Fur Face Friday

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/10/2020 at 12:08 • Filed to: Fur Face Friday

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Since I’m !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! these days, I thought I’d get the gear out and photograph the activity at the feeder outside my back window.

Jim Spanfeller > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 12:20

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You get prettier birds than we do. Around here, there are a few robins and assorted brown birds. Perhaps the occasional goldfinch or hummingbird if we’re lucky... But sadly, no blue jays or cardinals. I suppose some of the birds of prey around here are pretty cool, though, so there’s that at least.

Also, that upside-down squirr el is majestic!

vondon302 > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 12:21

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Is that last one a dove? Those are way prettier than doves in Michigan.

Nice shots 

facw > vondon302 04/10/2020 at 12:24

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White-winged dove I believe. They are horrible. Incessant cooing when people are trying to sleep. Coo-Coo-Coo-COOOOOOO!

WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 12:25

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The last one looks like a dolphin

ttyymmnn > Jim Spanfeller 04/10/2020 at 12:27

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What you see are the usual suspects. We might get some Inca doves in the fall and winter. Robins, as meat eaters, won’t come to the feeder. We do get the occasional Carolina wren, tufted titmouse, or chickadees, but haven’t seen them yet. We get goldfinches and lesser goldfinches if we put out thistle seed.

ttyymmnn > vondon302 04/10/2020 at 12:29

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As facw said, it’s a white-winged dove. They are mainly found in the south. You would have mourning doves up north. Lots of folks hunt the white wings down here. 

Goggles Pizzano > facw 04/10/2020 at 12:29

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Where I’m from we call them Morning Doves. Growing up they were always off in the woods Cooing .

All of a sudden a bout 10 years ago they moved into my current neighborhood. The cooing doesn’t bother me, i nstead it brings memories of the home I grew up in.

One m an’s t rash i s a nother m an’s t reasure.

ttyymmnn > WasGTIthenGTOthenNOVAnowbacktoGTI 04/10/2020 at 12:29

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Pretty sure it is. 

Goggles Pizzano > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 12:42

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Not sure what I’d do without my camera now. I take it everywhere, even 10 minute walks to the corner store. Therapy around my neck.

Took these yesterday.

ClassicDatsunDebate > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 12:46

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Great shots.  Are you in competition with the official FFF crosspost?

ttyymmnn > Goggles Pizzano 04/10/2020 at 12:53

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Neat. I’ve thought about taking my gear on walkabout over to our neighborhood pond.

ttyymmnn > ClassicDatsunDebate 04/10/2020 at 12:54

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Thanks! Not sure what the FFF crosspost is....

vondon302 > facw 04/10/2020 at 12:57

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We’re loaded with the mourning doves up here. When I was little my older sister and Mom raised ring necks and white ones and sold them to magicians.



vondon302 > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 13:01

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Yeah they hunt mourning doves up here. I don’t get it. What are you getting a couple of breast nuggets?

There’s bigger stuff in my yard.

ClassicDatsunDebate > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 13:13

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The post with the same title 12 below this one :)

https://backtalk.kinja.com/1842794100

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 13:14

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cool cardinal - we don’t get those out here

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 13:27

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ttyymmnn > Goggles Pizzano 04/10/2020 at 13:45

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When I was little, I visited my grandmother in VT. She was a famous birder in her area, and one afternoon I looked outside and saw some mourning doves. I said, “Look Grummy! Day doves!”

ttyymmnn > vondon302 04/10/2020 at 13:46

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I think the limit on doves is pretty high, so you can take a whole bunch and get a pretty decent meal. I suppose. I’m pretty sure there is a limit on Inca doves, though. They are much smaller, and there aren’t as prolific.

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel 04/10/2020 at 13:52

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I was trying to decide how to crop it, and I went with the square because I liked how the composition worked out.

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 04/10/2020 at 13:53

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I saw those the other day. Cutie! I like stegosaurus chew toy.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 13:54

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Yeah I don’t have any more right now. The Nylabone dinos are pretty good. 

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 14:59

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Illuminati

jminer > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 15:05

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We normally have a very active birding yard with a healthy population of woodpeckers in addition to the normal fare.  Since I’m not going out though we’re running low on food so rationing it for them - less birds these days now.

ttyymmnn > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 04/10/2020 at 15:10

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Confirmed. 

Dogsatemypants > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 15:54

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415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 17:43

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Ok new deck photoshoot

My wife is making masks:

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 04/10/2020 at 17:44

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That pupper definitely does not lack for toys. And I dig that Saturday morning  Star Trek mask. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 04/10/2020 at 18:12

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That’s my mask of course. It’s red on the inside too! We have many hand me down dog toys, in 25 years we have had six Frenchies.