{"id":1361560,"date":"2017-02-21T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=9413f3669c81e03c0f7ce99aa6ce8f9d"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:01","slug":"parti-colored-starling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/parti-colored-starling\/","title":{"rendered":"Parti-colored Starling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only kidding. It’s so cold and rainy outside that I spent most of it sitting in a comfortable chair playing games and some of it creating imaginary birds with Photoshop from my archive of bird images.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another. I call it a green-belted hawk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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How about a pink-winged mockingbird?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Or a blue-breasted robin. Had enough? Here’s a bird poem instead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A Bird Came Down the Walk<\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
by Emily Dikinson<\/i><\/div>\n
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<\/i>A bird came down the walk:
\nHe did not know I saw;
\nHe bit an angle-worm in halves
\nAnd ate the fellow, raw.<\/i><\/p>\n

And then he drank a dew
\nFrom a convenient grass,
\nAnd then hopped sidewise to the wall
\nTo let a beetle pass.<\/p>\n

He glanced with rapid eyes
\nThat hurried all abroad,-
\nThey looked like frightened beads, I thought;
\nHe stirred his velvet head<\/p>\n

Like one in danger; cautious,
\nI offered him a crumb,
\nAnd he unrolled his feathers
\nAnd rowed him softer home<\/p>\n

Than oars divide the ocean,
\nToo silver for a seam,
\nOr butterflies, off banks of noon,
\nLeap, splashless, as they swim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And this is what the birds above really look like:<\/p>\n

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European Starling –Sturnus vulgaris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Red-tailed hawk –Buteo jamaicensis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Northern Mockingbird –Mimus polyglottos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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American Robin –Turdus migratorius<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Only kidding. It’s so cold and rainy outside that I spent most of it sitting in a comfortable chair playing games and some of it creating imaginary birds with Photoshop from my archive of bird images.       A Bird Came Down the Walk\u00a0 by Emily Dikinson \u00a0 A bird came down the walk: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2148598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[676,1009,1165,1164,1008,494,495],"class_list":["post-1361560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-american-robin","tag-buteo-jamaicensis","tag-mimus-polyglottos","tag-northern-mockingbird","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-starling","tag-sturnus-vulgaris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}