Ornithological tyranny

[altariel]

Ornithological tyranny minute 33:


altariel: Still No Pelicans

mraltariel: Imagine if they did this at Longleat. Flamingoes: 186. Sparrows: 0.

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[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Or my garden. Cats: 2. Sparrows: 10 9 8 7...

(Actually, they're not bad at all, nowadays. Though I suspect that it's a matter of age, rather than of suddenly increased tolerance towards our feathered friends.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[muninnhuginn]

1 hen, 2 hens....

Actually, the first hen sitting on the kitchen windowsill blocks any view of the second hen.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I was mighty puzzled in Trondheim, because the most common city bird was neither the sparrow (never saw a one) nor the gull (there were some of those) but the hooded crow, which was all over the streets, scavenging much as sparrows and pigeons do with us. I find crows a bit worrying... Much nicer was a tree full of little finches which weren't scared at all, even when I stood right by it and talked to them.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There was a crow trying to cross the main road near the bus stop the other day: it hopped into the road, fled back, and then sat at the kerb waiting for the pedestrian crossing.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

From our Toronto correspondent:

Snowflakes: 40208072387523.3
Birds: 0

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There could be ptarmigans...

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Or polar bears. Who could tell?

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do this at a time when Jeremiah happened to wander by. I could amaze the RSPB by telling them I'd spotted a peacock in my garden.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I often wonder what the archaeologists thought when analysing the bones of creatures buried with the Viking chieftain in the Gokstad ship burial - alongside the usual dogs and horses were the remains of a peacock, presumably a prize from some distant raid...

[temeres.livejournal.com]

That's dated to about AD 900, isn't it? I think they'd made it down to Constantinople by then, so the peacock could have easily followed the trade routes from further east. Though probably not voluntarily...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be brilliant!

[temeres.livejournal.com]

Okay, no pelicans. But what did you see?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Three blackbirds (two male, one female), three woodpigeons, and a collared dove. A lovely big crow sat in next door's tree for a while and then flapped past, but because it didn't land, we couldn't count it.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Damn. Missed it.

You got a lot more this time than last year?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Yes, much more (although we did see a woodpecker last year). I forgot again to do it much earlier in the day.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

I didn't hear about this effort till rather late today (Sunday, the 27th), but if I had, I could have reported innumerable starlings, large numbers of crows, a handful of robins, and two or three scrub jays.

I, too, saw a crow waiting for the light to change in an intersection near my house the other day. Marvelous birds. Kind of a totem for me.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

There was a robin that used to come hopping along the fence just by the window where I work most days, but I haven't seen it for a while.

Great icon.