Birds

A Common Grackle, posing on the (nearly dry) birdbath.

Joan decided we needed something like cminer52's stump , and suggested we do something with the extra birdbath base. She was right. (Thanks, Gary.) Now we need to figure out how to keep the neighborhood cats from knocking it down overnight....

Figured I owe everyone--including me--a color photo of that bird.

Saw him there yesterday, too.

Been trying hard to photograph this uncooperative bird for several days.

This is an outtake from my 366 Snaps project . The photo I was trying to capture would have been of the Mourning Dove taking off. Never got that pic; what I got instead was a bunch of pix with the Dove just sitting on the branch. And this. The Starling had been harassing the Dove--hollerin', doing little charges, even a peck or two--from a branch on the edge of my frame, to no effect. He gave up, and left in a huff. So here he is. The 366 Snaps has been generating roughly as many usable outtakes as actually-posted photographs. Not sure what I'm going to do with them, but you'll see 'em all, in black & white, eventually.

Two male Cowbirds, having a discussion about status. Just being guys, some would say.