Juncos, chickadees, and cardinals chilling on the feeder this morning.

Junkies, Chickys, and Clergy, hoping for a free lunch. That sounds about right. :haha:

The chipping sparrows just got here... Mr Grouchy pants. :D

One of my office mates has a chicken coop and several chickens. She recently... Not sure of the decision process, but she gets eggs from the chickens to eat all the time, but recently a clutch of eggs were allowed (?) to become chicks. The hen hatched one egg, cute baby chick emerged. The hen the pushed the other two eggs out of the nest. My friend found them literally out in the cold. Her daughters were devastated to learn that these two were goners. There were tears. My friend took the cold eggs back into the house, in her armpits (yes) and one hatched last night. Today the other egg is just across the office, cheeping and chirping.

I have never heard an intact egg cheep cheep cheep! It's so cool!

I'm going to try to capture a few seconds of video / audio.

That's cool! That means they have air in there.

Chicks in eggs are durable. A hen will let individual eggs cool to slow development. This allows her to align the hatching of eggs of different ages. I've had hens hatch like half their eggs and abandon the rest, only to have another hen hop on for a quick hatch out. It's super cool.

Pool party!

You've probably seen pictures of Japan outside the cities, where not much land is wasted and it's pretty neat and tidy.
This is a problem for the birds because they need twigs, weeds, and tree litter to build nests.
Some of the big birds are using coat hangers. Now you know if the Japs are cleaning up twigs they sure aren't
throwing coat hangers around, but they do put clothing on hangars to air out on the porch.
The birds, sometimes in pairs, will pull any cloth items off the hanger to steal it. Probably take a pair of birds to bend it.

I wanna see the bird what built that.

They are called crows ( a current hot topic) and you can see many of those nests here.

Wow.

Ornate Hawk-Eagle is skeptical.

Lost chick..

Oh, I love these guys!!



:lol2:

Go for a walk in the woods, they said.

It'll be fun, they said.

Look at the beautiful birds, they said.

How do flamingos stand on one leg so long?
When they lift one leg their center of gravity shifts to center over the down leg, and the ankle on that leg locks up.
They can stand, sleep, and even die in that position, and won't fall over without a push.
So go Flamingo tipping and leave the damn cows alone. :p:

That dude is so fucked.

What is the pool made of? It looks to be a concrete block with a hose connected to what a hole in the middle. I have a few sweet jugs hanging around so they don't fight over them.

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No idea how it's made. They can't bathe in your sweet jug.

It's just that I am too dumb to have thought of a bird bath for the little buggers. My cats have long given up the thought of trying to catch one. It is mighty hot out. I will think of something for them.

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A shallow plate/pan of water near the feeders would probably do the trick.

Where the cats can't get it.

Puffins...

Well, it depends on how much entertainment ya need in ya life...

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Sign says Free bird, some assembly required.

:lol2:

Oooh, a free pillow.

Still...Some assembly required.;)

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This is what happens when a sparrow beats its wings at the same rate as the frame rate on yer fancy security camera, and it's a little bit freaky.

Least Bittern - a rare bird in my area. Seen at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge At Tinicum.

Here is another ... Red tail Hawk.

Cool.

Big Peckers in WA State.

I'd guess the poles on either side were pretty closely lined up to support the weight of the top of this pole. I've seen broken poles before being held up by the neighboring poles.

Hmm, someone hit the wrong picture for phones button? Is there such a button? Y'all just don't want me to see pictures of the birds? Oh the humidity of it all.

I really don't know anything about this picture, just liked it.

Falcons get to ride in a fancy custom car, but hooded so they don't know it, WTF.

But the Falcons are better off than the Canary in it's fancy cage.

UCLA is home to the Hummingbird Whisperer...

They're boids, so here is where I put 'em.

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I recently bought m'self a new camera, a Canon EOS Rebel T6, (I got the Premium Kit w/18-55mm stabilized lens, and 75-300mm lens), and, by far the most impressive feature is start-up time. Many, many, times faster than anything I've owned. Impressive is the word for it.

Representing the start-up speed, here are two pics that I just cannot stop thinking about:

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The first pic, the turkey crossing the road, I'll admit, I had the camera in my hand when I saw her (?), but it was off. She ran into the road, I saw her, flicked on my camera, fired off a quick draw shot, and that camera not only came on in time, but, managed to focus (kinda) on what I was taking a picture of. Into the sun, through a filthy windshield, no less. If you've ever seen a turkey with a destination in mind you know that they can cover quite a bit of ground quite quickly. I was fairly amazed it caught the pic as well as it did. I only resized the pic for posting, no editing.

The other pic, crane/egret/heron/wtfe, happened almost the same way except the camera was in the passenger seat, off. When I saw the boid, it was already in flight, in a very shady section of a small creek, about to go around a bend. This pic I sharpened a bit, and darkened just a shade. The camera tends to over-expose a little when photographing brightly lit greenery (shooting in no-flash-auto-mode).

Hmmm...a very shady section of a brightly lit creek...:eyebrow:

:lol2:

If that camera is so good, why didn't it tell you why the Turkey crossed the road. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

I didn't ask.

What the hell is going on there? I don't speak Norwegian.

The bird landed on his own page.

Nonsense. You think I believe that bird reads better than I do?

It can read Norwegian, you can't. :p:

That's a cheep shot, man

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Birds can't read you dodos.

He's lookin' at the pictures.

Hey everybody, take a look at my cock!

https://i.imgur.com/J3y4Cdt.jpg

Gotcha!

Glinda, you have a nice, big cock.

Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. :D

I also have 26 laying hens. :eek:

https://i.imgur.com/4fdb4dW.jpg

Anyone need some farm fresh eggs? ;)

Laying 26 hens with your big cock must be exhausting. :comfort:

It's a labor of love. ;)

Hawks are amazing...

Actually Butterflies are just as smart, or maybe just horny. ;)