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"coot" couple, yeah, like i can resist a pun better than anyone else on the internet 2008-04-20 - 8:11 a.m. all photos this page � 2008 by elaine radford Click on the Red-Headed Woodpecker photo above for a full report of yesterday's bird walk in Fontainebleau State Park, including my encounter with the predatory chickadee-munching Red-Headed Woodpecker. A few more photos I wanted to post. I played around with the singing male Summer Tanager photo some. It's still a crummy photo, but it can serve to illustrate everything that's challenging about bird photos -- contrasty light, small subject matter, bad angles/shooting from below, and the way they turn their head just as the camera clicks. And this guy was cooperative. After he noticed me following his song, he actually flew over my head and perched directly above me before he resumed his performance. Bad as the photo may be, I could see the yellow in the belly. Apparently, that's a hint that he's a younger male. Last week some folks saw 300 Scarlet Tanagers come down in Grand Isle and some others saw a bunch more come down on Dauphin Island. But I've seen nary a one. Right time, wrong place, apparently. Of course, since my knowledge of bird song is so keen, I had no idea yesterday if I was looking for a Scarlet or a Summer Tanager, or even a late American Robin, or (I thought) an Oriole until I actually saw the bird. Hell, Oriole wasn't even one of the choices. One of these is not like the rest. But I suppose if I keep listening, then eventually it will have to sink in. And don't laugh at the idea of American Robin singing down here. We actually had them breed successfully in our yard, and I mean in July, once in the days before Tropical Storm Bill took down the oak tree. They usually head back north in the spring, but never say never. Anything that happened once can happen again, right? There were a number of well-made spiderwebs in the park, including this one near the area being used by the Indigo Bunting flock. I don't like most photographs of coots. For some reason, they don't catch the light all that well, even though they're calm cooperative subjects. But I got an OK photo of two who are pretty obviously a pair. They seem to make an effort to stick together at all times and to hold themselves a little apart from the others. I wouldn't have minded getting a photo like that of the Red-Knobbed Coots I saw in Johannesburg, complete with their little devil's horns, but the light wasn't right immediately after the 3:30 AM thunderstorm and resulting early morning drizzle. These American Coots do seem to have some wicked red eyes, if you check closely. DH did not waste his morning either. He mowed the knee-high back lawn. Things are really starting to shape up out there -- little hard green "knobs" that will be satsumas on the satsuma tree, little yellow flowers on tomato and pepper plants, baby lettuce plants. J. now has a master's degree and has been accepted into a Ph.D. program. She's crazy/busy, but last Sunday, she stopped by for a few hours so that we could catch up. As I always say, when she's "Doctor J." we'll be able to say we knew her when. In the News: Today's cheery headline: New killings bring N.O. total to six in three days -- and that's only in Orleans, who knows if/how many more in Jefferson. Sigh. 6 PM: They just found a seventh murder victim in Gentilly. back - next All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2002-2017 by Elaine Radford