Birdies
The last one reminds me of this:
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Couple Spoonbills I took a few months ago. Caption it yourselves.
Couple Spoonbills I took a few months ago. Caption it yourselves.
"Hey, Bill?"
"Yeah, Deke?"
"I just peed."
"Thanks, my feet were a little cold."
A Scottish Osprey. Note how their unique wing structure allows them to pull themselves out of the water.
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What the fuck?
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...and then God created the turkey:
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We have 4 baby barn swallows sitting on a dowel perch suspended from the roof of our front porch. There were 5 (sob), but only 4 returned after their first flight. On fledging day (Sunday) there were 15 babies in total sitting on our gutter, garage window crown, and front porch perch.
A single pair arrived about 6 years ago and nested under the roof of our porch. They returned with others (probably paired offspring) and the number has grown each year. They appear to work together to feed all the young - there will be a flurry of activity in the early evening with at least 8-10 adults feeding the nestlings in the porch, and then they disappear - I assume to feed the babies in other nests around the property.
It impresses me beyond words that they migrate to Central or South America every fall and then return to our tiny front porch reliably each May.
Yep, they're the best. Plus the bats - we finally have a couple this year.
There were quite a few in the first few years we were here; then the big bat die-off; and finally we see a few in the dusk, before it's full dark but later than any birds fly.
We stay out of their way and are thankful they've come back.
The lake I go to in the Poconos used to have lots of bats. This year, I saw one. :(
Drugs, you can see the cocaine on their little noses. :yesnod:
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Better bigger.
Thank you for not also posting in [SIZE="7"]GIANT ASS YOUTUBE[/SIZE].
That totally gets on my nerves. ;)
This reminds me of my mother trying to decide if the motel or restaurant my father proposed is acceptable when on vacation.
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I like that one. Tough to see the little buggers as they flit about so much in my backyard.
Got lucky with this guy. He was in my backyard and not that concerned about me. I'm worried about the rest of my feathered friends though. This guy could wipe them out :( But damn he is beautiful.
Keep the small dogs indoors.
Yeh, really. I just found out a pic I took last weekend of a hawk in a tree is also of a Cooper's Hawk, just a DIFFERENT one! Crap!!!! Thats two hawks that I know of. I mean they are gorgeous and all, but I don't want them killing all "my" other birds.
Here are a few more from this summer/fall ...
1) White-breasted Nuthatch
2) Brown Cowbird waiting patiently for the female Red-bellied Woodpecker.
3) Mated pair of Ruby throated Hummingbirds.
4) Mr. Blue Jay
and a few more ...
1) Male House Finch.
2) Male Cardinal
3) Male Hairy Woodpecker
4) Juvenile Cooper's Hawk
Had a few nice visitors today ... Hairy & Downie woodpeckers together. Adult Sharp skinned Hawk and Female Red-bellied woodpecker.
It's cold, they need fuel. :thumb:
Wow, your pictures are getting better have you setup the feeding stations to your best photographic advantage?
Thanks! No I haven't, but I did clean the back window I shoot the pictures through.
This is back when the hurricane blew through. He had to get fat for that long flight they all took a week later.
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From my morning walk at one of the local state parks.
1) Golden-crowned Kinglet
2) Bluebird
3) Yellow-bellied Sapsucker female
4) Hooded Merganser female
5) White-breasted Nuthatch
6) Cool tree.
7) Pileated Woodpecker
Here's an Angry Bird:
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I was gonna pair this pic up with Churchill's "We will defend our island" speech...But, I got lazy.
Have you seen a bird and wonder what it sounds like, or heard a bird and wondered what it is?
After a dozen years, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library has fully digitized its nearly 150,000 audio recordings (a total running time of 7,513 hours), representing close to 9,000 different species.
While the collection also includes the sounds of whales, elephants, frogs, primates, and other animals, the primary emphasis here is on birds (it is a lab of ornithology, after all), and there is an incredible range of calls.
LinkSince we get petroleum from their ancestors, we should share the bounty with the birds.
