Birdies
 

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The last one reminds me of this:

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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.

***NSFW Language***

What the fuck?

...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.

bye bye bugs!

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:

Better bigger.

Thank you for not also posting in GIANT ASS YOUTUBE.

That totally gets on my nerves. ;)

^^^WSS^^^

This reminds me of my mother trying to decide if the motel or restaurant my father proposed is acceptable when on vacation.

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

gorgeous

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.

Hah!

This is back when the hurricane blew through. He had to get fat for that long flight they all took a week later.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...586364618f.jpg

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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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:lol:

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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?

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Since 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?

Ha.

Found one:

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...

Flickers!

In case you didn't know the difference, you'll mix them up... nevermore.;)

Wait, then what's a grackle?

Wiki says...
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?

Crow

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.

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.

Can't we all get along?

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.