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I’m deeply jealous of Kai Pflug. The man has an apparently limitless provide of unbelievable chicken pictures. So all he has to do to give you a priceless submit is to tug out of few of these pictures, add just a few snarky feedback, and he’s good to go.
I, alternatively, not often take pictures adequate to do all of the heavy lifting. So I at all times really feel like, you recognize, I ought to even have one thing to say earlier than I write. One thing profound, or wildly entertaining. Which is tough.
So it was very nice after I went birding the opposite day and the angels of pictures went with me. Within the early day, the sunshine was excellent. Later within the day, a number of troublesome species determined to be more easy.
I had gone again to the little reservoir of San José de las Torres, to test on the avian refugees from the primary lake in our area, which is presently nearly utterly dry. Sadly, the reservoir is now beginning to look quite dry as effectively:
Nonetheless, the birds had been nonetheless there. There have been six species of untamed geese, together with the same old few launched home geese. Extra importantly, a minimum of three micro-endemic Black-polled Yellowthroats continued to sing from the reedbeds. (One among my ornithologist buddies commented, “I hope they keep to breed there.” And so do I.)
The geese stayed far sufficient away to maintain me from taking any nice pictures. However others had been extra obliging:
American Coot infants are so ugly that they’re lovable.
And right here’s what they appear like in a while.
Any shot of a Nice Egret that has caught a giant fish is nice in my guide.
One other one turned up in a Most Surprising Place.
This immature Nice Blue Heron definitely did have an opinion of me.
As I explored the drier space beneath the reservoir, male Vermilion Flycatchers proved but once more that they’re terribly photogenic birds. However then, what else have they got going for them? That, and consuming bugs.
Issues had been sluggish on this space, so I headed for residence with simply sufficient time left to detour to an space above the little city of San Miguel del Monte. And there, to my shock, a few of Michoacán’s most stunning birds determined they wished good portraits taken. To my shock, I say, as a result of whereas stunning, these hyperactive beauties have not often if ever allowed me to do them justice. They included:
A Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Townsend’s Warbler
Purple Warbler (the identical species just lately featured in a submit from Oaxaca)
And a better, however nonetheless photogenic, Tufted Flycatcher
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