Seething
Thursday and Friday mornings the trees outside work were filled with a mixed flock of robins and cedar waxwings. A single mocking bird held the highest limb against the oncoming starlings, and a red-bellied woodpecker ran up and down the old tree's trunk while a mourning dove watched the little birds seethe through the vines covering the trees by the brook, calling all the while. Gorgeous.
From this angle, this robin looks very white.
A certain winter fading of that red breast is beginning to show here, too.
A blurry picture, but the red waxy wingtips are clearly visible here.
They can be so hard to see!
He's a bit ruffled, isn't he?
A harbinger of starlings to come - soon the tree will be full of them...
Top of the world, ma!
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At 10:22 AM, November 07, 2009
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At 10:28 AM, November 07, 2009
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Lovely pictures, Karen. There's nothing like a tree full of birds. Around here, though, starlings are public enemy number one! - Elizabeth Kent
Here, too! It always startles me to read Europeans writing about them - they're certainly a nuisance over here.
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