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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / General Topics / May 2008PING tony cooper: More Birds
A while back we exchanged some pelican images. Got any ducks? http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/sentry.jpg His attention may be focused in the wrong direction -- a possible example of why ducks rarely succeed in the military.  SignatureBlinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org NEW --> Now evaluating a GG-free news feed: http://usenet4all.se >A while back we exchanged some pelican images. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >His attention may be focused in the wrong direction -- a possible example >of why ducks rarely succeed in the military. No ducks, but here's a pair of Sandhill Cranes that were blocking the road as I left my house a couple of days ago. Shot from the car window and not much in the way of good pictures, but I was in a hurry. They're about 4' tall. http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md005.jpg http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md008.jpg SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >>A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>His attention may be focused in the wrong direction -- a possible example >>of why ducks rarely succeed in the military. As contrasted to bird colonels, anyway. > No ducks, but here's a pair of Sandhill Cranes that were blocking the > road as I left my house a couple of days ago. Shot from the car [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md005.jpg > http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md008.jpg What purpose-built bodies those are. It's hard for a wading bird to not look like a wading bird. Is that the edge of a city park? Golf course? I remember when I was a boy in the Midwest my father pointing out a crane flying high overhead and saying that it was carrying its fishing poles -- referring to its long legs, trailing parallel, behind it. I got this a couple weeks ago. I love the graceful loop the head and beak complete. It also reminds me of one of those magnetic "cause" ribbons I see on cars and such. http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/flamingo.jpg SignatureBlinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org NEW --> Now evaluating a GG-free news feed: http://usenet4all.se >>>A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >>> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > >Is that the edge of a city park? Golf course? The golf course I live on. Sandhills return to the same area every year. They also mate for life. They come to the golf course during the day because the short grass of the fairways make it easier for them to find insects and other delicacies. They return to marshy areas after the day's feeding, and their nests are in marshy areas. They are terrible neighbors. Their cry is loud and raucous and reverberates through the neighborhood in the early morning. Placid birds, though, that seem unbothered by the golfers. They move out of the way of approaching golf carts, but slowly as if they were going anyway. >I remember when I was a boy in the Midwest my father pointing out a crane >flying high overhead and saying that it was carrying its fishing poles -- [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/flamingo.jpg Sometime back I was in Kenya on vacation, and went to Lake Baringo where there are thousands of flamingos. Never got a close-up of one. I also saw them in Bonaire on a dive trip (I was diving, not the flamingos) where they fly to Bonaire to Venezuela and back every day. SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >>>>A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > out of the way of approaching golf carts, but slowly as if they were > going anyway. While I suppose it's possible, they just don't look like a bird that's used to hustling anywhere. >>I remember when I was a boy in the Midwest my father pointing out a crane >>flying high overhead and saying that it was carrying its fishing poles -- [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > I also saw them in Bonaire on a dive trip (I was diving, not the > flamingos) where they fly to Bonaire to Venezuela and back every day. Looks like a long haul. SignatureBlinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org NEW --> Now evaluating a GG-free news feed: http://usenet4all.se > A while back we exchanged some pelican images. > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > His attention may be focused in the wrong direction -- a possible example > of why ducks rarely succeed in the military. Ducks? You want a duck? http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/y3WxP2OvjjvgGVwnVAunYw Lake Ivanhoe, Orlando, FL, USA >> A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Lake Ivanhoe, Orlando, FL, USA If he asks for swans, we have him covered, eh? SignatureTony Cooper - Orlando, Florida >>> A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >>> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > If he asks for swans, we have him covered, eh? Heres a Duck/Other (they all look similar to me!) that I saw while whalking the dog 2 days ago. www.cordeaux.net/duck_cropped.jpg but you might need to resize it a bit as its big to see it on a monitor. Its a baby something and it eats grass... >> A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Lake Ivanhoe, Orlando, FL, USA And a handsome duck he is! And he's eyeing you. I think he wants crackers. I ran across another pelican the other day. Yes, I wish I had a raw so I might be able to dig out some highlight detail. http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/pelican.jpg SignatureBlinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org NEW --> Now evaluating a GG-free news feed: http://usenet4all.se >>> A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/pelican.jpg And for those who like the Gimp and Penguins Here's a pair. http://blog.chip.de/chip-linux-blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/linux_body_painti ng_kl.jpg http://tinyurl.com/2xowa6 (not my shot) SignaturePeter >>>> A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > http://tinyurl.com/2xowa6 Heh! Looks like home. Oh, no...not that. I mean because I have Tux images here and there and a stuffed penguin. :) But back to ducks for a moment. I was out in the desert yesterday, and got this shot in the water held by a little dam a rancher built back in the early part of the 1900s. It's not the usual duck shot. :) http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/duck_down.jpg Yeah, there are some blown out highlights; but this one's just for fun anyway. SignatureBlinky Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org NEW --> Now evaluating a GG-free news feed: http://usenet4all.se >> A while back we exchanged some pelican images. >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Lake Ivanhoe, Orlando, FL, USA and then there was this pair of flamingos that wandered into my yard... http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8_mLAGlg6i4nr60gCorVCA |
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