Animal Sightings

Saw a black puppy of indeterminate breed out for a walk on my way to work today.

 

BLACK POMERANIAN IN A HANDBAG ON THE TRAIN!!

 

Saw a tiny 9 week old corgi pupper in a shopping cart at Michael's with her little blanket and chew toy :'3 Got to pet her and she wiggled and then gnawed on me with little needle teeth. BLESSED!!!!!!!!!

 

I saw a calico kitty hanging out outside her house in a loaf watching the early trick or treaters in old town. Didn't have phone so no pics. She looked supremely unimpressed.

 

Many an birde
Our garden is regularly visited by:

• A gang of sparrows who are tiny hooligans whom i love and support
• assorted tits, who don't afraid of anything and yell at me if I'm in the garden while they wish to be there. Great tits and blue tits both
• Wood Pidgeons! P sure they're a bonded couple, also pretty sure they're intimidated by the tits despite those being like less than a fourth the size of them
• 2-3 Magpies, look to be a bonded couple and one of their older children on a visit maybe? Excessively elegant and pretty
• A Jay who is pretty
• both a green woodpecker (!!!!) and a spotted woodpecker (probably a great spotted woodpecker from where the red on the head is???) who are both ridiculously cute and beautiful
• many many other baby birds, good children, lovely children, gods i adore birds

 

that's so nice

I love birds

WA birds that frequent my parents' house:

• Juncos (bury seeds in all the plants)
  
• Chickadees (intrepid and my faves)
  
• Nuthatches (blue and orange, they crSpeep)
  
• Pine siskins (sp?)
• Evening grosbeaks (big and shy)
  
• Stallar's jays (a bit too big for the feeder, it doesn't stop them)
  
• Downy woodpeckers that love the metal roof
• Towhees (vibrant rust/black/white colors)

NY birds at my fam-in-law's place:

• So many goldfinches
• Cardinals
• Chickacees (<3)
• Rose grosbeaks (name might be slightly wrong, but they're black and white with magenta accents)
• Sparrows
• Grackles
• Downy/hairy woodpeckers
• Orioles
• Bluebirds

I wish we could have a yard and a birdfeeder, but. aparment life. sigh.

 

Usual visitors:
-Blue jays
-Starlings
-American robins
-Blackbirds
-Ssssometimes sparrows but the jays and blackbirds chase them off
-At least two bonded pairs of mourning doves
-Crooooows, They Screm
-There's also a pair of hawks nesting Somewhere out in the woods but they're not so much visitors as flybys :P

 

Tits >_>
(Chickadee is also a fittingly dumb name, but the word tit is just so nice to say.)

 

I laughed!

I like the name 'chickadee' because it kind of sounds like what they say. They also have different patterns of saying it in different areas. In NY, they say "chickadee-dee-dee!"

 

I'm p sure that's literally why they're named that :P Onomatopoeia is fun and all :P
Ours uhhhhh
Oh hey wikipedia has good sound samples, let's just link those (The links are labelled "Hörbeispiel" bc German article)

 

My parents' house occasionally gets one or two Eastern/Rufous-Sided Towhees in the summer. When they do take up residence, they tell you nonstop to "drink your TEEEEEEAAAAAA~".

 

I've seen some more deer just casually by the road/trail by the tiny dam with its 5 foot deep artificial lake

Also tiny squirrels! I'm used to the Large squirrels from where i grew up, which ive heard people here call "all these huge squirrels"

I hope those squirrels can become Lorg and fattened before it gets too cold :v form the squirrel pile, survive the winter pls

Also birbs:

• Uhhhhh just crows
• Seagulls too
• Probably some tiny sparrows?
• American robins
• A blue jay

Edit: oh and theres a bird observatory that ive been meaning to go to, have this borb from their facebook page

Look at her lovely hat :3


Apparently theyve seen/recorded an oregon junco, oh man i never knew about All These Birds

And i thibk this is one of the birds that goes "peent" (edit edit: that bird sounds site says they in fact do not peent)

 

Another sighting of the black puppy- I think it must live in my building.

Also saw a groundhog chilling out in the middle of a lawn I walk past on my way back from work.

 

@Saro aaaah I see most of those WA birb at my parents birdfeeder 'w' also there I often see flickers, who are absolute barbarians and can drill apart a suet block in one minute flat but they are large and good and handsome and often I see them in pairs with one patiently waiting its turn at the suet. bless.

Also when I was house sitting earlier in the year there a robin pair built a nest under the eaves outside my window and produced two clutches of screaming children <3

 

Flickers are very pretty, I love the red splotches they've got. A flicker at my parents' house last year spent every morning drumming on the roof, because it has great acoustics, I guess.

 

Today a cricket got into the office. Well, I think it was a cricket. I didn't realize that crickets got that big (it was like an inch and a half long).
I trapped it in a cup and put it outside so that it didn't get stepped on, and also so that we didn't get a literal bug in the machines. What is this, the 40s?
Also, for some reason I couldn't get myself to refer to it as anything other than "a friend". I don't know why.

 

Met my (?)th cousin's dog, who i have seen pics of but never in person. He is become a Good Boy of many wags and i got to give him some treats. He met like 5 new people today and was a happy dog :3

 

birb!

Spoiler

uh heron? idk about birbs pleas help

 

Some sort of egret, probably. Which are technically a type of heron, so you're still right. :::PPP

 

My guess would be a Little Egret, since they're the most common, but without seeing anything for size context or knowing where you are in the world...