Tell me about your birds 🐦🐦🐦

A nice bird, there is one of them (or at least we think we can recognise it) which is green with an orange/reddish beak (right word?) and always eats in the same spot of the garden.

Very possible. The California Scrub Jay appears to be a relative of Bluejays, Crows, and Magpies. And it appears they all have harsh bird calls. You should hear what they sound like when fighting over territory, or when the males try courting the females. It's really weird and screechy.

I've wanted to go out into the backyard with a flashlight to see if I could find it, but I know how birds are, even owls, and I knew a light or my footsteps would scare it away. Plus, it's very mean to shine a bright light into the eyes of a nocturnal creature like an owl. So I've taken to consulting online sources on bird calls. You would be amazed at how much we actually hear owls that don't hoot, because when I was playing the sounds certain owls made, I was like, "Wait a minute, I've heard that before! That's an owl making that noise?!"

The first owl I heard last year made a very low noise, and more than one of that kind has shown up in our backyard at night. It sounds like a low, "Hoot, hoot, hoot." The closest noise reference I could find in that one online database was the Great Horned Owl, but I'm not entirely convinced such a giant lives in my area. More research is needed.

In the past few months, I've heard another owl that starts hooting right as the sun is setting, and it sounds like the traditional owl sound you hear in the movies, so I'm gonna take a look at that one in the database. We sure could use more owls around here, considering the rat and mouse population has gone up, no thanks to the new neighborhood being built just to the south of us.