Notices by peachfront (peachfront@toot.community)

"sometimes i have to ask myself if the tree is worth the peck!" -- acorn woodpecker (male, Colombian subspecies is why the red cap is reduced)

#bird #woodpecker #Birding #BirdBehavior #BirdPhotography #Forest #BirdsOfMastodon #Wildlife

"i'm not speaking to u, u don't exist, don't even start"

🤣

#Birds #Birding #Woodpeckers #Neotropics #CloudForest #Mood #Frenemies #Photograph #BirdPhotography

if u build the banana feeder, they will come!

#Birds #Birding #Tanagers #Biodiversity #Neotropics #BirdPhotography #BirdFeeder #Photograph #BIrdsOfMastodon

"the last thing u see before u die if u are an acorn! don't talk to me about your mighty oaks!" -- marauding Acorn Woodpecker

this is the female of the Colombian subspecies

#bird #Birding #Woodpeckers #Biodiversity #Photograph #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon

@kolombiken

Mozart's Starling, Lyanda Lynn Haupt (2017)

The Bird Way, Jennifer Ackerman (2020)-- some eye popping stories & discoveries in this one!!! if you can only read one, this one

Adventures of a Louisiana Birder, Mary Beth Lima (2019)-- this is a birding as a sport / listing (memoir)

2/n

@kolombiken

bird books are a large category even beyond guides, here's some i read last year

*the glitter in the green: in search of hummingbirds, jon dunn (2021)

*the backyard bird chronicles, amy tan (2024) - new to birding, stories & sketches (memoir)

*the courage of birds, peter dunne (2024)-- straightforward account of their survival instincts (not one of his humor books, i was told he lost the ability to make jokes when he had a stroke? but still a good read)

1/3

"i have style,
i have flare...
what u got that
can compare?"
-- rhyming mango

#Bird #Birding #Hummingbird #BirdPhotography #Photograph #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #BirdsInFlight

don't u love it when a cute couple poses perfectly???

#Birds #Birding #Tanager #Pair #Love #Neotropics #BirdsOfMastodon #Photograph #BIrdPhotography #Wildlife #Nature

i normally avoid photographing birds from behind but with the Shining Sunbeam (the actual English common name of this hummingbird), the iridescent rainbow of color on the back is a field mark

#BirdsOfMastodon #Biodiversity #Bird #Birding #Hummingbird #Shiny #Wildlife #Photograph #BirdPhotography

Ever ask yourself just how small a hummingbird is? Here is a female Ruby-topaz at the Parque Nacional de la Uva where a large field of these flowers is planted for them

#Bird #Birding #Hummingbird #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdsOfFediverse #Photography #Flying #Garden #Wildlife #NationalParks #Colombia #nature

who authorized all this rain?-- flashy green thorntail

#Fotomontag #PhotoMonday #Photograph #Bird #Birding #BIrdPhotography #Hummingbird #Rain #Nature

click for full screen view

#SilentSunday #Bird #Birding #BirdsOfMastodon #Photograph #Mood #SundayVibes #Nature #Photography #CloudForest #BirdOfPrey #BirdPhotography

"i... didn't come here to be upstaged by a starfrontlet" -- flashy male Rainbow Bearded Thorntail

#BirdsOfMastodon #Hummingbird #Bird #Birding #Rare #Rainbow #Photography #BirdPhotography #Flashy #Colorful #Nature #Biodiversity

My attitude is poor & I am proud of it!!!!--black throated mango

#hummingbird #bird #wildlife #blep #BirdsOfFediverse #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #birding #nature

@davidho

let me guess, the child was eating Doritos while Black...

whoever authorized & installed the use of the AI system should be ticketed & sued for allowing an AI to call the cops on a child for eating Doritos

and the school system if not the county should sue the expletive out of whoever sold them the AI that can't tell the difference between a child's hands on a bag of chips and a firearm!!!

@georgetakei

it's scary that people never learn...

@Infoseepage

male Common Kestrel

@inthehands @molly0xfff @arclight

no?

admittedly, we've had some evil POTUS just in my lifetime, much less in history, but Jackson was a leading proponent of genocide, disappearance, & displacement of whole peoples so... if he displaced & killed fewer than 45, is it not because there were fewer people resident in North America to be killed in his day? it sure wasn't for lack of trying...

@georgetakei

agree, & it's scary

feels like i've never heard so many people rushing in to defend a racist's right to spread hate speech

people will disappoint you & all, but c'mon, people, DO BETTER

i have photo'd 50 species of hummingbird but for #Fotomontag #PhotoMonday i'd like to address the issue of how sometimes you can only get a bad photo

like this guy, we had ONE place where we could see Royal Sunangel but birb didn't show up until the glare of high noon with pollen on the head (not a gold crown)

with rare birds sometimes a bad photo is better than no photo tho ...

#BirdsOfMastodon #Bird #Hummingbird #Photography #BirdPhotography #PostProcessing #Birding #Endangered #Rare #Peru