Free Bird

10 responses to “Free Bird”

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   jurvetson

   Sep 5, 2010 at 6:46 pm

   Ocean Strut
   
   tiptoe through the ice plant

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   jitze

   Sep 5, 2010 at 11:24 pm

   Spectacular birds with an impressive wingspan for their body size – caught this guy coming straight toward me in a glide
   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jitze1942/4943985005/in/set-72157624669990303/]

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   solerena

   Sep 6, 2010 at 12:42 am

   Beautiful.. not sure where you find those – all it was a very cold beach and freezing people on HMB yesterday… and a few seagulls.

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Sep 6, 2010 at 2:59 am

   Beautiful birds and relatively ubiquitous. I have to keep netting on the koi pond because of these buggers. They’ll clean out a pond in seconds.

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   solerena

   Sep 6, 2010 at 3:08 am

   Funny, just took some koi fish pictures yesterday, did not know these birds love to eat koi fish:)

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   Dr DAD (Daniel A D’Auria MD)

   Sep 6, 2010 at 11:36 am

   They are not particular about the fish they eat. Many a friend has lost their prize fish to heron and raccoons in this area. I would love to leave the pond uncovered, but I’m not that daring. They are spectacular looking bird, and this is a great capture.

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7. 

   Chrisowen1

   Sep 6, 2010 at 11:44 pm

   Great capture

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8. 

   jurvetson

   Sep 7, 2010 at 4:54 am

   dave Halliday: yes, I think so. Great Blue Heron.

   And, yes, the ‘coons work the pond in the middle of the night!

   

   Scenes from the critter cam

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9. 

   caitlinburke

   Sep 10, 2010 at 9:59 pm

   I am in love with these birds. I saw one RIGHT as I walked into a park when I was on vacation in May, and I got so excited and immediately took this sort of crappy picture of it, and felt lucky. Then I went back to the park and realized that about 30 of them were hanging out there all the time, stealing eggs and food from other birds and generally acting like that relative you let sleep on your couch that then refused to leave.

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10. 

    caitlinburke

    Sep 10, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    (But I still took about 500 pictures of them.)

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