Minnesota Outdoorsman
General Category => 🐦 Forum... => Topic started by: Reinhard on April 04/12/17, 02:48:35 PM
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For me it's the Bald Eagle. One of our country's symbols of strength. I put the bald eagle in a seperate catagory for that reason. However as far as the rest of our feathered friends, The Loon has been mine for years. Love the sounds they make while I'm out fishing and camping. Even at night their sounds are amazing and I never get tired of those sounds. What is yours. good luck.
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Blue Jay! Silly peanut grabbers!
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I'm 1/2 azzed birder and watch em all,Cant pick one cause of their many traites BUT IF I were forced it would the bird Reb would flip me passing that studly truck mr sparkles makin him look like he's standin still!! smoking_a_joint-408.gif fart-421.gif sleazy-422.gif
The one as my avatar is kool!!!!Know what it is REB NO HELP HERE!!!!
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rooster pheasants for the colors on them!!
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Dead Turkeys! :fudd:
And hopefully this Fri or Sat!! :happy1: :rotflmao:
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good luck Leech!
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I agree RH you can't be the sounds of the loons. My favorite bird are falcons, we've had a nesting pair of peregrines in the cathedral of learning at the university of Pitt and another under a bridge about a half mile from my house and a few kestrel falcons also. The kestrels have a unique sounding call. There is nothing better than watching a falcon dive bombing a flock of pigeons, when they are successful it's nothing but poof a cloud of feathers falling out of the sky
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good luck Leech!
Thanks. Seemed to have lost the LIKE button-again! confused-3316.gif
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it seems to come and go, the like button. but I also have agree on the loons too!! great sounding birds!!
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Ya, now where's that like button? Yup, gotta love those loons!! crazy-2239.gif
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when you see a loon go the attack it's very interesting. the geese are out of there and could be very hurt!!
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Gotta agree on the eagles & loons, very :cool:. Reb, did you get that pic out glenn's senior yearbook? :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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yeah id have to say loons. i spent a summer worki g at resor 22 miles up the echo trail north of Ely, and the y were mezmorisi g.
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I would say the loons for their sound but ya gotta love the Indigo Buntings color.
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Ya, and try to sleep at night with them hooting & howling. $#!! Went thru that every year on June 1st, sleeping on the waters edge up in McGregor on Lake Minnewawa for the Walleye/Northern Tourney. What a racket!! They keep it up all nite long!!! (That's where my avatar pic is from...Minnewawa. First fish of the tourney...a hammer handle)
Ya Gunner, that was Glenn running out the door for summer vacation. :rotflmao:
https://youtu.be/Hnlze_cIYZs
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sorry Reb that is still one of the greatest sounds period!! great video too!!
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It is, but not non-stop all nite long!!! face_plant-2139.gif
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I can go to sleep with their sounds. aka sleeping pill.
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Loons for me too. Then Cardinals second.
Crows, starlings, grackles, three way tie for last.
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Gotta agree on the eagles & loons, very :cool:. Reb, did you get that pic out glenn's senior yearbook? :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
hey training-087 training-087 :banghead: :banghead: confused-3316.gif pouty-1023.gif
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Ya, and try to sleep at night with them hooting & howling. $#!! Went thru that every year on June 1st, sleeping on the waters edge up in McGregor on Lake Minnewawa for the Walleye/Northern Tourney. What a racket!! They keep it up all nite long!!! (That's where my avatar pic is from...Minnewawa. First fish of the tourney...a hammer handle)
Ya Gunner, that was Glenn running out the door for summer vacation. :rotflmao:
https://youtu.be/Hnlze_cIYZs
tut_tut-3315.gif :bonk: awe go lay by your dish! mooning-448.gif mooning-448.gif
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Yepper, the loon and eagle. And loons get nervous about eagles around. Awesome to hear that senerio.
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Love all of the above mentioned. No cardinals up here so do miss them. The last few years the tree swallows have come back to our two bird houses on the power poles outside the house. They are so friendly. I even talk to them when only a few feet from their house as they look at me. (look at that dumb guy talking to us) :rotflmao: Now we really look forward to them returning.....
