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Second, reading about birds courting and parenting brings out the tendency to identify, which leads directly to anthropomorphism, the tendency to assign birds human emotions and thoughts. Think of birds too much as humans and you lose the specialness that makes them birds. And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. But special.
Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.
Being a bit older myself now, I have to point out that young human males usually do not look that good, at least to me. Hints of potential warming in the HBW species description: “Date of first egg-laying on Honshu now 7 days earlier than it was 25 years ago” There are also quite a few Cuckoos. A juvenile Chinese Blackbird.
People brought us a Brewer’s Blackbird nestling they’d fed hot dogs and spaghetti,” wrote Veronica Bowers. “He And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I Human breast milk – no, don’t get me started. Like they aren’t crazy enough?”. “I I had to detox it,” replied Letitia. Poor thing shook for days, then slept for days.”.
One Oriental Pratincole of them was courageously raising its wings when I unknowingly drove towards its eggs – I reversed, but I am not so sure about the next person using that road … Being yelled at by the chick of an Oriental Pratincole. I guess looking elegant during sex is difficult for most humans, too.
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Big Egg Marsh. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives.
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Big Egg Marsh. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives.
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Big Egg Marsh. 13 May 2016.
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Eurasian Blackbird – Turdus merula. Chinese Blackbird – Turdus mandarinus. Big Egg Marsh. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives.
Others, by their own admission, are Luddites and believe that the pinnacle of human technological achievement was reached on the day that man first bound a notebook in moleskin. Big Egg Marsh. Unicolored Blackbird – Agelasticus cyanopus. Melodious Blackbird – Dives dives. Los Cartagos. 14 May 2016. Sandy Hook.
To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds. .
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