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My photography is less about events than about what remains when they pass. I’m interested in restraint, attention, and the subtle ways everyday environments hold memory without asking for interpretation.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Backyard Birding
Just a couple of House Finches at the feeder today….
they are just so pretty. i have a lot of birds where i life now, but for about 14 years i lived in a blace that had only pigeons, sparrows and the occasional starling. i hated it. not even 1 squirrel!
I've enjoyed birds for as long as I can remember. From the milk carton bird feeder outside the window when I was in elementary school to Eagle watching on the Mississippi with my kids.
But I don't like squirrels. Mainly because they raid the feeder, abd drive off the birds!
i love my squirrels. they are fat and sassy and seem to have worked out a deal with the birds. none of the birds are really afraid of the squirrels and the squirrels have a healthy respect from the birds especially the bluejays and the little titmice. a titmouse is a ballsy little bird! i have all kiind of birds and they will be eating the seed off the deck or from the ground that the squirrels spill or they will and have chased a squirrel back into the oak trees because there are usually more than 1 bird there at a time and the squirrel, especially if it's a little pine squirrel will just sit on a branch and bitch til he gets up enough courage to chase the birds, which then regroup and come back to get theirs! more than once i've had a turkey holding on to the railing on the deck(which is on the 2nd floor of the back of my house) and eating out of the feeder like a big house finch! i feed whatever shows up. except the hawks! my squirrels are too darn fat for the hawks to take on. ; )
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they are just so pretty. i have a lot of birds where i life now, but for about 14 years i lived in a blace that had only pigeons, sparrows and the occasional starling. i hated it. not even 1 squirrel!
I've enjoyed birds for as long as I can remember. From the milk carton bird feeder outside the window when I was in elementary school to Eagle watching on the Mississippi with my kids.
But I don't like squirrels. Mainly because they raid the feeder, abd drive off the birds!
i love my squirrels. they are fat and sassy and seem to have worked out a deal with the birds. none of the birds are really afraid of the squirrels and the squirrels have a healthy respect from the birds especially the bluejays and the little titmice. a titmouse is a ballsy little bird! i have all kiind of birds and they will be eating the seed off the deck or from the ground that the squirrels spill or they will and have chased a squirrel back into the oak trees because there are usually more than 1 bird there at a time and the squirrel, especially if it's a little pine squirrel will just sit on a branch and bitch til he gets up enough courage to chase the birds, which then regroup and come back to get theirs! more than once i've had a turkey holding on to the railing on the deck(which is on the 2nd floor of the back of my house) and eating out of the feeder like a big house finch! i feed whatever shows up. except the hawks!
my squirrels are too darn fat for the hawks to take on. ; )
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