Birds 2013

[david antony]

Thanks Sury.

It was a cold day and I suppose they like keep one leg warm?

[david antony]

Here is a frontal view Sury, showing where he sticks the other leg, incase
you were wondering!

Maybe Greg can add more to his sentence. ? ;^)

[Greg Beetham]

I’m not feeling very inventive this morning about feet, hand, foot associations DA but I do wonder why the Herons don’t do what some other shore birds do, hunker down so they keep both of their frozen feet and legs warm at the same time instead of one at a time.
Good shot that one, the poor blighter looks colder in that one I think than the first one.
Greg
Ps There’s a one legged Pigeon here I notice, when I toss out some bird seed in the afternoon it hops around on one foot amongst all the other ones and has what looks like a band on the one it does have, I have wondered what would cause a Pigeon to lose one foot and leg assembly and then have to carry on with one, but I can’t come up with anything that makes sense so far.

[david antony]

Not sure what would have happened to the Pigeon Greg. I have seen many one footed gulls, maybe a lucky escape for them? Remember reading in the Victoria Colonist 1983 about a guy feeding a one legged Gull since 1958 and that he no longer showed for breakfast. So he figured Stumpy has he called him, had passed on. I am sure he had!

[KevinBarrett]

Canada Goose at Gasworks Park by Kevin_Barrett, on Flickr

[sury]

Kevin,
Nice goose.


From a recent outing to Shoreline Park on San Francisco Bay south end.
A Whatchamacallit. I know I am offending the sensibilities of the bird
lovers on the forum with my total lack of knowledge or worse yet, ignorance,
but all I had was a camera with lens and willingness to shoot the birds, the
benign way.


DSC35632 by BigSury, on Flickr

[Dr. Harout]

Hey, nice shots David, Kevin and Sury.

[sury]

[quote="david antony"]Here is a frontal view Sury, showing where he sticks the other leg, incase
you were wondering!

Maybe Greg can add more to his sentence. ? ;^)

It is quite eerie to watch that missing leg. Nice shot never the less.
I look forward to Greg's punnishment.

Sury

[Birma]

Nice geese KB. I love the green grass backgrounds. Those are really great pictures of geese in their environment.

Great Whatchamacallit Sury. You get a lot of those around here too .

[sury]

Thank you Doc and Andy. Here are couple of not so usual BIFs.


DSC35747crop by BigSury, on Flickr


DSC35685pslvlshrpcrop by BigSury, on Flickr

[Rhtubbs]

Sury,

I especially like the last one.
Nice detail.

[Greg Beetham]

A stately looking Canada Goose KB.
You are definitely getting good at whatchamacallit’s Sury, I like that one, and some great BIF’s too. (if it’s all white near water it’s an Egret I reckon you’re pretty safe with that, one thing is for sure you couldn’t mistake it for an LBJ, they are very distinctive). Bird photographers sure can be inventive when it comes to descriptions, BIF’s, LBJ’s and now whatchamacallit’s as well.
Greg
Ps I was going to get a snapshot of the one legged piggyonroof yesterday arv but it didn’t show up for some reason, but there was something I’ve never seen before, a brown one.

A700 KM28-75 (excuse the popup flash-it was darkish)

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[sury]

Greg,
Those pigeons make me feel nostalgic and take me back in time. As a kid, growing up, I used to them in such groups (flocks?)
in my home town. Unfortunately, the concrete jungle due to urban sprawl made it not so conducive for them. Thank you for
the capture.

By the way, what is LBJ?

With best regards,
Sury

[Greg Beetham]

Thanks Sury, I was hoping someone could tell me if brown Pigeons are common or not, I have no idea myself, but you are correct they do sort of grow on you despite their never ending appetite and tendency to poop anywhere anytime. The one legged one showed up yesterday after being AWOL for two days.
And LBJ is a term birdwatchers use when describing a bird they saw zoom by but didn’t see well enough to identify what it was, it stands for ‘Little Brown Job.’ In a typical bird watching session there is nearly always a percentage of LBJ’s, sometimes many depending on how active and small they are.
I remember fishing in the Coleman R and every afternoon a huge flock of Quarions (small parakeet) would fly over too high to identify directly and were in danger of being LBJ’s but luckily they were making their distinctive calls as they flew and were quite easy to identify after all.
Greg

[sury]

Greg,
For me it is all LBJ's.