Show your Windstone Collection-Continued

[rockerbot]

I have no idea why they’re called mushroom birds, I just found out that a few months ago when I’ve been collecting them for a while. (I don’t even remember when and where I got that duck!) Mushroom birds are little squat bird sculptures made out of stuff that seems to be similar in properties to paper mache. Craft stores have them, and if you have any wild bird stores* where you live, they should sell them.

*Yes I am enough of a bird geek to go to wild bird stores. XD

[lamortefille]

Hey, I go to Wild Birds stores! lol I’m so happy the birds are starting to come back. I need to go buy some thistle for the goldfinches soon: -)

[Alyssa]

Ya, I was curious on why they would name them that.

[rockerbot]

lamortefille wrote:

Hey, I go to Wild Birds stores! lol I’m so happy the birds are starting to come back. I need to go buy some thistle for the goldfinches soon: -)

Really? Yay! I actually tend to see goldfinches more in the winter here in Missouri. In fact, the lousy winter had a lot of birds coming to our yard, including a northern flicker I hadn’t seen here before.

Summer and spring means baby bluebirds being raised in our yard, though, so I like those seasons best for birding. 😀

[lamortefille]

rockerbot wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

Hey, I go to Wild Birds stores! lol I’m so happy the birds are starting to come back. I need to go buy some thistle for the goldfinches soon: -)

Really? Yay! I actually tend to see goldfinches more in the winter here in Missouri. In fact, the lousy winter had a lot of birds coming to our yard, including a northern flicker I hadn’t seen here before.

Summer and spring means baby bluebirds being raised in our yard, though, so I like those seasons best for birding. 😀

Bluebirds? How neat! We just have nesting sparrows. lol We have boxes hung under our covered front porch. It’s so cute to hear the babies: -) Last year was the first year I saw goldfinches. They are our state bird (NJ), but you don’t see them much. I found out what they liked to eat and kept a feeder of it for them.

[Jodi]

rockerbot wrote:

I have no idea why they’re called mushroom birds, I just found out that a few months ago when I’ve been collecting them for a while. (I don’t even remember when and where I got that duck!) Mushroom birds are little squat bird sculptures made out of stuff that seems to be similar in properties to paper mache. Craft stores have them, and if you have any wild bird stores* where you live, they should sell them.

*Yes I am enough of a bird geek to go to wild bird stores. XD

I think they’re actually made from dried mushrooms, aren’t they?

[wolflodge100]

We have tons of sparrows, black birds, finches and swallows but my favorites are the oriels!

[siberakh1]

I’m hoping to attract the oriole that swings by here every year to stay, but I always miss getting oriole stuff out in time 🙁

We get quite the collection of birds here. I like looking for the accidentals that occassionally drop in for a visit for a day or two 😀

[wolflodge100]

The orioles nest in the palm tree out in front of our house. There are about 7 genrations now.

[rockerbot]

emerald212 wrote:

I think they’re actually made from dried mushrooms, aren’t they?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they were. The texture is very distinctive almost fuzzy…honestly, maybe what I need to do is a Google search. XD

Haven’t seen the orieoles in my current yard. I used to have them all the time when I lived in Southern Cali. We also got dozens of hummingbirds at our feeder near dusk; it was amazing considering the fact that I’m used to hummingbirds who MUST have the feeder to themselves. In Cali there would sometimes be two hummingbirds sitting on one perch!

Fledgling bluebirds make mewling calls that remind me of a kitten that got drenched with water. It seems it was made specifically to break hearts. (I know they break mine!) XD

[lamortefille]

My sister said the hummingbirds are coming back north, so I better get my feeder out. I’ve never seen any orioles, but I’ve heard we have them here. lol We get lots of finches, starlings, grackles, robins and jays.

[Starbreeze]

In the spring, we get red-winged blackbirds. I really love them!!! I have several bluejays that hang around my yard most of the year. They love the peanuts I put out for the squirrels. 😀

[lamortefille]

starbreeze wrote:

In the spring, we get red-winged blackbirds. I really love them!!! I have several bluejays that hang around my yard most of the year. They love the peanuts I put out for the squirrels. 😀

Do they now? I’m going to have to get the squirrels a treat and see if the jays go for them, too: -) I love red-winged blackbirds, too, but they tend to go to the more marshy areas around here.

[KoishiiKitty]

dragonessjade wrote:

KoishiiKitty wrote:

I was looking over my black gold young, and i noticed something funny about his paint job. I was wondering if any one else had a young black gold and could tell me if their pain job was the same?

See, the long flat belly scales? on one side they have the gold to red paint…but if i turn him over, the flat belly scales are black.

I have a black gold young and I will have to look at it later.

Everyones pics are so nice. I want to get another OW.

oh, tell me what the coloring is when you do,pleasae. I would really apreciate it. ^.^

[Skylover]

Koishiikitty, I took a look at my black gold young dragon and it is painted the same way yours is.

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