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A community for people who like birds, birdwatching and birding in general!

Feel free to share your photos and other birding-related content here. If a photo you post isn't yours, please credit the original creator! Additionally, it would be appreciated if the location of the sighting and a date were given when a photo or question is posted. You do not have to give the precise location, something like "Northern Idaho, June 2023" or even "North-Western US, June 2023" suffices.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Spent my whole adult life saying I didn't give a shit about birds. Yeah.

When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago, and their bodies were littering the streets from West Nile virus, I noticed. I noticed the lack of birds in the sky. Seems no one else did.
I now have 3 different types of feeders and a birdhouse.
Got my childhood treasures back, uh, there's a lot of antique bird figurines. And I used to collect owls.
Saw a pileated woodpecker for the first time at camp in December. NEAT! Got a couple of feeders and started learning to make suet.
Been rolling my own hummingbird food for years.

But I'm not really into birds.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What do you do for hummingbird food? I'm trying to attract them to my apartment's roof garden. I see them up there once or twice a year so I know they get this high up but I want more

[–] almar_quigley@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can make hummingbird nectar at home. I think it’s 4:1 water to sugar, let it cool after boiling to dissolve and fill up a feeder. Double check the ratio but I used to get them at my 21st floor apartment. Good luck, they are my favorites!

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Plant a little salvia and place feeders near. mine used to draw them in like cats to catnip.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Those pileated woodpeckers are so big! Like the size of a chicken, they're so cool.