I am inviting all Bill of the Birds readers to write a funny caption for this photograph. I took this image in November on a birding field trip to The King Ranch in southern Texas.
Please submit your entry via the Comments posting option below. I will select a winner on Friday, December 19, 2008. Employees of BWD and members of my immediate family are only eligible if they submit their captions in person, written in Sharpie on the back of a $50 bill.
The winner will get a free one-year subscription to Bird Watcher's Digest (that's a $20 value!) for themselves, or to use as a gift for a fellow birder. Comments by Anonymous will have a hard time collecting the prize.
Good luck!
BOTB
Well, you see there was this sale on orange socks...
ReplyDeleteAnd this is where we saw the Flame-colored Tanager last week...
ReplyDeleteSteve Ingraham! Out of the blocks at full speed. He's gonna be tough to beat!
ReplyDeleteBirds of a feather flock together: The Texas Oriole Dancers gather to weave their magic.
ReplyDeleteLittle did the rest of the birders know that hiding amongst them in plain sight was a flock of rare orange-footed boobys
ReplyDeleteThe next generation of Crocs worn at an experimental test site.
ReplyDeleteToo bad no one told Bill that orange is the new black.
ReplyDeleteThe Tape Lovers Bird Club's first outing.
ReplyDeleteIvory billed woodpecker to brightly footed people ...."You certainly wont find me now....you new breed of birders are extremely scary! I'm outta here!
ReplyDelete"Hey, now that Bill's gone, can we get some orange tape over here on this scope?"
ReplyDeleteIf you wanna be really Special Birders, you do it like this..
ReplyDeleteJudy crossed her arms in a feeble attempt to obscure her modest dress; no one had told her this party had an 80's theme.
ReplyDeleteYou can separate the juveniles from the adults by their orange feet.
ReplyDeleteThese are getting ossumer by the hour!
ReplyDeleteWhen the Hummingbird Study Group reached the topic [I]Dorsal Viewing[/I] they had to innovate.
ReplyDeleteThey had been told that applying fluorescent tape to their shoes would encourage The Thing to keep its distance, but they still stood well back and watched nervously while it meandered by.
ReplyDeleteBilly Thompson swore the neon post it notes would help us attract our life bird
ReplyDeleteAn unused scope, is a useless scope
ReplyDeleteBut the Star-bellied Sneetches had stars upon thars...
ReplyDeleteArms crossed. Hands in your pockets. Listen folks, someone HAS to step up to the scope sooner or later.
ReplyDeleteAfter being banded, weighed and measured, specimens are fitted with coloured tags to aid researchers in identifying individuals in the field.
ReplyDeleteDuct Tape as Footwear...
ReplyDeleteShow your colors!
These captions are fantastic. I'm in that photo but somehow forgot just how... unfashionable we all looked. Thanks a lot, Bill!
ReplyDeleteHere's another one to toss on the heap:
This year in birding couture, eye-searing orange is the new khaki.
The neon footed dorks... er, storks put on a courtship display.
ReplyDeleteAnyone birding King Ranch knows that in order to see the fabled Ferruginous Pygmy-owl, one has to take part in an ancient and special tradition.
ReplyDeleteThis is so Prez Bush can see them coming!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I can't seem to find a Tropical Parula, I have no problem attracting crossing guards for snakes!
ReplyDeleteHere are a couple more:
ReplyDeleteWell, at least it takes the focus off the smell...
Why should bowlers be the only ones with cool shoes?
Is this what is known as mocking-a-bird?
ReplyDeleteWow! Some of these are hilarious. Others, well, some of you need to seek help...
ReplyDeleteChoosing a winner (to be announced on Friday morning 12/19) is going to be mighty difficult. I'll accept entries until 12 noon tomorrow (Wednesday 12/17).
Thanks for playing!
It's not uncommon to see other species mixed in with the orange footed birdwatcher.
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Hey everybody look at Bill riding the pig!
ReplyDelete"As you can see in this picture, the Greater common birder bears many distinguishing characteristics. Contrary to typical belief, the brightly colored feet are not necessarily indicators of gender. Some in this group display the typical ornamentation around their necks which allow them to identify specific individuals of the flock. But the most common identifier of the Greater common birder is seen in the number of contraptions they drag around to aid their notoriously poor eyesight."
ReplyDeleteWhen that Blue-throated hummingbird spots my ruby red shoes and flies up my bloomers, I am SO going to become the life of this par-tay.
ReplyDelete"When that Blue-throated hummingbird spots my ruby red shoes and flies up my bloomers, I am SO going to become the life of this par-tay."
ReplyDelete(resubmitting under correct account...oops!)
There's NO WAY I can top these. I'm laughing out loud all the way through...
ReplyDeleteI'll be back on the 19th to congratulate the lucky winner :o)
Mary
I just saw this and it may be past the deadline. Can I still play Bill?
ReplyDelete... okay, every body that saw a life bird put an orange sticker on your foot, wave your hands above your head and go whooooohoo!
... some people will do anything BOTB tells them to do...
We are going to the Orange County so the we have to wear camouflage...
...and if your friends jumped off a cliff would you do that too?
You should have watched where you were walking. I told you tere was an orange ruff around here.
So we put left and right stickers on there shoes to speed things up in the morning.
Name tages for shy people who always look down.
... and here is the transparent king bird in his new plumage... aren't you going to look?
many more in my slightly off centre mind but I'm out of time.
You keep those shoes taped! There will be NO shoe-throwing if the President comes by, you hear?
ReplyDeleteStand still!! These brightly colored nesting materials should attract the ground feeding birds!
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