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Tool Bird
Help…I’m being attached by a evil bird.?
Three years back, I mistakenly ran over a baby bird who fell from its nest with the lawn mower. Both the momma and daddy bird started harrassing me with very aggressive dive bombs that would start whenever we left the house. They seemed to be on guard and ready to taxi the runway 24-7. The attacks stopped with the fall but picked up again in the spring. This is the third straight spring that the birds have made us miserable. I recently made peace with the momma bird by giving her bread but the fatherbird continues to come after me and is getting even more aggressive. He actually rammed into my wife a few days back and has taken to dropping cherry’s on me from our cherry tree whenever I enter the tool shed. What should I do to stop this madness.
Spray it with water every time it comes near you and if that doesnt work throw apples at him.
Tool Bird
Educate Yourself On How To Watch Birds
Ask any expert how to watch birds and you will be told that finding a place to start is the most common hurdle that many have to jump when they first begin to wonder about 101 bird watching. Beginners may have seen a breathtaking display in some museum, or watched a documentary on television that really caught their attention or piqued their interest in bird watching.
For those who are introduced to the world of birding through these means, instead of developing their love for it through talking with other people, it can be difficult to get started. The interest and desire are there but the knowledge and practical experience is not.
Before you begin learning how to bird watch, you need to make sure that you have the proper tools readily available. If you plan to trek into the forest to do your bird watching then you may need to invest in a sturdy pair of boots. Other than that, all you really need is some kind of optic device. Binoculars are the most popular tool, but a tripod mounted spotting scope also works very well.
The second step that an aspiring bird watcher must take is to find a location. This task can be as easy or as difficult as you would like it to be. Birds, of course, are found everywhere. They live in your backyard, in city parks, and in the deepest, most rugged, and hard to get places in the forest. Where you go depends largely upon what you want to see.
You can find suggestions for local outings in several places. There are bird watching discussion groups on various bulletin board Web sites, such as Yahoo Groups. Here you will find fellow bird watchers who will be more than willing to share the information that they have, not only about how to watch birds, but where.
As with any hobby, it is a great idea to find a mentor, or some senior members of a bird watching club. If you are able to connect with someone who has years of knowledge and experience, then you may be able to glean some of their wisdom to heighten your own experiences. Not only will a mentor be able to provide guidance about where to go and what to see, they may also be able to teach you some things about methods, ethics, and best practices.
The best part about having a mentor is that, as you grow in your own experience and knowledge about how to watch birds, you are preparing yourself to be a mentor to someone else in the future.
About the Author
Mike Selvon is the owner of various niche portals. Our bird feeder portal is a great resource for more information on learning how to bird watch.
Dropping a cloudy background from a bird cage photograph in Photoshop?
Hi,
I need to find an efficient way to remove a cloudy or gradient background from a photograph of a bird cage (think multiple bars and all of the background through each bar) in Photoshop. I’ve tried select-color range, magic wand tool. Please help!!!
For some images there is no fast way of doing something.
What you can try is the Background Eraser tool (it is hidden under the eraser tool).
Find an area that shows what you want to remove, hold the ALT key and click on it. now when you click again on the image (without holding ALT) it will delete anything similar to that. Be sure to try different brush sizes too.
If that doesn’t work your only solution would be to switch to quick mask mode (the last button on the tool bar (a rectangle with a hole in the middle) and paint in the picture. By default protected portions of the image are covered in red, and what is not covered in red is not selected, if you paint using the paintbrush, in this mode, with black, you will add what is being painted to the selection, if you paint with white, it will remove what is is being painted from the selection.
To get out of it, you can click on the quick mask icon on the bottom and now you will have the marching ants around your selection.
Taking a long time on an intricate selection is not uncommon, even for artists used to Photoshop.
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