Beautiful Animals

This corvid photo came from this site about crow and ravens.. interesting.


The site - http://www.fatfinch.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/70/

That jackdaw is spectacular.

Here's a snowy egret--for the white bird.

White bird (cockatoo) with a dash of yellow:

White dove:

Trumpeter swan:

I saw -- I think -- this guy flitting around some sunflowers. A yellow-throated vireo:

jes, You saw it in the flesh, so to speak. What a lovely little guy. Thanks.

osso, I think we've done the list. But I'm adding another bird I know from literature.

A nightingale, singing his little heart out. Sing, kid, sing.

And from Gilbert and Sullivan't, "The Mikado," a tit willow:

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee..

I've never seen a vireo that I know of, but maybe as a child..

Have seen countless mockingbirds..

love 'dem snowy egrets.

That article was fun, makes me want to read Pliny. (I've read a little, but forget what.) And the Jan Morris.. I've read her other book on Venice but not that one.

Sunflowers, yes. That looks very much like the ones that shredded our sunflowers' leaves this summer. The leaves looked as though they had been attacked by worms, but we never could find any. Then one day while I was watering one landed just a few feet away and began pecking away at at the leaf it was standing on. I saw them several more times after that, both a male and a female, but never if I had a camera with me.

Tom certainly does take some fabulous photographs. That one of the coyote was selected for the print version of the local paper. Here are a few more from him.

Great Egret pair

Great Egret

Greater Earless Lizard

Black-crowned Night Heron

Oooh, we had flocks of night herons in our Venice neighborhood. Great shitters, I must say. Love them, though.

Ha, good to know -- wasn't imagining it. RP said he also saw one a few weeks ago. Lovely little birds so long as you don't have sunflowers (we don't). I think of Noddy when I see sunflowers. Now I'll think of her when I see little yellow-throated vireos, too.

the birds scatter sunflower seeds around the front porch and every year we get a nice crop of sunflowers at he front of the house

these guys love them



love the way they use the back of the flower as a bowl to collect the seed hulls

Smart little cutie pies. Birds are amazing.

Roberta, I'm sorry but I have another video (I know you can't really watch them). I was on a whale watch and I know from experience that in this situation, my camera does better when videotaping. These are a pod of white-sided dolphins

dj, Nice to know that those little birds are responsible for those big flowers.

mesquite, Thanks for the additional Ryan picks. He must have the patience of a saint to wait for the right moment, camera poised. Nice to know you don't got woims eating the leaves; you got boids.

jes, Lots of things remind me of Noddy. Vireos just got added to the list.

littlek, I can watch videos on this computer. Watched that one. You were moving, kid. So were the dolphins. Love to move fast on the ocean. Thanks for sharing that.

Feeling the salty wind--remembering when I went sailing. Smiling. Saw some seals. Those guys can move. I think one of them laughed at us as it zoomed by.

A seal swimming around the coast of Maine:

Saw some of these guys too--cormorants: