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Sunday Stills: Feathers and Fur
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A Walk by the Lake II
A Walk on the Malecon
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Avian Fashion: Dots and Stripes
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Loud morning birds
seem to be speaking together
in different languages.
For Bird Weekly: https://oureyesopen.blog/2021/06/11/bird-weekly-photo-challenge-birds-with-stripes-spots-or-freckles/
Bird Talk, Arizona Lingo Style
Bird Talk
Spent an hour out on my sister’s patio that is a few yards from the draw. This is the bird conversation that I overheard:
Beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver
chip chip chip chip
Whee whee whee whee
daring do, daring do, daring do, daring do
cherry cherry cherry cherry
who’re you? who’re you? who’re you? who’re you?
chip chip chip chip chip chip chip chip
Pretty bird. Pretty pretty pretty
choo choo choo choo choo choo choo choo
wheet wheet
cheerio cheerio cheerio cheerio
beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver, beaver.
pretty pretty pretty pretty
trrrrrrrr trrrrrrrr trrrrrrr trrrrr
oooeeeooooeee ooeee oooeee
pooooreeee poooreeee pooorrrreee
cheater cheater
pretty bird pretty bird
chee chee chee chee chee chee chee
cheater cheater cheater cheater
t t t t t t t t t
Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter, Peter
whilygig? whirlygig? whirlygig? whirlygig?
Does anyone know any of these bird languages?
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This guy shared the terrace with me but was silent.
As was this guy.
And this is another silent denizen of the terrace. I’m sure you all know my lingo, however.
CFFC: Birds
Oriole
So glad to finally find a bird prompt. The first photo I took perhaps a month ago and I’ve wanted to post it. The small birds hopping around my pool edge are more current. For some reason I didn’t want to crop, but wanted to show their size by leaving them in the larger frame. The oriole I took earlier this year. Please click on photos to enlarge.
For: https://cityofsprings.wordpress.com/2021/03/23/cees-fun-foto-challenge-birds/
Egrets
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.
Mystery Bird: Sapsucker or Woodpecker?
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They are golden-fronted woodpeckers! V.J., who identified them, is my hero. A twenty-year-old mystery is solved.
These two birds (or two like them) have been visiting the top of my very tall palm trees every morning for years. I always thought they were red-breasted woodpeckers, but only one has a pinkish spot on its head and the other is more golden-headed. Their markings look exactly like a red-breasted woodpecker or a sapsucker, but I can’t find any sapsucker with that colored head. Can anyone tell me what they are?
Bird Weekly Photo Challenge: Birds Beginning with the Letter D.
This duck came all the way across the lake to see us, hoping for crumbs. Sadly, we had none.
Dilly bird
Dressed-up Detritus Bird
Okay, I cheated a bit. Just no real doves or darters in my photo files. I made these detritus birds out of shells and a fruit crate that washed ashore during past years at the beach. Keeps me out of trouble.
For the Bird Weekly Challenge
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