Saturday, August 16, 2008

The Birds

This morning we saw:

1 bald eagle
1 broad winged hawk
1 female towhee
many killdeer
many blue herons
many others that I only saw fleetingly: phoebes, swallows, gnat catchers.

Thanks, C and J, for taking us out into the wild.


6 comments:

KC said...

we have a wild turkey roaming the streets of prospect park!! dan says he will send you the photo of the bird walking down arthur ave if you so desire. ;)

LH said...

That's so odd. Yes, I would like to see this turkey.
Just saw the new Woody allen movie. V. good!

Anonymous said...

Thanks to you too! We had a great time.

Dorcas squared

Anonymous said...

Where did you guys go birding? You saw some awesome birds!! Did you know turkey vultures will do projectile vomiting as a defense strategy against their enemies? Imagine that horrible carion being thrown up in your face. Just a little tidbit of info for you.

Anonymous said...

Off the topic, but your downtown photo is great. Are you putting it on JPG?
D/

LH said...

anon, thanks for the info on the vultures, vgtk.

D, this is one of the photos that I modified and then I couldn't upload it to jpg because of size issues. I do like it too.

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