Nice Bird Facts photos

A few nice bird facts images I found:

The Bird Market. Part 2 of 8.


Image by Desmond Kavanagh
In the apparent chaos of the Esfahan Bazaar and its twisting, branching system of interconnected corridors occasionally you come across something that throws you, that seems to defy reasoning. Sometimes a locked in mosque in a blindingly bright sunlit opening, other times a mysterious brown tower visible through a few openings in the canopy above with seemingly no entrance, every so often on the path an exquisitely detailed fountain shielded from the sky by solid tall walls and a roof of small red bricks.

The people did things that I didn’t understand, they seemingly obsessively pour water on the ground outside their stalls and at midday, even though they are indoors in the cool shade, they drape a small rug and sleep in their shops, wares left unattended. The labyrinth is deathly quiet for an hour and any attempt to blend in with the locals is lost in the very fact that you are still conscious (be aware of this, once i was invited for lunch in a man’s home and found myself obliged to sleep on his living room floor afterwards!).

From a busy road in the bazaar there is a small passage that slopes down, duck down this passable street and find yourself in the beating heart of the bazaar, far from the pretty craftwork and walls lined with jewellery and clothes.

This is the bird market, patroned only by locals. It’s like a western butchers but without the morals swept under the counter, you buy it, you kill it, you eat it.

Except for these lovely little things though, they’re dyed for a seasonal celebration.

Male Cardinal and Grosbeak: Pecking Order 3 of 3


Image by Cindy Sue Causey
Project: Backyard Pishing; Private Residence, Talking Rock, Pickens County, North Georgia, USA
Date: 2012.10.04; Pleasant day with some Sun
Camera: Kodak Z740 Zoom

In this third of 3 pics taken in a series, a male Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis, NOCA) appears to have now resigned himself to standing in line and waiting for a Fall migrating juvenile male Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus, RBGR) to finish up eating on HIS PLATFORM FEEDER. This is about the first time I think I’ve ever seen any of the male Cardinals stand down against any of the other birds. In fact there’s a different series of four images where the Cardinal is eating and the immature Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis, GRCA) involved is the one standing at bay instead.

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