Friday Feathers: A Belted Kingfisher with plenty to say!

by rightantler on October 15, 2011

Belted Kingfisher

Belted Kingfisher by Leftanltler on flickr

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Sunday Feathers – juvenile appearance is important!

by rightantler on July 24, 2011

(c) Jess Marshall 2011

having a bad feather day, little guy?

(c) Jess Marshall 2011

just a little more tweaking

(c) Jess Marshall 2011

hey, it's rude to stare!

(c) Jess Marshall 2011

all done.

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Friday Feathers – My Home-Office Co-Worker

by rightantler on July 23, 2011

Co-worker at Home Office

Home Office Co-worker II

Home Office Co-worker III

Home Office Co-worker IV

or is he my boss?

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Friday Feathers – Audio: Crows attack what ???

June 17, 2011

Something different this week. The following three minute recording was made outside our front door. In the trees the crows were going insane. This was not the normal shouting we hear, something was clearly upsetting them. The recording starts almost ten minutes after the commotion began. If you listen carefully you can hear the sound [...]

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Friday Feathers – Video: A Red-winged Blackbird Display

June 10, 2011

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Birds and the city and Dad

June 4, 2011

Bus, ferry, bus, Skytrain, plane… And so my day started. At the crack of sparrow’s chirp. If everything went according to plan, I would be on a flight to Toronto before I’ve normally finished my first cup of coffee. Leaving the house, I was greeted by a massive crowd. Imagine waking up and finding yourself [...]

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Friday Feathers – The Parrots of San Francisco

May 6, 2011

The Parrots of San Francisco!! Starring cherry-headed conure … Guest Starring blue-crowned conure …Tonights Episode … I had no idea! Had I known there were wild parrots living in San Francisco I would have made more of an effort to seek them out during a recent visit to the city. As it was they found [...]

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A Bird in the Hand: Chickadee Videos

January 2, 2011

I just realized two things. 1. I hadn’t blogged here for a while and 2. I had not blogged a couple of little chickadee videos I put up on flickr. The first of these came about when I read Dena’s blog post about becoming a ‘proper’ birder. I’m not sure I want to set a [...]

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sun and blue skies – wow!

November 11, 2010

the birds were thrilled today, as we had one of those rare winter days where the murk and gloom disappeared and the sun came out to accompany a bright, cyan sky. it was lovely to hear their chirps, tweets and twitterings of bird-y happiness and the chickadees were particularly tuneful. may have heard a varied [...]

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Friday Feathers: missing the seed eaters

November 5, 2010

Some people disagree that feeding birds is a good idea. As temperatures drop and natural food supplies dwindle, I feel it’s important to feed the birds – I’d feed them all year round if I could. We only had our seed feeder (back) up for one month since moving here. Almost two weeks have gone [...]

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