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May 12, 2006
Friday Feathers
I have an online photo gallery that I use as a depository for my photographs. The gallery is usually updated once a week with the most recent photo reflected here in the sidebar. Every so often I'll add a group of photos to the gallery, such as the collection of photos I took in Colorado or the photos taken during a visit to the Steamtown Historical Site in Pennsylvania.
However, there are many photographs that just don't see the light of day in the gallery unless they become a collection. I try to mix them up when it's time for a new photo; you won't see consecutive photos of flowers, animals or places I've visited. My latest photographic pursuit is birds, and I've accumulated a number of photos that have yet to be added as a collection. So... I thought I'd feature photos of birds in this space on Fridays, starting today.
When I spotted this particular bird in my mother's yard, at first I thought it was a cardinal (the ever-elusive one I've yet to get a good photo of) but soon realized it wasn't. What caught my eye was the red head.
When I returned to ye olde homestead and ported the photos from camera to laptop, a quick look at my reference book on birds found that this particular bird is a finch. At least I think it is. Anyway, what amuses me about this photo is the white long-johns this bird has on its legs. ;-)
Cindy
Comments
As usual the photo is fantastic. I'm no help with bird identification because I've never seen a bird even remotely like that.
The state bird here is the cardinal, but I just don't see that many of 'em. Some, but not lots. You'd think since they're the state bird there would be lots.
Brain matter deposited by: Kat on May 12, 2006 6:18 PM
It's obviously the elusive 'danielus bonaduceious'.
Brain matter deposited by: Al on May 13, 2006 10:37 AM
You know what "bonkers for birds" means in English, don't you?
You're full of surprises...
Brain matter deposited by: taliesin on May 13, 2006 6:47 PM
Nicholas - leave it to you to take a perfectly harmless statement and kill it in one fell swoop. Now darling, don't play dumb; you know that my preference is men. I've not suddenly leapt over to the other side. As you WELL know (and I feel I have to EXPLAIN myself here) 'bonkers for birds' meant the feathered kind that fly in the air and poop on your head and coo on your windowsill, not 'birds' = 'women' as in English slang. Regardless, I edited that line out. Pfft.
Al - cute. Real cute.
Kat - thanks. I can't believe you've not seen many cardinals; then again, maybe that's why it's the State bird, because of its elusiveness.
Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on May 13, 2006 7:41 PM
wow cindy, great photo :)
Brain matter deposited by: Joost on May 14, 2006 5:41 AM
I go away for a few days to grow old and decrepit and when I come back everything is pea green. Or it is yellow? Oh well, change is good.
Nice picture. I also like the gypsy wagon. Was that in Germany? Somehow I can't quite picture running into a gypsy wagon on the New Jersey Turnpike, but then again I've seen stranger stuff in Berkeley, so who can say?
Brain matter deposited by: mike on May 16, 2006 1:05 AM
Mike - I thought it was more like a mustard color...
as for the wagon, the photo was taken in Ireland.
p.s. HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!
Joost - thanks!
Brain matter deposited by: Cindy on May 16, 2006 7:20 AM