I have a wren nesting in my shed. Just inside the door on a narrow shelf behind my hanging shovel, rakes, etc. She's getting more and comfortable with me walking in and out, no longer flying off when I step in. Eggs should hatch any day now.
I have a wren nesting in my shed. Just inside the door on a narrow shelf behind my hanging shovel, rakes, etc. She's getting more and comfortable with me walking in and out, no longer flying off when I step in. Eggs should hatch any day now.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Feral love bird in my parents' backyard....
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
I'm pretty sure it's a Carolina Wren. The eggs and the striped head of the mother are a giveaway.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
My wife rescued a house wren from our bloodthirsty cats this morning. Once it got out its state of paralysis, it flew into the neighbors yard.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
When I was a teenager, a cat adopted us. When she kept chasing off the birds and our trees became infested with cicadas, we ended up taking her to the pound. BTW: unlike the eastern part of the country, we get cicadas every summer, not just every 17 years.
"Well my son, life is like a beanstalk, isn't it?"--Dalai Lama
The various cicada broods overlap, so despite each brood's periodicity, we never get a summer when you don't hear them up in the trees when it's hot.
Speaking of cicadas, here's one on my honeysuckle from a few days ago.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
Gotta keep those cats indoors. They kill a billion birds per year. They don't hunt for food - they hunt for sport, so it's not even a survival thing. It's just bird murder.
Chad
Lousy phone camera zoom shot, but this was quite the majestic heron I spotted on my hike this morning. Seen them plenty of times in the marshy areas, but usually they are way out in the middle, this one was much closer to solid ground.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmP_f33sfVbi7xlpDjuPYW2Ga4Sb
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
*** Join me in the Garden of Delights for 3 hours of tune-spinning... every Saturday at 5pm EST on Deep Nuggets radio! www.deepnuggets.com ***
Speaking of Herons; I spotted this purple Heron a few weeks back near my home.FB_IMG_1560882741654.jpg
Blue and Silver Herons are very comon in the Netherlands. The purple Heron is rather rare and because its shy nature hard to spot. I was lucky to be able to come up this close.
I used to see purple herons in Africa. Big, majestic birds. They weren't listed as "rare" - but we rarely saw them.
Regards,
Duncan
Amazing shot!!!
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
*** Join me in the Garden of Delights for 3 hours of tune-spinning... every Saturday at 5pm EST on Deep Nuggets radio! www.deepnuggets.com ***
You're right - I confused the goliath and the purple
Regards,
Duncan
I encountered this Tricolored Heron on Nummy Island, NJ on Sunday.
TRHE.jpg
Chad
Well, this morning a female red-wing decided she would come to me for seeds, and she wouldn't leave! Her pecking also hurt a bit - not a lot, but with the other birds you barely notice.
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AmP_f33sfVbi8HbZI0sz1kpYG2lj
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AmP_f33sfVbi8HU4Rdzv0vmFoabt
...and one of my little downy woodpecker friends, always a favourite of mine:
https://1drv.ms/v/s!AmP_f33sfVbi8Hsrsx2NCgF-QIpw
... and this guy who just sat directly above me and waited for me to toss peanuts so he could swoop down and snatch them before any others could:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AmP_f33sfVbi8Hk5QuZkpLRNOWsa
Interviewer of reprobate ne'er-do-well musicians of the long-haired rock n' roll persuasion at: www.velvetthunder.co.uk and former scribe at Classic Rock Society. Only vaguely aware of anything other than music.
*** Join me in the Garden of Delights for 3 hours of tune-spinning... every Saturday at 5pm EST on Deep Nuggets radio! www.deepnuggets.com ***
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
These are the two birds that sit on the electric wire over my driveway.
Last edited by Shadow; 06-26-2019 at 09:26 AM.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
We have a black crow that walks around our yard. Two other crows fly around squawking on the house roofs and trees above. I guess he can’t fly. Poor guy.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Bookmarks