Birding - Tumblr Posts
Birding adventures. This time I got to picture this beautiful Bald Eagle at Huntington Beach State Park. What a treat!
Got out yesterday with my camera. Sanderlings kill me. I love these birds so much. They are the birds that move their little legs so fast when they run around the waves.
In flight. Today’s collection of southern coastal birds in my backyard.
Seagulls and tropical winds.
The Egret: My Muse.
Golden Hour signaling a wedge of white ibises in to roost.
This Little Egret and I engaged in a staring contest.
It’s golden hour, and I’m looking for birds 📸
Roseate Spoonbill and Cormorant in flight above the marsh.
Playing RDR2 after getting into bird watching is so fun oh my fucking goddddd maybe I should leave my house once in a while but I was hunting and I heard a ring-necked pheasant and almost imploded from sheer joy because I could identify it
Roseate spoonbill appreciation post
Never stop slaying
Roadrunner appreciation post
Fun fact: The oldest roadrunner fossil is over 30 thousand years old
Great-tailed grackle appreciation post
Fun fact: these fellas are known to comb through the grilles of cars to find bugs
Mourning dove appreciation post
Fun fact: mourning doves can safely drink brackish water with nearly half the salinity of seawater
Cassowary appreciation post
Fun fact: These goobers are one of the closest species of dinosaurs to still be alive today
... as Mourning Doves.
#Anting
Not Sunbathing but Anting.
Blue Jay practicing his favorite activity which is, Anting; get rid of some ectoparasites using ants. I thought the bird was dead !
Apparently many birds have this common activity. Like over 200 species are known to “ant”.
Male cardinals are beginning to look brighter and brighter, the closer we come to spring. Healthy males are newly molted, with bright new feathers.
Soon, pair-bonded males will start mating rituals with their long-term mates, while young, single males will compete to find a life-long companion.
Northern Cardinals are especially monogamous. They are never too far away from each other.
A Northern saw-whet owl, called June by the local birders, at Sochacki Park in Robbinsdale.
hhhh I need to do a formal ranking of my fave birds cos Lyrebird is *up there*. I get to glimpse them every now and then when I go out bush. closest encounter was outside camp after a hike at the Cathedral Ranges, but I'll most reliably come across one over Mallacoota/Genoa way visiting family. exceedingly cool creatures.