What is your favorite bird? And every fowl encounter you've had under the sun

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December 17, 1903 Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina

(sorry, wrong bird…but Stephie started it)
 
Well, Ospreys need not go to confession, we can do as we please.
 
I used to spend a LOT of time in Bellagio on Lake Como, Italy. My boyfriend at the time loved to feed the pigeons there. One day, he, my younger sister and I took a trip to visit the chateaux of the Loire. The first evening, I was helping my sister choose her meal since the menu was all in French, and she didn’t speak French. When she had chosen aigneau (lamb), I turned to my boyfriend to see what he had chosen with the waiter, and he said “pigeon.” I was horrified! I ask him if he knew what pigeons were, and when he said “no,” I pointed out that they were the little birds he loved to feed in Bellagio! He promptly changed his order to aigneau as well. 😄

The moral: Don’t order it if you don’t know what it is!
 
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I’ll eat anything (but people) provided I’m hungry enough. 😛 But yes, I see what you mean.

(I didn’t know what hasenpfeffer was when I was at a German restaurant. It was pretty tasty though, but I would not eat it again.)
 
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(I didn’t know what hasenpfeffer was when I was at a German restaurant. It was pretty tasty though, but I would not eat it again.)
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Heseli (little rabbit) is a common nickname for boys in Switzerland. I would not eat hasenpfeffer either!
 
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And here’s our favorite Osprey carrying off a rabbit for dinner.
 
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(I didn’t know what hasenpfeffer was when I was at a German restaurant. It was pretty tasty though, but I would not eat it again.)
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Please, no hasenpfeffer!

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Yeah well, I did have a stipulation that “if I get hungry enough”. Concessions have to be made.

I was on a business trip passing through Northern Nevada and bodies of water were scarce. Cut me some slack.
 
Someday I’ll get a better camera, or a cell phone with a better camera, but this, I believe, is a Black Phoebe, another type of flycatcher. They’re very common here now, and their morning song, a high pitched, two-toned call that they repeat over and over, stands out above most of the other birdsong.

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Besides that, I think I will start a thread about the morality of spying on your neighbors at all hours of the day and night. Hacking into satellites and people’s smart phones is generally a no no, for starters.
 
A Goonie Bird is the nickname for the Laysan Albatross found all over the Pacific Ocean and its’ main breeding ground is on Midway Island.
They have this strange dance they do, and once airborne are graceful fliers. Getting airborne or landing they are some of the clumsiest creatures on the planet.
 
I have never seen a goonie bird.

Here’s Yellow-rumped Warbler at my bird bath earlier this week. See it’s yellow rump?

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