Seriously. Pelicans are just weird.
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Pretty bird
I visited a friend of mine last month and I also got to visit with her birds. This is Berkeley hanging out with me on the lanai. Berkeley likes me.
Getting Chilly
As summer gives way to autumn, the mornings are getting a little chilly. This leads to puffed up birds at the bird feeders. I liked the contemplative look on this one’s face.
A welcome visitor!
While sitting on our porch my husband spotted a bird fly into a sentinel pine right by the house. He got up and noticed it was on a nest. We decided it was a mother robin.
It’s hot, so the open beak is part of heat regulation (common for birds). A bit later I noticed she had left so I went to the upper deck to see what I could see. I spied three “robin’s blue” eggs! Hard to get the camera in for that, but here are two of them (okay, part of two of them):
This is likely their last brood of the season, and I’d like to know how we missed the first one (or two)?????
Anyway, we’ll be keeping an eye out!
Brown Ibis?
While on a break from my meeting today I spotted these birds (which I had seen before, but this time I finally got a picture that someone besides me could actually see them in). Are these ibis? If they are white ibis they are juvenile but I haven’t seen any white ibis around and honestly this is the first time I have ever seen these birds on our campus. This is about a mile from the Columbia River. Any thoughts?
I got sunshine
Okay, actually where I live I do have sunshine an awful lot of the time. But this guy? He takes it with him wherever he goes.
Mystery solved?
I wondered why the feeders were getting empty so rapidly. Then I saw this guy.
Dinner for one
Just a white-crowned sparrow enjoying some thistle.
Brunch date
I love watching the birds on the bird feeders we have. Sometimes they seem a little mean to each other – pushing other birds away even when there is plenty of room. Other times, like this, it’s like a bird couple out on a date. (and the lady bird is giving me the side-eye for checking our her man…)
Cooooooo
A mourning dove came to visit (one of many that likes our yard). But instead of going to the feeders, they seem to prefer finding the seed that has been scattered to the ground by the messy birds above. As usual, I got the side-eye from the bird as it wondered why I was taking its picture.
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