Birds!

[thedeadlyhook]

I saw a pair of Hooded Mergansers at the lake today! And this on top of the Ring-Necked Ducks, and Pie-Billed Grebes I've been seeing lately. Birds are just... cool.

And check out this photo site for birds. See close-up photography, such as this shot of a Double-Crested Cormorant, prove that life on Earth can look freakier than any alien species we can picture. I mean really, that eye. Too neat.

I guess I need some kind of bird icon, don't I?

Comments

[slackerace.livejournal.com]

I was gonna laugh and call you a dork, but those birds really are gorgeous! It'd be cool to see them on the lake. We have Canadian geese and...well, Canadian geese.

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

I actually used to think we had nothing but mallard ducks around here, until I started really looking. The coots - the birds in this icon - were the first ones I noticed. I remember thinking, "hey, were all these black ducks here before? And... huh, they're not actually ducks, are they?"

Do you have big flocks of Candadian Geese? There was a good-sized bunch hanging out in the Park a few months ago, but most of them seem to have moved on.