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Yellow wagtail standing on the wing mirror of an old blue Toyota Yaris.

This is how we know spring has finally arrived. This yellow wagtail - I assume it's the same one - arrives every year to use our house as the stage for his mating dances. One year he spent his time prancing on the windowsill of my husband's office. Another year it was my office window. This year, he's decided that the best place to show off is the wing mirror and passenger door of our second car. He has also produced a prodigious quantity of poop to festoon the mirror's casing but it seems pointless to wash it until his ritual has paid off!

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Tail up

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Horizontal with chest puff

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The sideways glance

Date: 2023-03-22 07:37 am (UTC)
sparowe: (See)
From: [personal profile] sparowe
Handsome little fellow. Good luck to him! :)

Date: 2023-03-22 10:02 am (UTC)
cmcmck: (Default)
From: [personal profile] cmcmck
Such lovely little birds. We see a lot more of the pied around here.

Date: 2023-03-22 11:27 am (UTC)
shirebound: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
arrives every year to use our house as the stage for his mating dances.

He honors you with his presence! What a handesome fellow.

Date: 2023-03-22 01:01 pm (UTC)
cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)
From: [personal profile] cesy

Aww

Date: 2023-03-22 03:00 pm (UTC)
davidgillon: A pair of crutches, hanging from coat hooks, reflected in a mirror (Default)
From: [personal profile] davidgillon
He's a pretty fellow, I see plenty of pied wagtails, but I don't think I've seen one of these.

Also Yay Yaris wing-mirrors as promoters of bio-diversity :) Mine seems to support a population of spiders who lurk behind the mirror when not spinning webs between mirror and door.

Date: 2023-03-22 03:55 pm (UTC)
vriddy: Cute dragon hatching from an egg (Default)
From: [personal profile] vriddy
So cute! It's so nice to have a returning friend like this :D Although good luck with all the poop cleaning, haha.

Date: 2023-03-22 04:15 pm (UTC)
spiffikins: (Default)
From: [personal profile] spiffikins
that "come-hither" look!

Date: 2023-03-22 04:41 pm (UTC)
silveradept: A kodama with a trombone. The trombone is playing music, even though it is held in a rest position (Default)
From: [personal profile] silveradept
We hope for his success, if for no other reason than to be able to clean the mirrors.

Date: 2023-03-22 06:17 pm (UTC)
yourlibrarian: Jumping Penguin (NAT-JumpingPenguin-sithari.png)
From: [personal profile] yourlibrarian
Oh pretty! And you got a great set of different angles too.

Date: 2023-03-22 07:16 pm (UTC)
turlough: otter with camera ((other) photography)
From: [personal profile] turlough
What a fantastic series of photos! I've always thought yellow wagtails looked pretty much the same as the pied ones but judging from him they're much more sleek and elegant.

Date: 2023-03-22 11:44 pm (UTC)
lysytsya: (Default)
From: [personal profile] lysytsya
He’s adorable ;)

Date: 2023-03-23 02:46 am (UTC)
adafrog: (Default)
From: [personal profile] adafrog
Pretty.

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