yeah, it doesn't quite look right. I didn't want to stretch out the wings to get a better look at their shape.
― peacocks, Thursday, 20 May 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
http://springvalleypark.org/assets/images/black-throated-blue-warbler.jpg
^ okay I'm guessing it's one of these.
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Black-throated Blue Warbler btw.
yessss perfect! thanks!
― peacocks, Thursday, 20 May 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
btw yesterday evening as I set out was a lovely, incredibly warm evening...I looked up into the darkening sky and yes that cry resounded...the first swifts of summer
― Dan, Dan, DARRAGH (acoleuthic), Friday, 21 May 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Louis check out the picture of the long-tailed tits here omg mad cuteness:
http://www.birdguides.com/iris/pictures.asp?mode=potw
― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Friday, 21 May 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
per previous post elsewhere, teh lyrebird <3 <3 <3:
http://skola.amoskadan.cz/s_aj/esc/images/Australia/LYREBIRD.jpg
http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/image_content/AlbertsLyrebirdPrinceoftheMountain.jpg
http://i.pbase.com/u16/trevor_quested/large/39074755.SuperbLyrebird.jpg
― wilter, Friday, 21 May 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
imo it's not a hipster peacock
― wilter, Friday, 21 May 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
long-tailed tits are awesome, they often come through my garden (although more a few years back) all going zee-zee-zee and flocking around in groups of 10 or so, they bloody love going about in gangs, all hyperactive flitting, flashes of purple and the undulating bounce of quick-flight between twigs on adjoining trees - oh yes, the long-tailed tit
― Dan, Dan, DARRAGH (acoleuthic), Friday, 21 May 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
torresian imperial pigeon
http://image59.webshots.com/159/9/46/46/2262946460012889947sVkefB_fs.jpg
― wilter, Monday, 24 May 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://64.17.184.245/images/1-a/Torresian%20Imperial-Pigeon%20-%20Australia%20-%2011-19-2007%20-%20014.JPG
― wilter, Monday, 24 May 2010 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2010/5/28/1275039850678/long--tailed-tit-feeding--006.jpg
see it bigger here
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 May 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
been seeing a lot of red-winged blackbirds hanging out on cattails lining the shore of a park pond across the street. i enjoy their conservative use of color, they're not all obnoxiously slutty about it like some other birds WHO SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS
http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3738/redwingblackbird.jpg
also, a few weeks ago this scene unfolded at the same pond, apparently some geese produced a gaggle of goslings and then when i tried to photodocument the goslings the geese hissed at me but did not comically peck at my crotch like so many geese have done throughout history
http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/6297/photolp.jpg
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 28 May 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been seeing a lot of red winged black birds lately too, they are stunning!
Took this a few weeks ago. They saunter leisurely across the street in the late afternoon, stopping in front of cars to peck at little items of interest:http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/peacock.jpg
― peacocks, Friday, 28 May 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
what, those roam wild where you live? do you live in...thailand?
― iiiijjjj, Friday, 28 May 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
As soon as I find a copy of the book here at work, I'm going to share a quote about peacocks and their displays vs evolution....
― the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Friday, 28 May 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Florida. The release and subsequent adaptation to the wild of exotic pets is incredibly common down here.
Laurel, I hope you find it! Are you thinking about how the trains of the males are more of a hindrance than a leg up on mating because the weight of the tail slows them down making them more vulnerable to predators? I read recently that the decorative trains (specifically size and color variation) have been found less effective in mating than calls and other physical displays, which is pretty interesting.
― peacocks, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol best use of username ever
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not really obsessed with peacocks...
― peacocks, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
do you ever find dead peacocks in the road, peacocks
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
haha actually, no! It's a little street between two parks and I like to think, despite their wandering primarily during rush hour, that people are so pleasantly suprised to see them that they stop right away and wait patiently for them to pass. The females are gorgeous.
Although... the ranger for the two parks is really on top of his game so there might be some hit and runs that are picked up before anyone notices. I hope the former is the case.
― peacocks, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
all staring down their noses at the other birds
they must think themselves the landed gentry of their domain
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
aduh:http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/righteouskate/30-rock-203.jpg
― peacocks, Friday, 28 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/27/article-0-09C73668000005DC-994_634x421.jpg
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
take the silhouette of that and you have a very bizarre creature indeed
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
That pic is from a DM article - [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1281970/Swooping-150mph-golden-eagle-really-knows-meaning-fast-food.html]Swooping in at 150mph, this golden eagle really knows the meaning of fast food.[/url
I'm pretty sure they don't travel at 150 mph?
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahahaha methinks the Mail have their raptors confused
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
The symmetry is amazing but it's the look on his face that kills me. "Yes, I am going to eat you, bwahahaha..."
― i'm gonna go and talk to some food about this (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
at that angle it looks like it's a slightly sympathetic, pitying, amused expression
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
o lowly vole, if only you could fly like me
flying dinosaurs, how do they work
― am0n, Friday, 28 May 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/ifwis/ibt/userfiles/image/photos/800/olive-sided-flycatcher--tom-munson.jpg
Bird ppls have decided the olive-sided flycatchers call is saying, "Quick, three beers!"
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Friday, 28 May 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
flycatchers are incredible birds
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
some of my favourite memories involve watching them at primary school
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 28 May 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw a hawk in downtown Toronto today, a fucking hawk (roughly 2 feet in size, too).
― Ce soir je dîne sur la soupe de tortue (EDB), Saturday, 10 July 2010 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Golden Eagles definitely swoop at around 150mph, fastest is the Peregrine Falcon at around 200mph
― Jarlrmai, Saturday, 10 July 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
in neighbours garden finishing off a pigeon.http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4568033551_d8b10a9d87.jpg
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 10 July 2010 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l69r5jj3zT1qak053o1_250.gif
― del griffith, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
This bird has a RUMEN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Q-himJgaU&feature=related
― soviet, Friday, 17 September 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
They are all feathered dinosaurs but particularly that one.
― soviet, Friday, 17 September 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
poor smelly bastards
― acoleuthic, Friday, 17 September 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
better one, sorry, temporarily obsessed will stop now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18582_zqzF8&NR=1
I mean now.
― soviet, Friday, 17 September 2010 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
worth watching gets even more amazing towards the endhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE
― soviet, Saturday, 18 September 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, thanks for posting that.
Had just come on here to ask "Where is good for watching migrating starlings?" and it turns out it's two miles up the road ... Marvellous.
― djh, Sunday, 3 October 2010 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
When's a good time to see starlings as in the above clip? (Looks like Feb?)
― djh, Sunday, 17 October 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/11/23/1290551753396/Flamingos-001.jpg
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link
if only its tail wasn't melting amirite
shaped a bit like the Spurs logo
― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Some people have actually said that the image is divine intervention and proof that there is a God
That God, eh?
― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
fucksake everyone involved, especially the flamingoes
flamingoes are among the most boring of birds imho
― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link
if I wake earlier than the heroic 16:00 I have set my alarm-clock to I will rank all the birds whose jpgs still adorn this thread
― pro EVOO sucker (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link