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[geofflambert]

Thank you BBfanboy for sharing. That was awesome!

[geofflambert]

I don't remember where I heard this expression before, but those birds are just achingly beautiful.

[BBfanboy]

Since we are back to talking about weird bird behaviour ....

https://globalnews.ca/video/4129409/bal ... me-opener/

[Zorch]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Since we are back to talking about weird bird behaviour ....

https://globalnews.ca/video/4129409/bal ... me-opener/

It should have been an albatross (Rime of the Ancient Mariner).

[Lecivius]

[:D]

[Will_L]

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

[:D]

Camouflage.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Will_L

ORIGINAL: Lecivius

[:D]

Camouflage.

Or maybe lunch ...

[MakeeLearn]

AH So...

[MakeeLearn]

The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself... and having to wear your sister's hand-me-downs.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself... and having to wear your sister's hand-me-downs.

You had to do that MakeeLearn? Is that you in the picture?

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself... and having to wear your sister's hand-me-downs.

You had to do that MakeeLearn? Is that you in the picture?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at age 2, 1884.

[geofflambert]

That was quite common back then, but they weren't necessarily hand-me-downs. That's just the way boys were dressed.

[Orm]

It is grus grus season again. Here are some 13,000 of them are taking a break before moving further north. It is a spectacular sight, or so I am told.

I've only seen few of them at the same time.

[Orm]

And one in flight.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Orm

And one in flight.

Um - that is a crane, not a goose. They migrate a bit later (they don't tolerate the cold like geese do) and need open water with water critters out of hibernation to eat. And of course their numbers are much fewer - never saw a flock of more than a dozen.

I am currently looking at four geese on the ice of the Assiniboine River, trying to stake out their territories. The first geese were seen about three weeks back when the temperature was around -20ºC! A little snow has melted here and there so the geese can get at the dead grass - they seem to pluck at it but I think they are hoping for a green sprout already! (the ground is frozen).

BTW, we have a marshland preserve called Oak Hammock Marsh just north of here where over 100,000 waterfowl and songbirds can be seen during the spring and fall migrations. I took my English uncle and aunt there once and they were flabbergasted!

[Orm]

I never said goose. Both are pictures of the common crane also known as the Eurasian crane. Or Grus grus.

The first picture is from Hornborgarsjön where a huge amount of common cranes stop for a rest and feeding. They sleep in the lake and in the morning they move a bit away from the lake to eat.

At the moment there are close to 9000 cranes there. 8th of April, this year, they counted some 24,500 cranes at the lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Hornborga
http://extra.lansstyrelsen.se/hornborga ... fault.aspx

Here is a picture showing part of the table with the counted cranes. As you can see the cranes are a bit later this year.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy


BTW, we have a marshland preserve called Oak Hammock Marsh just north of here where over 100,000 waterfowl and songbirds can be seen during the spring and fall migrations. I took my English uncle and aunt there once and they were flabbergasted!

I would love to visit Oak Hammock Marsh. [:)]

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy


BTW, we have a marshland preserve called Oak Hammock Marsh just north of here where over 100,000 waterfowl and songbirds can be seen during the spring and fall migrations. I took my English uncle and aunt there once and they were flabbergasted!

I would love to visit Oak Hammock Marsh. [:)]

My goof an the grus grus! Should have put on my glasses to look at the first picture!

Here is a link to OHM

http://www.oakhammockmarsh.ca/

Not much to see on the live cam yet. What appears to be water out in the marsh is still ice.
When they set aside the marsh as a wildfowl reserve they had to pay farmers to plant "lure crops" in the area around the marsh so that they would not get constant lawsuits from the farmers about the birds raiding their crops! When the live cam points out toward the parking lot and road, it is showing one of the lure crop areas.

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

That was quite common back then, but they weren't necessarily hand-me-downs. That's just the way boys were dressed.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process. Mark Twain .

[MakeeLearn]

ORIGINAL: Orm

And one in flight.

NICE Breasts.