The random pictures of evilmike

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[sixpackshaker]

What a majestic derp.

 

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What a majestic derp.

That's the irony that is the osprey.

 

[PatrThom]

That's the irony that is the osprey.

Not just the bird, either.

--Patrick

 

[evilmike]

Not just the bird, either.

--Patrick

True, true.

Unfortunately, I don't get that much of an opportunity to take pictures of that type.

 

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Red Shouldered Hawk

 

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More clearly showing of the red shoulder of the red shouldered hawk:

 

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Not everyone was as pleased to see the hawk in the neighborhood as I was. This mockingbird spent several minutes buzzing the hawk, trying to convince it to move on.

 

[sixpackshaker]

...and that is why the Mockingbird is the State Bird of 5 states.

 

[evilmike]

...and that is why the Mockingbird is the State Bird of 5 states.

It buzzes the legislature until it gets the nomination?

 

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Nighttime at the River

 

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An Impression of Fall

 

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Working through my backlog of pictures. First up, four birds from the Sylvan Heights Bird Park:

 

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The moods of a red shouldered hawk:

Serious:

Relaxed (or possibly "floofy):

 

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From last year's Chinese Lantern Festival:

 

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A new family

 

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Sailboats, taken during this morning's launch delay

 

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There appears to be an unusual symbiosis between anhingas and alligators. Alligators move into retention ponds, encouraging humans to put up warning signs, thereby giving the anhinga places to perch.

However, the birds have not entirely given up on more natural perches:

 

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Little Blue Heron

 

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Flight

 

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The Bird with the Golden Slippers

 

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A Chinese merganser, a smew, and a mandarin duck, courtesy of the Sylvan Heights Bird Park

 

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Another picture from my backlog of Sylvan Bird Park pictures, a trumpeter swan:

 

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Another picture from my backlog of Sylvan Heights pictures. This time, it is one of their "poster bird species", the american flamingo.

 

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An opsrey at dusk

 

[Sparhawk]

That Osprey is like “I can see you watching me. I am not amused, creeper.”

 

[PatrThom]

I thought it was saying, "Fish? Got any fish?"

--Patrick

 

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