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Bird on a light
By adamg on Wed, 06/24/2015 - 8:36pm
Spotted this small seabird today on the harbor side of the North Washington Street bridge. Anybody know what kind of bird it is?
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A tern. Beware.
A tern. Beware.
A Common Tern takes a turn.
then, alights on a Harbor Light.
"Red Right Return?" they ask, then fly off to home, to beyond the Bight.
quid pro quo
Clarice Starling: That's only a part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful...
Hannibal Lecter: [cuts her off] Terns? Mmm. If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no? [pause] Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting.
I remember the terns
Building the nests under the bridge across the Mystic. The piles under the McGrath Hwy Bridge. Loved to watch the fledglings. Got swooped at an awful lot, by protective parents.
One day, I showed up and saw some decoys in a fake nest.
All the Common Terns in the
All the Common Terns in the Boston area currently only nest on man-made structures over water - bridge footings, old wharves, derelict boats, etc. The rehabbing of the bridge on the Mystic a couple of years ago disrupted the terns that nested under it. A new nesting platform was built for them but they haven't started to use it. Decoys were added in an attempt to entice them but so far it hasn't worked, although it has elsewhere.
Adorable!
Obvious.
Blue-footed booby.
Indeed.
Clearly identifiable by its red feet.
Maybe
a common tern. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Tern/id
Might be a common tern. One
Might be a common tern. One tried to scalp me in Winthrop tonight.
Saw same bird(s)
I saw a few of the same white birds at the Belle Isle reservation on Monday, have never seen them before, would love to know what they are.
Arctic Tern!
May be wrong, not a birding expert, here is a wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_tern
and a bird identifier:
http://identify.whatbird.com/mwg/_/0/attrs.aspx
Don't know nothing about no boids, but I looked at
that photo and said, "Some kind of tern." Trivia skills!
On that note, stop cheating at pub trivia with your phones, millennials. I know you can't remember a time when every piece of information in the world wasn't at your thumbtips, and so can't conceive of why you shouldn't just Google anything you don't know. But pretending to have known it: that's just feeble, and scummy.
Pub trivia is the last vestige of a place where having useless information in your head like that, and being able to recall it after three pints, has any value anymore. If everyone looks up the answers in pub trivia, it's a ten-way participation-trophy tie for last place. Stop high-fiving yourselves for doing what any eight-year-old with an iPhone could do, and grow a pair of sportsmanships. (Also: get off my lawn.)
Takes all the fun out of it too
There's such a sense of accomplishment when you win with your brain. I still remember 10 years ago when my team won, in part because I knew that Elias Howe invented the sewing machine. A fact I remembered because of a Schoolhouse Rock earworm about inventors.
Right, tern on red light.
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You Just Won This Thread!
to everything...
tern, tern tern....it's in the Bible.