BigOly
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The Butcher
Bird or perhaps better known as The Loggerhead Shrike
is a hunter. When food is pleantiful this bird will catch insects and small lizards and stick them on a cactus or even a barbed wire fence to eat
later.
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Cypress
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BigOly, Fine pictures! Thanks. The Butcher Bird!
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Russ
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Nice! Could have I been mistaking this handsome bird for a mocking bird? We have a few "mocking birds" here that don't have a song. I'm going to have
to take a closer look.
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BigOly
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Russ...Birders use a term coined "jizz" which, some say, comes from a time when pilots at war would observe planes and identify them at a glance as
enemy or friendly. From the planes outline, the way it moved, the sound, etc. All birds have certain look, movement, sound and actions that after
you see them a few times you and often the birds natural prey, know the bird at a glance.
The Northern Mockingbird 
is a real songster often imitating other song birds.
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Cypress
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Ever heard a Mockingbird sing at night? It's a sweet song.
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Russ
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Another magnificent shot! Ok ,so I am seeing a mocking bird but I have only heard a very few sing. maybe just the wrong time of year/season.
It ain't so sweet when you're serenaded night after night right outside your bedroom window. You just want to shoot the plick!
[Edited on 2-6-2011 by Russ]
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BigOly
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Russ, Russ come on buddy. He has to listen to you singing in the shower, morning after morning after morning.............
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Russ
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He's not learning any songs of mine that's for sure... The neighbors would have massacred him.
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bajacalifornian
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I remember my first shrike experience. Some bird was innocently perched on a railing outside my window. Along came a shrike. With a blow to the
head, the shrike killed the innocent fellow. Wasn't fond of the shrike at all.
Big Oly . . . I really enjoy your photos, and birds. Thank you for being here.
American by birth, Mexican by choice.
Signature addendum: Danish physicist — Niels Bohr — who said, “The opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
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Natalie Ann
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BigOly.... I am really enjoying your bird pix and info.
The fact of that shrike sticking bugs on wire or cactus for a later meal is way cool.
Never before heard of a bird behaving that way.
I be looking forward to some more bird education from you.
nena
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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