What is your favorite bird?

Talking with the family, we got onto the discussion of everyone's favorite bird.

I heard everything from cardinals to emus, which got me thinking... what is your favorite bird?

My favorite bird these days is the American Goldfinch



I always love seeing a flash of yellow fluttering around my sunflower patch during the day. They come back year after year!

Blue Jays, for sure! I have been encouraging them with peanuts for 3-4 years because I needed them to run the crows off. I love crows, but crows love my corn and that I can't have.

Well chickens are pretty high, and goldfinches are probably second. But my absolute favorite is the indigo bunting. Only seen it once in real life, but it was beautiful.

i absolutely couldn’t choose.

i’ve got a couple families of indigo buntings that live in the tall weeds of one of my ex-pastures. they’re great. i’ve been enjoying seeing the golden-crowned kinglet that comes to our little suet feeder periodically. but there’s so many more i love! the kingfishers, the eastern phoebes, the pileated woodpeckers, the carolina wrens, the blue herons, the barred and screech owls, the ospreys, the whippoorwills…and that’s just a few of the locals. bowerbirds! albatross! loons!

i really like animals in general. and i really like birds.

I do love how the pileated woodpeckers tell me which trees are infested with insects! And they're obviously quite personally charming too.