holidays are for the birds
Aug. 14th, 2012 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ziparumpazooOr rather taking pictures of them, apparently. I don't have any particular fondness for bird-watching, but they do make interesting and challenging subjects. I realized I have more pictures of birds from the last month of vacation, than I do of anything else. Here's a sample:
Clearly, this bird thinks it is Batman.
The chicks are either suitably impressed. Or else very hungry.
Mostly, I think she's just wondering when they'll start hunting on their own so she can go back to fighting crime.
A female ruby-throated hummingbird, who is somewhat less impressed. Or tired of waiting of this guy hogging the feeder:
I have no idea what species these are. I need agunhilda birdspotting live-feed, or something. Anyhow... there was a flock of them quite excited, presumably by the fish churned up in the waves.
These... I think they're the same sparrows that crowd the feeders in the winter. Right now you can set your watch by their feeding and roosting habits. 8:00pm is when they congregrate on the lawn to snap up moths and other bugs. 8:45pm is time to settle into the tree-du-jour for the night, which usually takes about an hour's worth of squawking and arguing until everybody's settled. Some nights I've counted well over a hundred birds in a single tree. On this particular night, they decided to try out the lilac bush under our bedroom window. Thankfully, once they figured out they were eye-level with us, they decided to move across the road to the neighbor's yard.
Clearly, this bird thinks it is Batman.
The chicks are either suitably impressed. Or else very hungry.
Mostly, I think she's just wondering when they'll start hunting on their own so she can go back to fighting crime.
A female ruby-throated hummingbird, who is somewhat less impressed. Or tired of waiting of this guy hogging the feeder:
I have no idea what species these are. I need a
gunhilda birdspotting live-feed, or something. Anyhow... there was a flock of them quite excited, presumably by the fish churned up in the waves.These... I think they're the same sparrows that crowd the feeders in the winter. Right now you can set your watch by their feeding and roosting habits. 8:00pm is when they congregrate on the lawn to snap up moths and other bugs. 8:45pm is time to settle into the tree-du-jour for the night, which usually takes about an hour's worth of squawking and arguing until everybody's settled. Some nights I've counted well over a hundred birds in a single tree. On this particular night, they decided to try out the lilac bush under our bedroom window. Thankfully, once they figured out they were eye-level with us, they decided to move across the road to the neighbor's yard.
