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I liked the look of this sunset, with the contrail looking like a comet. What follows is an assortment of pics from past months.

The always entertaining duck butt.

When we saw this cloud the on the horizon, my partner said it looked like Thanos was reaching out for us.

Water off a duck's back.

A robin looks curious.

Some more photos of the contrail sunset.

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stonepicnicking_okapi

Aw, 🥰 lovely.

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yourlibrarian

Thanks!

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shirebound

I love that sunset, it's like finger-painting in the sky.

LOL to the entertaining duck butt!

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yourlibrarian

It never fails to make me grin to see the duck butts and the wildly paddling feet.

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pameladean

I love the Canada goose butts, too. The geese look very imposing when upright, but that white butt is just hilarious.

I really like your robin photo. That's such a typical pose for them.

P.

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yourlibrarian

That's true -- somewhere in my photo archives I have a picture of a father robin who had a nest on our balcony. We had a photo of him looking very self satisfied, chest out. It really amused us.

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full_metal_ox

Nesting American Robins can be aggressive, too: in one of my previous apartment buildings, a small Japanese honeysuckle tree overhung the rear parking lot, and I used to use it as a laundry rack.

This put me at periodic risk of dive-bombing by the local robins: a good nesting season can yield three broods, and they considered that tree prime real estate. (One possible reason was the fine dining potential: the guy in charge of maintenance preferred a manual push lawnmower—-nice and quiet, and an entourage of birds would trail him to glean the exposed bugs and worms.)

Edited Date: 2024-10-26 08:56 pm (UTC)

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yourlibrarian

Ha! An odd sort of small parade 🙂

Interesting to hear about the robins. We had 3 different robin's nests on our balcony over several years. Given they were nesting in our plant pots (as were mourning doves, and for a few broods, a duck!) my partner had to go out to the balcony regularly to water and care for the plants, or for us to add food to the hummingbird feeder or get things out of the outdoor closet. We never had any problems with them. They seemed, in fact, to ignore us and would arrive to feed the babies if we were there or not.

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full_metal_ox

It never fails to make me grin to see the duck butts and the wildly paddling feet.

I appreciate your decision to share the duck’s water-beaded plumage—as if it were a bedewed flower at sunrise.

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yourlibrarian

Oddly enough I think this is the first photo possible for that, despite all the years of being here. Part of it is getting a duck out on the water close enough for the pic.

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ex_weird446

Such a nice mix of photos! Also interesting to see an American (?) Robin and how they differ from the European one.

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yourlibrarian

I've heard about that! I believe the common sparrows are also rather different.

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full_metal_ox

Yes, that’s an American Robin; the sexes look a good deal alike except that the males’ color is slightly more intense than that of the females. (The eggs are even more strikingly different, in case you’ve ever been puzzled by the stock color term “robin’s-egg blue”:)