Comments on: On the Plus Side, It Comes with a Great View

By: Theresa

Theresa — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:57 +0000

But showing less skin.

By: resriechan

resriechan — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:15:21 +0000

….or maybe they’re professional ballroom danceuses…..in elegant costume, no less!!

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:52:41 +0000

@Resrie, Florida is fantabulous for all kinds of birds. I saw an osprey my last time there. And little white ibises regularly invade my dad’s development– they look like they just walked out of a Magritte painting.

By: resriechan

resriechan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:45:46 +0000

@ Theresa — here chez moi (en la Floride du Nord), il y ont des oiseaux blancs qui habitent l’eau qui sont tres beaux.

Actually we’re fortunate enough to see quite the variety here — hawks; there’s even one who we suspect *MIGHT* be a Bald Eagle (he/she? soars around VERY VERY high so we only can determine a few particulars)….but the white egrets (or whatever specific breed these are) are SO VERY elegant. They glide through the water, strolling elegantly, as though they were 18th-century ladies in satin gowns, parading down 5th Avenue in NYC. I’ve never been able to figure out, how critters living in the grungy muddiness of the outdoors 24/7 ….can be shriekingly, glowing WHITE as though satin or as though they just came from a Clorox rinse in the laundry, at all times. Amazing, simply amazing, eh?

Signed,
Birds are Interesting People.

By: Paunchie

Paunchie — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:17:31 +0000

Coot feet are weird. They look like lizards or something! Check out the nails too! Why does a water bird need nails like that?
Coot! Old Coot! Great Tits! (giggle!) And don’t forget the Blue Footed Booby!

By: Katrina

Katrina — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:36:32 +0000

I love Coot feet. There, I said it.

By: Aquamarine

Aquamarine — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:29:23 +0000

thanks, ceejoe!!

i love that i now have a new word to use–”ossicones”—and i *must* find a way to fit this sentence in sometime today: “males’ horns tend to be bald on top — an effect of necking in combat.”

By: cambridge_rat_mom

cambridge_rat_mom — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:43:11 +0000

@ Theresa, I thought you might be from your comments. I, too, am a birder in the Cambridge area.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:37:15 +0000

@Cambridge Rat Mom, A sometime birder. I was hardcore in my younger, hardier days– would go out on cold winter mornings like TODAY, for example. I’m much wimpier in my old age– I wait til spring, or my trips to Florida.

By: cambridge_rat_mom

cambridge_rat_mom — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:32:59 +0000

@Theresa–are you a birder?