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BlaisOne has given me that idea! haha
These birds were definately not whispering when we went by them though yesterday. it looked cool so i thought i'd take a photo. Not the most exciting though i know :)
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
At The Anglian Water Bird Watching CenteRutland Water Nature Reserve, Oakham
This Red Wattle bird (Anthochaera carunculata) is nesting close to my home, he collects food in his beak and takes it back to his nest. He has no fear of me, will come right up to me and take food from my hand. he also comes inside the house but is less curious than my Magpie visitor. Red Wattle birds are a passerine bird native to southern Australia, they are predominantly a nectar-feeder, so I am surprised to see him take meat that i put out for Magpies, Butcher birds, Magpie larks, Kookaburras, Willie Wagtails and Cuckoo-shrikes.
In a "bird-rich" state like Florida, does the commonplace northern mockingbird deserve to reign as the official state bird?
According to the Florida Department of State Division of Historical Resources, the Mockingbird "is a superb songbird and mimic. Its own song has a pleasant lilting sound and is, at times, both varied and repetitive." The bird was put in place in 1927 under Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 3. The bird won over the Legislature in part because "the melody of its music has delighted the heart of residents and visitors to Florida from the days of the rugged pioneer to the present comer."
Someone else once wrote. "I am finishing this post the next day because I had to go buy a new computer after I threw my last one out the window when I read that Florida's state bird was the northern mockingbird. I cannot think of a more pathetic choice for one of the most bird-rich states in the nation. What's their state beverage, a half-glass of warm tap water?"
"The fact stands that four other states have the same official bird; Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. It's as overused as the northern cardinal (five states) and the western meadowlark (six states), and some make the convincing argument that every state should have its own bird."
Who would have ever "thunk" the Mockingbird could stir up so much controversy. The debate still "rages"!
I found this controversial little one along Joe Overstreet Road in Osceola County, Florida preparing to share its pleasant lifting sound to the world.
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Cyathus striatus I think. Birds nest fungi produce cup-like fruiting bodies that contain tiny "eggs", or peridioles. The cups are about 6mm wide. The peridioles contain the spores, and are knocked out of the cups by raindrops, and this is how the fungi reproduce.
Photographed in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Focus stack using Zerene
We were traveling this week. Returning from a trip at Thanksgiving to visit my daughter and our grandchildren in LA. Spent the last evening in Pecos Texas before driving home the next day. We pulled into the drive thru of a local barbecue place. All of a sudden we were surrounded by "The Birds" as a huge flock of starling began roosting in the power lines over us. With my camera gear all packed in the back of the Jeep, I luckily had my iPhone out to Apple pay at the window and got a few quick shots. Amazing how they space themselves out.
Those birds sang a lot (but it was about two weeks ago)...it was so nice and spring like.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
The birds like the tall grasses in the yard. Full house of birds during yesterday's snow storm. Feeders were busy.