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Located in Munising in the U.P. of Michigan, it’s a nice hike to see such a beautiful place, the surrounding area is quite lovely.
The Noisy Miner belongs to the honeyeater family and is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia.
It is often confused with the introduced Common or Indian Myna bird which is mostly dark brown and, whilst it has similar facial markings, it belongs to the starling family.
The Noisy Miner is a bold and curious bird which primary eats nectar, fruit and insects and occasionally feeds on small reptiles and amphibians. They noisily defend their ‘patch’ of trees from other birds, especially other honeyeaters which are regarded as competitors for the food resources.
Many other birds are also driven from the area as they are mercilessly harassed until they move on and the Noisy Miner is always at war with other species of the feathered kind. Because of this aggressive behavior, areas inhabited by Noisy Miners often support few other birds.
This is just my attempt to use the most boring and annoying bird in the world to produce something exciting and interesting with it.
Hope it works.
A Noisy Miner (Manorina melanocephala) ignores all the seeds and fruit on offer to winkle out a gem from the bottom of the seed and fruit ball. In its natural environment, the noisy miner feeds on nectar, fruit, insects and assists in the pollination of native plants.
Gold miners with drilling equipment, Mogollon, New Mexico (1940)
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© Russell Lee, 1903-1986, photographer
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
It goes to show that it isn't just we humans that need a drink of water. During the current very hot spell, with bush fires and strong winds raging, my heart goes out to the wildlife as well. This Noisy Miner was going from here to there, trying to find a way of quenching its thirst.
They should have named this place mosquito falls. Bug spray didn't stop the mosquitoes here. They were the very definition of persistence. It took all of the moving and running around on the small viewing platform to not get torn up by mosquitoes. I have still always wondered what the purpose of mosquitoes was. Thanking God that we were still able to enjoy the falls and the hike while still capturing this beautiful shot.
The noisy miner is a bird in the honeyeater family and endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia. Noisy miners are gregarious and territorial; they forage, bathe, roost, breed and defend territory communally, forming colonies that can contain several hundred birds. Each bird has an 'activity space', and birds with overlapping activity spaces form associations called 'coteries', which are the most stable units within the colony. The birds also form temporary flocks called 'coalitions' for specific activities, such as mobbing a predator. Group cohesion is facilitated by vocalisations, and through ritualised displays, which have been categorised as flight displays, postural displays, and facial displays. The Noisy miner is a notably aggressive bird, so that chasing, pecking, fighting, scolding, and mobbing occur throughout the day, targeted at both intruders and colony members.
I found his bird at a pub beer garden where the picking were easy, it wasn't the least bit aggressive but it did refuse to buy me a drink, even after we shared me lunch together.
An abandoned cabin at Rhyolite. We lit the interior with Lume lights. A couple of cars on the nearby highway traveled in the distance.
Happy Window Wednesday!
We went for a drive and stopped off at the Bowral cemetery. We went for a wander looking at the gravestones, trees, flowers and birds. We discovered a noisy miner nest with a pair of adults working hard with three hungry babies to feed. It was a very well constructed nest.
In Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. It has a 50 foot drop and is the park’s most powerful waterfall. We tried visiting this waterfall the first two times we were at Pictured Rocks, but both times the parking lot was full or just about full. This third time visiting was a charm! We pulled into the parking lot and there was only one other car there, so we ended up having the falls to ourselves.
The “new” Miners Bridge across the River Severn at Severn Valley Country Park. The original bridge was installed so that miners could move between Alveley and Highley without having to pay to be ferried across the River Severn.
One of several, having a noisy frolic amongst the roses, feeding on the abundance of Aphids. Could this be the Mother of the chick in the next photo, I wonder?
The noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala) is a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, and is endemic to eastern and south-eastern Australia.
This yellow throated miner was sitting quietly by the water hole (after having a quick bath) in the Arid Lands Botanic Gardens in Port Augusta, South Australia. The water hole was right alongside the outdoor section of the cafe and was a wonderful place to sit and watch the local birdlife come and go! The food was pretty good too.
I know these birds aren't rare, but this was actually just my second time ever in seeing one and first reasonably good photo!
Happy Feathery Friday!
The terraced Rake Cottages, on the road to Greenside Lead Mine at Glenridding, Ullswater, Lake District National Park, Cumbria. England
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There was one tiny window in the small miner cabin on the road to the former mining town of Skidoo in Death Valley National Park.
Happy Window Wednesday!
Garlock, California in Kern County was a source of water for cattlemen in the surrounding desert. Gold was discovered in the nearby mountains in the 1880s, several stamp mills were established in Garlock and the town had a post office. When a railroad was built to a nearby town, miners started crushing ore elsewhere and Garlock was a ghost town by 1907.
Shot the site with my DSLR, pocket camera and cellphone and liked this cellphone pic the best.