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| Fluffbutt1 on fledging day 3/13/20 |
Not a lot of Shama news from today but while Susie is showering I'm pulling a few frames from some video which recently got uploaded. The Fluffbutts are about 6 weeks old now, and the only one still hanging around here is Tawny, originally designated Fluffbutt2, as the smaller of two male chicks in the first fledging of 2020. (it seems as though the second fledging, the "Cuties", didn't succeed as we haven't seen any living chicks or the adult behavior that they might be out there. This may be a bit of a break for the fluffbutts in terms of not being chased away as robustly).
The fluffbutt eggs were laid in the nesting box I hung on the side of the house for a completely different bird species about 35 years ago, the third nesting there for Bird & Birdlet. They popped ut of it on March 13.
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| This is either Tawny or Hawky on fledging day, deep in back yard |
The images taken at extreme superzoom are not exactly sharp - the camera used has a 60x zoom lens which isn't exactly easy to hand-hold and which I generally use to shoot video; these birds are much better documented on video but for bandwidth reasons blogger is friendlier to stills.
As Susie wrote, today I made her a fairly spectacular breakfast which she walked away from with the door open. I don't know why plates of human food look so interesting to shamas, but they do have a real propensity to go for them. When Cheepy was coming in multiple times per day to hang out and take snacks, we'd cover up our plates even leaving them for a few seconds. So is this how pandemics get started? Birds landing on breakfasts?
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| Sue feeds Fluffy and Tawny a month or so ago |
Thing is, Tawny may well have been "doing stuff" with Sue's breakfast plate for some time before I noticed it, so she microwaved it to cook any bird poop which wasn't immediately visible... one hopes for long enough.
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