peachfront @toot.community Senior parrots, birds, birding, rock swaps, crystals & stone-cutting. Sometimes I write funny dialogue for the birds in your photographs. I read books, & I vote!
Formerly known as Peachfront on Twitter & Instagram, & Amethyst Qu on Medium.
Haven't owned peachfront.com domain in years but you may find my old trip reports at peachfront.diaryland.com.
Pro Tip: Diaryland does not have any www's.
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"jingle all the way loud enough to be heard in the back or i'll know the reason why" -- choirmaster Violetear
"jingle all the way loud enough to be heard in the back or i'll know the reason why" -- choirmaster Violetear
🐦🥳 🎁 🎄
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"crank up the nectar production, boys, we have incoming!"
"crank up the nectar production, boys, we have incoming!"
i now have 30 different species of hummingbirds in my Northern Peru Workshop album & I still have more remaining to be edited & uploaded-- take a peek if you want, i'm not selling anything 🤣
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720322039889/>
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"i would have laughed if you told better jokes"-- grimly serious Laughing Falcon, probably
(PS- love these birbs!)
OK it's answer time
this one is the same female Green Trainbearer from the photo I posted before but she's turned so you can't see the long tail-- thus she is super hard to distinguish (in a photo where you have just this angle) from one of many other green spotty hummingbirds, for example, Many Spotted Hummingbird...
can you name this birb in just one note?
can you name this birb in just one note?
tfw your photo manages to miss the whole point of the bird...
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A swallowtail butterfly species from northern Peru, now you know as much as I do, apparently there are hundreds of swallowtail species, anybody know more? tell me!!!
A swallowtail butterfly species from northern Peru, now you know as much as I do, apparently there are hundreds of swallowtail species, anybody know more? tell me!!!
#NikonZ8 #Nature #outdoors #photograph #photography #insect #butterfly #swallowtail
"you're making me nervous with a comment like that, pal"--Goldfinch, probably
(PS-- so cute birb is blushing with false modesty)
"that curly tongue you thought you saw proves nothing!
"that curly tongue you thought you saw proves nothing!
i am a rare & previously unknown species of hummingbird that can too twirl its tongue into a complete circle
i am a real birb!"-- flying shrimp, again
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"i am too a hummingbird, in fact, i am a kind of hummingbird known as a thorntail, you see that white band over my hips, all thorntails have that white band...
"i am too a hummingbird, in fact, i am a kind of hummingbird known as a thorntail, you see that white band over my hips, all thorntails have that white band...
"ignore the rumors suggesting i am a flying shrimp!" -- flying shrimp, probably
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i've missed a few #ThickTrunkTuesday postings but i'm back with a game of...
i've missed a few #ThickTrunkTuesday postings but i'm back with a game of...
Spot The Woodpecker
taken through my office window in the rain so it's a bit dark but that's all part of the run, right?
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my first beta test of Affinity Photo 2.6 object selection
my first beta test of Affinity Photo 2.6 object selection
Boobear the 28-year-old cockatiel is helping me by posing on a white/messy background, i think that's a tough enough test
snap the photo, select the bird, select the not bird, apply gaussian blur & desaturate to the not bird channel
had to do a little tinkering because object selection missed part of the crest but it's... semi-OK?
comments welcome
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trip report about my photography workshop in northern Peru https://peachfront.diaryland.com/r2024.html
trip report about my photography workshop in northern Peru <https://peachfront.diaryland.com/r2024.html>
photos at Flickr <https://www.flickr.com/photos/98553536@N03/albums/72177720322039889>
also i edit & post a few here every day
safety note-- i masked all airports, all flights & ate or drank only at altitude where a lot of air is moving thru the cabin, group itself was tiny 4 students, 1 guide, 1 driver, most restaurants open air
questions welcome
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"all prayers are answered, i prayed for the ability to not smack the living **** out of absolute fools, & the answer was NO"-- Chestnut-breasted Coronet, probably
"all prayers are answered, i prayed for the ability to not smack the living **** out of absolute fools, & the answer was NO"-- Chestnut-breasted Coronet, probably
would love to see a cage match between a Rufous Hummingbird & a Chestnut-breasted Coronet, it's hard to say who is the crankier birb
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"i will floof you until you scream for mercy"
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in a way
northern South America
i've seen them in Ecuador but this photo was taken in northern Peru
Some challenging bright light on a good subject. Our first photography session of the tour centered on a small flock of Yellow-tufted Woodpeckers. He was backlit but this male was fairly cooperative
Some challenging bright light on a good subject. Our first photography session of the tour centered on a small flock of Yellow-tufted Woodpeckers. He was backlit but this male was fairly cooperative with me.
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"i shouldn't have to pick up my own food, where are the parents"-- deeply embittered Northern Cardinal fledgling
PS-- nice shot
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wow, those red flares are something else
the Chicago population underwent a large expansion in the 1980s, & i guarantee the winter weather in Chicago in the 80s was famously cold but it seems like if they have enough food (which they can get from feeders from parrot enthusiasts), they'll do well
Harold Washington, first Black mayor of Chicago, in office in the 1980s, considered them his lucky bird & so he & others took them under their wing, so to speak...
(& yes lots of great wildlife, esp birds, in New Orleans)
in New Orleans, our introduced parrot is the monk-- same species that is also the introduced parrot of the very different climates of Chicago & Brooklyn, New York! it's interesting to track their march across the planet! in the US, they greatly prefer cities, but i've seen them in rural areas in their native So. America
"Birds of Spitalfields," (London) was published in 1832, includes Rose-ringed Parakeet as one of the species present in the area so a small population was already present by then
saw a painting c.1500s in Amsterdam called something like "Hunting of the Parakeets" which would put them there even earlier
it's my guess these birds in Europe date back to the colonial/empire/exploration era but they've only grown large enough to be visible w/ warming climate
i feel like they didn't really explode in London until this century but i have a cool book about it by Nick Hunt that's a fun read about all the rumors
https://www.paradiseroad.co.uk/the-parakeeting-of-london-an-adventure-in-gonzo-ornithology
it's a crow, the eye looks pale because the bird has put up the nictitating membrane (a translucent protective eyelid) over the eye to protect from wind, snow, maybe camera flash... i've noticed that these membranes seem to reflect light in a way that makes the eye look pale or like a cataract or plastic...
they do look a lot alike but the lack of the black bar beneath the white wingbar makes this bird a Hutton's Vireo
there's a good comparison pair of photos at this link
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruby-crowned_Kinglet/species-compare/
? i would have just called it as Rufous but I'm not any world hummingbird expert just somebody who gets a Rufous or three in the yard in the winter...
Yet Another Yellow Warbler Only This One's Wearing a Hat looks baffle-gasted