Bird Watching!

[rbtree]

Bird show

I don't have any new bird images in this show, but what the hey:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rbtree/sets/72157626533749950/show?rb=1

 

[FireFighterZero]

You always have the best photos RB.

I can see that woodpecker Dave. Goddamn termites!

 

[MasterBlaster]

That is an awesome slideshow!

Do bears next!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Shit, I did not see that slide show before. Thats great! I love the action shot of the wounded kildeer dance. I love kildeers.

Neat to see some hummingbirds too. I dont think I have seen one in the wild before.

 

[Steve Mack]

Great pictures Roger.

Why didn't you just ask me?
Didn't you know I was a birdwatcher from that part of the world.

It is a Siberian Tit. Parus cinctus

That'd be too easy, I'm used to doing things myself.

The Lirype was in Norwegian, so Lappmeis, eventually.

 

[stig]

Lapmejse in Danish.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I love it when humming birds come check me out in a tree they favour .... It's pretty dang cool.

 

[Steve Mack]

Lapmejse . You might have to sound that out for me.

No, I guess that wouldn't work.


Rare albino sparrow photographed in Melbourne. http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/o...html?cid=BP_CAROUSEL_NEWS_RARE_SPARROW_250515

Don't see sparrows much around here anymore let alone an Albino, only a few sightings in the last fifteen years.



PURE ALBINO SPARROWS: CONFIRMED AND PHOTOGRAPHED WORLDWIDE

2006 Pennsylvania, USA

2008 Wales, UK

2010 Cornwall, UK

2010 Waikato, NZ

2012 Texas, USA

2014 Bulgaria

2015 Melbourne, AUS.
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/o...NEWS_RARE_SPARROW_250515#sthash.JtjlHeX7.dpuf

 

[Dave Shepard]

Shouldn't the eyes be red, or is that just for mammals?

 

[Fiddler]

Saw my first ever Scarlet Tanager this week.

It hung around for an hour or so while I was grinding stumps...must have been near its' nest.

Pictures don't do justice to the vivid coloring!

 

[stig]

That sparrow is really something.

I once saw an albino cowbird in a flock of a couple of thousand normal cowbirds.
Really neat with that one white spot in a huge brown mass of birds.

 

[pantheraba]

Scarlet Tanager...think Darin...Old Monkey...that bird was the impetus for the name of his company as I remember it.

 

[Steve Mack]

I remember that.

Never seen a Cowbird but I saw Catbird race. Won quite a few dollars on that race and haven't had a bet since.

The other Catbird.

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Ailuroedus-crassirostris

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[squisher]

Mean bird

 

[FireFighterZero]

Whatta jackwagon!

 

[MasterBlaster]

That's MY food, beeyotch!!!

 

[stig]

European Robins are extremely agressive and territorial.
I've never seen one kick the crap out of a Blue tit like that, though.

When we log in winter, they follow us around, looking for insects and stuff on the trees we fell.
My old mentor always used to say that it was the old loggers, that came back as robins and they were checking if we did a good job.
I think of that every time I see one in the winter woods.

 

[pantheraba]

That's a cool story....

 

[FireFighterZero]

Yeah, cool.

Dont old sailors come back as sea gulls?

 

[Fiddler]

nah Jim, that's garbageman...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hahahahahaaa!!!

 

[Steve Mack]

Crow rides on the back of an eagle. http://www.boredpanda.com/crow-rides-eagle-bird-photography-phoo-chan/

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[cory]

Crazy chit!

 

[stig]

But excellent photography!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Okay, so just because I am rained out and a little off my nut, play the bootleg fireworks video that Steve posted in your head while looking at the Eagle and Crow pics. The commentary from the camera man transposes perfectly in my mind while looking at these pics.

Yeah? Or do I have a gas leak.....