Happy Monday! We have something especially fun from Albatrossity today. Everything else I had planned got rearranged because we got eclipse photos from cope – I always rearrange things when we get a timely submission, like the volcano erupting or the eclipse. Or photos from Boo-le-Bark! Or Halloween costumes. (hint, hint)
Albatrossity
Now that we’ve exhausted the stash of images from my August trip to Arizona, and gotten that flamingo out of Kansas and hopefully headed south, I decided to start whittling down the piles of pics from birds who hang around Flyover Country in the summer. But that’s not much of an organizing theme, so for the first batch I have ten pics of birds with their mouths open, for no better reason than that I seem to have a lot of them from this summer!
Birds open their yaps for lots of reasons, and in the spring or summer that reason is the need to advertise the availability of a nice territory and a willingness to mate. “Here I am; let’s start a family!” is the bowdlerized version of that message. One of the prettiest songs here comes from one of the prettiest birds, the Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris). And for some reason they were abundant around here this summer! Click here for larger image.
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