How long does it take before you see a bird from the window nearest to you?

I’m sitting at the kitchen table. Zero seconds. I see goldfinch on the seed feeder. 2 grackles on the suet cakes. house finch, now a hummingbird. A blue jay just came and scared the others away, 2 more finches, mourning doves….
The show changes continuously.

Now, 5 goldfinches and a downy woodpecker.

you can always see birds, no delay. Bluebirds, robins, woodpeckers, cardinals, red tailed hawks, crows…

What has changed are that there are far more birds of prey around. Hawks and eagles were rare. Now hawks are everywhere and it’s not uncommon to spot bald eagles in residential areas.

I see a lot of birds throughout the day. Typically if I look and don’t see one, I can wait a few moments and one will show up. They vary to some extent: mockingbirds mainly, but there are robins, finches, hummingbirds, cardinals, sparrows, and the occasional blue bird. I do have one bird that shows up every so often that I just plain cannot figure out what it is. It is about the size of a big robin, it is an orangey-brown all over (no variation on the breast) with no particular striations. There seems to be only one. It is a beautiful bird, but it annoys me that I can’t figure out what kind it is.

A few minutes right now. One or two flying. Yesterday after a rain, there were 10 or 20 on my lawn grubbing. Mainly robins, sparrows, some finches usually, blue jays. Occasionally, cardinals. A wren made a nest in my fuchsia basket bu I think she’s abandoned it.. In the winter, I used to see titmice, nuthatches and chickadees but I don’t have a feeder. I have heard that the bird population is lessening and changing.

Bluebirds, Crows, House Wrens, Sparrows, Mourning Dove, Purple Finch, Robins, Cardinals, Turkey Vulture and Mississippi kites.
Several have nests in our trees and bushes. I have four blue houses in the backyard.

Oh – we have seagulls and osprey in the area too.

There’s not a lot of variety outside my window…quite a few sparrows on my patio and surrounding grass, hawks, robins, doves, a few finches, an occasional blue jay and cardinal, and some woodpeckers which knock on my wooden porch supports. Startled the heck out of me the first time I heard them. “Whozat knockin’ at my door?!”

btw…Sparrows raised a family in the corner of the ceiling of my patio and left a smallish pile of poo on my cement. Any tips on how to get rid of it? I don’t want to use anything that I use in the house like a broom due to bird-born diseases like histoplasmosis. I haven’t checked, but I assume it’s pretty firm and stuck and I wouldn’t be able to just brush it away with a piece of cardboard.

@seawulf575 Might it be a female of some kind?

Doves hang out on my deck rails. I love watching them. I have a large bird feeder in a tree close to my house, so there are always birds coming and going from there. I fill it every weekend and there is always some bickering before everyone finds a perch of their own. This makes me smile.

I have a lot of birds around here, some I know, some I don’t recognize. I have geese (I live across the road from a lake), crows, robin (red breast), blue jays, cardinals, vultures. There are eagles that neighbors will post on FB but I haven’t seen them personally. There are a bunch of small black birds who will be on the grass after it rains, looking for worms. I saw a hummingbird on the deck, drinking from my potted flowers a few weeks ago. it came right next to me, and I heard the wings which sounded like the cat’s purr. There are a bunch of birds that I don’t know but I would guess sparrows, finches, stuff like that.

My flat is one floor up so I don’t see birds on the ground. As a test I glanced out my window five times and saw a single bird flying by on each occasion. Three times I saw a bird right away, the other two times I had to wait a few seconds and then one appeared. There was not much variety, two seagulls and three pigeons and just this moment a seagull flying very high, so high I wonder why.

@smudges I suspect it is a female. I believe she had a nest in a bush next to the house one year. But I cannot, for the life of me, tell you what breed it is. At first I thought it might be a female mockingbird until I found out they have similar coloration to the males. I thought it might be a thrush but it appears bigger than a thrush. Picture a bird that is this color except there is no white speckled belly. Just a uniform golden color like that all over.

There are almost always birds to be seen, especially from upstairs (where I am right now). There are two in sight. I’m almost sure they are eagles; they are soaring high and have quite a wing span. One is noticeably smaller than the other.

@seawulf575 I was thinking maybe an oriole, but they all have black on them. I have no idea what it could be, unless it’s one of those that’s highly unusual, like yellow cardinals are.

During the day, a minute or two at the most.

We have cardinals, blue jays, nuthatches, a couple of types of finches, tufted titmouses (mice?), mourning doves, brown-headed cowbirds, rose breasted grosbeaks, grackles, robins, the occasional bluebird, chickadees, dark-eyed juncos, pine grosbeaks, and three different kinds of woodpeckers, including a pileated that startles me every time it shows up. They’re huge!

Forever. It isn’t guaranteed even when I step out of the door.

I’ve been noticing a significant decrease in wildlife in my neighborhood. When I was a child I could easily see sparrows and pigeons roaming around, along with other insects like cicadas. At one point when houses were renovated the wildlife started to disappear. Now I hardly see any animal apart from pests like flies and mosquitoes.

Sitting out in the swamp right now. Well. In a house by the swamp…
I would say most song birds are extremely well represented here.
Massive vultures are usually visible circling in the sky’s, at all times. This tells me they’re interested in something bellow. Usually something dead…
Humming birds are common. Green, with red checks.
There is a “gang” of crows in the area. I can hear a couple now, mixed with all the other nature sounds.
Birds of prey are around. But they’re very territorial. So. I typically see one Hawk, Osprey, and Bald Eagle “couple” around.
Plenty of Herrons, Egrets, and other long legged (easily offended) shore birds…

I believe we see most migratory species coming and going, depending on the season.

Right now, I’m outside. It would be easier to say which birds I don’t see…

The baby alligators, at night, are deafening…

I live in an apartment complex in Milwaukee (urban) but it is next to one of the broad swaths of forest, wetlands and river which wind through the county. Also my building has a broad lawn sheltered by big trees.

As I have written here before, I’m in a wonderful bird sanctuary. After work in the summer, I sit on the lawn and watch my feeder. Finches, cardinals, woodpeckers and sparrows eat up my hard-earned wages. Robins bounce around the grass hunting bugs and worms. Crows fly overhead, talking among themselves. Gulls soar on their hunt for garbage.

Something I learned this year is how finches alert their friends to food. My feeder was empty, and a single finch was peeping at me from a tree, seeming to tell me, “Feeder’s empty, dude. Get on it.”

I filled the feeder, my little yellow pal increased his noise, and within one minute four finches were feasting at my feeder.