focused just right, pressed the shutter and ended up with this?
BIRD BUTT?
I now have so many of these "surprise" shots that I started a separate folder just for giggles.
Add to the string if you like... ;o)
Tufted Titmouse butt
Tern butt
Northern Shoveler butts
Kildeer butt
Canada Goose butt
Resin... you must have had a strange childhood to be able to immediately see the difference between a tern butt and a gull butt without any other identifying features. Hats off to you! LOL!
Pintail, doing what ducks do . . .
Resin
Butt wait, there's more.
Wait! My bird's butt is bigger than your bird's butt so neener neener!
And this isn't the 'end' of the string either as long as someone has a camera in hand and a bird left in the bush...
Is this a new forum, butt watching?
It would have to have a lot more posts to become a full fledged forum. At present, it's only a sub-forum. ;o)
Mine also would qualify for the bad bird picture photos - for days we watched a family of Evening Grosbeaks hunting under my truck chassis. They sit under the truck and look up and then fly up to catch some type of insect that is caught under the truck. They do this often and it scares us if we walk past the truck and these yellow birds come flying out from underneath. Here is one I caught in midflight. Qualifies for this thread too
A long time ago, we had the "belly button" thread. It showed birds that appeared to be looking at their belly button, if they had one.
This thread made me smile when I looked at it a few days ago, so when I got this one this morning, I thought it might fit in with some of the others. To paraphrase an old country music song, this is the north end of an Eastern Bluebird flying South.
Here is a young Cooper's hawk that fits this category, although he was actually just adjusting his position after shaking the rain from his feathers. In fact, he stayed perched there for at least 20 minutes. I walked up to within 10 feet and then all around the post, clicking away and still he did not fly. I got more than 700 shots and would have taken more but it was raining and I was out without a coat. (It is warm here on the East Coast today.)
American Goldfinch drinking from hummer feeder ant moat. This pic was taken last August.
Beautiful detail of the hawk's tail Dave. Thanks.
Blue Jay: "Whoa... that's some wind!"
You can wait too long.
Common Scoter
Resin
Its been a good year so far for missed pictures.
1. Mourning Dove uh, feather (lower left)
2. Carolina Wren butt
3. Yellow-rumped Warbler butt
4. Red-shouldered Hawk blur
Thanks Resin, who knew. I sure didn't. My ID books don't show any butt shots, but some of the pictures show a lot of undersides from the side.
Some birds pose and some don't. Like people some are camera shy. This American Goldfinch sure did not want to cooperate.
Forgot the photo.
Eurasian Collared Dove - arguably its good side. Don't ask me what it is trying to do.
Possibly it was in the middle of preening.
I wondered if it was preening in two meanings of the word - sort of a bragging display for other doves, "Look! I have fine fancy feathers AND a feeder all to myself!"
Birds need to preen to keep their feathers in good condition, so it might have been something as simple as that. :) During mating season Mourning Doves will preen each other as part of their bonding rituals. Not sure about Eurasian Collareds.
Sunbathing, or maybe just having a good stretch
Resin
The pair of Northern Shoveler butts is a classic.
Red-shouldered hawk, took off just before I snapped. I think a pair is nesting in the woods behind my house.
I've enjoyed this thread for some time and now I have something to contribute.
South end of a north bound Brown Thrasher -- ^_^
This was supposed to be a female Redwing Blackbird, in profile, gathering nesting material. Well, it isn't a Redwing Blackbird, it isn't in profile, and probably isn't gathering nesting material.
This Jay sure turned around fast! Right after this, he took off for the oak tree.
Eurasian Collared Dove just finished mating, and showing his butt
This was supposed to be a female Redwing Blackbird, in profile, gathering nesting material. Well, it isn't a Redwing Blackbird, it isn't in profile, and probably isn't gathering nesting material.
Spotted Sandpiper - yes, this was my best guess, too. I don't remember if I counted it at the time, or if I waited for the second time I had something turn into a spotted sandpiper.
This is a Black-chinned Hummingbird. Photo show how green turns Bronze in the right light. Alas, there are some things it doesn't show.
TXSkeeter, and others,
Great thread.
The high quality of many of your photos makes it harder to complain about the butts!
1-2 I have been trying to catalog numbers and species of Hummingbirds without much success
3-4, a little off topic, but consistent with my recent photographs: I apparently had the motion camera pointed the wrong way on a one way game trail.
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Beautiful deer. That buck is gorgeous.
One way trail! ^_^
pollengarden, maybe you'll be the first person to capture Sasquatch butt on camera
capture Sasquatch butt on camera
