A #birb caught in the act of #NOPE!
(I did actually get a clearer photo of it, but only enough to identify it. It took off as soon as I tried to take a second photo.)
Tag: birds
I can hear these sparrows all day.
I can hear these sparrows all day. There are a few nests around in bushes and possibly in roofs. But this year’s generation is also really good at hiding and dodging cameras, so I don’t often get them on camera.
Brewer’s Blackbird (on roof)
There were two of these birds. I couldn’t tell what they were from a distance except they didn’t look like crows.
House Finch
European Starling
Somewhere between five and ten starlings were flitting up to a wall and back down to the open part of a greenbelt that’s been closed to foot traffic for pandemic distancing, walking around through the grass. From a distance, they were often completely hidden by the grass and I had to take a lot of pictures just to be sure I could see them on *some* of them!
A black phoebe on a fence.
A crow on a street lamp
House Sparrow
American Pipit
There were at least two, possibly three or four of these birds hopping around the grass next to a bike path. They weren’t easy to spot at a distance.
This bird’s new to me: apparently it’s an American pipit, also known as a buff-bellied pipit, a small ground-nesting insectivore. I spotted several of them walking around in the grass next to a bike path that’s just been closed down, though I could see them from the sidewalk with a zoom lens.
House Finch
Say’s Phoebe perched on an outdoor lamp.
Say’s Phoebe perched on an outdoor lamp.
#birds
A common House Sparrow
A common House #Sparrow perched on what looks like bougainvillea. It sounded like there were a lot of them in there, but I could only see one.
Flight to the sea.
Some more house finches and a hummingbird.
Some more house finches and a hummingbird. Hummingbirds always look weird to me when they’re perched.
#photo #birds #finch #HouseFinch #hummingbird #nature
On Photog.Social
Finch (in grass) on Flickr
I must have seen over a dozen house finches on a very short walk today. I assume there’s a nest or several in the area.
Hummingbird on iNaturalist
Finch (on wire) on iNaturalist
Finch (in grass) on iNaturalist
A dove spotted this morning.
A dove spotted this morning. I just walked around the neighborhood and most of the birds I spotted were on cables like this.
Might be a mourning dove, turtle dove, or collared dove. If you happen to know, feel free to chime in at #iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/40535563
Finally recovered enough from the flu to get out for a walk in the neighborhood (while that’s still an option).
Finally recovered enough from the flu to get out for a walk in the neighborhood (while that’s still an option).
I think this first bird (possibly a goldfinch?) was trying to practice social distancing, though the crow in the third photo seems to be doing a better job. The house finch was such a bright red that I thought it had to be another kind of bird until I looked at the photos.
#photo #birds #nature #finch #HouseFinch #goldfinch #crow
Large White-headed Gulls
Mitred Parakeet
Saw (and heard!) three of these feral parakeets flying around a palm tree and occasionally landing on it near sunset, squawking the whole time.
Fluffy birb. (A sparrow spotted on top of a light pole)
Fluffy #birb.
(A #sparrow spotted on top of a light pole. I could *hear* it easily enough, but it took a while to spot it – and once I did, I was glad I had the zoom camera with me.)
