IT'S A BIRD!!!!!

No...It's MANY BIRDS!!!!!!!!!

Knots (type of bird) formed the shape of a bird as the took to the air last week at the RSPB's Snettisham Nature Reserve, in Snettisham, UK. The reserve lies on the edge of "The Wash" one of the most important bird sanctuaies in the UK supporting over 300,000 birds.

Mornin' Blue Jay!

Saw a Blue Jay this morning as I was walking up to my work building. So pretty! :)

Look What We Saw!

...while waiting for the race to begin!

Even Littuler Birdie

This morning, when I got off the bus at 1455 Research Boulevard I saw a Humming Bird!!!! hovering in front of one of the bushes. I thinkkkk this is the first time I have seen one. I could see the head and beak distinctly as it hovered, but the rest of it's body was a greyish blurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It was hovering exactlly like in the photo. After 2 seconds it was gone!!!!! It was too tiny for my to find it after it disappeared into the trees :)

Littul littul birdie...

This morning as I was walking to class I noticed the litttttle yellow and black bird. It had the most curious movement in the air. It looked like it was was jumping and leaping while in the air. I loved it. Then, again, as I left work, I saw another one go from my side of the pavement on to a tree in its curious jump-leap motion. Today was the first time I noticed this bird, and then I see it twice in 2 different locations! I didn't know the bird, so I had to come home and look it up. It is an American Goldfinch. And, according to this website, "Goldfinches fly with a bouncy, undulating pattern and often call in flight, drawing attention to themselves." :). It definitely drew my attention to it, twice today!

Chirpy Thoughts :)

I love it when I see a bird sitting on the topmost branch of a tree. I don't know why, but there is something incredibly alluring about it. I saw this this evening.

Today, after I left work and while walking to the bus stop, I heard the calls of at least 5 different birds. One of which I was able to trace to the bird making the call. It was a Northern Cardinal, which is a beautifully red bird. Its chirp was odd, a mix between a sound that one expects from a bird and a police siren, but not an annoying sires, as sirens typically are. This might be the first bird chirp I'll be able to recognise and associate with the actual bird without actually seeing it. Apart, of course, from a crow and a rooster :-p