2 సెప్టెంబర్, 2026

Recent birds.

Caught by Meade. On Monday, a great blue heron made good use of its long skinny legs:
 

Yesterday, there was a turkey vulture on the path:
 

And some peaceful ducks circled gracefully, while humans had other ideas of how to have fun:
 
వీరిచే పోస్ట్ చేయబడింది Ann Althouse వద్ద 9:30 AM
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amr చెప్పారు...

The Turkey Vulture is a young one (hatched this year) based on its gray-black head. Their heads don't turn reddish until their first winter (or so), leading many young Turkey Vultures to be misidentified as out-of-range Black Vultures (in late summer and fall).

02-09-26 9:53 AM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

My mortal enemy. I bought the plastic coyote recommended here, and I have him on an island in the middle of my pond. Haven't seen a single Pterodactyl since. It still spooks me every morning when I first see it. Must be some natural instinct.

02-09-26 9:59 AM
Gerda Sprinchorn చెప్పారు...

If I were a fish, I'd spend some time learning to identify big ol' heron legs in the water. That's what I'd do.

02-09-26 10:04 AM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"I bought the plastic coyote recommended here, and I have him on an island in the middle of my pond. Haven't seen a single Pterodactyl since."

Remember, if that stops working (and I predict it will), there's always the next step.

02-09-26 10:41 AM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Turkey vultures: Their stomach acid is up to 100 times more acidic than human stomach acid, which instantly destroys dangerous bacteria and viruses like botulism, anthrax, salmonella, and rabies.

02-09-26 10:47 AM
Wilbur చెప్పారు...

All that blue heron needs is a pair of shorts.

02-09-26 11:07 AM
Ann Althouse చెప్పారు...

It's not in this video, but that turkey vulture kept trying to fly. He really didn't quite know how to do it yet – kept leaping up and flapping its wings and landing back on the ground.

02-09-26 11:15 AM
Ann Althouse చెప్పారు...

Another thing we did not catch on video was an osprey a couple days ago. Seemed like a seagull at first, but then he suddenly dropped down in a big arc, grabbed something and lifted right back up. It did not move like a seagull at all. How do I know that was an osprey? ChatGPT!

02-09-26 11:17 AM
Peachy+2 చెప్పారు...

Lush and green it is...

02-09-26 12:30 PM
rehajm చెప్పారు...

...we don't have ducks until they commute south but all the other characters are dailies here. A heron parked itself a foot from my lagoon camera yesterday so there's a couple dozen videos of preening and sleeping...ospreys don't have fully retractable landing gear so for the longest time I thought they were just expert hunters since they had a catch every time I saw one in the air. Nope, just dangling feet...

02-09-26 12:55 PM
Quaestor చెప్పారు...

A recent bird, but not an opposite one.

02-09-26 1:01 PM
Richard Dolan చెప్పారు...

In Brooklyn Bridge Park, we occasionally get blue herons but always have a number of black crowned night herons. They breed here and seem to like the City surroundings.

02-09-26 1:53 PM
bagoh20 చెప్పారు...

"If I were a fish, I'd spend some time learning to identify big ol' heron legs in the water."

The fish have a natural aversion built in. If the heron has been to my pond, I can tell, because all the fish are hiding and don't come out for hours. I built a whole city of cinder blocks and rocks for them to hide under. The heron just waits for one dumb fish to make a mistake. I had one that was sick and was bloated twice the normal size. One day he was gone. You only need to be faster than the fattest fish.

02-09-26 2:10 PM
Lazarus చెప్పారు...

#WaterBirdsInShorts

02-09-26 2:44 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"It's not in this video, but that turkey vulture kept trying to fly. He really didn't quite know how to do it yet – kept leaping up and flapping its wings and landing back on the ground."

We have an eagle nest in the trees above our house, so over the years we've watched the behavior of several immature eagles (there are two right now). The immatures spend a lot of time on the ground, and there's a lot of wing flapping. You can see they are not entirely comfortable sitting on tree branches.

We had one walk up the porch roof and stare at us in the bedroom this year. We got a remarkable picture, but I have no way to share it.

02-09-26 2:58 PM
Aggie చెప్పారు...

The turkey vultures migrate through Texas. It can be a little unsettling, out on a walk through the woods and suddenly you'll come across a migratory roost with dozens of these things sitting in a single tree. On the highways we laughingly call them the Department of Sanitation, but there's something foreboding about seeing a whole bunch of them together, and they're all watching you. Waiting.

02-09-26 3:18 PM
Tina Trent చెప్పారు...

Herons mate for life. We have a sad solitary one that came with its mate for five years and now comes alone.

In Ruskin, Florida, a pair of herons nested in an outdoor mall that never got but a few tenants, next to our Publix. They would walk the shaded sidewalk together all day, continually surprised by every single reflective window, where they thought they were encountering new pairs of herons. There were lots of windows. We'd park and watch them.

It never got old for us, or them.

02-09-26 3:22 PM
Original Mike చెప్పారు...

"The turkey vultures migrate through Texas. It can be a little unsettling, out on a walk through the woods and suddenly you'll come across a migratory roost with dozens of these things sitting in a single tree."

We have a 300 foot radio tower near our Madison home. Several tens of vultures will roost on it for a few days at a time, then move on. It's an event.

02-09-26 3:55 PM
J L Oliver చెప్పారు...

I love my local pond osprey and otters. I can watch all day.

02-09-26 5:20 PM
RCOCEAN II చెప్పారు...

Herons are real bird brains. There's a video on Youtube where its trying to get its bill around a dog. And the dogs, like "whats up bro?" and the Heron's like "Must get live thing into bill and down throat".

On the plus side they eat frogs.

02-09-26 6:47 PM

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