Bird of the Week – Common Murre
But wait, there are more Alcids! Certainly including the very Common Murre.
Common Murres, St. Paul Island, Pribilof Islands
WC has received criticism that he only posts photos of single birds. Well, duh! But for variety, at least, here a group shot of half a dozen of Alaska’s most common Alcid, the Common Murre. A Common Murre colony is a very noisy, crowded place, with many of their long, moaning “Ooooaaarrr” calls. When alarmed by a predator, or an encroaching, careless birder, they stream off their cliff colony is a silent waterfall of black and white birds, calling only as they level out of the ocean waves. It’s one of the jaw-dropping beautiful sights in birding.
Camera geek stuff: f5.6, 1/640, ISO 1000.
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Such lovely photos! Happy 2015, everybody. I hope that it’s much kinder than 2014 was for so many.
I see Palin is doing her best to increase traffic to this site with her photos of Trig standing on Jill and no indication that he was told to get down and told why he should not stand on a family pet. She must be trying to drum up business at her television channel. Does anyone know how many subscribers she has? Or if the numbers are going up, down or staying around the same?
Snookie must be a swinger-she came out swinging at PETA and Obama,too.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/04/politics/sarah-palin-vs-peta/
Palin suspects her dog is a service animal because Jr. used it as a tool to overcome his handicap or some such gibberish.
Use them birds as campaign messages-black on top of white-minority majority and watch whitey wingnut’s pea brain ‘splode.
I guess this answers the question: if all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you jump off a cliff too?
Lovely group shot. Your bird photos are the best, WC. Happy 2015.