) of Cedar Waxwings.

Have you ever been to Godwit Days in Arcata? I went a couple of times. Bucket list for serious birders. (If it’s still happening.)

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RE: GBBC - 82lsju - 02-12-2026

(02-12-2026, 09:59 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  

(02-12-2026, 07:55 PM)82lsju Wrote:  

(02-10-2026, 08:18 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  The Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday (2/13). For more information click here. Usual disclaimers (although I would accept payment from them if they had any money.)

my partner does the GBBC as well as the weekly bird count for Cornell.  I can now identify a few birds.  Best sightings in our yard have been a barn owl, a red shouldered hawk, a sharp-shinned (sp?) hawk, and a hooded oriole.  This week we had ~50 robins in the yard and in the past have had large numbers (50-100) of Cedar Waxwings.

Have you ever been to Godwit Days in Arcata? I went a couple of times. Bucket list for serious birders. (If it’s still happening.)

We have not, but I'm certainly not a serious birder...

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RE: GBBC - TonyLima - 02-12-2026

(02-12-2026, 10:23 PM)82lsju Wrote:  

(02-12-2026, 09:59 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  

(02-12-2026, 07:55 PM)82lsju Wrote:  

(02-10-2026, 08:18 PM)TonyLima Wrote:  The Great Backyard Bird Count starts this Friday (2/13). For more information click here. Usual disclaimers (although I would accept payment from them if they had any money.)

my partner does the GBBC as well as the weekly bird count for Cornell.  I can now identify a few birds.  Best sightings in our yard have been a barn owl, a red shouldered hawk, a sharp-shinned (sp?) hawk, and a hooded oriole.  This week we had ~50 robins in the yard and in the past have had large numbers (50-100) of Cedar Waxwings.

Have you ever been to Godwit Days in Arcata? I went a couple of times. Bucket list for serious birders. (If it’s still happening.)

We have not, but I'm certainly not a serious birder...

Neither am I but my late mother-in-law was fanatical.

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RE: GBBC - newguy - 02-13-2026

i see Cooper's hawks from my backyard all the time.

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RE: GBBC - martyup - 02-13-2026

I did a birding trip to Costa Rica.  I saw lots of amazing birds, but never got a glimpse of the Resplendent Quetzel.

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RE: GBBC - burger - 02-13-2026

My biggest regret from my time at Stanford was not taking Paul Ehrlich's bird biology course.  IIRC, the field trips were at 7 am, and there was no way I was waking up that early for any class my senior year.

In the end, though, it didn't really matter since I ended up studying ornithology in grad school.

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RE: GBBC - Spiny_Norman - 02-13-2026

Birds aren't real.

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-birds-actually-government-issued-drones-so-says-new-conspiracy-theory-making-waves-and

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RE: GBBC - 82lsju - 02-13-2026

(02-13-2026, 09:44 AM)martyup Wrote:  I did a birding trip to Costa Rica.  I saw lots of amazing birds, but never got a glimpse of the Resplendent Quetzel.

we saw them when we were there in early 2020, it was great.  We went to a farm that set aside an area filled with the trees they liked to roost in and food they liked to eat.

For the last five years we have had hummingbird nests in one of two trees outside our kitchen window, they are fascinating.

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