The Bird Weekly Photo Challenge Week #40 by Lisa Coleman is all about birds in black & white, sepia, monotone or you can add a bit of selective color. Your choice of birds this week. She aligned this with Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week in case you wanted to add any flying birds to this challenge. Cee’s theme is Anything in Fight. Thanks again to Cee Neuner for the lovely featured blogger award for last week. It’s such an honor. Also, Terri with Sunday Stills offered a theme of Best Black and White Photos on 3/14 and her challenge runs until Saturday if you want to link to her challenge as well.
I am following suit with Lisa and linking this to all three photo challenges.
Since I am still a total neophyte with birds, some of you will have to help me with bird names. I found the Australian birds listed on Wikipedia complete with pictures. Wow! There is another site for North American birds as well, but I don’t even know where to start.
These beauties currently live on Watson Lake on Peavine Trail in Prescott, AZ. There are lots of happy ducks scooting across the water, but these don’t look like ducks. I love the shadow of the bigger bird onto the smaller bird’s side. I didn’t notice it in the color shot, so that was a beg advantage.
Speaking of ducks, this Australian quacker has a lot to say to Carol and me about our photographic etiquette. Apparently, we forgot to ask him to sign a media release. He has kind eyes, though, and that tells the rest of the story. He was happy to sign for a fee, just a little bite of quacker, I mean cracker. Don’t tell other birders, though. (PS, birders, don’t worry, this story is almost 100% fiction. No birds were fed).
These birds love to pose. It’s like they know how beautiful they are. It does help to have a camera with a zoom lens, however.
My Reading List
These participants in Lisa’s challenge finished before I did. I’m sorry I missed others who are flying in on the red eye. 🙂
Here are some of Cee’s friends. I may not get to all of you this week, but I’ve got your number.
- Freda
- No Fixed Plans
- Pictures Imperfect
- Travel with Intent
- Debby
- Anthropologist
- Tish
- Light Words
- My Camera and I
Terri’s participants.
- And Anyways
- Bushboy’s World
- Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
- Cee’s Photo Challenges
- A Day in the Life
- Deb’s World
- Denyse Whelan Blogs
- Easin’ Along Image in Comments
- EquipoiseLife
- Frost on the Moosedung
- Graham’s Island
- Hugh’s View and News
- JP the Wide-Eyed Wanderer
- Kamerapromenader
- NEW Kanlaon
- Light Write Life
- Mazee Puran (Better late than never for “rainy day”)
- Musin’ With Susan
- Now At Home
- Nuthouse Central
- Picture Retirement
- Picture This
- NEW Restless Jo
- Retirement Reflections
- Retirementally Challenged
- Shutters on the World
- Stevie Turner
- Take a Walk
- The Bloggler
- The Day After
- NEW The Sandy Chronicles
- Travel with Me
- Troyers Loving Life
- Women Living Well After 50
- Woolley Muses
I’ll be hosting Sunday Stills for two weeks, March 28 – Respect Your Cat and April 4 – Volunteering. I hope you’ll join me.
Marsha Ingrao - Always Write 
55 responses to “Getting High in Black and White – Bird Weekly Photo Challenge #40”
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Beautiful black and whites Marsha…thanks for linking on my post too! Much appreciated!
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You are more than welcome. It makes it easy for me to read if I have all the posts in one place. I past the links into my blogging journal and can visit one person after another without having to go through the reader or back and forth to my post.
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Good idea!
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Such beautiful black and whites for these challenges. 😀 😀
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Thanks, Cee. I love your bird-landing picture. That’s so unique!
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Thank you so much for mentioning my blog!
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You’re welcome Aletta.
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Hello lovely! 🙂 🙂 I have no idea how you fit everything into a week. Completely quackers! Thanks a lot for the mention. Have a good one!
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You too, Jo. I’ll be by later to visit.
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Great photos! I’m sorry I haven’t been by… it’s so busy. I’m trying to get that book finished. Hugs and love to you! ❤
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Hi Colleen. I completely understand. Good luck with the book! Hugs back to you!
