Animal Behavior

A Bird Gets the Freddie Mercury Beat

November 17, 2009 Animal Behavior

My friend Sheila posted this vid on Facebook. If you watch the first minute, you’ll get the gist of Snowball’s interpretation. There is, however, a notable bow at the end. Snowball comes by way of Bird Lovers Rescue. They have a blog and website — dedicated to avian rescue and education.

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Shorebird Nation Rises Again

October 22, 2009 Animal Behavior

Ever since I picked up a telephoto lens and aimed it at my first non-human earthling, my seasons have morphed into migration schedules. Winter = Ducks. Spring= Babies. Fall (best time of all) = Shorebirds. I used to be an urban-girl-night-person — before I knew what I was. Autumn was: early darkness, early cocktails. (Okay, [...]

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Just Flying: Some Pictures

October 12, 2009 Animal Behavior

We cancelled our cable service . . . again. I’m not sure what our longest stretch of cable t.v. access has been, but, it always comes to this eventually: we look at the 100+ dollars we’re pissing away each month and surrender our cable box the next day. Here’s our cable substitute this time — [...]

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The Case of the Fledgling Gull

August 21, 2009 Animal Behavior

A short photo series, as I encountered it. A young gull waits for its parent. Parent arrives, gull follows behind and calls out for minutes on end. Juvenile gets more aggressive, tries for some food from a familiar source. The end. Gulls do wean their young but may continue feeding even older juveniles if the [...]

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Not-So-Ordinary Black Birds

June 15, 2009 Animal Behavior

Until the esteemed Brewer’s Blackbird Sir Swoops made a name for himself by dive-bombing pedestrians, there’s a good chance he was just one of many birds in black, hopping along the sidewalks of San Francisco without much notice. On first glance, blackbirds and black-colored birds may seem visually ordinary. But closer inspection always renders a [...]

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Swoops the Blackbird – Exhibit A in “Mobbing” Behavior

June 8, 2009 Animal Behavior

I snapped this on the weekend before national t.v. crews showed up to fuel the celebrity of Swoops the Blackbird. (Click on the image for the larger Flickr version.) ©ingridtaylar Swoops, a Brewer’s Blackbird with a nest of young to protect, perches on the awnings overlooking his brood and buzzes pedestrians who venture too close [...]

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