Gibson99
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This is also neat... A couple of birds are building themselves quite the nest above my front door. First pic was last Saturday, second was tonight. So in a week they've built a bowl shaped ledge, attached to the brick. The brick only stuck out about 1cm and now the nest hangs out at least 10cm.
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I wish my phone camera could capture the color of them. Rich deep iridescent blue on the wings and tail, and orange on the chest. Their tails are V-shaped, pretty neat to see them. And they didn't seem to be bothered when 6 very loud kids ranging in age from 9 to 1 all stormed out the door tonight.
I wish my phone camera could capture the color of them. Rich deep iridescent blue on the wings and tail, and orange on the chest. Their tails are V-shaped, pretty neat to see them. And they didn't seem to be bothered when 6 very loud kids ranging in age from 9 to 1 all stormed out the door tonight.
Yeah i noticed the Latin name are the same, probably one of those euro Shakespeare birds imported to the US in days gone bye.
Our one just seen less colorfull, maby ours are non HDR birds.
I know many US airgunners like to shoot those pest birds as some of them are problems in the US fauna
The two i posted are called ( translated ) Rural swallow and Town swallow.
We have a third one here, which i think are called a dike swallow ( translated )
Best looking bird here in color are the kingfisher / Isfugl ( Alcedo atthis )
Hard to get photos off they say.
yeah there are a lot of sup species on all continents of the swallows.
By the Shakespeare birds i mean, some Shakespeare lover named Eugene Schieffelin released birds mentioned by Shakespeare in the US, but upon reading up on this nugget my brain had stored it seem only the starlings and sparrows succeeded in populating the US to a degree its now considered a pest,,, by some at least.
He also imported and released bullfinches, chaffinches, nightingales and skylarks.
https://timeline.com/sparrows-invasive-species-america-9546e6a9e57e
I apologize for my selective and solo operating brain, i have little control over what it choose to store, hence my fragmented knowledge of many things i really dont have much interest in personally.
Biggest brid problem here as far as i know are seagulls, that seemingly should now be named landgulls or towngulls instead, they make one hell of a noise and mess too.
I just remembered i think there are also problems with a with squirrel competing with the native American ones, Brown and Grey, cant recall witch belong where.
Symmetrical speeds. Doubt I'll ever see that here. They insist on making it horribly asymetrical - I have 125mbps down but only 12 up. Very annoying at times.
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