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From: tony cooper <tony_cooper...@earthlink.net>

Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 00:16:59 -0400

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On Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50:10 -0700, Blinky the Shark

<no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:
>tony cooper wrote:

>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:43:52 -0700, Blinky the Shark
>> <no.s...@box.invalid> wrote:

>>>A while back we exchanged some pelican images.

>>>Got any ducks?

>>>http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/sentry.jpg

>>>His attention may be focused in the wrong direction -- a possible example
>>>of why ducks rarely succeed in the military.

>As contrasted to bird colonels, anyway.

>> No ducks, but here's a pair of Sandhill Cranes that were blocking the
>> road as I left my house a couple of days ago. Shot from the car
>> window and not much in the way of good pictures, but I was in a hurry.
>> They're about 4' tall.

>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md005.jpg
>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/md008.jpg

>What purpose-built bodies those are. It's hard for a wading bird to not
>look like a wading bird.

>Is that the edge of a city park? Golf course?

The golf course I live on. Sandhills return to the same area every
year. They also mate for life. They come to the golf course during
the day because the short grass of the fairways make it easier for
them to find insects and other delicacies. They return to marshy
areas after the day's feeding, and their nests are in marshy areas.

They are terrible neighbors. Their cry is loud and raucous and
reverberates through the neighborhood in the early morning.

Placid birds, though, that seem unbothered by the golfers. They move
out of the way of approaching golf carts, but slowly as if they were
going anyway.

>I remember when I was a boy in the Midwest my father pointing out a crane
>flying high overhead and saying that it was carrying its fishing poles --
>referring to its long legs, trailing parallel, behind it.

>I got this a couple weeks ago. I love the graceful loop the head and beak
>complete. It also reminds me of one of those magnetic "cause" ribbons I
>see on cars and such.

>http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/flamingo.jpg

Sometime back I was in Kenya on vacation, and went to Lake Baringo
where there are thousands of flamingos. Never got a close-up of one.
I also saw them in Bonaire on a dive trip (I was diving, not the
flamingos) where they fly to Bonaire to Venezuela and back every day.

--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida

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