Oh, my beloved Pye, the leucistic grackle. I’ve been putting out bread and other baked goods the past few days, hoping he’d show, as he has zero resistance to baked goods. Sure enough…
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Downy Woodpecker Whooosh. (Picoides pubescens, female). 1500 x 996, click for full size.
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Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula).
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No, these aren’t portraits showing the extraordinary beauty of Grackles, this is what happens when you put butter cookies out for them. Butter cookies, a leading cause of temporary grackle insanity. All images 1500 x 996, click for full size. I rather like the disembodied talon in the last shot.
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Oh, so cool.
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More Black-headed Grosbeak. (Pheucticus melanocephalus). There aren’t many showing yet, and I wasn’t able to get shots of any of the females, they were being wary. Click for full size.
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Okay, I really have to get myself together and get into town for my appointment, but one more dinosaur, a Black-headed Grosbeak (they just showed up yesterday!), studio side. 1500 x 996, click for full size.
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I set up the camera at one of my studio’s windows, and Sir Robin didn’t mind me at all. All photos 1500 x 996, click for full size.
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Fly by Night, by artist Duke Riley. You can read more about this amazing performance art at The Creators Project. There’s a faq at the project’s website: http://creativetime.org/projects/flybynight/faq/ and the show will be going through June 12th at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Lots of wows here, amazing work by Collin van der Sluijs. Van der Sluijs was most recently in Chicago where he completed a tremendous mural in the south loop as part of the Wabash Arts Corridor that depicts two endangered Illinois birds amongst an explosion of blooms. He also opened his first solo show in the U.S. titled “Luctor Et Emergo” at Vertical Gallery, featuring a wide range of paintings and drawings. You can follow more of his work on Flickr.
Via Colossal Art.
Black-capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapillus. Click for full size.
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The newly described dinosaur Zhenyuanlong suni measured 5 feet in length and was a relative of the velociraptor. The fossil’s well-preserved wings bore complex feathers, not simple hairlike structures. Illustration by Zhao Chuang.
Click image for full size. I don’t know about you, but if something like that was chasing me…godsdamn. Feathers, much more terrifying than scales, hands down.
They Had Feathers: Is the World Ready to See Dinosaurs as They Really Were? (Via Pharyngula.)