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Can I brag?

topic posted Thu, May 10, 2007 - 9:42 AM by  Rita
Hi all...

Thanks for having this tribe, I'm glad to be member. I'm curious what birds you have flying around your neighborhood/property.

Around my house: (here comes the bragging)
Bluebird (western)
Chickadee (black-capped)
Northern Flicker
Goldfinch
Grosbeak (black-headed)
Nuthatch (all varieties)
Jays (Stellar, Scrub & Blue)
Finch (house, cassin's)
Crows
Blackbird (red-winged)
Robin
Hummers (rufous, broad-tailed)
Junco
Sparrow (chipping)
Mockingbird
Yellowthroat
Woodpecker (downy, hairy)
Thrasher

I have my field guide right by my window, and I check each bird I see. All but the Thrasher and Mockingbird have actually come to my feeders, some quite regularly. This is the payoff for living in the foothills of the Rockies then...something that has certainly helped me get accustomed to me new home so far from my native bay area...
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  • Pauline
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    Re: Can I brag?

    Thu, May 10, 2007 - 3:05 PM
    Hi Rita.

    I have blackbird, mistlethrush, sparrow, woodpidgeon and starling come to my garden, and also in the neighbourhood - pied wagtail, magpie, rook, crow, robin, sparrowhawk, collared
    pidgeon, jackdaw, bluetit, coal tit, warbler, finch and probably a host of others that i haven't yet discovered. I love them all and also have a good book to look them up each time to learn about each new one i see. Recently saw raven for the first time in the area, and am aware that there are peregrine falcons nesting a few miles away in town.
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    • Re: Can I brag?

      Fri, May 11, 2007 - 8:39 AM
      at my art studio on the south eastern edge of SF, right next to the bay, I have recently noticed a pair of yellow billed magpies. I've never seen them in the city before. tres cool!
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      • Rita
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        Re: Can I brag?

        Fri, May 11, 2007 - 9:39 AM
        Cool.

        Have you seen the conure flock?
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          Fri, May 11, 2007 - 9:52 AM
          Yellow billed magpies in the city?! Woa! I would love to see that. Where abouts do you see them? Where would the best place for me to go to see them?

          Rita, what is a conure?

          I also live in SF and everynow and then I get the Peragrin falcons sitting on my local ugly PG&E building outside my apt, eating pigeons. And the Great Horned Owls seem to still be hanging out on Bernal Hill. They are lovely. Other than that I love waking to the sound of mourning doves or my local Mocking bird, that has a frog croak and Killdeer down to a tee!
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          • Re: Can I brag?

            Fri, May 11, 2007 - 10:25 AM
            my shop is in the bayview. it's at Evans and Innes just past India Basin Shoreline Park. I've seen them down there the past two days, and once before, but the first time I saw them, I thought it was a fluke or a figment of my imagination, but no......they're real and they're there! I think they're residents, and rather dapper neighbors at that!
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          • Rita
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            Fri, May 11, 2007 - 10:59 AM
            Conures are So. American parrots, and SF has a huge wild flock that is now generations old, near Telegraph Hill. I was never fortunate enough to have seen them when I was there, but I did see a movie made about them and a guy who helped them.

            Here's a link on the film: www.wildparrotsfilm.com/trailer.html

            And some pics: www.the-oasis.org/residents/wild2.php
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              Fri, May 11, 2007 - 1:57 PM
              Oh yes! I picked up my bird book and couldnt find them. They should be in there by now. They are permanent as far as I can tell. Next time you come to town make sure you inform this tribe and us SF folks can tell you where to see them. They are in regular places other than just Telegraph Hill. You can hear them coming from a mile away! They are wonderful. That movie is hilarious! I think LA has a flock of regulars as well. Or was that San Diego? Cant remember.

              Thanks for the Magpie sighting!
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        • Re: Can I brag?

          Fri, May 11, 2007 - 7:53 PM
          oh yeah, I've seen a couple of different conure flocks, in different parts of the city.

          there's a group over on Telegraph Hill (the famous ones). There's a also a branch of Yellow Chevroned Parakeets that hang out around Dolores Park, and I've come across a group of them at McLaren Park, too. They seem to like to hang out in big palm trees. You really can't miss them they're so noisy. It sure is pretty seeing their bright green bodies against the sky. They've even flown over my apartment once in the Lower Haight.
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