Bird With Something In His Mouth

Posted by Twelvebit (Victoria, United States) on 16 May 2008 in Animal & Insect.

This is the same bird that was in yesterday's image of the two birds on a street lamp. I took this shot before he flew up to the lamp. I've studied several different images and I still don't know what he's eating. Nor do I know what kind of bird this is --my bird knowledge doesn't go much past Cardinals, Mourning Doves, Blue Jays, Sparrows, Humming Birds, Crows, Sea Gulls, and a few others.

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Comments (8)

Observing from Chester, United Kingdom

It's a starling 12bit, very well caught. Don't know about the snack in its beak.

16 May 2008 2:36am

@Observing: Thanks for the info. I intend to start doing more wildlife shots so I'm going to need to learn more about birds, insects, and animals native to the area.

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

Super shot! Looks like a blackbird to me.

16 May 2008 4:18am

Alun Lambert from cheshire, United Kingdom

Great close up, looks like he's got dlnner

16 May 2008 7:34am

Amir from Tehran, Iran

You need a bird guide of local birds. Usually one can find them in Barnes & Nobles. Unlike common belief, birds (non migratory type) usually are confined within one rather small geographic area. There are often birds with very similar phenotypic (manifested genes in appearance) characteristics, but they belong to different family or at least to different genus.

Awesome shot with a lot of details.

16 May 2008 8:56am

@Amir: I intend to slowly work my way into doing more wildlife imagery so I'll be learning more about birds, insects, and animals native to the area.

JoeB from Brampton, Canada

Lots of light to reveal detail, I think its a bug that its snacking on.

16 May 2008 10:08am

Ronnie 2¢ from London, United Kingdom

You have a starling there : you might have noticed he walked rather than hopped. But, y'll tell me he flew . . hee hee

18 May 2008 12:49pm

@Ronnie 2¢: I didn't see him walk or hop. I spotted him up there over this piece of plywood and slowly moved in. I got as close as I could and then he flew over to the street light.