backyard_bird_list oren Birds my wife and I have spotted from our patio: Mourning Dove Blue Jay Northern Cardinal American Goldfinch American Robin House Wren House Finch Purple Finch Common Grackle European Starling Chipping Sparrow American Tree Sparrow House Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Song Sparrow Downy Woodpecker Eastern Towhee Ruby-throated Hummingbird Palm Warbler Black and White Warbler Carolina Chickadee Red-winged Blackbird White-breasted Nuthatch Dark-eyed Junco Red-tailed Hawk Eastern Phoebe Brown Thrasher Carolina Wren Indigo Bunting Rose-Breasted Grosbeak Baltimore Oriole Northern Mockingbird Turkey Vulture Tufted Titmouse Eastern Meadowlark Great Horned Owl Sharp-shinned Hawk Barn Swallows Gray Catbird Canada Goose Mallard Duck Killdeer American Redstart 060504 ... oren Brown-headed Cowbird 060504 ... Do birdies count? Shuttlecock 060504 ... birdmad i don't really have a backyard 060505 ... sab ive got phoenixes and occasionally a birdmad 060506 ... emmi this is cute. 060506 ... oren Northern Flicker Cedar Waxwing 061125 ... Doar I once saw a big_bird, but I don't think I ever left the house. 061125 ... . Standing in the backyard, I once looked down my husband's trousers. Does that count? 061125 ... oren It_depends, I_suppose, on what it was you saw in his trousers. 061125 ... It was freaky. A warbler. The sound of warbling came from his trousers. 061125 ... hush. (a cloud in trousers) 061126 ... oren Scarlet Tanager 070615 ... oren Hooded Warbler 080830 ... oren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 090417 ... unhinged i can tell by the tweet that it is a birdie of a little variety, but i am no ornthologist (?) so i'm not sure of the name. sparrow? but i was so happy to be awakened by the happy tweeting of birds rather than obnoxious pounding on shit this morning. the window is open. not a cloud in the sky. i can't wait to go outside. and all of a sudden i feel the need to put about ten exclamation points after everything i type. heh. heh heh. 090417 ... paste! ghetto swan lozenge sparrow lightning-spangled horse pigeon toasted cawcaw lazy mascara hawk pirate finch legless marshmallow tern puppeteer's mook aqua-knuckled hamper jay all-of-a-sudden stork beakless streetwalker diaper-munching eagle secretary flamingo redheaded undead toucan kansas albatross two-toned fledgling empire duck canadian stockbroker cockatiel hernia goose colossal ten-brain bacon-crested lark 090417 ... oren bacon-crested? mmm... 090418 ... oren Yellow-rumped Warbler 090426 ... oren Yellow Warbler Ovenbird 090426 ... oren Acadian Flycatcher 090426 ... oren Red-bellied Woodpecker 090426 ... oren Brown Creeper 090426 ... ergo A red tailed hawk eating a pigeon. When seagulls flew above,it spread it's wings to hide it's meal. Ate everything but the feathers. 090427 ... birdmad I was once just barely missed by a stray drop of pigeon blood when one of the peregrine falcons that sometimes live on the Chase Bank tower downtown dive-bombed a pigeon and snatched it out of the air in a 200mph downward dive about 25 stories overhead 090427 ... ergo I was walking down the street with a friend in Calcutta. There was a lot of crows and I was telling her how much I like them, when one dropped a massive shit on my head. 090427 ... ambermoon barn owl 090428 ... oren Nashville_Warbler 121003 ... oren Yellow-billed Cuckoo 140903 ... flowerock seagulls pigeons chickadees (i dunno if that's whathey'really called) ducks geese crows/big black birds little black birds oriels 140903 ... oren Prairie_Warbler 140924 what's it to you? who go blather from