Friday, August 21, 2009

Feathered Friends: Open Wide and Say ...

... skee-dlees chis chis chis*

This is a Dickcissel. I think he's a classy looking bird. I think his coloring gives the impression that he's wearing an ascot and a snazzy yellow shirt with a grey vest. And he sings a lot. This one was at Northerly Island in downtown Chicago. More pictures of this little guy are at my bird watching blog which is here.


*Sibley's provides this as the phonetic spelling of this bird's song

2 comments:

VP said...

This image looks like some kind of Japanese art. Perfect capture and composition (if the birdies allowed it...).

Amy said...

aww how pretty, that's a type of bird we don't see here.