Any birdwatchers on ATOT?

[Accipiter22]

When my mom used to keep a journal of stuff I was interested in as an infant, at about 2 weeks she noticed that I seemed to only really notice birds & airplanes. I've always been fascinated with birds (hence Accipiter as a screen name).



Anyway I was wondering if there were any other birdwatchers on ATOT.


I was at the park today and saw an odd duck. Might've been a cross-species. Head was green irridescent like that of the male mallard, but the rest of the duck was completely uniformly solid brown. No other Mallard markings. It was quite odd.

 

[calvinbiss]

possibly a young mallard male not fully fledged?

 

[Jeff7]

Regular mallard whose parents nested atop a UPS warehouse.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: calvinbiss
possibly a young mallard male not fully fledged?

I had thought that, but here's a sample of a wing of an immature male mallard:

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/duckplum/colorpic/8a.jpg


This duck had no markings on it whatsoever, uniformly green head and neck, uniformly brown body.

 

[IronWing]

Transgender mallards! In America! Oh my.


Teal?

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Regular mallard whose parents nested atop a UPS warehouse.

lol

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Transgender mallards! In America! Oh my.


Teal?

nah a teal has mottling on it

 

[91TTZ]

I like taking pictures of birds. I don't have any really good ones, but some are interesting.

 

[91TTZ]

Repost.

 

[MobileLoser]

Sounds like a cool hobby. I live near a large park in Chicago's north side but I think there is nearly enough avian diversity to justify the hobby.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Repost.

Yeah Accipiter, stop looking at duck crotches!

 

[meltdown75]

I keep my feeder full most of the time even though half of the food goes to the squirrels. There is a male & female cardinal that visit the feeder several times daily so I enjoy checking them out. Depending on the time of year, there might be 5-6 different species at the feeder at once.

I'm working on scoring a better lens for my SLR or a teleconverter for my 70-210mm zoom lens. My window here in the office is about 60 feet from the feeder in the treeline and I just need a *little* extra zoom to be right on their beaks

But yeah, I enjoy birdwatching.

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Repost.

Yeah Accipiter, stop looking at duck crotches!

malelard crotches