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Female Cardinal

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Bluebird

Thursley Common, Surrey. One of the supporting cast to Colin the Cuckoo, late in the day after the light had gone.

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Here I am lucky to combine my two favorite subjects.

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Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.

Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.

Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.

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The Hooded Merganser:

Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )

Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.

Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.

The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.

(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)

Cattle egret is taking off in an inspiring pose. Taken at Wakodahatchee wetlands in Florida

♫Three little birds

Pitch by my doorstep

Singing sweet songs

Of melodies pure and true

Saying

This is my message to you-ou-ou...♪

♥

I have no idea about the color of its foot. Natural or blood of prey?

Northern Red-billed Hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus). Hornbills are noisy, conspicuous birds easily distinguished by their bold black and white feather patterns, accented by long, colorful bills and patches of bare skin around the eyes or throat. Their first two neck vertebrae are fused to support their large bill. Samburu National Reserve, Kenya.

Conservation status: Least Concern

Happy Quinta Flower.

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In the garden last Sunday

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Belding's savannah sparrow, taken in Bolsa Chica Reserve

There is something about birds singing on barbed wire that always appeals to me, especially now.

I almost only see these colorful birds in winter. Then there are several couples who visit the bird tray every day and eat lots of sunflower seeds!

Cliché pris aux bords de Marne,je cherchais un grimpereau des jardins,attiré par des cris je lève la tête et aperçois 2 mouettes qui se coursaient dont l'une avait....(réglages sommaires et focales 145mm vu la distance short donc agrandissement

A strange bird at the feeder with an attitude.

A major crop, so nothing great. Thanks for looking and happy week.

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Whistler

Canada

.. sun in the sky

A stern looking Javan myna is protecting a feather it found. In Fort Canning, Singapore. It got too hot for sightseeing. So I stopped to look for birds in the shade.

Explored on July 1, 2021 at #173

The Great Egret was chosen as the mascot for the Audubon Society because back in the 1800s this elegant bird was hunted to near extinction so the egrets feathers could be worn in ladies hats. It is a reminder that our beautiful birds need to be protected and preserved. And seriously don't their feathers look so much better on them.

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So, Danny planted some nasturtium seeds in the hanging basket outside our kitchen window. I thought it would be a great idea to put mealworms on top for the birds, so we could possibly get some captures of them through the window. It worked. Didn’t occur to me at the time that the birds would probably destroy the seeds. Whoops. Think I need to buy some more seeds 😂😂

Female Song Sparrow Bird.

On the hunt.

Attenborough NR

Photo taken May 13, 2022

Paper bird made to stick on a card

"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow [seed] nor reap [the harvest] nor gather [the crops] into barns, and yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not worth much more than they?" - Matthew 6:26

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