Here you can see the white underparts with the yellow tail feathers characteristic of a female or a 1st year male American Redstart. |
The darker male has orange instead of yellow. |
The spread tail feathers really catch the light. |
The wings have yellow or orange bars. |
When they shake their tails, they also spread their wings. And yes, this one is standing on a dog turd to do its dance. |
From this perspective you can see that the orange feathers are only on the sides of the tail. |
The orange wingbars on the male are dashing. |
This next picture should be the next to last one, but somehow it jumped ahead of where I tried to put it. Can't seem to get it to stay put!
More obvious from here. |
Here and below is a female with only half her tail yellow. |
Here she is again. |
Apparently no worse for it. |
Hi Dave, I did not know that you were publishing pictures on Willma blog ;-) Oups sorry Willma, I did not know you were the twin of Dave ;-)
ReplyDeleteI laugh a lot when I saw this post, because as you said, this is a "Dave typical" message... I love it thought, it is excellent!
Chris -- yes, I did think of Dave when I saw all my BFB shots of this bird!
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Wilma
That's a real show, shaking its tail like that.
ReplyDeleteWhat a beauty though.
Fabulous looking bird Wilma, great capture.
ReplyDeleteNot sure about the canine excrement though.{:))
What a way to remind me that when I go to Belize next year I have to be prepared to meet old friends, and as well as make a lot a new ones (or I hope so, at any rate)
ReplyDeleteKeith -- they are very entertaining to watch; always busy.
ReplyDeleteRoy -- I didn't notice what it was standing on until I was getting ready to load the image. I was really glad that i didn't hand feed it! ;-)
ChrisP -- you will really like it. You will see the familiar birds in a different environment with some of the same behaviors and some different ones. Just like going on a trip with old friend to Vegas. And remember that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!
cheers,
Wilma
Hello,
ReplyDeleteReally it is a nice blog, I would like to tell you that you have given me much knowledge about it. Yes, Belize is a safe place to travel! Thanks a lot for your information.
BT -- thanks for visiting and commenting.
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