nanila: (kusanagi: amused)
Mad Scientess ([personal profile] nanila) wrote in [community profile] common_nature2023-03-22 05:37 am

Yellow wagtail

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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


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