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Birding Reports => Backyard Birding => Topic started by: Napper on May 17, 2020, 04:47:43 PM

Title: Energizer Bunny, "Redstart"
Post by: Napper on May 17, 2020, 04:47:43 PM

I was out watchin the Thrush next door when it started to rain a little bit.

I saw black and orange and I thought "Oriole", Nope.. It was a "Redstart". Pretty cool day in the backyard.

It never stopped moving  :roll:

(https://iili.io/JGrfWv.jpg)




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Title: Re: Energizer Bunny, "Redstart"
Post by: Shortsighted on May 18, 2020, 10:17:47 AM

They may stop moving for two reasons. A predator, or they're dead.
Fortunately your Redstart didn't view you as a predator and it was
most certainly not dead ... maybe stunned a little, by your persistence.
Whenever I write "persistence" I need to govern myself because I am
just so apt to write "pestilence". It;s a quirk.

Title: Re: Energizer Bunny, "Redstart"
Post by: Napper on May 18, 2020, 06:36:30 PM

Quote from: "Shortsighted"

Whenever I write "persistence" I need to govern myself because I am
just so apt to write "pestilence". It;s a quirk.

Interesting,  pestilence! is my middle name according to my better half/wife.   :D

She usually uses other choice words and she came up with a few classic's like "dumbat"    :D

Title: Re: Energizer Bunny, "Redstart"
Post by: Shortsighted on May 18, 2020, 07:20:02 PM

Maybe she should post a picture on this forum. Most of us have never seen
a dunbat. Would that be an Eastern Dumbat, or a Lesser Dumbat?