As if missing the northern shrike banding weren’t bad enough, my buddy Larry Sirvio has sent more photos of what I missed at Carpenter’s banding this morning!
Hm. I don’t think that turkey is going to fit into that Potter Trap…and the next photo I think deserves a caption contest:
Here is a first year sharp-shinned sitting on top of a Potter Trap with a freshly trapped junco. I bet a junco has never been so happy to be trapped in its life. Got any caption ideas? The one who makes me chuckle out loud wins their choice of a Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America or a Lang Elliot’s Music of the Birds: A Celebration of Bird Song (with CD)–prizses courtesy of Houghton Mifflin.
Categories: banding, Carpenter Nature Center
Okay wait no…
Bird is caught. Check.
I am on top of bird. Check.
Bird is helpless. Check.
I am eating?… Hum…
Okay one more time:
Bird is caught…
Not fair!
Hey! I caught one! Anyone have a can opener?
Later, to his Junco friends… “So, as if being trapped isn’t embarrassing enough, this hawk shows up and I mess myself right there in front of everybody.”
Sharpie:
“This low carb diet is killing me.”
-Corby
(why is a Sharpie still around? I thought they all migrated by now? Do some stay?)
Pouring more salt on the wound…ha! You crack me up.
I have no faith that I will win this contest unless I really think hard for 10 minutes, but nah. I’ll just give it a go.
“Wait…he no has flavor???” -Sharpie (classic LOLcats)
I know I signed a contract with the WWE for a cage match…but…this was not what I had in mind.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/category/flavor/
ooooooohhh dave hardin. That was good stuff.
“Isn’t this the part where my talons meet junco??”
or… “I think this one is broken” (the sharpie referring to the junco)
Alright. Now I’ll leave it to the humor experts.
Unless I come up with something good, because now I’m startin’ to REALLY want that bird song book!
Man, I hate this living on my own ‘n having to catch my own food…Mom never covered anything like this in survial 101 (said in a whining teenager voice)
Stacy in ND
Can I have him after you’re done
banding?
Corby: Shotgun!
I can has juncoburger?
I know I’m supposed to be a solitary hunter, but can I get some help over here…I’ll share…honest…I promise…come on… *talons crossed* wink wink
“Oh! The spaghetti goes in the strainer and the meat goes in the sauce?”
Freshly trapped junco…
I has it.
“I’m keeping this one in the fridge for Christmas!”
Excuse me, but I need some grey poupon over here!
Sharon – I like the “juncoburger” comment.
Wow! Bird-inna-tin. What will they invent next?
Dang. I wish I hadn’t sworn off junc food.
“I cain’t get noOO, Sat-is-fack-shun, But I try, and I try, and I try, and I try-y-y, I cain’t get NO…”(guitar riffs)
Said the Junco to the Hawk; “well if you’re so Sharp…figure it out for yourself”.
Hawker
“Oh dude, this is so square.”
“Pass the ripe holly berries man.”
Kitmarlowescot2
Am on vicodian right know from a hurt neck, brain not working.
“Just a bunch of religous crap”
Damn, I hate take out…
Yo Maya Angelou. THIS is why the caged bird sings!
What do you mean ‘you only have one left?’ Listen, when I called a half hour ago the clerk said there were at least three of them if not more. I came right over and…..(shakes head, ruffles feathers) oh all RIGHT!! Just wrap it up, I’ll take it with me. (mutters to himself)
“Crime pays! Quick, lock me up!”
Speaking of turkeys…
I’ve seen a bunch of wild turkeys in the city (mpls. area) this year. One by Eden Prairie and, granted, heard of one guarding an intersection in the Champlin ares , and Wayzata, isn’t really the “city” but just saw 5 last week. Didn’t even realize turkeys flew until the first crossed the road on foot and 4 others followed in flight. (gosh hope my puncuation is okay for this crowd… lol.. I know the its/it’s stuff but multiple turkies? HEHEHE). So, any scoop on a boom in the turkey world. Just thought it was weird. Kathy
Exact change only?!!!! Argh!!!
Anyone got a quarter?
Caption 1: Damn. A minute ago this little morsel was just sitting around waiting to be my breakfast.
Caption 2: What the *&%@! How’d he get in this cage so fast!
Caption 3: Who put this cage between me and my lunch?
Caption 4: Whew! Those CNC banders are life savers!
Caption 5: OMG! My heart’s racing!
Caption 6: Shit! Foiled again by CNC banders!
Caption 7: So near and yet so far!
Caption 8: And you wondered why the caged bird sings! (my personal
fave!)
“Imagine that! Juncos a [i]heavily[/i] Protected Species”
Talk about gift wrapped!!!!!
This adds a new meaning to box lunch.
Don’t tase me, bro.
i taught i taw a charp chinned hawk . . . i did, i did see a charp chinned hawk!
How about, “Happy Holidays from the Roller Pigeon Fancier Club.”
SERENITY NOW!!!
Hawk: “Dang! Foiled again. Stupid cage….. Hey what’s that over there…..” **Flies away**
Junco: “Whew! That was close. Good thing this cage was here…. wait….. cage?!?!?!? What is this place?? Oh great, caught again. and here comes one of those stupid banding people to put one of those silly little metal things on my leg.. Dang, I hate those things….. takes forever to get them off…..”
Sharpie: “Damn, I wish I had thumbs!”
Junco: “Thank God he doesn’t have thumbs!”
First I miss the turtle doves, then the partridge…now this. I hate Christmas.
First I miss the turtle doves, then the partridge…now this. I hate Christmas.
” I never thought a box lunch would be this hard to open”
Is this what Santa brought me?
And you thought your life was full of torment!
Harry the Hawk had not quite thought this all the way through. His wife would just love the gift, of that he was sure. But as he awaited her arrival, he secretly prayed she had bought him opposable thumbs for Christmas.
This is a tough choice! My two favorites are aaron who with his first caption captured the true essence of the mind of a sharp-shinned hawk. However, Rabbit’s Guy, with his “Yo, Maya Angelou” got me with that.
So, here we go–they are both winners. Aaron, you get to pick which prize you want first either the Kaufman field guide or the Celebration of Bird Song. Whichever one you don’t choose will go to Rabbit’s Guy.
So, email me your choice and both of you email me your snail mail at sharon at birdchick dot com.
Everyone did a great job. Non Birding Bill was really pushing for beegirl3′s, “Dang. I wish I hadn’t sworn off junc food.”