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Photo of the Day - October 2022
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Oh yes! Most birds can actually get quite demanding - actually landing on you if you have food and following around.
You haven't seen bullying til you've seen mocking birds
And some of the smartest of course, like most corvidae. There’s a pair here who love making Red-tailed Hawk noises to make other animals nervous. I’ve always gotten the sense they do it for fun
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I know what you mean about the squawking, but I have heard them make a very unusual call, very sing-songy, that alway amazes me that it’s coming out of a blue jay. I can’t even find a sample of it on the eBird site…but I do hear it enough around the neighborhood to believe it’s not just one of them making the call.
And some of the smartest of course, like most corvidae. There’s a pair here who love making Red-tailed Hawk noises to make other animals nervous. I’ve always gotten the sense they do it for fun
So I’m lying on our couch last week, from where I have an oblique view of the deck and feeders. A bird of some type (I later identified it as a red-breasted nuthatch) hit the door, as sometimes happens, and fell stunned to the deck. I knew it was there, but I was giving it some time to recover, which is what usually happens. I could not see it from my vantage point.
Anyway, as I’m watching, a blue jay comes to the feeders and starts the usual shrieking. Only it doesn’t stop. It hops to a table and just keeps shrieking and shrieking…and then it hops to the deck out of my sight. And then it hits me…it’s trying to scare off the bird that’s unconscious on the deck, and is getting agitated that the bird is not flying away. I believe it went and pushed the other bird (which, either before or after, had passed). Eventually the jay seemed satisfied that it wasn’t in fact a turf war.
iPhone 11 Pro
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brightly lit summer day
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Miami to Key West - A 159-mile-long drive across the Overseas Highway containing the most stunning Florida scenery.
📍 White Street Pier and Key West Aids Memorial Park by the Gulf of Mexico 🇲🇽 Key West, Florida.
📍 White Street Pier and Key West Aids Memorial Park by the Gulf of Mexico 🇲🇽 Key West, Florida.
London - Secret Intelligence Service (aka MI6, aka The River House for you le Carre fans) Building.
On this day in 2020…
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Nikon D7000, Sigma 50-500mm, 500mm, 1/800 @ f/8, ISO 720
Cheers
Hugh
Nikon D7000, Sigma 50-500mm, 500mm, 1/800 @ f/8, ISO 720
Cheers
Hugh
Ugh. Forgot to bring the melatonin and so am now awake at 2:45 a.m. We came here to the Palm Springs area last year and saw plenty of palm trees. At a different place this year, not so many. Here we get this tree:
It doesn’t look much like the pictures “Siri Knowledge” shows so I’m doubtful.
I call this “The Afterkill”.
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.. early-morning walkabout in woods of a local neighbourhood apartment complex.
Off to spoil the granddaughter over the weekend. Visit son too, but let’s set the priorities straight.
The Mermaid Fountain in Parque Central, Antigua, Guatemala. 2013.
