[SBB] weekend birds... (and flickr and photos)

[Chuq Von Rospach <[[email protected]]>]

A few weekend birds from around the neighborhood...

We've had some hooded orioles move in during the last week (finally)  
and are using the feeder. I've seen a male and female, and I believe  
a third bird, also a male.  We also now have a couple of hummers  
arguing over the feeder as well.

While working out in the yard Saturday, we had a flock of wrentits  
wander in, work their way through the tree and local bushes, then  
wander off again.

Unusual stuff going on: saturday, I had a family of barn swallows  
visit the yard (probably from Central park) -- I've seen swallows  
occasionally near the flood control channels, but never here in the  
neighborhood. There were at least five individuals, including one kid  
just about finished molting away from the fluff. They happily sat  
around and sunned themselves, ignoring me UNTIL I went for the  
camera, at which point they laughed and flew off (twice).

Laurie and I have both been hearing woodpeckers working the  
neighborhood, but haven't seen them yet. This isn't normal for this  
time of year, we generally get them migrating through, but I haven't  
heard them this time of year.

I've got pictures of the oriole and wrentit on my flickr account:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/tags/southbaybirds/

(flickr is a nice photo upload service, with both free and paid  
options -- and the free accounts are quite usable. If you're looking  
for a place to put photos, it's one I can strongly recommend).

If you use flickr, I've created a global tag "south bay birds" you  
can use. If you do, it'll be available to all users on that tag:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/southbaybirds/

and just for general amusement, here's the URL to the stream of all  
of my bird pictures, some of which actually don't suck.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chuqui/tags/birds/

(if you understand what "RSS" means, all of these feeds can also be  
watched via RSS...)


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