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I about fell out of the chair laughing when I read the title. Was wondering if Willie Nelson had visited your place. LOL! I can’t tell all the birds in your first shot without seeing them in color, but the small black bird with the white beak is an American Coot. Very nice! 🙂
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I hope I don’t get in trouble!!! 🙂 An old American coot, huh. Very interesting! 🙂 Now I need to read how to send that picture in my comments! I never mastered it.
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LOL! Tell that to the birds! I don’t know how to send photos in a comment except to copy a URL that already exists. 🙂
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Terri had the instructions in her green post, but I haven’t tried it. 🙂
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I’ll have to look again. I’m working on my green post today. 🙂
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Go green, girl! 🙂
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Shop was busy yesterday and today. I will finish it tomorrow. 😊💚 goin’ green
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Yay! You want it to be busy. 🙂
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Yes, I do want to be busy. It has been a good month after a terrible February. 🙂
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I’m so happy, but I’ll miss you. It’s fun getting together, isn’t it?
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Yeah, now there is supposed to be rain on Tuesday so we may be relaxing at home. If I’m home, I will see you on Tuesday. 🙂 Wednesday is our paddling day and still good for that. Friday is St. Marks in search of the elusive Flamingo! 🙂
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Fun, BTW, Lisa, I love your bird reflection picture of the red and white bird this week. How stunning. A flamingo could not be more amazing than that.
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Thanks Marsha! The Flamingo 🦩 if we get him would add to our count and they are quite rare in the wild. Believe it or not, they are not common in Florida. You might get lucky in the Everglades but no guarantee. This flamingo blew in with Hurricane Michael and never left. We saw it last year but it was a long way out. 😊
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That’s really interesting, Lisa. You are a wealth! 🙂
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🙂
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Good writting
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Thank you, Minametry.
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You are the mot welcome Marsha
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Sorry i mean the most welcome
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No worries, Minametry.
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Thank you
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I like the duck pictures…
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Thanks, Jim. He was the talkative one. 🙂
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he probably just repeated the same word over and over…
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Yeah, “Get out of my space. Quack, quack!”
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You’ve had some discussion about the cockatoo already. Without colour in the photo it’s difficult to tell. The crest on a sulphur-crested cockatoo is yellow. That is what it looks like though.
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Thanks so much for the mention, Marsha, especially as it gave me a chance to see your post too. So glad to meet someone else who struggles with bird names. It’s a bit of a challenge when surrounded by experts, isn’t it? These are lovely images you’ve got here.
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I’d never heard of an umbrella cockatoo before so I looked it up. They come from Indonesia. Did the bird in your photo have a yellow crest? I think it’s a sulphur crested cockatoo. They are such characters and are fun to watch.
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I thought it was that too, Carol, then I changed it because his crest was white. I read about both birds and guessed white. I’m guessing here! 🙂
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If you took the photo in Australia I’m thinking it’s a sulphur crested cockatoo. I remember we saw some close up at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.
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That is where we too the picture. If you’re sure, then I’ll change his name back the way I had it. 🙂 LOL
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Definitely!
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Hi, Marsha – Great photographs. I especially like the one of the White Cockatoo. Thank you for hosting #SundayStills for the next two weeks. See you at #SpringGreen!
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See you there! Don’t forget your four-leafed clover, Donna. 🙂
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Fab b&w birds, and funny narrative, Marsha! Great tie-in to all the black and white challenges and great intro to your hosting duties next week.
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Thanks, Terri. How did the shopping spree go? New wood burning stove?
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Successful! Found a stove and made an appointment for the installer to come out next week. We haven’t done the walk through yet, so another delay. Still moving the RV on Wednesday though.
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Awesome. Moving your RV will be such a big step for you. It should make your life a lot easier. No long drives to check on your property. You will finally feel at home. 🙂 Yay!
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You are so right about that!
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