This parrot has read your mind and, while it is refraining from judgement, does not understand why your plan requires that the Jello be lemon flavoured.
Worry not, this parrot will not share what it has learned.
Category Archives: Bird
Blue Winged Kookaburra
Until I saw this one, I had thought there was only one species of kookaburra. No, it turns out there are four, so I have two more to track down.
African Crowned Crane
Movies from the 1980’s gave me inaccurate expectations as to the fighting styles of cranes.
Bird
I am pretty sure this is actually a live-action cartoon of some sort.
Not Evil
He wasn’t evil. He was sure of that. He’d seen all the movies and knew all the signs. He didn’t have a mustache or goatee. His laugh was fairly flat and (embarrassingly) a bit high pitched.
More seriously, he’d never really hurt anyone – not physically anyway – not with intent, and that’s really all that mattered. It wasn’t his fault of people put themselves in harm’s way.
He never killed anyone … well, not directly. You couldn’t blame him if people took the things he said literally. Their actions, their choices, were their own.
He’d never even made those policy changes everyone accused him of. Others came to him with the ideas. Saying “yes” and signing something couldn’t be evil. Lots of people do those things and they’re all fine.
Yet, every day, they’d point and call him the devil, evil incarnate, as if every single ill in the world was traced directly to himself. That couldn’t be right. It was just business – and business was good. After all, opportunistic times called for opportunistic measures.
No. He wasn’t evil. They were all wrong. They were fools. Some day they’d see the truth. He’d show them all.
But first, he had some things to sign.
Screech Owl
Resting with the satisfaction of finally having learned how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.
Birds
Infraredwing blackbirds
Chickadee
Chickadee wondering if vampires would have super-powers on the planet Krypton.
Bali Mynah
Bali mynah with doctor repellent*
* This is actually ineffective. Doctors are not actually scared of apples**
** Or birds***
*** Well, living birds**** anyway. Some are probably scared of dinosaurs*****, which are a form****** of birds
**** Except cassowaries. I’d imagine many reasonable doctor would be scared of cassowaries*******
***** Okay, the big scary dinosaurs anyway. Micropachycephalosaurus wasn’t very scary at all
****** Technically, birds are a form of dinosaur, but I think you get the point
******* And macaws********
******** ICD 10 W61.12
Socorro Dove
This is a Socorro dove. It is one of 100 left on the planet. You can only see them in zoos now.
With luck, they’ll get the ecological situation in Socorro resolved, and be able to re-introduce the doves, eventually.
Great Horned Owl
Turns out owls aren’t all that interesting in infrared. The desert, though, makes up for it.
Bird
I spent a lot of time trying to get a photo of this little one. Like many small birds, it was very skittish and wouldn’t let me get a clean shot until, finally, it moved to a place where it wasn’t occluded.
Still no idea what kind of bird it is.
Burrowing Owl
Burrowing owl that just notised a typo in this caption.
Hummingbird
Hummingbird engaging in debate.
Gila Woodpecker
Woodpeckers aren’t restricted to only eating insects. The gila woodpecker also eats berries.
I had hoped that this was one of those that hoarded acorns, storing them in holes they pecked into the trees, but this is apparently not the case.
Red-Crested Cardinal
Fun prank idea: pour beet juice into the apple bobbing tank.
Pelican
I never understood why it’s the storks that bring the babies when pelicans are clearly better equipped for that job.
Hummingbird
“Quack”
Harris Hawk
There is a one-bird-per-perch rule in the desert.
Negotiations are in progress.
Dalmation Pelican
Water is GLORIOUS!