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Temple


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A beautiful, slender, rather small bright yellow bird just landed in the hackberry tree outside my window.  He'was breathtaking.  A little grey on his back.  Is he a wild canary?

When we lived in Oklahoma City, there was a wonderful woman who was married to one of the control freaks in Husband's company.  She loved birds, and he had decided to buy a house in a newish, upscale subdivision with no trees, because it would be a good investment.  They didn't have children and I'm sure with his position he earned a very good salary.

Anyway she loved birds so much and I felt so sorry for her.  I called her once and said, Gwyneth, there's a strange looking bird out with the sparrows, and she said, does he look like he's been dipped in mulberry juice?  He's a purple finch.  And another time:  There's a flock of sleek grey birds that look like little bandits and they have top knots and they're all over trhe pyracanthus outside the kitchen window.  And she said, "They're cedar waxwings!"  I always think of her when they come by here.  

Gwyn would have known exactly what this bird is.  I hope her keeper got transferred again and she got to have birds.  

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It might be a goldfinch. They are beautiful birds - sdakotabirds.com/species_photos/photos/american_goldfinch_3.jpg

But no, I'm not a birder.

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Thank you, Kenny==

BTW, Beautiful dog. A girl? What breed?

Oh, the goldfinch is beautiful. This one had no black and nothing but yellow on his head. I hope he's not somebody's canary.

If he were a flower, I bet we could get him identified like that (*).

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This dog is Suki, she was a girl. She was my first dog, got her when I was 32. She's been gone a while now, but she truly was a beautiful dog. And she knew it, and constantly took advantage of it, of course!

She was an American Eskimo. Some people call them a Spitz. My FIL called them feists, and it was pretty appropriate!

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I'm so sorry she's gone. I'm glad she had a great life and worshippers. I mean; let's be honest.

I wondered if she were that breed. One lived across the street from us in another city. The people would come home and walk right past him and never acknowledge him. I'd go over every day and pet him by the fence and tell him how beautiful he was and how wonderful. And I'd buy him toys. I should have spirited him away and found a home for him. We were pretty much hoarding cats at the time and didn't have a fence.

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Could have been a Yellow Warbler? I love feeding and watching the birds. We live in farm country so have a lot of open field. Cardinals are a rare sighting because they don't like to fly out in the open. I do get one or two that will stop by in the beginning of summer so it's a big deal and instill make my kids come to the window to look!


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Thank you, Spur

It may be. I read that some of them have gray on their backs. The one I saw a picture of was a male and had maroon streaks on his breast, but that looked most like this little guy or girl. It was wonderful.

We have lots of cardinals here. And Doves. Our neighbor has a bluebird nesting in her backyard. I've never seen him--have never seen one, period. Birds are so wonderful and so smart for tthe size of their brains, especially.

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I'm in the Midwest, Iowa, so Warblers spend summers here but migrate south for winter. We have Mourning doves too, but Iowa opened a season on them a few years ago so they're no longer considered "just" a song bird. Breaks my heart to know that they're being hunted and the season just opened. Why can't they shoot pigeons and eat them, they're everywhere and usually a nuisance pooping on everything.

Some things we are powerless to change.

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Golden crown warbler might be the bird you've seen? Bluebirds are so beautiful and also very shy. I'm surprised the bluebird is nesting in your neighbor's yard so comfortably? Unless the house is high off the ground, Spur. I have seen bluebirds, Temple, and I love to look at them. Little chickadees, too. Sweet, sweet birds to watch. Mourning Doves - love to hear them in the spring and summer. They remind me of visits I used to take to my grandparents' home in Southern Indiana when the sun was up and it was hot, hot, hot. The doves would coo and I could hear the various insects who made music when they rubbed their little legs together. I could never see them - the bugs - but I could hear them and the doves always made me think of gentleness and peace. We passed a law here within the last few years that allows hunting for mourning doves. That troubles me. We have cardinals, too, Temple - lots of them. I love to see them on the branches of snowy pine trees in Winter. They are so strikingly beautiful but I don't think they're very nice birds, are they? Or am I confusing them with Blue Jays that rob nests?

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You are correct about the Blue Jay. I love them though because they are the only colorful bird I get out here in the winter. I would love to have cardinals in the trees in winter, how beautiful!

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They are, Spur, so beautiful. Especially at Christmas time. We get more cardinals than blue jays although that might have to do with the seed I put out. Woodpeckers, too, are a treat depending on the type. Do you get woodpeckers?

