Well, doesn't it always happen that when you aren't looking something, you find it? So I was at the tulip festival, all set up to shoot flowers, and all of a sudden this new bird just pops up. So, wrong lens on, of course. Anyways, I managed to get her, and it took me a little while to figure this one out (how do you go about finding a bird that is just brown, with hardly any markings at all?). It's a female brown-headed cowbird. If you are interested in seeing what the male looks like (quite different...like a grackle but with the colours reversed), look
here.
On another note, I hit a nice even number....40!
#40:
Brown-headed Cowbird; May 10, 2010; Dow's Lake
So, today I got to thinking of random things like I usually do, and I wondered, if you had to choose between
-opposable thumbs,
-wings, or
- fins + the ability to breathe underwater,
what would you choose?
2 comments:
I almost got a good shot of a Meadow Lark the other day - it's a type of cowbird - but totally different colours. Also heard a whippoorwill a few nights ago. I'm strategizing a way to get a picture of it.
I choose water-breathing with fins.
i thought you might say that...
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