Sometimes I have the infrared camera with me when I really should have the regular one.
Category Archives: Bird
Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
That throat is the hornbill’s way of telling other hornbills that they’re ready for some action.
Less obnoxious than other common methods, really.
Rainbow Lorikeet
This lorikeet thinks you need to reevaluate your preconceived notions of beauty.
Flamingo
They claim that flamingos are pink because of shrimp. I think it’s from bathing in the blood of their enemies.
Budgerigar
Bet you never thought budgies would blend in with rock.
Taveta Golden Weaver
According to Wikipedia, “The Taveta weaver eats mostly seeds.”
Mostly.
Flamingo
This is where new infrared flamingos come from.
Rainbow Lorikeet
Lorikeets contain a higher than average amount of sodium.
Maribou Stork
Maribou stork demonstrating refraction for the class.
Cockatiel
Autosarcophagy can be glorious.
White Stork
This is the same stork that brings the babies in all those European fairy tales.
He sure is tired.
Duck
Duck pondering the idea that, if you give the top level of government to a bunch of billionaires and the first thing they do is take away people’s health care, using job lock-in to prevent them from exploring entrepreneurial opportunities, that maybe that alone is proof that trickle down economics doesn’t work.
Tern
Because one good tern deserves another
Tern
When I was in Peru, one thing I kept trying to get was a good photo of a tern in flight (and one diving). I never succeeded.
Luckily, Illinois has terns too.
Turkey Vulture
The vulture lives in a world of grey, soars on hot air, and consumes the recently dead.
It thinks the next four years will be great.
Hawk
Even with cloudy eyes, a hawk has sharp vision.
Owl Statue
The presence of an owl frightens birds, so owl statues like this are used to keep birds away from places they could harm themselves, damage property, or just make a mess.
Canada Goose and 2016
David Bowie, Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman, Harper Lee, Prince, Umberto Eco, Gene Wilder, Patty Duke, Afeni Shakur Davis, Edward Albee, Leonard Cohen, Sharon Jones, John Glenn, George Michael, Debbie Reynolds.
Many are talking about how 2016 diminished us all, taking away those we loved and admired, leaving behind little but uncertainty and fear.
Perhaps.
Or perhaps now there’s more room for others to fly.
Military Macaw
After watching politics for the last month, this macaw is beginning to understand why all those planets in Star Trek decided to be run by computers.
Peacock
This peacock believes the election to be rigged.
There’s no way poll numbers could be raised and lowered so quickly without some sort of a rigging in place.