Best Birds

This list was inspired by the Golden Eagle I saw yesterday. Among the birds I get to admire around here, there are Golden Eagles, Red-Tailed Hawks and Bald Eagles. I put the latter at #1 because, well.... USA! USA!

See #1.

I think I started admiring birds of prey through a Grade 4 science project on Owls. These were the biggest and baddest of the owls.

These are cute and often tame enough to feed by hand

I like ducks but hate geese.

Mated pairs raise their chicks together. They swim rather than fly.

I like birds that can also swim, especially when they're capable of diving deep underwater. The puffins' colourful beaks are cute.

See #7 and it's a Canadian symbol. Their haunting mating calls can sound mournful or joyful.

I love seeing their huge silhouettes in the sky.

These are common and can be noisy, but I prefer them to seagulls which are also always around. It can be fun to scare a flock of them (or actually, the flock is called a "murder of crows").