The boys have been fascinated by a few dozen friends who dropped in to poke holes in the lawn today.
The new house may be less than ideal for such visitors, if Megan’s latest idea works out. But it would be ideal for the cats!
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on January 27, 2008 at 11:04 am orcmid wrote:
Have you figured out what these birds are, especially the speckled ones?
I see these by the hundreds in monster flocks as Winter approaches. They swirl around above our corner intersection and land on the lawns. I feared for my late-Fall grass seeding, but they just wanted the bugs and worms. They take fright easily (and en mass) but I have managed a few pictures since I started keeping my camera at my desk.
I must make a space for my camera again, once I have removed all the other clutter, so I can catch returning birds and perhaps the neighborhood pair of bald eagles with my new 55-200mm zoomer.
on January 27, 2008 at 11:23 am Doug wrote:
No, I don’t know what species they are, but I’ve seen the monster flocks too. I forgot to get a closeup — they were right there, but I was busy snapping pictures with the cats in them.
on January 27, 2008 at 8:15 pm tvp wrote:
The monster flocks of birds are Starlings.
tvp
on January 27, 2008 at 9:39 pm Doug wrote:
Ah, starlings. Yes, I’ve heard they travel in big groups.
Here’s a video of a falcon repeatedly diving on a giant flock of starlings. And I found pictures of some cool starling flocks in Denmark.