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Category Archives: Birds
No, it’s this way. Yes, I’m sure.
More Pelicans at Clear Lake, CA
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Pelican Grief
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Sooner or Later, Gravity Wins
Monday morning, I had the following experience at the SeaTac disc golf course. Of course, I had to put it to rhyme:
In the dappled shade of a towering pine
the sun I’d craved, I now declined
High above, two little birds
embroiled in more than a war of words
A whirling, twirling, mid-air fight
WHOSE EXPECTATIONS WERE IN THE RIGHT?
If I’d been a cat, I’d have had my sup
wrestling birds cannot stay up
I craned my neck
What kind of birds are those?
They then crash-landed on my nose
That’s how I got my close-up view
of not one little Nuthatch…but two
Blue Water At Green Lake
Fair skies and wind came together at Green Lake to create an interesting backdrop of reflected blue and shadow for waterfowl photos.
Coot En Bleu
Goldeneye En Bleu
Coot En Bleu II
Goldeneye Tummy Check
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Coopers Hawk
She’s been saving me a lot on bird seed lately, mostly by scaring the other birds off–her successful catch rate is very low. I say “she” because this is a fairly large bird and…..well, here is what the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has to say about that–“Life is tricky for male Cooper’s Hawks. As in most hawks, males are significantly smaller than their mates. The danger is that female Cooper’s Hawks specialize in eating medium-sized birds. Males tend to be submissive to females and to listen out for reassuring call notes the females make when they’re willing to be approached. Males build the nest, then provide nearly all the food to females and young over the next 90 days before the young fledge.” http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Coopers_Hawk/lifehistory
Obviously, a more “primitive” evolutionary arrangement than that favored by hominids :-).
