bird blog.

For the love. I keep telling myself that this will NOT become a bird blog because

1. i hate birds and

2. no one wants to read about birds.

But the problem is that I’ve run out of dragonflies over here what with the changing of the seasons. So the only thing to capture with my camera on my walks now is squirrels and birds. The most abundantly boring animals on the planet. Plus, they’re much harder to snag a pic of, not only are the afraid of me, but when Roxie comes with me then they scatter like crazy. She doesn’t give a damn about the birds, but she does love to chase squirrels. I’m not sure what she’d do with one if she ever caught one. She’d probably be all, “Wait, is that what these things are? Gross.”

So these menacing birds are the only thing around at the moment; we’ll have to make do.

You see this terrible picture? The bird in it is a Northern Flicker (can also be called a Yellow-shafted Flicker), a type of woodpecker.
What’s crazy about this woodpecker is that it’s actually the state bird of Alabama. Yes, I know, that’s not what they call it down here though. They call that thing the Yellowhammer. Please note the severe lack of yellow on that bird. There’s yellow on it somewhere, just, you know, not where you can see it.