Birds everywhere

One of the features of the St Louis zoo is the flight cage thingy--it was built for the 1904 Worlds Fair. I paid more attention to the birds this time because Holly likes them.

One of the neatest ones in there was this bird with the fringey butt. I don't know what it was, but she was pretty.



I think this is a juvenile fringey butt bird. It had some pale champagne feathers instead of being pure white. I bet that goes away as it gets older.



I don't know what this thing is--it was just cool looking with this funny bill. I cannot imagine what it does with that thing. It looks like it could row a boat with it. His head is kind of ugly too. The picture turned out so well.

On the list of funny billed birds, these guys were in the pond near the flamingos, and not in the flight cage. Their wierd bill things were floppy, I have no idea what they are either.

Flamingos are an interesting bunch

For example, what the heck is going on with his legs? His knees go backwards. I do not understand that.


And lookie here, they are all orange and their butt feathers stick up! This is a beautiful color of a bird. Or for anything for that matter. Except my hair, which sometimes looks a lot like this in the mornings--especially in the summer.

One thing that I did not know is that they are a bickering bunch of birds---several of them argued the whole time I was taking photos. I cannot imagine what they were carrying on about it, but two would start in on it and then others would get in on it and the original ones would drop out---I am not sure they even knew what they were arguing about.

Not horses or dogs or MUD!

Driving past the park on the way home from lunch today, I saw all these birds at the park. Since Holly takes pictures of birds, I figured I could too--I think I am driving Barry crazy with my detours.


What is with this dude? He has one blue feather--only one. He does not even have a matching one on the other side. He does have some blue on his beak though--that fascinates me, but the lack of a blue feather on the other side is the sort of thing that aggravates me into a nervous condition. That is a little wierd, huh?


I think these are my favorite ones- I like the color of their heads. I am embarrassed to admit that I do not really know what kind they are




















This one was pretty far away, but was part of a series of these two honking at each other--I half expected one of them to pull out a bazooka and blow the other one away!