No Jumping From Pier – Pelicans Talking
“George, are you going to jump? It says no jumping”
“But look at all those fish down there, I’m jumping”
Woo Hoo
“Look at George go, I’m going next”
Lunch is served
Short video below of Pelicans on the pier. There isn’t a link for this one, so you have to click visit to go to the web page to see it. Have a great weekend.
Have a great weekend.
No Jumping From Pier
It is So Hot – I am a tree
What are you looking at over there?
So many different captions for these photos.
Boo
It is So Hot
Splish Splash I was taking a bath.
Ah hem, a little privacy please. 🙂
Splish Splash
Swallow Tailed Kites, I finally got to see some of these flying high. Some folks told me about this bird when I was down south. They said they only pass through the area and stay for just a few days. They actually look like kites gliding up above.
Swallow-tailed Kites spend most of their time in the air, capturing and swallowing their food in flight. Rarely flapping their wings, they soar and make tight turns, rotating their tail to steer.
Swallow Tailed Kites
Natures Firework Colors – During the 4th of July fireworks displays, they end with what the call the grand finale.
This is natures grand finale for today’s 4th of July. Bright beautiful colors on display right outside all day every day. 🙂
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Natures Firework Colors
He Needs a Bigger Condo, a heron likes to perch up high just like a cat. This one was watching us fish down below. It is a purple martin house and that isn’t a real one laying at the feet of the heron. It is a fake purple martin to attract the real ones. Short video of the heron below or click this link; Heron on a Bird House
I have a fake one on my purple martin house, but I have never seen a purple martin up there yet. It is the end of June and here is wishing everyone a wonderful month of July.
The warm summer days are ahead of us, they remind of being a youngster, enjoying the fresh green grass between your toes, the warm breezes brushing up against your skin. Just love it.
Have a great weekend.
Have a wonderful weekend. 🙂
He Needs a Bigger Condo
I Took a Lot of Photos of this bird, the Indigo Bunting, I was under the impression that being in the far south was the only place you would see this bird. But come to find out I saw it all the way up into Illinois. Now I know they don’t come to Michigan, that is a little to far north for them. 🙂
We were out for a walk one day and looked over to the right and here sat this large unusual looking bird. I had to look it up when I got back. Plus I had the bridge camera on this walk and it just does not do very well when you max out the zoom lens on it.
Anything over 400 mm with this bridge camera the photos will not be clear. But I still was able to get a photo of it to write down in my bird book.
It is called a Bobolink, I have never heard of it but it is quite a fascinating bird.
This picture below is from the internet, I did not take it, it is just to show you what it looks like.
I Took a Lot of Photos
Really Fast Birds the Foster Terns. Smaller than all the gulls, with thinner and more pointed bill. Distinguished from other terns by pale whitish wings and orange-based bill in summer, and isolated black ear patch in winter. Forages by circling and hovering over bays, ponds, and lakes, then dropping to snatch fish.
It was very difficult to follow these guys as they were diving. My camera was going all over the place.
They capture their food by plunge-diving from heights as low as a few feet to as high as 50 feet or more.
Really Fast Birds
Hanging Out at the Beach Kind of Day, I still have a few photos from down south, so I will be going back and forth with post as I get a chance to edit my backlog of shots.
The first two photos are birds you almost always see at the beach. I don’t know the exact species name but they run in the family of plovers I believe.
Video of Beach Birds below or here; Beach Birds
With a couple of Oyster catchers hanging out, the birds with the orange bills.
Hanging Out at the Beach Kind of Day
Another Warbler, this one being the Hooded Warbler with its bold color of yellow and a black cap like a hood. This bird was very easy to spot in the trees. So many colors this spring.
Another Warbler
