Birds - what's in your garden?

Nigel Goodwin said:

Told you I was crap on birds!

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That's an interesting role reversal: how do you get the birds to sit still long enough?



(I bet I get in trouble for *that*...)

We had a family of cardinals last summer. Couple of broods, in fact. Been feeding them for a couple years, first time I have seen any young 'uns. Was pretty funny, Mom cardinal appeared in the yard with just-fledged Junior in tow. Junior landed on the garage roof, while Mom flew over to demonstrate where the food is at. Junior flies over, lands (badly) on the very top of the (cylindrical plastic) feeder, starts poking away at the top of it, can't figure out how to get the seeds out.

duffy said:

I don't know what this bird is, but it was squawing around the back door last week and I got this photo right before I smacked it in the head with a shovel and buried it.

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Admit to it. All what's left is bones.

You ate it. Along with the Triceratops a week earlier.

kv

They aren't as bad as these birds we had back in the Carolinas. Used to swoop in off the shoreline...

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...abduct a half-dozen people or more...

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...then drop their victims in a volcano.

Found one of these critters in my shadehouse.



Cheers Bryan

Talking about birds

We have moved a bit closer to Johannesburg now, a couple of days ago, a massive martial eagle almost caught our Labrador, luckily the commotion attracted a nearby cheetah which lept from under it's tree. The eagle caught sight of it and veered in another direction.
I could gather the dog and family and we decided to abandon our afternoon walk.
It was quite exciting though.

If you believed my African story, you are quite gullible.
You will not find better bird life that on the African continent, just watch out for the other critters.

duffy said:

I don't know what this bird is, but it was squawing around the back door last week and I got this photo right before I smacked it in the head with a shovel and buried it.

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You dumb dodo! Why'd you go and do that?

arrie said:

If you believed my African story, you are quite gullible.
You will not find better bird life that on the African continent, just watch out for the other critters.

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Oh yes indeed... Africa is teaming with amazing and spectacular bird life. I understand this to be a very common example of it:

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