My Bird Of The Day # 13 (Ring-billed Gull)
Oct 27, 2017 20:26:16 #
Day # 13 - Date : Friday, October 27, 2017
Fairly bright morning of mixed sun and cloud just before the rain/sleet/wet snow arrived. Good time to take some photos of my regulars so I thought. However, I made a mistake of putting out a pile of peanuts on one of my low unprotected feeders (not caged) for the Blue Jays. But this fella showed up shortly after. We call him "Harold", and he is usually a daily visitor to our feeding stations. He particularly likes peanuts as you can see. Almost every day he cruises over our yard and if he sees anything interesting will land to check it out. If he does see us sitting on the deck he will approach us and beg for one of his favourite nuts. He often will take the peanut and bring it to the concrete sidewalk on which he pounds it in order to extract the nuts. Although I really prefer that he would find another yard to do his thing you must admit that having him around is a bit different from my usual crowd. But, he is one of my regulars :-)))))
I intended to show this character a little later on, but since he made his appearance this morn and posed so well, I thought this must be the right time.
Ron
Fairly bright morning of mixed sun and cloud just before the rain/sleet/wet snow arrived. Good time to take some photos of my regulars so I thought. However, I made a mistake of putting out a pile of peanuts on one of my low unprotected feeders (not caged) for the Blue Jays. But this fella showed up shortly after. We call him "Harold", and he is usually a daily visitor to our feeding stations. He particularly likes peanuts as you can see. Almost every day he cruises over our yard and if he sees anything interesting will land to check it out. If he does see us sitting on the deck he will approach us and beg for one of his favourite nuts. He often will take the peanut and bring it to the concrete sidewalk on which he pounds it in order to extract the nuts. Although I really prefer that he would find another yard to do his thing you must admit that having him around is a bit different from my usual crowd. But, he is one of my regulars :-)))))
I intended to show this character a little later on, but since he made his appearance this morn and posed so well, I thought this must be the right time.
Ron
Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600 @ 483mm, f6.3, auto ISO @ 1000, dist 20M
Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600 @ 309mm, f6.3, auto ISO @ 320, dist 12M
Canon T6i, Tamron 150-600 @ 375, f6.3, auto ISO @ 160, dist 8M
Oct 27, 2017 20:38:06 #
Oct 27, 2017 20:50:25 #
Oct 27, 2017 21:18:49 #
Oct 27, 2017 21:21:02 #
Ron,
Where is here? Sorry I had not read your post when I asked if it was a peanut.
Where is here? Sorry I had not read your post when I asked if it was a peanut.
Oct 28, 2017 03:57:22 #
Oct 28, 2017 13:48:42 #
Oct 28, 2017 13:49:28 #
chuckc13 wrote:
Nice set making a sea gull interesting.
Thanks for looking and commenting.
Ron
Oct 28, 2017 13:54:32 #
WDCash wrote:
Ron,
Where is here? Sorry I had not read your post when I asked if it was a peanut.
Where is here? Sorry I had not read your post when I asked if it was a peanut.
Where is here you ask. Well let me say that as I look out the window I can see a bit of white stuff in the air. Am presently residing in the great north of Canada where we will have snow on the ground for Halloween. As for the bird eating peanuts, these characters would probably eat anything they could find. Mine will also at times pick up and eat sunflower seeds but I think that is too time consuming for him.
Thanks for looking in and for the kind comments.
Ron
Oct 28, 2017 13:55:38 #
Oct 28, 2017 22:50:30 #
Oct 29, 2017 19:12:49 #
sailorsmom wrote:
He's sooo cute, Ron, and these are excellent shots!
Thanks sailorsmom for looking at my pics and commenting, appreciated.
Ron
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