2008.05.01, Picture of the Day, Big Island of Hawaii
A LITTLE GREEN BIRD FLEW BY THIS MORNING.
Anyone care to I.D. this elusive one? He usually shows up around 8 a.m. Very fast, flies around the yard, and then disappears. It took me many months to get pictures this good. Not a lot bigger than a hummingbird. He is quite iridescent. Sometimes I see one or two of his kin flitting through the woods here and there late in the day.
UPDATE: This bird is a JAPANESE WHITE EYE. Thanks to Gary and Jacqui who both identified it quickly. Here are links to more pictures and info:
The last picture has no bird in it; this is just some kind of non-native tiny evergreen tree that was planted in a row outside this window. It is barely six feet tall, yet it looks huge when taken at such close range. It's funny how everything here looks enormous and Hawaiian when you have no context. And that's just the front lawn behind it.
By the way, I still owe pics from last month's Merrie Monarch Festival. I'll get back to those when I can; they're a lot of work and I've been trying to avoid aggravating my repetitive stress injury, so my blog time on the computer is catch-as-catch-can.
Wishing you a beautiful day,
Bill Brent
[this page last updated: 2008.05.05, 10:09 p.m. Hawaii time]
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