David's Images of the Day Photoblog
A Marsh Wren kept pushing whole sunflower seeds out of the bird feeder while looking for opened seeds. By the afternoon the feeder was almost empty, and the squirrels below were happy.
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House Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Marsh Wren, and Squirrel.
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Aft Deck Statue Catching the Rainbow. Later that evening a Masked Booby decided to spend the night on the forward deck. Actually, I think after the bird landed it found out that there was not enough room to take off. The Masked Booby is a big bird. Before the students could harass it, or try to feed it bread crew members came out with a blanket to cover the bird. They then took it to an aft deck where there was room for it to take off and fly away.
Individual images from the slide show can be viewed here.
I’m not sure of the ID of bird in the first two images. It looks like the dark-eyed junco’s, but it has a brown rather than grey and black feathers.
The Masked and Brown Boobies continue to follow the ship. I think they are using the thermals created by our motion as they search for fish. I managed to get an image of a Brown Booby just after it caught a Flying Fish.
Individual images in the slide show can be viewed here.