Posted on 02/27/2016 3:51:14 PM PST by Islander7
What a treat. I belive this is a limpkin. I've seen him at this location one other time, but didn't have my camera. I was shooting out the window of my car with the bird about 30 yards away. He was in shadow so the colors and contrast a little off.
Let's see more pictures FReepers. Never too many birds!
Birdie Ping!
Nice!
We’ve been feeding the birds for years now,we have hundreds of them show up daily.So many in fact that they ate the last 50 LB bag of seed in 2 days.I need to get busy with the camera.
You make me want to invest in a new camera! Beautiful snaps! Thanks so much for sharing!
Nice photos.
I have been taking bird pictures since around 1970 and still am not good at it. I know how to set an F-stop and use depth of field but somehow just don’t seem to have the touch.
Sweet
I think our Goldfinches are gone. I miss them so much but we had a very warm spell last week and I think they think it’s summer.
So I’ve got a story.
About 15 years ago, my family lived in Arizona. About two miles from the Mexico border (as the bird flies).
I was driving home from the store, going slow on our dirt road, and (right hand to G-d) it appeared that a pterodactyl flew over our car.
The kids both saw it, too.
I told my husband and best friends about this and they all thought I was nutz. (Understandably)
A couple of months later, we were having a family BBQ. The women were in the house (doing the REAL cooking) and they guys were BBQing and supervising the kids in the pool.
Suddenly, they all exploded. We women rushed out to find both husbands and ALL the kids screaming that a pterodactyl just drifted directly over our house.
“HA!” I thought. Told you I wasn’t crazy.
This wormed it’s way into my head in a bad way. I knew that it couldn’t be a pterodactyl, but something massive, that strongly resembled a pterodactyl, did fly over our area at least twice.
They’re very big birds. Attracted to water when flying over the desert (like our pool). When the sun is just right, it’s amazing how the profile confuses the brain.
Mystery solved!
Went on an internet hunt.
Here’s what I found.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6020/5878816067_cc691991cd.jpg
A blue heron. We’re right in their flight path for migration. With the legs together and the feet spread, it gives that classic profile.
It’s a Limpkin, all right. Kinda rare, even in central Florida
I started feeding birds when I saw a few struggling to find food in the snow.
I didn’t realize that if you feed a couple of birds, they tell their friends. The next thing you know, you are feeding hundreds of them.
I cut them off the welfare. If they come and visit, that’s fine, but I’m not subsidizing them to be lazy.
LOL! Now that’s funny. The GBH is one of my favorite birds.
I was sitting outside today watching the squirrels and doves feeding on the ground under the hanging bird feeders. There were red wing black birds, gold finches and a wood pecker on the feeders. Suddenly, all the birds took to wing and the squirrels took to the trees. A buzzard flew over fairly low and spooked ‘em. Funny.
That principle is universal in the animal kingdom, especially the human animal kingdom.
My Petersons Guide shows it as a Limpkin.
Not common at all. Nice find.
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I love feeding our birds, but I learned to do it every other month.
See, if I feed them regularly, the hawk learns that this is the place to come for fast food...
Horrible. Just horrible.
When the babies are hanging around, he picks ‘em off like popcorn. I’ve banged pots together and he just makes a bit of distance before coming back for more. I’ve got photos of me standing two feet from the brat and he didn’t care.
So we feed the birds every OTHER month... that seems to do the trick.
It is a birdie!
One day several years ago, my father and I were watching
little birds hiding seeds in the bark of the trees in our
yard. Daddy said he thought they did that to help each
other; that they might not be able to come back & find the
seed they hide, but some poor hungry little bird will find
the seed other birds hide.
Limpkin? Looks like he’s walking ok to me..........
With that being said, lucky you, the Limpkin would be skating on ice where I am......LOL!
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