Hi, DJ here. This is one of those Hawaii summer days with blue sky, little puffs of white cloud, and trade winds... that is, the standard summer day that the postcards show. And it feels like a good day to be lazy, for some reason, so we're going with it.
 |
| Bird, up close & personal |
The portraits in this edition are off the DSLR memory card, and are of Bird, shot over the last 6 months or so... there are many more, this is just a selection... since, y'know, each one I use needs to be downsized, cropped, have the levels tweaked, etc for proper internet display.
 |
| Overlooking our front yard |
Not a lot of unique bird action today inside or outside our house; Birdlet still seems to be taking food from us about once in the morning, after sitting and staring at us and thinking about it for a surprisingly long time. Bird pops by whenever he sees me, and to chase Tawny away on general principles. Tawny is still sneaking in and made it into our upstairs today, doing some aerial acrobatics which impressed Susie; he's now quite aware of how our house works and can navigate it well despite all the panes of glass.
The parent bulbuls are still coming by, and the scruffy baby bulbul has landed a few times and taken food from me directly, shaking his wings in the "feed me" command which is supposed to instill that urge in a parent bulbul.
No wait, we just had a minor bird adventure, related to this post.
 |
| skeptically surveying the other birds coming and going, |
I figured I'd go back and do a "screen capture" from some old video showing Susie raising "Tweety", a baby bulbul who was rescued from a cat in 1994 and who she brought to full adulthood from being an injured chick, and who we accommodated to being wild again, and who may well be the 20th-generational grandsire of all the bulbuls here today, so if farmers wonder who to thank for ag pests, here we are. And it turns out you can't do mac screen grabs from inside their DVD player, which is a shame since there were some cute ones of Sue at half her current age with a baby bird. But that's not the adventure. The adventure was that the cheeping of the long-ago Tweety on the video seemingly lured the current bulbul chick, Scruffy, into our house where he got trapped in the upstairs by all the windows. So we had to go up and try to gain his trust, which didn't work though he ate some reconstituted mealworms from me... he was covered with cobwebs, apparently turning a baby bulbul loose is a good way to clear them out. But finally I had to just catch him by hand and let him outside, so that unwelcome handling may mean that "Scruffy" doesn't want to be friends anymore.
 |
| showing off a vertical stand |
We shall see. But his parents, and apparently two other bulbuls outside, were very concerned about him... I didn't know they had extended families... and it looked like all 4 went up to him once he was on a branch outside. So is that the last we'll see of Scruffy, or will the siren song of the mealworms bring him back?
Additional possible bulletin:
Bird took a bug to the nesting box for some reason today. No reason he should, I don't THINK Birdlet is in there, but perhaps they are thinking about more chicks.
No comments:
Post a Comment