Tag Archives: Bird

Sunday Switchup: Hawk Tuah

Posted on September 22, 2024 by Adam Lang

Autumn was driving down the road in Ireland the other day and she saw a big bird in the road. Who hopped out of the way, rather than flew. So she went and grabbed a local friend and captured it … Continue reading →

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Sparrowday Supplement: Dark-Eyed Junco?

Posted on April 18, 2021 by Adam Lang

I’m not much of a birder, but I think (?) this little tweeter I ran into last Thursday was a dark-eyed junco.

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Sunday Switchup: Birdie

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Adam Lang

Probably a seagull. Still pretty.

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Sunday Switchup: Sweet Singers

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Adam Lang

In downtown Oakland, in a small street, is a little music store. A little music store with some very colorful inhabitants.

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Sunday Switchup: Crow and Sparrow

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Adam Lang

I like crows. They’re smart, they’re raucous, they know how to enjoy themselves, and they’re better than I am at remembering a face. That makes them okay in my book. I also kind of like this picture. I could have … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Two No-Longer-Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Adam Lang

I found these two in a pet store. (Not for sale, for adoption, from one of the local rescue groups.) At first I was sad to hear their story: apparently they had some health problems that meant that they couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Gloster Canary

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Adam Lang

This bird has the most ridiculous haircut that anyone has had since the late 1960s. Except perhaps Lady Gaga.

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Sunday Switchup: Bentley the Black-Headed Caique

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Adam Lang

Look who I ran into while wandering Fillmore Street on Saturday! Bentley is a girl, and may well be older than you, at 27 years of age. I asked where the name came from, and her dad told me that … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Anna’s Humingbird

Posted on April 19, 2015 by Adam Lang

Anyway, Autumn and I were hiking last weekend and saw a little knot of people staring at something in a bush. As we got closer, we discovered that it was an Anna’s hummingbird, maybe five feet away from the closest … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: BLACK PHOEBE!

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Adam Lang

It sounds to me like a comic book villain, but who am I to judge?

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