Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Unusual Perspective
It was a heavy eating day or the birds. It’s cold — which always makes them hungry — and it’s the day after filling the feeder.
The birds live in the forsythia hedge. There used to be maybe a dozen birds in those hedges. Now there are dozens, as well as up in the trees so as one bird starts eating when the next bird (do they take numbers like in the deli department in the grocery?) is ready, he flies down, knocks the current bird off the feeder and grabs a seed.
This relay happens so fast, I’m rarely able to catch it except by accident. Literally, one second there are two birds on the feeder and a second later there are two different birds there. They are very, very fast.
Some birds hang onto the feeder better than others. One Warbler wouldn’t move for at least 15 minutes. On the whole, Woodpeckers and Nuthatches are the best hangers-on.
Also, the Titmice are very picky about what they will eat and like to toss the pieces they don’t like into the air … and the Chickadees like to dive off tree limbs and the feeder.
Wings closed, they just dive and don’t start to fly until they get near the ground. Most of the other birds fly off the feeder. Chickadees just dive.
Nuthatches eat upside down. Some of the birds like to lie in the seeds and just eat reclining.
Categories: #Birds, #black-&-white-photography, #Photography, Cee's Photo Challenge
I love the first shot — the bird peeking out over the toad! It’s interesting to watch the social structure of the different birds, and their individual habits!
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They like hanging around the toad. It make for some very cute shots.
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I love the bird diving. 😀
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Only the chickadees do that dive. It think it’s pretty cool 🙂
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I think the birds have found a way to have harmony in the world. They take turns at the feeder.
Leslie
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Actually, they seem to enjoy knocking each other OFF the feeder, but apparently, it’s done without animosity. I think it’s their idea of fun.
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What ever works…..
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Great shot! … Little birdie hitching a ride with her friend, Toad. 😀
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I like when they stand on Toad’s head. That’s wildly cute.
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I love that first one!!
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I thought that was terribly cute, though I’m still waiting to catch one standing right ON the toad. They do that, but I haven’t caught them in the act. Yet.
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you will 🙂
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I love the little one peeking up above the toad. I wonder if birds get indigestion from eating upside down?
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That seems to be the main way the Nuthatches eat. The can also walk down a tree trunk head first. They are very upside-down birds 😀
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They might do well downunder then.::-)
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They indeed might.
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I like the bird in flight
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I love those diving Chickadees. They all do it. It’s hilarious to see. They don’t take flight. They just dive into the air and when they think it’s time, they put up their wings. They are the sky-divers of the bird world.
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Really like the bird atop the toad.
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I thought he out-cuted all the other birds that day.
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