Juvenile Mourning Dove … Delaware Backyard … 4/28/22

sorry i cant come over today. it's the whole eagle pecking out my liver thing. tomorrows not good either. yeah it's the eagle again, im kind of booked up for a while actually

booby appreciation post!

okay, so we all know these guys…blue footed boobies! the clowns of the sea!

but theres many other gorgeous boobies!

the magnificent red footed booby!

a gorgeous bandit…the masked booby…

the nazca booby with their bright orange beaks!

the brown booby…stunning, elegant and surprisingly goth…

and last but not least the peruvian booby…they look like blue footed boobies had offspring with a kookaburra

Achilles

Part of a large raft of Redheads & scaup

though the great tit is a small bird that isn’t particularly threatening, scientists made a surprising discovery about them: during winter months with scarce food, great tits feed on bats. normally feeding on a diet of mostly insects with added fruits, seeds, and nuts, great tits who were unable to find sufficient food preyed on bats hibernating in rocky crevices within caves. when provided more common food by researchers, the behavior stopped.

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Black-winged Stilt (Himantopus himantopus)

© Bob Chappell

Tufted titmouse … Trap Pond State Park, Laurel, Delaware … 4/13/22

not all of it is bad i think….…. we are going to be okay i think.

Engineering in action | source

Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia)

© Gerd Schön