Usually, watchful waiting is an outpatient process and may have a duration of months or years. In contrast, medical observation is usually an inpatient process, often involving frequent or even continuous monitoring and may have a duration of hours or days. 1 Medical uses.
Shearwaters earned their name by their ability to cut - or shear - the water with their wings, although until recently they were known as 'muttonbirds'. This name was given to them by early European settlers, who killed the birds for food and found that their flesh tasted like mutton.
1 Other birds tend to grab food and eat it away from the feeder. 2  These birds include chickadees, titmice, nuthatches, and woodpeckers. 3  They prefer black-oil sunflower and shelled peanuts split in half (whole peanuts). 4  Choose white proso millet for ground-feeding birds, such as juncos and sparrows, towhees, and doves.etting up a bird feeder to feed wild birds can give you a chance to observe wild birds at a closer distance, see different kinds of birds, and learn more about your local birds in an enjoyable way. It's certainly a terrific way to expose your children to the world of birds.