What a sweet, sweet picture! And yes, blue is a wonderful color for a bird. Happy is right.
I took an interest in your saying that there is no bird you don't like. English sparrows? Grackles? Grackles are ungainly unattractive things as far as I'm concerned although they do have a nice luminescence. And how about the birds that go to bluebird houses and break open the bluebird eggs and eat them. It's the way of nature but that doesn't mean we have to like it.
Crows annoy me with their incessant crowing. Otherwise, I understand nature has her ways. When I first began identifying birds, twenty-five years ago, the first bird I identified was a grackle.
I, on the other hand, have a kind of grudging affection for all the noise crows make. Smart birds that they are, I figure they have some sophisticated and complicated reason for all that racket. While I could be wrong, I rather enjoy the thought that crows are up to something that is beyond whatever I can perceive but is accomplishing subtle crow goal.
Grackles are distinctive. I'll give them that. Good place to start with bird identification. My list of grackle virtues stops there.
What a sweet, sweet picture! And yes, blue is a wonderful color for a bird. Happy is right.
I took an interest in your saying that there is no bird you don't like. English sparrows? Grackles? Grackles are ungainly unattractive things as far as I'm concerned although they do have a nice luminescence. And how about the birds that go to bluebird houses and break open the bluebird eggs and eat them. It's the way of nature but that doesn't mean we have to like it.
Crows annoy me with their incessant crowing. Otherwise, I understand nature has her ways. When I first began identifying birds, twenty-five years ago, the first bird I identified was a grackle.
I, on the other hand, have a kind of grudging affection for all the noise crows make. Smart birds that they are, I figure they have some sophisticated and complicated reason for all that racket. While I could be wrong, I rather enjoy the thought that crows are up to something that is beyond whatever I can perceive but is accomplishing subtle crow goal.
Grackles are distinctive. I'll give them that. Good place to start with bird identification. My list of grackle virtues stops there.