So begins an 8-part tweet and I'll just embed part 6:
I got to the "crime scene" and looked up. No celeb. No fire. No cat. The lookie-loos weren't pointing at a window, or a roof, but rather, a tree, with a few golden leaves still clinging to it. 5/8 pic.twitter.com/wAHEdnKCxs
— Warren Leight (@warrenleightTV) December 9, 2020
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Ode to a Western Tanager
In a soft voice he explained that a Western Tanager...
Gee, I thought it might be something truly rare when seen in nature outdoors.
Like a Western Teenager.
That's nice. The impression I get from social media is that birdwatching has become more popular during the year of social distancing. I don't know if it has or if that's all that's left for a lot of people to talk about since so many of their other pastimes are put on hold.
Denizens of asphalt jungle see something with feathers that isn't a pigeon and go bananas. Pathetic.
Just wait till some errant non-grey rodent happens along...
Nice cameras. The deplorables enjoy rare bird sightings, too, but we only have cell phones.
So Covid pandemic reaction has done one good thing. Which is nice.
Mark me down under "unseen."
Even with all the hints, I can't see a birdie.
Narr
Not even after cleaning my glasses
"Even with all the hints, I can't see a birdie."
Follow the large branch on the right down to the first junction (two larger, one smaller branches). Stay on the left (upper) branch, go down to the light crescent sliver on the branch. Go up at 11:00, the bird is between the two thinner branches.
I think.
Tanagers are too beautiful to spend time in a filthy and disgusting city like New York.
I was in the Orkneys about 15 years ago, and as always doing some amateur birding on a family trip. Suddenly, there were international birders with high-powered cameras, scopes, etc. all around. All to spot a North American bird (can't even remember which one, but it was one I'd spotted in Maine and Nova Scotia before) that was a rarity in that location. My guess is the local airport (Kirkwall?) hadn't seen that number of private jets ever. That's when I realized there are folks with lifelists and the resources to fill them I can't even imagine.
On the small photo they look like masks that got blown up into the tree.
My wife's rule of thumb (when in Japan) was, if there is a big line outside of a restaurant, then it was going to be really good.
She was always right.
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
So the joy of the New York bird watchers lies in the observation of a bird which has been removed from its normal environment and likely will die in West Chelsea, a place where it has neither the opportunity to mate nor its natural foods? Oh, joy!
"So the joy of the New York bird watchers lies in the observation of a bird which has been removed from its normal environment and likely will die in West Chelsea..."
That's why nobody wants to go to Chelsea : )
I had a similar experience. everyone was looking up at a tree, but it had a hawk in the branches. Why he was there, i have no idea, but he looks magnificent.
How quaint, in the age of iShooting, to hear 'paparazzi'.
"108 people are Tweeting"
{snort}
Yesterday, I went to Manatee Park, which is east of Fort Myers, Florida on State Road 80, just east of I-75. It's located across the highway from the FP&L power plant, and the warm water that the plant discharges into the canal that flows into the Orange River attracts manatees during cold weather. I saw several manatees, but another attraction was a beautiful hawk that was perched on the branch of a pine tree nearby. I got several pictures of the bird as well as the manatees. The Twitter post is correct: "If you keep looking up, you might see something rare and wonderful." You just have to be aware of your surroundings. I think that many people go through life not looking at what is around them. If you're not looking, you will not see the wonders around you.
Who the fuck cares what happens in NYC.
Western Tanager tastes like chicken.
Even with all the hints, I can't see a birdie
Look through the trees not at them...
...it sounds like snark but it has helped many people. Works for spotting deer and moose, too...
Western Tanager: "What the fuck, you assholes never seen a bird before?"
What they were looking at is the skywritten insult left by Trump.
“Surrender Joe”?
Curious George said "Western Tanager: 'What the fuck, you assholes never seen a bird before?'"
Western Teenager: "Same"
There are surprisingly many world-class birding spots around here, including the two big city parks but especially out in Gateway area. These places, besides being nice spots to await and see and photograph various birds who pass through, often have fun stuff for kids and families to do too. No doubt there are exceptions, but serious birders in my experience do not like children anywhere in the vicinity when they're birding, and maybe more generally tend not to like them.
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