Bird nest (2)

I saw this on Friday: someone has put a little blue flag near the nest!

And I saw the mother bird is still covering her eggs -- and ran away when I approached. I felt sure I can see the eggs hatching.

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Update on 20090630:

The eggs are gone. The story ends here, on this waste land.

Bird nest

I spotted a bird nest today, right beside a trail on my daily jogging route!

From the second photo, you can see it's on open ground and very close to the trail, where runners and bikers pass by, and sometimes even cars (luckily very few). I'm really worried that this nest would be easily destroyed, either by people, or by squirrels! I placed some larger rocks around the nest, hope it will do some protection, or at least let others notice it!

When I was there, the nest owner was around me all the time, singing angrily. I really don't know which kind of bird it is.

So interesting...

祝妈妈母亲节快乐！

祝亲爱的妈妈母亲节快乐！

照片老早就照了，是在borlaug center旁边的一个什么楼，忘记名字了。楼前有一座老模老样的雕像，挺有派头的老牛仔，仔细一看，腰上怎么还挎个鸟巢？里面还蹲着个小家伙？？哈，原来有个斑鸠在很合适的位置筑巢育雏了，真有意思

发现college station的斑鸠真是多啊，一个个胖乎乎的，也不是很怕人。哪天专门讨论一下。



The picture: a dove made a nest in a fine position in a statue, in front of a building near my office. I took the picture when I'm running one afternoon (in May 1st?)

Happy Mother's Day, my dear mother!

Photos on the play ground

The play ground is the place I love the most inside the campus. Wonder why's that? Because I want to KEEP HEALTHY!

Every afternoon over the last 3-4 years I went to play ground for physical exercise. Sometimes with fellows, but usually along. This day it is the first time I took camera along with me. A lot of photos been taken! But I will just show a few.

On the football field. Behind me a fierce match is going on.



Acrobat showcase.



Some trees here consists nice habitat for magpies. During this breeding season, some baby birds would fall off the tree and its parents would gone mad for it. When I took photo for this unlucky buddy, several magpies up there are yielding at me, and one even tried to attack me!

Innocent owl

I found this picture on the web. This owl's wing was broken, and was picked up by a journalist. He took it back home where those pictures were taken, showing an injured, but still offensive predator: the owl looked completely worn out, but when touched, he fired up to attack.

I used this pic as my portrait on Google Talk, and assigned new status: "Innocent owl".

When Wu Haiyan saw this, she commented: it looks like u~

When Ms. Eve saw this, she asked: you read Harry Porter?

... more comments to be added ...

城市喜鹊的错觉

城市里的喜鹊, 昂首挺胸踱步于橄榄球场的草坪上, 毫不在意跑道上慢跑的人们; 它们喜欢站在树梢及建筑物凸出的位置上, 与同类大声喊叫, 毫不介意吸引人类的注意; 它们还凶狠的赶走旁边任何比它个头小的鸟类, 尤其是麻雀和灰喜鹊. 就算乌鸦来了, 它们也会群起而逐之. 为什么喜鹊这么大胆?



因为它们以为自己站在城市食物链的顶端.

(图片转载自中国鸟类图库)

China Bird Gallery 中国鸟类图库

中国鸟类图库
http://www.wwfchina.org/birdgallery/

This is an excellent database of wild bird photographs inside China, hosted by World Wide Foundation for Nature in China: http://www.wwfchina.org/. Thousands of photos are in there covering from most common birds (like sparrow, raven and magpie) to rarely-seen species. Photos are in all range of qualities, some taken using professional equipments, some using point-and-shoot cameras. Indeed, most are clearly visible and quite a portion are in high quality! They are contributed individually by anyone interested to share their common hobby and product.

I selected a few shots of Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopica cyana), the common bird in Beijing, which I like most.

Just Landing

Dancing In grass field

Babies to feed