catbird and red currants

[asakiyume]

I love catbirds. They are so friendly! They come very near to people and just start chatting. When I hang up laundry, when I go out on my porch, when I'm looking at my plants, along comes a catbird.

The catbirds also like to eat my red currants. The season is pretty much over now, but I drew a chalk drawing in the 90+ degree heat to commemorate catbirds and red currants. I had it on good authority from the weather people that it wasn't going to rain until tomorrow at the earliest, which meant the chalk drawing would survive at least until morning for people to see.

NOPE! Flash storm! Big rain! Ah, evanescence.

Anyway, here is the drawing, which had a life span of approximately seven hours.



And here is a close-up.



Beneath the cut are a couple of process shots







And here's a photo by Marie Lehmann from www.audubon.org of this friendly bird:

Comments

[asakiyume]

Thank you!

Our robins here are much more businesslike. They hop around in the yard (and sometimes scarf a red currant or two), but they don't come up and try to discourse with you about a thing the way the catbirds do.

[pameladean]

That is so interesting! I know the same species of bird in different locations have variant local calls, accents as it were, so I guess there's no reason that they shouldn't have different other traits as well.

P.

[asakiyume]

Exactly! If they were on the internet, they'd be making up memes about which population of X bird in which geography was the most gregarious, aloof, opportunistic, sweet-talking, and so on.

[pameladean]

Would love to be a fly on the wall for the bird internet.

P.

[asakiyume]

Me too!

[amaebi]

Avoiding the channels/threads/groups dominated by insectivorous birds, of course....