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Sign winters coming, the Pink Footed Geese are back...
http://wwwdogsey.com/pics/28861P1000826.JPG
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 08:42 PM
That's a stunning pic, Moli! Are they passing thru, or do they overwinter there in your area? We have some resident Canada geese here, but we get great flocks of them going South...lovely to look up when you hear the honking and see the big vee...doubt if I could get a pic, they're very high!
What a lot of geese! That's a lovely pic of them Moli.......do you know where they have come from?
babycakes
21-09-2007, 08:44 PM
That's great Moli. I'm getting the feeling that you love all animals equally, that's really nice X
That's a stunning pic, Moli! Are they passing thru, or do they overwinter there in your area? We have some resident Canada geese here, but we get great flocks of them going South...lovely to look up when you hear the honking and see the big vee...doubt if I could get a pic, they're very high!
We have a nature reserve just across the fields from us, they come back to it every year, and spend the days in the fields near by...Our house is right in the flight path...:)
I saw them in the distance, just pointed when thery got overhead and clicked...
What a lot of geese! That's a lovely pic of them Moli.......do you know where they have come from?They are Canada Geese Mags, come back every Winter....:D
That's great Moli. I'm getting the feeling that you love all animals equally, that's really nice X
I do BC, love all birds, especially at this time of year when all the youngsters start coming to the feeders...:)
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 08:49 PM
I was curious, had never heard of them, so found a good link...if anyone else wants to knowhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/p/pinkfootedgoose/......
they're lovely birds, aren't they?
babycakes
21-09-2007, 08:51 PM
I've only just started to be interrested in birds, but have a love for all living beings. I have sent off for info from the rspb so I can learn a bit more. We get the usual garden birds here also owls and kestrels
I've only just started to be interrested in birds, but have a love for all living beings. I have sent off for info from the rspb so I can learn a bit more. We get the usual garden birds here also owls and kestrels
We have quite a few birds of prey up here too...
babycakes
21-09-2007, 08:56 PM
I've just tried to post but cos I put the RSPB in it went wrong!!???
Anyway. I don't know enough about birds, we get the usual garden birds here but we also get owls, kestrels, partridges and pheasants
I was curious, had never heard of them, so found a good link...if anyone else wants to knowhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/p/pinkfootedgoose/......
they're lovely birds, aren't they?
Thanks for that link Eileen, I found it very interesting..:D
alexgirl73
21-09-2007, 09:03 PM
Stunning pic Moli! We had a flock of geese (no idea what kind) flying over our house a couple of days ago. What a noise!!!
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 09:08 PM
We have just the common garden birds here, but do have a few raptors: peregrine falcons nest downtown, of all places, and lots of turkey vultures, American eagles nest by the Potomac river,,,and once years ago in the 70s when we had an incredibly bitter Winter we had a rare visitor: a Great Snowy owl!! One of my neighbors saw it...huge, magnificent bird; the sighting made the papers and all the birders were excited!
Turkey Vultures??? never heard of them DM...
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 09:18 PM
Large ugly scavengers, but they are magnificent to watch in flight...they can soar for hours on the thermals...quite common here...
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Turkey_Vulture.html
Large ugly scavengers, but they are magnificent to watch in flight...they can soar for hours on the thermals...quite common here...
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Turkey_Vulture.html
They are quite ugly aren't they :? ..... I read the description on that link and they appear to be huge birds..:shock:
babycakes
21-09-2007, 09:23 PM
Did anyone see the pics in the paper last week about the owl and kestrel in flight fight for the vole the owl had caught? the kestrel won but they were great pics
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 09:32 PM
They are quite ugly aren't they :? ..... I read the description on that link and they appear to be huge birds..:shock:
They are! Bigger than eagles. What I'd love to see, speaking of large birds, is a condor!! Have just seen them on nature shows, they must be breathtaking in real life........
Lovely pic! Heard and saw the first flights of geese here about 2 weeks ago, and have seen them every night since. We get Greylag, Brent and Canadas wintering by the river. It always spooks me the first few times I hear them because it is such a sign of winter.....one of those evocative sounds.
They are! Bigger than eagles. What I'd love to see, speaking of large birds, is a condor!! Have just seen them on nature shows, they must be breathtaking in real life........
We used to have all the large birds of prey at our zoo but like the larger animals, they have gone too.
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 09:46 PM
In a way I miss not seeing them at the zoo and letting children learn about them, but living in a cage, albeit a large one, is no life for birds that are meant to be soaring free..... :(
babycakes
21-09-2007, 09:49 PM
In a way I miss not seeing them at the zoo and letting children learn about them, but living in a cage, albeit a large one, is no life for birds that are meant to be soaring free..... :(
I struggle with that too
In a way I miss not seeing them at the zoo and letting children learn about them, but living in a cage, albeit a large one, is no life for birds that are meant to be soaring free..... :(
I agree Eileen .........they need their freedom. Unfortunately many people are unlikely to ever see them now in the flesh (or should that be in the feathers:lol:)..
Large ugly scavengers, but they are magnificent to watch in flight...they can soar for hours on the thermals...quite common here...
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Turkey_Vulture.html
Thanks DM, they are ugly, but fascinating....do look a lot like turkeys!:)
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 10:24 PM
That's one of the things I love about this forum; we all can learn so much: I'd never heard of pink footed geese, and some of you didn't know turkey vultures.......
That's one of the things I love about this forum; we all can learn so much: I'd never heard of pink footed geese, and some of you didn't know turkey vultures.......You probably have widlife across the pond, I have never heard of or seen....:(
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 10:30 PM
And the same for me: like the blue tits you posted pics of recently; always nice to learn about other peoples wildlife. We don;'t have hedgehogs, which I think are as cute as buttons! But we have possums and raccoons and coyotes right here in the City! And white-tailed deer and black bears in the suburbs!
Black Bears!! thats something DM, would love to see them...We have deer, in fact they are quite common where I live, see them often....
I just couldn't imagine living anywhere that close to black bears :shock: Do they do much damage Eileen?
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 10:43 PM
It's habitat destruction, Moli; we're paving over everything, ripping up forested land to build more condos, so the wildlife has been displaced and forced into the suburbs to encounter people. Deer are eating up peoples gardens and causing terrible traffic accidents as they dart across the roads in rutting season...numerous accidents"! And the young bears leave their mums in the Autumn to look for their own territories...frequent stories on the TV of people who have bears on their decks or overturning their bins in search of food...they are more of a nuisance problem than anything else; the really bad ones that threaten people are tranquilized and released way out in the mountains.
This is in the further out suburbs, not the ring of close in ones outside the City.
It's habitat destruction, Moli; we're paving over everything, ripping up forested land to build more condos, so the wildlife has been displaced and forced into the suburbs to encounter people. Deer are eating up peoples gardens and causing terrible traffic accidents as they dart across the roads in rutting season...numerous accidents"! And the young bears leave their mums in the Autumn to look for their own territories...frequent stories on the TV of people who have bears on their decks or overturning their bins in search of food...they are more of a nuisance problem than anything else; the really bad ones that threaten people are tranquilized and released way out in the mountains.
This is in the further out suburbs, not the ring of close in ones outside the City.Thats so sad DM, why can't they at least leave them some of there habitat:( ..I suppose they are looked on as pests now....:(
dandysmom
21-09-2007, 10:52 PM
By a lot of people, yes! But they were here first, and we're encroaching on their territory....:(
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