Birds

[catalog]

Idle rich coffee table photos book please

 

[IdleRich]

I'll give it to you when we play in White Hotel

 

[hmg]

I'll gladly chip in for a lens cleaning cloth.

 

[IdleRich]

In fairness that's the bus window.

 

[william_kent]

In fairness that's the bus window.

nah, it's the dissensus aesthetic

don't do yourself down

 

[IdleRich]

Yeah, achieved via dirty bus window

 

[william_kent]

Yeah, achieved via dirty bus window

too modest

 

[Clinamenic]

Doctored image, but still

 

[mixed_biscuits]

So people think hummingbirds are the smallest birds but ladybirds are a lot smaller - strange that no-one 'spotted' this.

I hear the Woke are calling them personpeople now in order not to be sexist.

I'm available for weddings but not for Bar Mitzvahs until a resolution to the conflict in the Middle East.

 

[Murphy]

Humming birds would gather round public pools along east coast states late summer

Admittedly I was still drinking but to be slothing under a sun lounger floating away to margaritaville, followed by what sounded like a hornet approaching but softer toned and less aggressive, pulled the shades aside and behold about 4 tiny spots of coloured plumes dipping in and out of lily flowers - Ruby Throated from reference searches

As for the rest of your post @mixed_biscuits you seem to be caught up in some form of self-inducing eschatological crisis - immanentize!

 

[IdleRich]

Years ago late at night I saw and heard a bird flying around about 3am on several occasions. I had seen an owl land on some nearby rooftops but i thought that the bird i saw iin the air was something else, it just seemed too ungainly to be an owl, but some research including writing to a Portuguese bird society along with further observation revealed that it was indeed an owl - no doubt the same one i had seen land. I guess that previously in the UK I had seen barn owls with their ghostly silent flight and this was another type, I never identified which.

Anyway, I guess we saw it five or six times.... and then it vanished, never to be seen again. Until now. The other day Donna heard a weird cry late and from the balcony we saw what had to be naking it, I guess it's basically a hunting cry that freezes the blood of any animal that is its potential prey, to be honest it's creepy enough to send a shiver down the spine of a full grown man when he's alone in a dark house ar 4am.

Yesterday, as is not uncommon, I found myself unable to sleep so I decided on late night wander, meandering along the streets I realised that I had been heating the screeching sound on the edge of my hearing for a while, I focused in on it and after a few secs saw the base heading for some waste ground where finally he disappeared from view. Probably bad news for a vole or a mouse or something I guess.

Anyway, my question is really, is this the same fella from before who has returned after adventures elsewhere, or is it perhaps the offspring now reached hunting age? Guess I'll never know owl, but I'm always pleased and excited eceert time I see or hear it.

Also not long ago on a moonlit night we saw an otter swimming in the riverwgich I found really exciting, not sure I've ever seen one in UK but this we watched for ages, swim by the side, get in, get out, it was fucking ace, guess that doesn't belong in this thread but we saw it while taking out the binoculars to look for birds and I want to tell you about it so did.

 

[shakahislop]

the pigeons in oxfordshire are much fatter and healthier looking than the ones in the lower east side

 

[sufi]

dead magpie outside our front door today

 

[version]

dead magpie outside our front door today

Is that good or bad luck?

 

[catalog]

Either or neither

 

[version]

 

[william_kent]

you don't know how many times I've tripped to that tune

 

[version]

"The last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō was male, and his song was recorded for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. The male was recorded singing a mating call, to a female that would never come. He died in 1987."

"Holy fuck, the longer it goes, the sadder he starts to sound, it's like it's losing hope, god damn it all."

"The sadder thing is, after the bird flew away, the cameraman played it again to hear his voice. The bird turned back, thinking there was another one...."

The two like this I often think of are that whale they call the world's loneliest because its call's a different frequency to the others and that photo of the last Barbary lion in the Atlas mountains.

 

[william_kent]

some fucking American "nature artist" tried to eat every bird he ever painted

Eating the Birds of America: Audubon’s Culinary Reviews of America’s Birds - US Bird History

On June 26, 1826, John James Audubon sat aboard the cotton schooner Delos off of Florida’s Gulf coast, en route from New Orleans to Liverpool, where he was hoping to find a publisher for his extensive portfolio of paintings of American birds.[1] On this particular day, the winds were still...

usbirdhistory.com

When they feed on grasshoppers and strawberries, Upland Sandpipers are “truly delicious.” When fed on cantharides, however, they can become quite noxious if not cleaned properly, a situation which caused several New Orleans acquaintances of Audubon to leave their dinner expeditiously, “suffer[ing] greatly”, under circumstances which, Audubon wrote, “cannot well be described here.”

 

[0bleak]

some fucking American "nature artist" tried to eat every bird he ever painted

@ malelesbian?