Re: Great Tailed Grackles, Mourning Doves, and Me

Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) wrote:

> On Fri, 09 May 2008 17:59:03 -0700, "Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary
> Shafer)" <reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> The developed areas of the Coachella Valley are home to a surprising
>> variety of birds.  We regularly see ravens, hummingbirds, roadrunners,
>> California quail, great tailed grackles, mourning doves, rock doves,
>> tanagers, and orioles in our yard.  I hadn't been paying much
>> attention to them, except to notice that we have mourning doves
>> nesting in our lemon tree.
> 
> This just in, we also have white-winged mourning doves and Miller's
> grackles.  My husband has been studying the bird books and searching
> the Web to identify every kind we've seen.

Speaking of birds...I got a shot of a flamingo last week that I really
like.  I like the grace of the neck, and its loop (continued by its head
and beak) is very much like the looped ribbons we see for every cause
under the sun.  Maybe your hubby might like it.

Smallerized copy for the web:

http://blinkynet.net/blinkyshots/flamingo.jpg

(Second excursion with a new camera.) 


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