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, you have the rare privilege to view the rarest bird on earth... The Arctic Parrot.
I wish I could say something funny about the cold in "parrot". But that's never happened, has it?
I wish I could say something funny about the cold in "parrot". But that's never happened, has it?
Ha.
Found one:
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It's an icicle.
Parrots are one of the birds that rip there own feathers out when they get stressed. Just like those videos of people in the street screaming and ripping their clothes off.
This pair came to visit last week...
In case you didn't know the difference, you'll mix them up... nevermore.;)
Wait, then what's a grackle?
Wiki says...
Grackle is the common name of any of eleven passerine birds native to North and South America. They belong to various genera in the icterid family. In all the species with this name, adult males have black or mostly black plumage.
Genus Quiscalus
Boat-tailed grackle, Quiscalus major
Common grackle, Quiscalus quiscula
Great-tailed grackle, Quiscalus mexicanus
Slender-billed grackle, Quiscalus palustris – extinct (1910)
Nicaraguan grackle, Quiscalus nicaraguensis
Greater Antillean grackle, Quiscalus niger
Carib grackle, Quiscalus lugubris
Genus Hypopyrrhus
Red-bellied grackle, Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster
Genus Lampropsar
Velvet-fronted grackle, Lampropsar tanagrinus
Genus Macroagelaius
Golden-tufted grackle, Macroagelaius imthurni
Colombian mountain grackle, Macroagelaius subalaris
Sometimes members of the starling family have historically been called grackles. Tristram's starling is sometimes known as "Tristram's grackle", and the hill mynas in the genus Gracula have also been called grackles.
But they ain't Blackbirds or Ravens.
Well what's the big-ass all-black bird that generally hangs out in the rural around central PA in my youth?
Oh that, probably a big-assed all-black bird.
The ravens are becoming more common hereabouts but crows are still way more prevalent. Ravens are pretty impressive birds.
Wait, then what's a grackle?
I think a grackle is what we'uns in these-here parts calls a 'bluehead', a blackbird w/a blue iridescent head, same size/a little bigger than a mocking bird, frequently seen alongside starlings, 'specklebellies', we calls 'em.
Wull alls I know is, when I was a kid, these big ass black birds were everywhere, and I said crow and someone said no it's too big, the big ones are grackles.
So now you're saying my childhood was, once again, a lie
No, your childhood wasn't a lie. The birds were there and you saw them, that you didn't find out what they were isn't the birds fault or childhoods fault. It obviously wasn't important enough to you to pursue it, and still isn't. Never trust anyone over 17.
I could be wrong, maybe. Perhaps.
I thought I was wrong once before, but I was mistaken.
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!
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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.
Ornate Hawk-Eagle is skeptical.
Oh, I love these guys!!
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Go for a walk in the woods, they said.
It'll be fun, they said.
Look at the beautiful birds, they said.
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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:
Pool party!
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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.
Where the cats can't get it.
Well, it depends on how much entertainment ya need in ya life...
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Sign says Free bird, some assembly required.
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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.
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:
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If that camera is so good, why didn't it tell you why the Turkey crossed the road.
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:
Birds can't read you dodos.
He's lookin' at the pictures.
Hey everybody, take a look at my cock!
Glinda, you have a nice, big cock.
Glinda, you have a nice, big cock.
Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. :D
I also have 26 laying hens. :eek:
Anyone need some farm fresh eggs? ;)
Laying 26 hens with your big cock must be exhausting. :comfort:
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Actually Butterflies are just as smart, or maybe just horny. ;)
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Reminds me of Eric.
Eric is a naughty bird.
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And he doesn't like the scary fish.
That is a very British sign.
However, as a typography perfectionist, it really bothers me. The font is "Johnston" which is, basically, the London Underground font. But the
kerning here is all wrong. The tailed lower-case l does not fit neatly in the words; there is too much gap (mind) between where the l stops and the next letter starts. Other letters have similar problems; in the word "Warning", there is too much space between the W and the a.
