Joe Routon, who usually sends us street photography, has some wildlife photos today: birds. His captions are indented and you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them.
Here are a few of my bird photos. Not being an expert on birds, I’ve probably misidentified some of these. I’m sure that your more erudite bird experts will correct me.
I photographed this Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda), a member of the crow family, in Rajasthan, India:
Photographed in my front yard is this Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis):
I photographed this Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus) on my daily social-distancing walk. I particularly enjoy its song.
Here’s an ostrich (Struthio camelus) who was kind enough to smile for my camera.
I photographed this Rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis) in Peru.
Another of my photos of the red-tailed hawk in my front yard.
Here is a Yucatan woodpecker (Melanerpes pygmaeus) I photographed in Yucatan, Mexico.
When in Peru, I photographed this boatload of Peruvian pelicans (Pelecanus thagus). Social birds, they enjoy fishing and boating together.
Very good pictures! Thank you for sharing.
Thanks, Mark! I always enjoy your photos!
The rufous-collared sparrow looks like someone stitched a head from one species onto the body of another. Bizarre.
The Treepie (?!) is spectacular. It’s an example of what I love about these posts. I love seeing birds I’d never even heard of .
Just looked up treepie…Dendro: tree, of course. Citta: Kitta, meaning magpie, so Dendrocitta is a “Tree Magpie”. A Hindu name for it is Taka Chor, “coin stealer”.
I’m glad you looked that up, so that I didn’t have to. My first impressions were that the bird didn’t look very rufous – it’s mostly yellow, for goodness sake -, nor very much like a pie, either.
Social birds, they enjoy fishing and boating together. Did they rent the boat for an outing, or did they just dump the body and take off? 😃
Hahaha! Mutiny on the Dinghy, a raft of pelicans.
Amazing photos. The red-tailed hawk(s?) are so beautiful. And I think that is the friendliest picture of an ostrich I’ve ever seen.
Great photos – and some very amusing captions, too!
These are great! Thanks!
Excellent eye, Joe! Thanks for brightening the day.
Beautiful Joe. You did mis-identify the ostrich though: That’s the Grinch! 😀
Cool pics. Dry humour
Social birds, they enjoy fishing and boating together. – I laughed out loud. Thank you
eehhh. that ostrich knows something we don’t…
Thx for the pix!
D.A.
NYC
And the Ostrich is actually an Emu.