Apparently I should have also asked the question … Do you speak Crow?!
While I was finishing up the prior post, I heard the crows screaming from my computer. Please understand there are many different types of crow talk. I knew the inflection to their screams meant something was happening outside my house. Yup!
I am beginning to suspect this bear has it den within 500 yards of my home.
Google Translate is a great benefit for those of us with limited ability to speak additional languages, but sometimes what is being said is painfully obvious! As in yesterday, when I visited a Great Blue Heron Rookery, here is what was being said …
Breakfast Arriving!
Feed Me!
Say Please!
I also had some fun watching this Yellow-Shafted Flicker taking a dust bath (movie link)
Eventually you’ll see some nice images from the Great Blue Heron rookery I visited this morning. Standing in a swamp for 2 hours helps one gain an immense appreciation for bug repellent! However, this post is about the topic “Never Stop Birding!” On the way home from the rookery, I needed to stop for gasoline. My fuel station of choice was the Kwik Trip on Rice Lake Road in Duluth. While pumping gas along with 20 of my closest friends, I heard a killdeer. Who cares that a highway ditch along a busy highway may not be my chosen birding location. Thankfully, I always have my super zoom camera in the car. I parked my car away from the pumps and proceeded to bird Kwik Trip.
This image resulted. The location looks like a meadow in the middle of nowhere, but looks are deceiving. I already gave you the location. Do you always have an ear tuned to bird song, and your brain always registering birds even when you are not birding? I do!
I was actually crawling around on the gas station’s lawn trying to take this photograph. I’m sure other patrons thought I was crazy, and could not figure what I thought was so interesting. My goal was to capture the lupine and the killdeer in the same photo. Crawling was required such that I would not scare the bird.
