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BREEDIN SEASON
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| Jan 07,2009
| swampsniper
Posted on 01/06/2009 10:37:42 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
Until yesterday you could find White Ibis in small flocks near any water body. Now they are beginning to form larger flocks in preparation for breeding season. The first year birds, with darker plumage, will be left to fend on their own. Momma is going to be busy with new chicks.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Hobbies; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: birds; breeding; ibis; photo
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:39:52 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
We can’t post that photo on a thread about breeding.
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:42:13 PM PST
by
nufsed
To: SWAMPSNIPER
In California we call them pelicans.
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:42:32 PM PST
by
budwiesest
(Jan. 20th is right around the corner. Evening in America.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:43:25 PM PST
by
txhurl
(somebody just bought 12 Carrier Battle Groups for 600 million dollars)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Gracious, me. However do those birds manage to breed and reproduce without Gummn’t intervention?
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:44:32 PM PST
by
QBFimi
(When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
To: budwiesest
Can you buy eyeglasses in California? They don’t even slightly resemble pelicans!
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:44:49 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
This is a Pelican, don't know what you call it in California!
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:49:16 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: nufsed
"We can’t post that photo on a thread about breeding". ---------------------------------------------------
Hey, as long as I don't say the "F" word!
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:51:01 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
How do you get your subjects to look you in the eye?
Amazing.
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posted on
01/06/2009 10:54:22 PM PST
by
txhurl
(somebody just bought 12 Carrier Battle Groups for 600 million dollars)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Totally awesome.
Thank you for posting these photos, SWAMPSNIPER.
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posted on
01/06/2009 11:04:31 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: txflake
"How do you get your subjects to look you in the eye"? -------------------------------------------------------
I don't know, really don't, I just hunt like my kids are hungry, just like I always have.
Many years ago I stayed with relatives in Canton, Ohio, went to a year of HS at Canton McKinley, the other kids said I moved funny, they called me snake. I don't walk around with my arms flopping around, lurching from side to side, I just meander along. I can't always get close the first time I try, but, I always keep trying.
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posted on
01/06/2009 11:11:14 PM PST
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
“Hey, as long as I don’t say the “F” word!”
Feathers?
(Fantastic Fotos Fellow Freeper!)
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posted on
01/06/2009 11:22:49 PM PST
by
21twelve
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Your photos are always amazing and beautiful. Thank You!
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posted on
01/07/2009 12:36:36 AM PST
by
BruceysMom
("Where knowledge is folly...")
To: SWAMPSNIPER
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posted on
01/07/2009 1:05:43 AM PST
by
Canedawg
(Why couldn't he have just tried out for the Olympics like all the other Kenyans?)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Even while feeding in crowded, shallow pools, Ibises give one another a proper amount of "personal space", with no fighting. Other wading birds are tolerant of Ibises, but intolerant of others whether the same species or not. (Something I witness right from my computer).
:)
Ibis flocks of 6 or 12 birds can be seen walking down the quieter streets of Miami, Florida.
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posted on
01/07/2009 3:23:43 AM PST
by
Does so
(Liberals are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
We live on a golf course and often have large flocks of ibis wandering through our yard. They’re eating something, with all those beaks pecking in the ground...I figure they’re better than having a pest control guy come spray the yard, LOL. Ibis are amazing in that they can function with one leg, quite efficiently. Over the years, I’ve seen many that are missing a foot or part of one leg, and I’ve seen several with a lame leg. They seem to keep up and hop along with the flock.
BTW, your photos are beautiful.
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posted on
01/07/2009 3:45:32 AM PST
by
Dawn531
To: Dawn531
Now that you mention it, Ibises can perch on one leg on the electric wires overhead! (Not so well when it’s windy, though, lol).
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posted on
01/07/2009 5:21:04 AM PST
by
Does so
(Liberals are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Beautiful as always. Thank you ....hugs ~Pandy~
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posted on
01/07/2009 10:13:32 AM PST
by
pandoraou812
(Don't play leapfrog with a unicorn! ...........^............)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I saw a family of Sand Hill Cranes waltzin' down the road..
So I stopped to look, and they huddled together
So I backed off a little
When I got out of the van, they took to the offense, I backed away..
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