I have finally reached that age.
I have put out several bird feeders over the past few years so that I may watch the squirrels, chipmunks, doves, and various other birds from either my office window or my breakfast bay.
From my office, I usually get doves, crows, or squirrels. If I am lucky, I get a woodpecker.
I would never make it as a birder. I either have a heavy foot or just breathe loud because I can never get a picture. My doves come morning and night but when I want to shoot them...they know.
From my breakfast bay, I get a variety of birds and small animals. But mostly...mostly...I get these...
Look closer....
Is that not one ugly ass bird?! I used to think they were just molting juveniles but I get them all the time...all year! Now we do live just a few miles from Oak Ridge, TN which basically was established as a production site for The Manhattan Project. Hmm, maybe that has something to do with it.
I love your bird!!! What is it?
ReplyDeleteMorning love. I have no idea What it is. Emily says I am mean, but I really do get just plain ugly birds. The are like part Cardinal, part vulture.
DeleteWhat a bizarre bird! The Gerard Depardieu of the avian world.
ReplyDeleteHe's not the only one either. He's just the only one I was able to snap.
DeleteHouse finch with big schnoze?
ReplyDeleteMaybe. Who NOSE. I'm so funny.
DeleteDinosaurs. All of 'em. That one has a serious beak, you better not feed him by hand......
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but I love watching the birds outside my window. I started with just a feeder and now I have six feeders: 3 hummingbird, 2 woodpecker and one large one for songbirds. I make my own hummingbird food and have an adapter for my iphone camera with which I may snap their picture using binoculars.
It wont be long before I spend my day on a bench wearing a tattered hat and feeding pigeons. Ill save a place for you beside me
I actually have four feeders...one turns into a birdbath if it rains, death trap if the cat is out...and one hummingbird feeder. That's cool about the camera/binocular thing. Save me a seat I will try not to make sudden movements and scare them all away.
DeleteMaybe a Rosebreasted Grosbeak? I flipped through my little bird book and thats the best I could come up with
ReplyDeleteI think it's just a bald cardinal.
DeleteIt's definitely a house finch. Some of them get prettier plumage than others. So funny!
ReplyDeleteAin't no pretty with this one :)
ReplyDeleteOh yes, you're going "oh so pretty!" and then arrggh! Funnily enough my friend Kenny has an expression "A block away cute."
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky to get so much wildlife out there, we just have scrappy ugly old possums and turkey
We have a ton of turkey now. Every time in turn around there's a harem? of them. Hubs used to walk early morning with a lantern on his head but the beady eyes staring back at him creeped him out. I loved it because he knocked all the spider webs down for when it was my turn.
DeleteHarem of turkey - love it. Think we could use that for every bird gathering. Or animal. or people. As good as murder of crows
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