Birds & Blooms’ Friday Fun Photo for March 8, 2013: Sparrow on Thistle Socks by Mary Alber of Chelsea, Michigan. Mary writes, “My husband recently put up several bird feeders including sock feeders for the goldfinches. The other day we spotted this chipping sparrow straddling the two socks! It sat there picking seed from both socks for quite awhile before flying off.”
Do you have a clever caption for this funny feathered friend? Please share!
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Mine mine mine, all mine! Oh to have arms too!!!!!!!
Wait! Did you get a picture of this? This is EPIC!
I can still do the splits and eat at the same time!!
OK – now what do I do?
Eenie Meenie Miney Mo
You humans are just jealous because you can’t do this…lol.
Hehe, that pesky hawk will never find me here!
Boy that hurts
Oh no, I think I’m stuck. How did this happen?
Skiing, it’s not all that!
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!
Hey look!!! I can do the splits.
I got this!!
Sread`em if you got`em……………
Two in the claws is worth one in the bush!
They say get your “exercise”……well I am starting with the splits!
Just hanging out protecting my grub!!
Decisions, decisions…
Like come on..Really.. Could you not have put these closer together for me????
It’s MINE – ALL MINE!!!!!!!!!!
Oh no! Not the splits again!
I can’t make up my mind which one I want, so I’ll take them both.
Now for my next trick…
Eat your heart out Van Dame
I am Jean-Claud Van Bird
Only if I had arms!!!
I hate when this happens!
Mine … ALL Mine!!!
Come on baby lets do the split.
Cirque du Soleil’s got nothin’ on me.
YES! I have them both! Now what?
If I stop flappping, i’ll fall, i’ll fall!
“Thistle one or thistle one?” I’m soooo confused!
THESE ARE MINE!!!!
Do these socks make my legs look fat?
I can do it, I know I can. Give me a minute….Boy these splits are hard on a birds feathers…..
Winner of the 2013 Sparrow Ninja Warrior Competition
I KNEW those Yoga Lessons would come in handy eventually…..
“Look Mom”, “No Hands!”
But Mom, I am just practicing to join the circus! I can do all those aerial acts!!!
uuhhh, a little help here!?
I saw them first, they’re mine! Finders keepers!
I feel like that sometimes.
Uh oh. Now what?
“Wish I had two heads”
Just enjoying the view!!
Look Ma ! I am doing the splitssssss!
Look guys! No wings!
Tah Daaaaah!
next time I will ask” what are stilts” but I decide to walk with them…..
Thistle while you work. Wsi Wsi Wsi Wsi Wsi Wsi Wsa.
That Super Glue does it to me everytime! QUICK! Call 911!
Don’t laugh…. I’m doing my own “Harlem Shake”!!
Look at me no hands!!!!!!!!!
HIS eye is on the sparrow, and I know HE is watching you….and smiling.
How low can I go????
“I sure hope these things don’t give away or move!!”
“One more step and I’m a goner!”
oh no now what am I Going to do mama mama help
LOOK, LOOK! I’m so good.
Look mom, I can do the splits:))
This is how you do the splits!!!!!
I’m tweetering on the edge
Thank God Ossie Ostrich wore pantyhose today!!!!
Got paper?
I’m working on strengthening my kegel muscles for healthy egg laying.
So much thistle, so short of legs……..
“I just don’t have a leg to stand on.”
What are you looking at? I always stand this way
I think I split my pants
This down hill skiing is for the birds/
This downhill skiing is for the birds.
“God, you looking? I think I’m about to fall!”
And the next competitor to ski the high jump is….
“What cha think? I’m practicing for the Sparrowlympics and they like it!!”
I’m split on what I want,?? sunflower or thistle?
Hey ya’ll, watch this
See Mom, I told you I could climb the walls really high!
If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you are peeing all over today!!!!
See…..look, no wings!!!!
I think I’m feeling my wishbone move!
DIBBS!!!!
…i learned this in flight class…
These are mi…uh-oh, a little help here!
“SOLOMAN”!!!!
Hmmm…left or right?
Thundersticks always make me feel so proud!
…he’s got the whole world under his feet,
he’s got the whole wide world unders his feet….!
and they told me I couldn’t do it
oops!
“Okay Coach – Now what?”
The U.S. men may be great on pommel horse, but I’ve got this event.
hang on Fridays coming
Finders Keepers!
Finders Keepers.
I’ll start my diet next week.
OOO” This can’t be good!
” Hey Robin, I win. Pay up! “
Which sock do I put on first??? The left or the right?
Little birdie pushups!
I call dibs and they are both mine!
the prickles in my feet are killing me but if I let go I’ll be prickled
give me a drink I’d rather be pickled
DIBS!