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Sunset Grackles - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Wings - 'New Years Day' - January 1st, 2022
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - grackle flock]
*[Large Black Wave - Floating Wave - Murmuration]
*[alligators below them everywhere, but they are safe!]
*[That Special Time of Day - Last Light - afterglow]
SUNSET - Florida Everglades U.S.A.
Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge
Clear Winter Sky - Boat-tailed Grackles
South Florida - Palm Beach County, FL
Boat-tailed Grackles are large, lanky songbirds with rounded crowns, long legs, and fairly long, pointed bills. Males have very long tails that make up almost half their body length and they typically hold them folded in a V-shape, like the keel of a boat.
The glossy blue-black males are hard to miss as they haul their ridiculously long tails around or display them from marsh grasses or trees. They are so common Everglades guides nicknamed them swamp rats! They are all over the Everglades! Fun to observe.
From last year. Haven't seen any yet this year.
WELLS, Maine -- Flocks of pink flamingos are increasingly being seen around Wells and Ogunquit these days. Not the real birds, but the lawn decoration variety that some people love and others find tacky. It's all part of a fundraising drive by the Wells High School Project Graduation committee. They're encouraging that more and more people get "flocked."
"People can order a flock for someone else's yard," said committee member Dawn Valente. "They get 20 birds for three days, unless the person wants to pay money to get them removed earlier. You can buy insurance so you can't get flocked. If you do and someone tries to flock you, they get flocked instead."
The whole idea is to raise money for the 2009 Project Graduation activity. Each year, the committee develops an alcohol- and drug-free excursion on the night of the graduation ceremony for interested graduates. The money raised helps to defray costs that otherwise would be borne by the graduates and their families.
"Birds of a feather, flock together"
On a walk through a local conservation area, I observed huge numbers of American Goldfinch, than as quickly as they appeared, they all disappeared together.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
A super autumnal morning for this shot. A nice bit of mist lying in the hollows yet bright enough sun at sunrise to cast some super shadows from the sheep. All I needed was the sheep to hang around long enough for the sun to get going. They were losing interest at this point but I liked the result. Had to be on a tripod for this shot. Shooting into the sun is never easy with the dynamic range you get. Narrow aperture helps burst the sun.
Happy Flocked Friday!
Project Graduation for the Class of 2016 at Wells High School are once again “flocking” lawns of homes and businesses to raise funds for their chemical-free graduation party for graduating seniors in June.
Flocking is simply having Project Graduation plant 15, 30 or 50 plastic pink flamingos on someone’s lawn for a three-day period. To do this, Project Graduation asks for a donation of $20 for 15 birds, $25 for 30 birds or $40 for 50 birds to “flock” a friend or neighbor’s lawn; all in good fun and for a great cause.
Locked in on a flock of Sandhill cranes foraging about in a freshly harvested corn field.. central Minnesota.
Gilmore Ponds Wetlands hosted several large flocks of Canada Geese this past week. These birds were never seen in the Cincinnati area when I was growing up. Now they not only winter here, but also stay all year 'round. Their only predators seem to be native foxes, coyotes ( which are now here as well) and being struck by autos.
iNaturalist link www.inaturalist.org/observations/198585674
Jenny Pansing photos
Near Badbury Rings, Wimborne...this field usually has crops not sheep.
I've had problems with my computer this evening so will catch up tomorrow!
15.02.2015
This is a daily trip they do, out in the morning, back in the evening. You only see the amazing quantity of rooks when they are in the air; When they settle in their nests, the trees just absorb them - although they betray themselves with the noise! This was last year. There only seems to be a fraction of these this year. I wonder where they have all gone??
Three frames over the time I waited for sunset to start lighting the cloud...
Looking North from Barrack Point , Shellharbour, NSW
Our flock of Ohiki, rare Japanese chickens with silken feathers and long tails. These are still growing.
Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden
European Startling
First brought to North America by Shakespeare enthusiasts in the nineteenth century, European Starlings are now among the continent’s most numerous songbirds. They are stocky black birds with short tails, triangular wings, and long, pointed bills. Though they’re sometimes resented for their abundance and aggressiveness, they’re still dazzling birds when you get a good look. Covered in white spots during winter, they turn dark and glossy in summer. For much of the year, they wheel through the sky and mob lawns in big, noisy flocks.
All the European Starlings in North America descended from 100 birds set loose in New York's Central Park in the early 1890s. The birds were intentionally released by a group who wanted America to have all the birds that Shakespeare ever mentioned. It took several tries, but eventually the population took off. Today, more than 200 million European Starlings range from Alaska to Mexico, and many people consider them pests.