Check it out---a mostly-white Vermilion Flycatcher!
If you'd like to know what a male Vermilion Flycatcher looks like, I just slapped a pic in my scraps. For those who don't care to look: It's a bird with dull black top & mask, and strikingly bright red head & belly. And it's a lot of fun to watch go after flying insects.
It's hard to tell, because my camera is teh suck, but the white gradually gives way to a faded pale red under the belly (especially the under the tail).
And now every retired birder in the area is flocking to the place, taking up all the parking spots, congesting the trails with their metric craptons of mail-order equipment, bunching up & refusing to make room for other people to use the bridges, & stepping into other people's shots.
Frickin' retired birders.
If you'd like to know what a male Vermilion Flycatcher looks like, I just slapped a pic in my scraps. For those who don't care to look: It's a bird with dull black top & mask, and strikingly bright red head & belly. And it's a lot of fun to watch go after flying insects.
It's hard to tell, because my camera is teh suck, but the white gradually gives way to a faded pale red under the belly (especially the under the tail).
And now every retired birder in the area is flocking to the place, taking up all the parking spots, congesting the trails with their metric craptons of mail-order equipment, bunching up & refusing to make room for other people to use the bridges, & stepping into other people's shots.
Frickin' retired birders.
Category Photography / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 145.4 kB
In the past few weeks, I've found that retired birders are great when in singles or trios, but once they start bunching up they turn into a pushy amoebic mass of rudeness & inconsideration.
I had a great half hour yesterday, taking pics of a Harris hawk in the rain with 2 ornery octagenarians. They had mouths like longshoremen & blasted on the 'old-fart clusters' (only they didn't say fart) for a good 10 minutes. I was laughing my expansive ass off. I think the Harris hawk enjoyed their tirade too, because when they moved off it flew after them. ^___^
I had a great half hour yesterday, taking pics of a Harris hawk in the rain with 2 ornery octagenarians. They had mouths like longshoremen & blasted on the 'old-fart clusters' (only they didn't say fart) for a good 10 minutes. I was laughing my expansive ass off. I think the Harris hawk enjoyed their tirade too, because when they moved off it flew after them. ^___^
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