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Yes I do get woodpeckers that stay during the winter. Our winter conditions can be brutal with below zero wind chills on top of below zero temps. Most of the songbirds spend the winters in towns where there's more protection. But that also works in my favor because I'm the only one for miles putting out seed and suet so the birds know where to find a meal.

I put corn out in the field for the pheasants too and that's always a delight to see a few using it.

Here's a cute story. We have pocket gophers up by the house this summer, never have had them before. They figured out that I put nuts in a bowl on the patio table and one day I kept hearing this shrieking noise outside so went to look and here was one of those gophers shrieking because the nuts were all gone. I put more out there and in five minutes it had come back and another one was feeding with it. They do it now whenever the nut bowl is empty. They've trained me well.


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Cute, cute, cute. Yes, they have trained you well.

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I have 2 parrots. That is not the kid of birding you guys are talking about though. Nonetheless, I feel much of my daily attention is literally for the birds.

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I love all the bird and animal stories.

I'd love to see a video of those little pocket gophers calling for room service: "I want nuts and I want them in a big hurry." They remind me of Eloise.

I'm glad you attend your parrots, Mark. That is sucha commitment--to take on parrots.



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I'm a bird watcher, Temple. I don't know much about the varieties. I just love to watch them. I have a bird feeder in my back yard and two humming bird feeders. Humming birds can be very nasty to each other. They are very protective of their food supply.

Going outside and watching the birds is one of my detachment strategies. Very relaxing. aww



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Very, Very Sweet -Thanks Mark

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awwww, cute pinkchip. He ( I'm assuming it's a he) looks like he is giving you a kiss on the cheek.



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Awwwwwwwwwwww. Such a sweet picture of both birds and you. Thanks, PC.

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Yeah. ..The amazon green is cuddly and affectionate. The Grey is all about Chuck in terms of affection but she is an incredible talker. I think she imprinted on him. I made the green one prefer me by handling him over and over. The Grey is not having it. She even tells me "no" and "shut up."

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If it is a smallish bird, it is probably a goldfinch. As kids we called them canaries and it took years for me to realize that they are bright yellow ( males anyway) in the summer and greyish with black touches in the winter. Hubby loves birds and spends a large part of his pension enticing them to our feeders. We are in a rural setting and get many different kinds of birds but I must admit that the juncos, cardinals, chickadees and bluejays are my favorites. Right now we are wondering when the humming birds will start their migration south.

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pinkchip wrote:

Yeah. ..The amazon green is cuddly and affectionate. The Grey is all about Chuck in terms of affection but she is an incredible talker. I think she imprinted on him. I made the green one prefer me by handling him over and over. The Grey is not having it. She even tells me "no" and "shut up."

biggrinLOL!  Well, I guess we can't win 'em all over. 



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Wife put up two hummingbird feeders and they have gone crazy. She saw a wasp fighting two hummingbirds over a feeder yesterday. We have a heron on our lake, and people tell me there is a bald eagle nest nearby but we have not yet seen them. The hummers should be migrating soon, that when we start watching the cardinals.

In fact you all inspired me today so I bought a spotting scope for the wife today - its the anniversary of me asking her to marry me. She thinks its a great present and cant wait for daylight to try it out.

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Awwwwwww, Kenny. I'll bet you earned tons of gold stars under "Good Husband" today! Wonderful ideas: To celebrate your proposal anniversary and to buy her a spotting scope. Good work says your unofficial sister in Michigan.

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Oh they are beautiful, Mark. I think the green one loves you. I can see it in his eye.

Kenny, that is so sweet!

Thank you, Deacon--that's got to be it!

We are so blessed with beautiful creatures, the wild ones and our pets.

Loves!






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Pinkchip, my brother has a parrot, it's red, can't remember what type that is. Anyway, my brother hand fed it and raised it from a baby and it likes him, but it loves one of his daughters. They worried when she left for college whether the bird would handle the separation, so they made audio and video tapes of her just reading books out loud and some of her talking to him too. It's crazy how they can get emotionally attached like a dog. That bird loves her with all his tiny heart.



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Aww...that's cute spur. Probably a red parrot would be a female eclectus. They are beautiful.

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These posts and pictures made me happy weepysmile  Temple, it sounds like a finch, I live the coneflowers in the ground all winter as they seem to like feeding on them when they are around.  I don't know if they stay in the winter or not, I will watch.  We have many blackbirds, sparrows,cardinals, doves, blue jays, woodpeckers and hawks that hang around our home.  I know there are more but I am unfamiliar with their names.  Kenny, I thought your beautiful dog was a spitz, I had one many years ago.  PC, your parrots are wonderful.



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