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Teh Ruler
- Miss Gyny
- MA, United States
- I won't lie to you, I hate lying. I'm by no means a feminist, nor is this blog directed towards women in sexist industries, it is simply a slice of life.
4 comments:
In case you were wondering, those beautiful white flowers are bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). It's called bloodroot because if you dig the root up it 'bleeds' bright red sap, which Native Americans used as a dye. Nice photos!!
That's quite interesting. I was wondering what they were actually. I was going to ask you about the bird in the bush, but by the time I was close enough to get a good picture, it had flown away. It was very sad.
Hehe, the birds in the photos are Brown-headed Cowbirds, a real pest species. They're brood parasites, which means they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. They're native to the western US and spread east as people cleared forest for farmland. They evolved as parasites because they followed the buffalo herds and couldn't exactly raise babies by themselves, or they'd lose the herd. A lot of forest interior bird species are 'naive' and have no defenses against them, and end up losing their own babies and raise cowbirds instead.
Ya got a male and female in the photo. ;-) The male is the one higher up.
Wow, thanks. I remember you talking about this kind of bird before, I was unaware that they lived in this area, I thought they were more towards the plains.
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