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Love the loon and eagle also. But like LPS, I do miss the cardinal. we used to have a lot of them when we lived down by Becker. Also do like the orioles and humming birds to.
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Thanks Reb for the video!! good luck.
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It is, but not non-stop all nite long!!! face_plant-2139.gif
:doah: :doah: ahhhhh quit your snivelin!!!!!!!!!!!!!! confused-3316.gif :bonk: :bonk: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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This little guy followed our boat all throughout the tourney...probably the same one that kept me up all nite, too. :rolleyes:
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A couple I'm partial to - Cedar waxwings - they show up once a year when the Serviceberries are not quite ripe - and eat them all in a couple days.
Osprey
Any of the bigger owls
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Had this family of four Cooper's Hawks hanging out on my deck for the summer a few years back. Musta been the place to be. :azn:
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A couple I'm partial to - Cedar waxwings - they show up once a year when the Serviceberries are not quite ripe - and eat them all in a couple days.
Osprey
Any of the bigger owls
yep them waxwings are cool birds!!!!!!
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A couple I'm partial to - Cedar waxwings - they show up once a year when the Serviceberries are not quite ripe - and eat them all in a couple days.
Osprey
Any of the bigger owls
yep them waxwings are cool birds!!!!!!
And they sure like my Spring crab apples! :shocked:
https://youtu.be/z3gwjVy6Ejs
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The Hawks pictures are cool!!
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Mom loves the hummimgbirds, so we've got a couple feeders out for them up here. They're pretty :cool: little critters.The DNR tells us we've got quite a few nesting pairs of loons & eagles on the lake. :happy1: 1 pair of loons nests right in the bay. Sure can here their calls from a long ways away. One time last season we spotted 8 loons all swimming close together, made us wonder if they weren't all offspring from the same pair. :scratch:
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Mom loves the hummimgbirds, so we've got a couple feeders out for them up here. They're pretty :cool: little critters.The DNR tells us we've got quite a few nesting pairs of loons & eagles on the lake. :happy1: 1 pair of loons nests right in the bay. Sure can here their calls from a long ways away. One time last season we spotted 8 loons all swimming close together, made us wonder if they weren't all offspring from the same pair. :scratch:
Kinda like Glenn's clan, eh? :rotflmao:
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Mom loves the hummimgbirds, so we've got a couple feeders out for them up here. They're pretty :cool: little critters.The DNR tells us we've got quite a few nesting pairs of loons & eagles on the lake. :happy1: 1 pair of loons nests right in the bay. Sure can here their calls from a long ways away. One time last season we spotted 8 loons all swimming close together, made us wonder if they weren't all offspring from the same pair. :scratch:
Kinda like Glenn's clan, eh? :rotflmao:
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My favorite Bird is the one I flip to the driver in front of me when he/she still just sits there as the light turns green while texting! Sorry, no photos but I'm sure you can visualize it.
I know...I Know...... :offtopic:
:sorry:
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My that bird of paradise fly right up yer nose, Lee.... ;)
https://youtu.be/ZfYFx6MOTYU
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My that bird of paradise fly right up yer nose, Lee.... ;)
https://youtu.be/ZfYFx6MOTYU
Thanks for dedicating that song to me. It was a real toe tapper! :doah:
Your such a :
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Mom loves the hummimgbirds, so we've got a couple feeders out for them up here. They're pretty :cool: little critters.The DNR tells us we've got quite a few nesting pairs of loons & eagles on the lake. :happy1: 1 pair of loons nests right in the bay. Sure can here their calls from a long ways away. One time last season we spotted 8 loons all swimming close together, made us wonder if they weren't all offspring from the same pair. :scratch:
Loons have two at most. They do however get together in groups to hang out sometimes. I think the most I have seen in a group on Vermilion is maybe 15. Not counting the time my buddy and I were putting around the day after ice out and there was a big flock sitting out in the bay. It was snowing and we couldn't believe it.
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Wood ducks are pretty cool too. We have quite a few of them in our gully....
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That certain bird... :doah:
https://youtu.be/2WNrx2jq184
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Everybody knows the bird is a word A baba um mnow mnow.
