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Reply to What your state bird SHOULD be

nobody@flickr.com (lamoustique) — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:21:56 -0700

Perhaps California should have chosen a bird found only in California, not just one with "California" in its name. Like the Yellow-billed Magpie, the Allen's Hummingbird, the Nuttall's woodpecker, the California Thrasher, Lawrence's Goldfinch or the Tri-colored Blackbird.

Reply to What your state bird SHOULD be

nobody@flickr.com (Maureen Sullivan..new layout is horrid!!) — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:32:19 -0700

Maureen Sullivan..new layout is horrid!! posted a reply:

I'm good with the California Quail. If they are proposing the Condor, (a fine choice!!), its image should have been taking in CA rather than Arizona :-D

What your state bird SHOULD be

nobody@flickr.com (maia bird) — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:26:39 -0700

maia bird posted a new topic:

From Slate Online
www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05...

My state bird (MA) is the Black-capped Chickadee, and I'm fine with that, although the suggestion to change to Piping Plover works for me too!

Okay, this is just funny

nobody@flickr.com (lamoustique) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:29:55 -0700

lamoustique posted a new topic:

www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9T1vf...

A bird falls in lust with a photographer.

Garbage kills

nobody@flickr.com (lamoustique) — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:30:39 -0700

lamoustique posted a new topic:

This documentary shows how our careless tossing of a piece of trash can kill birds and other animals:
www.midwayfilm.com/index.html

Reply to Cats

nobody@flickr.com (Joyce in the CactusPatch) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:32:01 -0700

Joyce in the CactusPatch posted a reply:

I keep my cats inside now though I didn't always. I have them trained to go out with me and stay inside the yard. They come back in with me on my request. The one downside for me as a gardener is that we don't get much of the fruit and veggies like we used to with the cats guarding the garden. Now the birds get most of it!
You might enjoy this video I recently took
www.flickr.com/photos/quiltdiva/8234401731/

Reply to Cats

nobody@flickr.com (lamoustique) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:32:14 -0700

lamoustique posted a reply:

I have to say that the methodology for the study was rather poor...a bunch of guesstimates based on assumptions. I really doubt the figures are that high. But like windmills, they are used to take the attention off the real cause of bird death: human encroachment on the natural environment.

A world with no birds?

nobody@flickr.com (lamoustique) — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 09:23:00 -0700

lamoustique posted a new topic:

A young friend of mine wrote about not hearing any birds at all where she was staying in China. This is her blog about it:
bexadler.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/nature-its-for-the-birds/
What happened there is what happens when people with no scientific knowledge are allowed to make environmental decisions. It scares me that the Tea Party and the Koch brothers have so much power in Congress, because they are blocking the kind of action that would keep us from falling over an environmental cliff. Their focus on having big business make money is short-sighted...in a blighted world money will be meaningless. I don't think that environmental cliff is that far away, probably in the next few years.

Reply to When photographers become a bird's enemy

nobody@flickr.com (maia bird) — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:48:08 -0800

maia bird posted a reply:

Thank you for posting this, Michelle! I will put a sticky on it to keep it at the top of our list of topics. I became enamored of birds through photography, and in the early days (all of 4 years ago), I used a flash on a great horned owl at the top of the pine tree in my backyard. I was so excited it was there and didn't even think about it. I don't think I hurt it as it kept hooting away, but now I have a different ethos. I don't chase rare birds, and one of the reasons is because I don't want to see what unethical things people will do to see or photograph a rarity.

I've made the choice to be an ethical bird photographer, which means fewer killer shots and a less interesting photostream, but I'm okay with that.

When photographers become a bird's enemy

nobody@flickr.com (lamoustique) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:49:53 -0800

lamoustique posted a new topic:

A few years ago a rare gull landed on our shores. I never saw the bird, but I did see it through hundreds of photos posted online...including photos of the hordes of photographers surrounding it. It seemed small and vulnerable with all the people surrounding it, and I decided not to golook at it. Last winter I read stories from Quebec about photographers causing the death of snowy owls by baiting them and causing them to be careless around people. One contact of mine has complained about people waking owls up to get a nice "open eyes shot." Now I find out that this can cause a bird's death too! We need to respect nature if we call ourselves birders. How would you like to have someone wake you up, over and over again, from a deep sleep, to get a portrait of you? After a few months your health would suffer! Read the article below...and spread the word!
meadowhawk.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/reporting-owls-doing-...