Also the vertical spacing between the "Level 5" headline and the text underneath it is too small. The "g" in Warning and the "f" in platform almost touch.
This sign was not created by a signage professional, and I question its legitimacy.
It's all typographically jacked.
...and I question its legitimacy.
Perhaps it's the work of a group of goose signage counterfeiters.
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Bird poop on your Rolls? This will not stand!
I've seen that on buildings, but don't recall seeing that on trees. They should have painted them black, it wouldn't look so bad and nobody would notice them.
If they were black the birds wouldn't have early warning and might get the shit scared out of them at the last minute, which kind of defeats the purpose.;)
The story moves on...
Thousands of people have signed a petition to remove anti-pigeon spikes placed on tree branches to stop birds pooing on cars.
They were put in trees on Pembroke Road, Clifton, by the management company of nearby Bartlett Court flats to protect residents' "expensive cars".
The move was criticised by wildlife experts and branded "idiotic".
The petition, signed by over 26,000 people, also calls for owners to find other methods to protect their cars.
Hillcrest Estate Management said it needed to protect vehicles at the "prestigious" development from roosting pigeons.
Bristol City Council said there is nothing it can do as the spikes are on private property.
The Care2 petition states: "The sense of entitlement these residents have shown by altering the ecosystem just to protect their Audis and BMWs is egregious.
"There are alternative solutions for protecting cars from bird droppings that don't involve domination over nature and wildlife."
A number of comments have also been left on the petition.
Daisy W wrote: "I live in Clifton and I am embarrassed and outraged by this. Who do some people think they are? This planet is the birds' too and the trees are their home."
The management company said it had tried a number of measures to deter the pigeons, including fake birds and noise deterrents, but had little success and installed the spikes in 2014.
In September, Stevenage Borough Council, in Hertfordshire, put spikes on a tree in the town centre to prevent "mess and disease".
Thousands oppose anti-pigeon spikes in Bristol trees
We had a similar brouhaha in a nearby town when a large flock of migratory starlings arrived in the area to take advantage of large crops of berries on the trees.
The inevitable fall out on cars caused one local resident, in high dudgeon, to demand that the trees the birds nested in should be chopped down.
It was winter, the flock would move on when the food ran out and the trees they nested in were in Germany and Poland.
Never let a few facts get in the way of righteous indignation. Or should that be self-righteous indignation?
I never know.
There's another story at your link.
Twenty five tonnes of "festering pigeon faeces" have been removed from an 675-year-old ancient English monument.
From the IOtD on Passenger Pigeons.
Let us now, kind reader, inspect their place of nightly rendezvous... The dung lay several inches deep, covering the whole extent of the roosting place, like a bed of snow... As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were furnished with iron pots containing sulphur, others with torches of pine knots, many with poles, and the rest with guns.. Suddenly there burst forth a general cry of “Here they come!” The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over me, I felt a current of air that surprised me. Thousands were soon knocked down by the pole men. The birds continued to pour in. The fires were lighted, and a magnificent as well as wonderful and almost terrifying sight presented itself. The pigeons, arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one above another, until solid masses as large as hogsheads were formed on the branches all round. Here and there the perches gave way under the weight with a crash and, falling to the ground, destroyed hundreds of the birds beneath, forcing down the dense groups with which every stick was loaded. It was a scene of uproar and confusion.
Bristol City Council said there is nothing it can do as the spikes are on private property.
Sounds like they have the option of cutting the trees down.
We've upset the balance and knocked down their predators, now the flocks will grow like Topsy.
Twenty five tonnes of "festering pigeon faeces" have been removed from an 675-year-old ancient English monument.
What a load of crap.
C'mon! Somebody had to say it. :p:
As I mentioned Starlings in post 135, I thought that it might be worth including this video showing the behaviour of a large flock of the species (a murmuration) prior to roosting for the night beneath Aberystwyth pier on the west coast of Wales.
The resident population of the bird has declined dramatically in recent years to the extent that it is now on the Red List of endangered species and winter numbers are boosted by flocks from Scandinavia and Central Europe.
