⌛ Birds ?

My 2 cent's. I have 2 kids and i have always done my best to teach them to respect wild animals. My daughter 7 and my son 15 will help wounded birds then release them if all goes well. Someone brought a wild bird with a string tied around it's leg about a year ago, I asked my kid's what should we do? they both said release it back to the wild.

When sailing I saw many cultures that would kill anything that moved no matter what, so in my small part I will educate my own kids.
Ron

 

Good Job Well Done!

Ron, it sounds as if you have Done a Good job on your children, This, I do Admire, in this day and age.


Jack P.

 

Thank's Jack, but my teenager (need I say more?) is far from perfect but he did learn there is no glory in indiscriminately killing something just because you can. Now if he would listen on other things?
Ron

 

I woke up one morning in Hawaii to the calling of a strange bird i never heard in 8 or 9 years there..It turned out i woke up dreaming it...This was beafore evr coming to philipines and then by the next 8 months later i was in philipines 1st time and rented house and woke up one morning to that bird call again? was i dreaming de ja vu all over again?? no,i tracked that birds call all morning,i never heard any like it except from my past dream..the thing pecks itself in the mirror of cars also as a rivalry against?itself? Birds... Cool...

 

In answer to your question about birds in and around Dumaguete here is a list of the birds I have seen in Dauin around my garden and just North of Amlan in the fish farms. I hope you find this of interest.
Dauin
Lesser frigate birds
Cattle egrets, little egrets
Brahminy kites
White bellied sea eagles, same as the pair seen flying around Dumaguete and Valencia.
Phillipine serpent eagles, (Balanan lakes)
Blue naped parrots. (Balanan lakes)
Black naped oriole (Balanan lakes)
White breasted waterhen
Olive backed sunbirds
Peaceful doves
Emerald doves
Lesser coucals
Asian palm swifts
Collared kingfishers
Blue tailed Bee eaters
Pacific swallow
Magpie robins
Pied bushchat
White throated fantails
Brown shrikes
Philippines glossy starlings
Tree sparrows
Chestnut Munias
Java sparrows
The last three species can be seen in huge flocks when the rice fields are being cut. Look near the airport opposite Mias bar.

Amlan

Grey herons
Little herons
Javan pond herons
Cattle egrets
Great egrets
Little egrets
Black crowned night herons
Yellow bittern
Ospreys
Brahminy kites
White browed krake
White breasted waterhens
Grey plovers
Little ringed plovers
Curlews
Greenshanks
Sandpipers
Turnstones
White winged turns
Black winged turns
Collared kingfishers

 

Wow anglerman, you must be very knowledgeable! Thanks for the info. I live near the airport rice fields and at harvest time you are correct, there are lot's of birds. The rice field workers set up noise makers to keep them from eating all the rice. Frequently the small ones even swoop through my house. Most mornings I wake up to bird chirps instead of roosters like so many other areas.
Ron

 

Good training with your precious children expatron great work. Thanks for the good information Anglerman I will hope also to see a varied list like yours when I get the chance. Take care all :D

 

Thanks Ron and Firefly, today in my garden I have found a nesting pair of white throated fantails the nest is tiny and perched precariously on a branch its a wonder it can support the birds. They are really brave in the fact that any birds that approach the tree including the lesser coucals that are far larger than them they attack them vigorously until the intruders retreat. I am lucky that I have a birding scope I bought with me from UK so can sit on my porch and watch these birds in comfort I will keep you posted on the progress of these parents if you are interested.
Colin.

 

Hi Colin,

thanks for the info , i'm envious of the fact you have a bird nest in your garden,back in the UK i would look out for birds and their nests. This time of year i would be fishing at Radley in Oxfordshire, there you can find Cuckoos laying their eggs in the read warblers nests, i used to take a Cuckoo caller with me, and managed to get quite a good view of them as they came to investigate.

Alan PS i often wonder where all the birds i see nest, as i have never seen one

 

Thanks Colin.

I am sure others also will like to keep up with the progress of the fantail family.

Take care