No Day is Dull when you are a Birder!

These gull photos were taken at the Target parking lot this afternoon. I saw one of the banded gulls and decided to give them some bread for some close up pictures.

The water photos you see are actually puddle shots. The gulls spent a lot of time there bathing and drinking from the various puddles.

It was funny because I was out there in parking lot taking photos and next thing I know a man gets out of his car with a fancy camera and scope and joins me! He was clicking real fast which impressed me as I am terrible playing with my shutter speed. My photos always come out lousy when I use it so it intimidates me. I also saw a man today taking shots of a red tailed on Route 20 here in Worcester. I love seeing others taking pictures of wild life because it makes me feel good knowing others out there see the beauty in nature just as I do.

Here are the gulls eating the bread I put out. They can be vicious little birds!! Sheesh, I put out enough for all of them but they still bicker and fight!

A polite one waiting its turn. I actually gave this one a bigger piece because it was too afraid to get caught up with the masses.

Pigeons enjoyed the puddles as well. The one on the right is so funny looking!

Finally some lousy photos of a Red Tailed Hawk and Falcon I saw in Downtown Worcester today. I was up in the higher part of the parking garage looking for the falcons when suddenly I saw a Red Tailed soaring high up the in the sky going toward a church. Just as it was about to land on the steeple and just as I was going to attempt to get closer, guess who spotted it?

Whey the Peregrine of course! Off he flew giving his alarm call and boy was he quick!! I was running after him in the parking lot and I was hoping no people were having meetings in conference rooms because they would see me and think of me as even more odd than they already do.

The falcon didn't even have to get close to the hawk for it to decide to mosey on down to the Registry of Motor Vehicles. One look at Mr. Peregrine made him fly on by and onto a different location.

It just goes to prove that you can bird anywhere if you keep your eyes open. Who'd have thought I could see all of this during work breaks and errands!