Feeding the birds
Good news: I'm posting more Hawaii pics. Bad news: while I think they're fun, they're not particularly scenic.
Whenever I'm in Kauai, one of the things on my must-do list is pay at least a couple of visits to Bubba's Burgers. The burgers won't be winning any culinary awards, but they're damn tasty and it's a fun place to hang out. We usually sit at one of the picnic tables lined up in front of the building, and spend our meal watching the birds flit around in search of fallen scraps of food.
On one lunchtime visit, however, the birds-particularly the House Sparrows-seemed extremely interested in our meal as it was in progress, lining up along the edge of our table to watch as we ate:
Seeing as how these Sparrows seemed quite comfortable being so close to humans, we decided to conduct an experiment. I got my camera ready, Mom held out one of her french fries, and we all waited to see what would happen. We really didn't have to wait for very long:
For the rest, click here.
Whenever I'm in Kauai, one of the things on my must-do list is pay at least a couple of visits to Bubba's Burgers. The burgers won't be winning any culinary awards, but they're damn tasty and it's a fun place to hang out. We usually sit at one of the picnic tables lined up in front of the building, and spend our meal watching the birds flit around in search of fallen scraps of food.
On one lunchtime visit, however, the birds-particularly the House Sparrows-seemed extremely interested in our meal as it was in progress, lining up along the edge of our table to watch as we ate:
Seeing as how these Sparrows seemed quite comfortable being so close to humans, we decided to conduct an experiment. I got my camera ready, Mom held out one of her french fries, and we all waited to see what would happen. We really didn't have to wait for very long:
For the rest, click here.