What kinda birds are headed north now?

[fshndoug]

Don't be chasing chickens that big Wrench ,they might turn the tables on you.

[Johnsfolly]

29 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

Don't be chasing chickens that big Wrench ,they might turn the tables on you.

You never want to be smaller than a chicken (or turkey)! It's been said that a chicken will try to eat what ever doesn't eat them .

[fishinwrench]

I've watched chickens walking around in people's yards.  They are great recyclers.  One will take a poop, and the closest one behind her will immediately eat it.  😳

[Gavin]

We get a ton of Trumpeter Swans up in Alton. More of a woot kinda honk, but higher pitched than a Canada Goose. Specks (Greater White Fronted Geese) make squealy peep type sounds as do snow geese. Bunch of them around.

This is a great site if you want to browse birds. Photo's and sound files.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/

[luckycraft]

On 2/20/2021 at 8:14 PM, fishinwrench said:

I can hear them way up there in the darkness, headed in a North-Northeast direction.  

Not quacking, or honking, but more of a Raspy...... "peep-peep......peep-peep...... peep-peep".   

Teals? 

Woody's?  

Coots?

Something else entirely?

What are they?   🤔

Definitely speks or white fronts.   I can get peeping but scratchy sound peeping would be specklebellys.   Geese start to nest in the prairie pot holes as early as february 

[Terrierman]

There were big skeins of Snows overhead yesterday, riding that wind back to the Arctic.  Nature is so awe inspiring.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, Terrierman said:

There were big skeins of Snows overhead yesterday, riding that wind back to the Arctic.  Nature is so awe inspiring.

What's awe inspiring is: Why on earth a goose would prefer to live in the arctic ?

[oneshot 1]

9 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

What's awe inspiring is: Why on earth a goose would prefer to live in the arctic ?

Because its COOL!

oneshot

[Terrierman]

On 2/24/2021 at 10:32 AM, fishinwrench said:

What's awe inspiring is: Why on earth a goose would prefer to live in the arctic ?

I know, it's just weird.  Want to know something even weirder?  I heard there are animals that prefer to live in the water.  I tried that once and nearly drowned!