When I belonged to the Oceanside long board surf club and we had Dick Dale an the deltones play it was a common song.Check out their songs Reb.Yah ever surfed other than the net
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tried body surfing when I was on the coasts.
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Everybody knows the bird is a word A baba um mnow mnow.
When I belonged to the Oceanside long board surf club and we had Dick Dale an the deltones play it was a common song.Check out their songs Reb.Yah ever surfed other than the net
Yes I have, dew drop. Spent the Summer of '67 (summer of love, ya remember) with my cousin in Oakland, Ca. Was just twelve then, but we hit the ocean...and also were crazy wild on skateboards up and down those hilly streets in Oakland. We WERE surfin' birds. The originals. :cool:
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Everybody knows the bird is a word A baba um mnow mnow.
When I belonged to the Oceanside long board surf club and we had Dick Dale an the deltones play it was a common song.Check out their songs Reb.Yah ever surfed other than the net
Yes I have, dew drop. Spent the Summer of '67 (summer of love, ya remember) with my cousin in Oakland, Ca. Was just twelve then, but we hit the ocean...and also were crazy wild on skateboards up and down those hilly streets in Oakland. We WERE surfin' birds. The originals. :cool:
KOOL Reb! The summer a 67 I spent 3 months in the boundary waters wit 4 other friends in 2 canoes tryin to make it to Hudson bay,We fell short by atleast 100 miles just found that map in my stored stuff.Didnt make it to So.cal till 78 for a job at the San onafrey nuclear plant that fell through cause of some regulations.Then stayed till 1985 an then back to the homestead.
Went back in the BWCA in 68,72,76,77, an 80 saw how trampled it was in 76,77 an 80 never went back.Never skateboarded either how could I possibly skin such sensitive beautiful skin!!
Oh yah Bust yer buns an go sidewalk surfin wit me
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I left my knees on the streets of Californy....back then the boards were heavy and looked just like miniature surfboards. You HAD to ride them barefoot...and I have no idea why, buy we sprayed polish on them to make them slippery. :doah:
The hills were pretty big, and you got flying pretty good. A wipeout was disastrous, leading to a week or so of tight-scabbed over knees and arms. :shocked:
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The cardinal is king in my house. Since I live on the family homestead(6th generation),when the cardinal comes to the bird feeder we always think of it as a visit from my grandmother Gert just stopping in to say hello. She was a painter/artist and it was one of her favorite subjects. The Orioles are next in line. I have the Grape jelly all stocked up for their return!!!!
Dew, since no one has answered your question about your avatar I will. That my friend is a Mandarin Duck. The Chinese cousin of our Wood duck. I used to raise a few. And will again once I get my flight pen put back up!
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my favorite bird?????????????????? :scratch: :scratch: chicken.............grilled chicken!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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Havta say my second choice is the Cardinal. They've had a nest in a giant yew right next to my garage door for many years, and they all hang out there. What's really neat, and I've noticed this a hundred times over the years, when I turn on my stereo in the garage, they all perch there and start singing their heads off. Turn off music, and they quit. Turn it on, and away they go again. Buddies are mazed at this. I can only ascertain they love oldies rock. I'll bet if I played country, they'd fly away. :azn: :rotflmao:
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The San Onofre plant aka "the boobs of doom" is now shut down and will be decommissioned.
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WTH does that have to do with favorite birds??!?!?!
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Maybe his favorite bird is the blue footed boobie :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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:scratch: :scratch:
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I don't really have a favorite....
But, I do like the turkeys, pheasants, finches and cardinals that come in the yard.
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WTH does that have to do with favorite birds??!?!?!
About as much as someone posting about skateboards in Oakland?
Actually, San Onofre was mentioned several posts previous to mine, by Dew.
Better get that log out of your eye.... and smoke pot instead of using it to call kettle black.
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I didn't bring up the skateboards. Dew brought up surfing. Reread the narrative. Get dialed in. Turn on, tune in, drop out, Timmy. Get off that black kettle kick too..you'll start another Rottenchester Rally. :afro: