Yobs set London ablaze, so, A few pictures from this week...

It is too heartbreaking. I shall think about these pictures of London tomorrow.

Looter humor HERE

Here is life in the yard for 48 hours:

click to enlarge this kansas moon

orchard oriole male

Cat in Moonlight

Moses plays dead

Moses say, lets play crime scene

chili say moses a fool

Mystic Cat

More life in the yard: HERE

A Debt Ceiling Sunrise; Vultures and Crows in the Heartland are Good

For some reason, political sausage making is on my MIND. The pets woke me early to this:  A Debt Ceiling Sunrise

Whether in the parking lot

at menards or on the roads of the flint hills,

the birds of kansas seemed to be mocking the silliness of humans. Projection? Yes.

Although i have some nice Vultures (e.g., HERE and HERE and here and HERE) today i got up close enough to grab a kiss.

 Sweetie!

Can i help you?

curious vulture CLICK TO ENLARGE

vulture face detail

--to get this close,
dangle a house or senate plan for fiscal responsibility--
the dead- on- arrival- stench will attract the bird...

kansas turkey vulture

posing for the dollar bill

got any carry-on?  bedumdum

The pics are large files although i reduced many, from a
canon sx30powershotIS.
feel free to click on pic to print or view very large.
my vulture Videos HERE:  /vultures-can-dance-in-kansa-wind.html
The CROW was alone
        and black against the hot hot parking lot.

walking on the Debt Ceiling

more debt ceiling vultures HERE
salon./how_to_make_money_

That's all for now. Might hibernate for a few...

Bald Eagles in Kansas: Feeding and Love versus Soulless Survival of the Fittest

Speaking of WWII, today a Beautiful Bald Eagle hung out in the Eagle Tree. (Video of the eagle tree HERE)
While i have several posts with bald eagles, This one is special; tell you why when i get back to a board. Just needed to post these pics now, along with two buddies i met along the day...

OK
here is the story.
Driving into town; spot the eagle in the Eagle Tree.
Stop and get some pics.
Further in,Yikes!  a newly dead squirrel in the road.
Do what anyone would do:
on the trip back take the squirrel to the eagle. Lay it at the perimeter of the Eagle Tree, Eagle still aperch.
 Less than a half hour later, both the squirrel and the Eagle are gone.
Now:
Is it right to feed an eagle?
Is it right to scare a lion away from a struggling cheetah baby?
Is it right to help a penguin get back home?
Is it right to help a starving african child when a vulture sits nearby, needing dinner?

click to enlarge posters

SO
i was driving on campus --and
Yikes! right in the road:  a bluejay was trying to fly off with a baby sparrow, who was trying to fly away. The mom sparrow was trying to lure baby into some bushes.
A male cardinal and a robin were attacking the bluejay, to little avail.
I threw on the truck's emergency brake, jumped out and was approaching the bluejay who looked at me like, "this does not concern you"--
Uutil i practically touched him, he did not let go of the baby sparrow, whose head was in his beak.
As he flew a tiny bit away, the two other birds kept attacking him until he flew off. the mother coaxed the baby to fly sort of into the bushes and then-
She Came Back to offer take a Thorn Out of my Paw.

I went to the Union to an event going on, related my story, and the Queen of Nonviolence said, "not your best Jane Goodall Moment, eh?"
I said,
"actually,

Since humans are part of the scene, we can do what humans do. That is, we are part of the natural world. Some birds may even say, "dude, let's go live where the humans live, they jump in and save us if we are cute  (translation) enough.

So when the photographer takes a pic of a starving baby, is the baby thinking," YAY! a human who can still walk! i'm saved! and the vulture says, "Yay!it's a journalist...

the NON-Interference clause here

story click HERE

So survival of the fittest--does LOVE figure in? How about the skills of the human?

Met these two fine dogies:
Big pics of them HERE

Finest little Tucker and Chloe

hilarious! this pic is life size.

Hummingbird Plays in the Sprinkler Video and other Kansas Birds this Spring

I have posted a lot of birds this spring, as they are in abundance this year. Here are a few more; the first video HERE is a little red-throated hummer playing in a sprinkler! How funny. I was in the laundry room so it is through a plexiglass door.
Also a grackle eating HERE , and more birds.

click to enalrge robin cuteness

punk rock cardinal

more rabbits here

best male and female cardinals HERE

for example, more birds here and hummers here and here and orioles HERE

Bald eagle here.

A Rose Breasted Grosbeak for Lopa

A bird with heart. Kansas birds include a rare sighting, for me, of a
 Rosebreasted Grosbeak.

rose breasted grosbeak in flint hills 2011

i found this image in google search charleyharper prints but address not working.

Cool print!