The flight patterns they make are something of a spectacle. Worth a few minutes of your time.
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There's more here:
Aberystwyth StarlingsA conga line of drunken feathered revelers. :haha:
We must maintain the pecking order...
I think this looks photoshopped...
Looks as 'shopped now, as it did then.
Awful crisp detail in the latest iteration. :eyebrow:
Yellow Cardinal in Alabama...
A yell-whutnow?
I've been to two world's fairs, and three goat-fuckings, and I ain't never seen no shit like that.
~Somebody
Kinda blew m'mind a little bit.
Rare, one in a million genetic distortion.
My experience with turkeys as a lad, makes me doubt this is real.
He's choking both of his turkeys at once...
...when I was that age I was barely choking my chicken.
From a not-so-recent Photo Safari, a boid:
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A bloo boid:
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Through a filthy triple-pane window.
A racing pigeon arrived in our back garden last Thursday and has been more or less resident ever since.
Given his role in life he's rather more athletic looking than the Wood Pigeons that shuffle around the place.
The Woody is a bird so corpulent that it is astonishing how it ever manages to leave the ground.
It probably has a wake turbulence category similar to an A380.
The new arrival has two coloured rings on each leg which should provide ownership details.
I took a couple of photos a few minutes ago in the hope that I could glean some information but he thoughtfully decided that it was time to rest one leg.
Seconds later he put it down and took off.
Anyway, FWIW...
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Given that he's been resting here for five days I suspect that his racing career is over. Not much gets past me.
Even if I could catch the bird with the prospect of reuniting him with his owner, I don't think I would.
Prospects are bleak for pigeons in such cases.
When I saw the thread title, I remembered this:
I found a birdy in the snow
He'd broke his wing and could not go
I kept him warm and fed him bread
And then I stomped his little head
Mantis takes a hummingbird...
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Who knew the Secretary Bird has lashes to die for?
But does she take dictation?
Her shorthand looks like chicken scratches.
The Tailor Bird is amazing...
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Ladies and gentlemen, may I present, the Funky American Woodcock!
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Bonus point to the dwellar that can identify the soundtrack.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present, the Funky American Woodcock!
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Bonus point to the dwellar that can identify the soundtrack.
:lol2::devil:Thank you so very much for that video.
That soundtrack sounded familiar. It makes me think of Primus'
Mr. Oysterhead, but I know it's prolly not.
Are the lyrics to that song, or some of them, sung through a fuzz box? It's familiar, but, I just can't place it.
Wild Stab: Is it Parliament/Funkadelic?
Found in Costa Rica...
Did the bird nest in an old wasp nest?
Yes, punched a hole in the side and built a nest. I would presume the wasps had left first.
that was cool
those cliffs look crumbly
not many bunnies or little critters suitable for eagle snacks in that area
Are the lyrics to that song, or some of them, sung through a fuzz box? It's familiar, but, I just can't place it.
Wild Stab: Is it Parliament/Funkadelic?
1 -- you're welcome, I love that video
2 -- I don't know, that's why I asked. I even put my pet google assistant on the job "Ok Google, what's this song".... "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that"
grrrrrrrrr
Birds? How about a
Wall of Birds?
At the Cornell Lab of Ornithology there is an epic mural called simply The Wall of Birds. It's 100 feet wide and 40 feet tall, and it's the only mural in the world representing all 243 families of modern birds, along with depictions of their evolution over their 375-million-year history. And you don't have to go to Cornell to see it — the mural's birds are now available in book form.
The artist who created this masterwork is Jane Kim — and it's such a masterwork that she's been nicknamed "Michaelangela." She says all the birds are life size, "so there's anything from an eight foot ostrich to a five foot cassowary to the tiniest spatuletail hummingbird." There are also extinct species, representing the evolutionary history of birds.
What the fuck, they don't show a picture of the fucking wall? :eyebrow:
They show part of it:
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I'm betting ya saw that though...
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I'm not sure it's finished:
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