This duck came all the way across the lake to see us, hoping for crumbs. Sadly, we had none.
ducks
Duck!!!!
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Category Archives: Birds
Caged Bird
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Caged Bird
My cage is comfortable, but
it is a homey sort of rut.
Is it not reasonable for
a bird to want a whole lot more?
Confined to this continual squeeze,
I yearn for freedom of the trees—
the air, the feel of wind on wings.
One should not confine wild things.
Prompts today are reasonable, homey, confine, trees.
Hummingbird Breakfast
Hummingbird both perched on and feasting on its favorite meal—an aloe vera blossom.
For the Whatsoever is Lovely Week 1 Prompt, Jan 2, 2023
CFFC Birds, Sept 27, 2022
Oriole
I never have been able to figure out what was sticking out of this gull’s head.
Transcience
For CFFC Birds
Water Denizen Trios: Which Do You Prefer?
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Which do you prefer? Three different shots of the same scene. I couldn’t decide. Night Herons at rest.
Here is another. Egrets walking.
2022
And finally: Three more choices of water creatures of another sort. Closeup or far view? Which do you prefer?
For Lens Artist Challenge: Three of a Kind
Sunday Stills: Feathers and Fur
Lift
You can see the fish dangling from the beak of this brave bird who nearly brushed me with his wings as he swooped in for his desayuno.
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Lift
You burn the air with tail and wing,
not thinking about anything.
Each lift of pinion simple, sure,
anonymous, unplanned and pure.
No slipshod planning, everything
insures facility of wing.
Each barb, each shaft composed with care
made less of matter than of air.
We only guess. We do not know,
what hand has engineered it so,
merely wonder at its might
as we watch your easy flight,
lifting up with ease most rare
by miracle of wing on air.
Perched Birds
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Sparrow?
Oriole
Oriole
Vermillion Flycatcher–or is it a scarlet tanager? They aren’t supposed to be this far west in Mexico, but who knows?
Vermillion Flycatcher
Over Head
Over Head
Lying in the hammock, searching for my words,
I come up with nothing, so I consult the birds.
They lift up off my trees to circle in a ring
as though they’re reconnoitering every single thing.
Swooping to partake of swirling clouds of gnats,
eying all my fruit trees, teasing both the cats,
who, crouched up on the roof, dream culinary wishes—
far above their heads, those tiny feathered fishes
far out of their reach, but so mesmerizing that
they far exceed temptation of squirrel or of rat.
Cats find bird movements insolent, drifting high up there.
Such an outrê thing to do, floating in the air!
Prompt words today are consult, insolent, outré and reconnoiter.
Spying on Birds
Spying on Birds
A little bird flew around for an hour today with a balled-up Kleenex in her beak, looking for a place to build her nest. Her mate accompanied her and they investigated the plumeria tree for a long time but it is without leaves at the moment. In a few weeks it would be a possibility. Her mate then stood lookout on the Plumeria while she investigated the bamboo and bougainvillea. Finally, she settled on the big cactus..It was fun observing.
Then a vermillion flycatcher took over the lookout branch. If that is a Kleenex I dropped, some of my DNA will be in the nest!!
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