Thursday, June 5, 2008
Becoming addicted
to the beach. I thought I'd make a little round before doing my usual morning walk and ended up at the beach, again. . . Like a magnet it pulls me in its direction. Two photos out of the few I took on the way there - the first flower looked so dainty to me it was just asking to play photomodel (or so at least it seemed to me) and the other shows a pigeon flying through the water of the fountain, if you look good.
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The second photo is very cool. By the way the bird you said in another post you are trying to identify is "common myna", pronounced as mayna. It's called the same in Russian and I bet in Hebrew too.
By the way I think you should change your nick to Beachgirl. Beachgirl is running Beachdiary blog. Cool
Hahahaha Beachgranny you mean :D
I know, I found that out later. But what really is a huge shame is the other bird I placed here before and I didn't know the name of here
http://beachdiary1.blogspot.com/2008/05/gotcha.html
.. I showed to Israelis outside of the internet and nobody knew it is a דוכיפת - Israel's national bird, for crying out loud :D
Beachgranny sounds very cool :D :D
As to the Hoopoe I would rather say that those of Israelis who knew about the bird plainly did not know enough otherwise they would have never elected it a national bird. Hoopoe is famous for its bad odor.
In fact I heard all sorts of theories about the reason it's so smelly. Scientists seem to agree that Hoopoes don't remove excrement from their nests because the bad odor keeps predators away. A popular legend claims that in fact Hoopoes deliberately stuff their nest with human, not only their own, excrement and even eat it. Anyway, whatever is true, I can easily believe that nobody wants to eat this bird because it smells shit.
Yeah, I heard that about the Duchifat :D
Still shows good tactics, no? It obtains what its target. I was rather surprised about it though when I learned because it looks like a dainty bird, hahahaa...
Btw, this morning I saw for the first time a Mynah not hurrying away from passerbyes. Usually when they even figure out you've got them in view they race off, but this morning near Gordon swimmingpool not only people could walk pass one but even dogs. I almost fell off my legs of surprise.
Beachdiary said...
Yeah, I heard that about the Duchifat :D
Still shows good tactics, no? It obtains what its target. I was rather surprised about it though when I learned because it looks like a dainty bird, hahahaa...
I think that there is something very Israeli about the whole idea of smearing oneself with shit as a PR stunt.
Anyway I found a clip with a talking myna on youtube.
This is a starling they have in Russia. I know it does not look like this but this is what they have instead of myna.
Hahahahaa that's so cool ! Thanks. Still I get unwell seeing a Myna in a cage... I think they belong outside and to be free.
Yes. I know. They suffer in cages. It's better to grow them like that guy is doing with his European starling. In the open. I used to grow crows like this. I don't know how it's here but in Russia their young leave nests before they know how to fly and so some always get lost. So I used to pick them up and grow until they learn to fly. Crows, ravens and all birds of this family are super intelligent. In fact I think they, parrots and seagulls should be the most intelligent birds around. Starlings should also be smart but not like them.
Anyway, if you grow one like this he will always remember you and come back. I used to walk around and one of them was always sitting on my shoulder. Sometimes I had a crow sitting on each shoulder. I became famous person in my neighborhood because of these birds.I also had a bird from the same family but a different species. I don't remember how they call it in English. In Russian they call it "galka".
Actually they call it jackdaw in English.
ooohhhh Nobody :D you should read this blog :D
almost everywhere I am saying how much I hate Orviem :D
they are sooooo rude and mean and aggressive and... and... and... :D also I am a little afraid of them. twice one almost flew me over and they look as if they are going to attack you any moment.
what did you find attractive in them?
They are manyakim, I know. But among birds they are intellectual giants. Seagulls should be too, but I don't remember reading about it. But crows are recognized as such. In fact I remember reading in the ring of the king Solomon by Lorenz, who got a nobel prize for creating a science about animal behaviour, that he had a raven who when he needed Lorenz would say his name. He apparently decided that this is a human version of a call ravens use when calling to each other.
I think you can always tell smart birds from stupid ones. Some birds are just stupid. Say doves or chickens. You know that they are stupid. But crows, seagulls have this inkling in their eyes. You just look at them and you know that this is a smart bird, very smart, vicious and always ready. As a pet bird kept in the open crows beat most other birds because they are such characters. By the way I think seagulls are more vicious than crows. Crows are more like scavengers and opportunistic birds. Seagulls are way more murderous. When it comes to birds probably the rule is that the smartest birds are the nastiest ones.
:D I think I am more for stupid birds, the weaklings. I really don't like those orviem. Vicious is the right word. No matter how smart they are - and I know they are - I can't stand them. They're having babies on the rooftop of the neighbors and I hear their cries and shrieks and actually all the way to the beach and everywhere else they are. There is hardly a spot in Tel-Aviv, Ramat-Gan and perhaps in the whole of Israel they are not around. But, if you like smart birds I suppose you don't care about their viciousness :D
Did you ever see seagulls here? I thought they would be around near the beach but the only bird very remotely like a seagull I ever saw there was one single Snow Egret.
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