Re: birds

Jim, do you have frigates there or is that further south.  Now that is a cool
bird.

DF

Island Jim wrote:

> does not surprise me, cathy. they've got the same kind of big time ugliness
> about them.
>
> we probably have more big birds here than most places do. on several
> occasions, i've had to stop my truck to allow a slow moving great blue
> heron to cross the road. they move so deliberately slow, placing one foot
> so methodically in front of the other. i've come to think of them as
> mechanical objects just because of how they move. but they make eye-contact
> with you--big amber eyes with iridescent blue in the iris. and that's why
> you don't run the dumb things over; they've got your number.
>
> not too long ago, i nearly ran over a family of sandhill cranes, which was
> running down the middle of the road in a rain storm. after dark, i might add.
>
>   wood storks and ibis [white ones] are everywhere, scurrying about like
> covies of hunched over old men. on any given day you can see a golden or
> bald eagle circling low and waiting for a squirrel or dove to do something
> predictably dumb.
>
> At 08:02 PM 2/18/03 -0600, you wrote:
> >Did you know the stork is a close relative of the vulture?
> >Cathy
> >On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 04:31 PM, Island Jim wrote:
> >
> >>while we're enumerating birds seen, i've got this picture i took of a
> >>wood stork standing on the very top crown branching of a norfolk island
> >>pine. what was interesting to me about it was the bird likely weighs 4 or
> >>5 pounds and the tip-top of the tree shows no stress or sway from its
> >>being there.
> >>
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