Birds on the Brain

Three-cornered garlic (Allium triquetrum). Pretty, but the most widespread and persistent weed in our garden.  March 2020.

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[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/1600s; F9; 400 ISO]

My first Eastern Phoebe sighting of the year today at Tommy Thompson Park. Also saw my first few tree swallows.

Photo by Australian Museum

March 2020

Algonquin Park

Vanellus chilensis

Historic American Buildings Survey Harold Allen, Photographer 17 June 1964 SANCTUARY AND HIGH ALTAR- FROM SOUTHWEST - Holy Family Church (Roman Catholic), 1104-1114 West Roosevelt Road, Chicago, Cook County, IL

© Frank Vassen, CC 2.0

Poospiza boliviana by Giselle Mangini

Yesterday I returned to old photos of my kitchen garden back in Virginia. Today’s nostalgia is for flowers from the borders. All were taken over several growing seasons, in Portsmouth, Virginia. 

photograph by Dick Bartlett (used w/ permission)

The fifteen recognized subspecies of these fantails are found in eastern Australia and parts of Indonesia, Micronesia, the Northern Mariana Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. Often foraging in mixed-species flocks, they eat a variety of insects and spiders, capturing them in short flights or picking them from plants. Pairs build compact cup-shaped nests from grass and fine plant fibers held together with spiderwebs, usually in forked branches. Both parents incubate the eggs and feed the chicks.

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Another view of a broad-billed hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris), at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds, Patagonia, Arizona. Hummers often adopt that erect posture—especially at feeders—to keep an eye on possible competitors for their preferred food sources.