by Caine
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Professional noticer at large
What am I doing? Working!
"Oh, I reckon I believes in tea, sunrises, that sort of thing.".
Esme Weatherwax, Carpe Jugulum
Pharyngula
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"And as you cross the circle line,
Well the ice wall creaks behind
You're a rabbit on the run.
And the silver splinters fly
In the corner of your eye,
Shining in the setting sun.
Well do you ever get the feeling
That the story's too damn real
And in the present tense.
Or that everbody's on the stage
And it seems like you're the only
Person sitting in the audience
Skating away, skating away, skating away
On the thin ice of the new day"
- Ian Anderson
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I think these are fabulous, but have to admit that I'm most taken with the colourful seeds in the suet :)
Rich says:
That second shot's a classic, very much the embodiment of OHSHI
Is that block it's sitting on food? If so, what's in it? (assuming it's a block of suet or fat but it looks like it's full of hundreds and thousands)
Caine says:
Thanks, Viv.
Thanks, Factotum. I like how the suet photographs too. It always looks very pretty.
Hahahaha, too right, Rich. It's a suet cake, beef fat, black oil sunseed, white millet, dried corn, thistle seed and other assorted seeds. I buy it by the box, the woodpeckers love the stuff, as do a lot of the other birds. It really keeps them going during the winter.
Thank you for the hl!
Great series! Faved the third from the bottom - abstract birdie with stoic Harry. :)
Caine says:
Thanks, Lyz! I don't know that Harry is stoic; he's more single-minded. At least when it comes to suet. :D
Rich says:
That looks like good bird-eatins. I spend quite a bit of cash providing the birds in our garden with nosh but none of it looks as appetising or colourful as that. Admittedly I don't look very hard, and they seem to prefer black sunflower seeds mostly.
Fantastic shots and deserved HL.We only get seagulls in our back yard. Very dull compared to the magnificent Harry.
Caine says:
Rich, yeah, it's amazing how much cash the birds can eat. All I get for them is the suet, and huge bags of black oil sunseeds and a bag of assorted seed. The black oil sunseeds don't last any time at all, they are loved. I put out fruit in the Spring and Summer too. Suet cakes are a pretty big business here, there are a ton of varieties - cakes made special for certain types of birds and weather conditions, etc. We buy the Morning Song because it's cheap, about $10.00 for a box of 12 cakes.
Thanks, Cariadus! Seagulls are the one thing I haven't been able to get a shot of - they are extremely wary here, and if you try to get semi-close, they take off. One of these days... :D
Caine says:
:) I'm very fond of them. A lot of our varieties haven't shown up yet, still waiting for Spring, I think.
Are you familiar with Birdchick and her lovely blog? It made me think of you: http://www.birdchick.com/wp/
Seagulls are definitely not wary over here. When they are nesting (which they seem to in every other chimney pot) they divebomb me and the dog like crazy. One actually clonked me on the head with its feet last year. They haven't started nesting this year yet.
Caine says:
Really! You can't get within 12 feet of them here, they take off. There's one place, conservation land along the Missouri River that I might be able to actually get shots of them. It will be many months before that area is navigable though.
