10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
It was actively hunting the grassy slopes and barely paid me any attention as I tried to figure out how to get as close as possible without changing its behavior. It had been in the park a few weeks and was clearly adept at evading people, cars, and frenetic dogs. She would hunt the hillsides right next to where I was sitting.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018
E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Brewer’s blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2013
Lest you think that modern technology robbed all the challenge from my hunt, though, I would point out that there were a couple of confounding factors. Red-winged Blackbirds and Starlings around the Arch were panting and flocking to the water features like Saharan castaways. The birds were not in their appointed backyard.
10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2023
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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