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Swallow-tailed Kite Twitch*!
2009.09.05
When the parking lot at this wildlife area is this full, you know something is going on.
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When the parking lot at this wildlife area is this full, you know something is going on.
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There ended up being like 35 people total during the course of the morning, all bristling with optics and sporting various styles of sunhats.
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There ended up being like 35 people total during the course of the morning, all bristling with optics and sporting various styles of sunhats.
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Not everyone was here to look for the kite... it's dove-hunting season. The things he's carrying aren't dead doves, they're plastic decoys all strung up on a string like a chile ristra.
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Not everyone was here to look for the kite... it's dove-hunting season. The things he's carrying aren't dead doves, they're plastic decoys all strung up on a string like a chile ristra.
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Sigh... I don't have the camera mojo to take insect pictures! But I persevere anyway... I wanted to figure out what this was. Turns out it's a Comma.
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Sigh... I don't have the camera mojo to take insect pictures! But I persevere anyway... I wanted to figure out what this was. Turns out it's a Comma.
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Oh fanfare oh pandemonium - a swallow-tailed kite has been found - ! (Sorry no photo of the bird itself... I definitely don't have the camera muscle for that, since it's a relatively small bird and it was pretty far up.)
* Twitch (verb): to drop everything and go to sometimes great lengths to see a rare bird.
* Twitch (noun): the massive party that results from everyone in a 100-mile radius showing up simultaneously to twitch said bird.
Did you just give us 'the bird'? ;) Next time it might be more interesting to do a series of the silly hats birders wear. Right up there with old Southern women.
+Twitch+ (noun
device used to restrain horses. Made of stick-like handle or metal ring with loop of chain or rope which is wrapped around the upper lip. May also be applied to non-birdwatchers to keep them compliant while they are shown all things bird related.
