18 July 2011

Impatience

In fact, the person who sent me this shot titled it "When a man loses patience", but gender determination in birds could be tricky, so:

You decide...

8 comments:

jams o donnell said...

That's a great image Snoopy!

DavidS said...

The apparent aggressor is, in fact, a male and the apparent victim is, in fact, a female.  They are House Sparrows (sometimes called English Sparrows in the US).

Katie said...

More like: To the Moon Alice!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, not one of my's, unfortunately.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Oh... so the sender was right then. Thanks, David. As for aggression: who can really tell what precipitated this move?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

That too ;)

Yitzchak Goodman said...

I thought maybe it was a mother and daughter: "Have you been brushing your beak, young lady?"

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Could be, but the expert opinion is against this version of events.