Please help --love or hate ????

[jwear]

Is this mating :dunno or divorce :scratch :scratch I can feel your heart beating :lust

[jwear]

Wait !!http://JWear.smugmug.com/photos/217282695-L.jpgwas it something I said :huh :scratch :dunno

[jwear]

Ok Ok YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME http://JWear.smugmug.com/photos/217283433-L.jpg

[jwear]

well all I can do is pray for them :bow what do you think :scratch :dunno

[draggin]

Very good, I like all of them....................might be the two mother inlaws arguing about the seating arrangement. Picture 2 show one of the fathers who came, saw and left quickly

Tim

[Harv]

Great catch. I think one is a Nikon owner and the other a Canon owner. :D

[dbaker1221]

great shots Jeff:ivar maybe they were just trying to high 5 & kept missing:dunno

[Giphsub]

:rofl Nice series Jeff.

[raptorcaptor]

First phot Jeff! :clap

[BigAl]

Great action Jeff :clap

Don't think it's mating or divorce - just a plain old "get off my turf" :D

[dallas]

Great series Jeff, very funny, and glad you could wade through the fight images to get this post worked up. :thumb :thumb

[riddim_maker]

Man, these guys can really go for it.
You can easily fill-up a couple of CF cards on this kind of nonstop action.
I'd say love nor hate. See the third Coot in the second picture? That's the referee, just another Ali/Frazier match:D
:clap :clap :clap

[PrescottPhotog]

Wait !! was it something I said

Great action. Not sure what they are doing but from all the fights I've seen break out lately between all the different birds it seems they they all have this love-hate relationship when it comes to mating.

Ya know the other thing that surprised me about Coots. For all the time they spend on the water.. they don't have webbed feet.

[jwear]

Great catch. I think one is a Nikon owner and the other a Canon owner. :DI believe :deal :huh but if that was true the canon owner would have scared the other wildlife away :cry ask Russ :rolleyes

[Ric Grupe]

Is this mating :dunno or divorce :scratch :scratch I can feel your heart beating :lust

Since this IS in Callyfornya...they could be exchanging nipple rings!!! :barb

Nice captures, Jeff.:thumb

[Jackie W]

Fantastic series!

This is definitely not mating. Birds are pretty straight up fella on top when they are mating. And very quick, too. Most mating encounters are seconds long. Plus it's not mating season. You'll see mating behavior mostly in early spring, depending on the species.

So it's some kind of rivaly/aggression, although I've never seen coots fight this way. However, it is very common for some birds to fight primarily with their feet.

[JohnDC]

Great catch. I think one is a Nikon owner and the other a Canon owner. :D

I agree with Harv-- a couple of old coots arguing about cameras.... in a pretty kinky kind of way. Nice shots in any case!

[bfjr]

Geez Wheez Louise ya know the answer is :


BOTH !! :ivar

nutting like a little loven after feudin and fussin

now where's DasiyMae when I need her :lust :ivar :rofl

[jwear]

Very good, I like all of them....................might be the two mother inlaws arguing about the seating arrangement. Picture 2 show one of the fathers who came, saw and left quickly

TimI have to do some research --you see the red spot on it's forehead ??/ this is on all the fighters and there is a 3rd bird in 90 % of the fights :dunno thanks for joining in on the fun :thumb

[jwear]

great shots Jeff:ivar maybe they were just trying to high 5 & kept missing:dunnoit is fotball season that may be it :scratch I do need to find the real reason --I think it is for a pecking order ?? some are just short small fites and then there are battles --I have some shots for a later post --thanks for joining in :thumb

[jwear]

:rofl Nice series Jeff.thanks buddy :thumb all shots done with out a blind :rofl :rofl

[Giphsub]

:rofl :rofl :rofl Excellent! Maybe I don't need one after all! Can you teach me your silent ninja technique?:scratch

[jwear]

First phot Jeff! :clapthat is what I was thinking

[jwear]

Great action Jeff :clap

Don't think it's mating or divorce - just a plain old "get off my turf" :Dthanks -=-yep something like that only that red thing on the forehead :scratch

[Jackie W]

The red mark on the forehead is common to adult coots, both male and female, I think. First year, or immature, coots probably won't have it.

Great shots!

[jwear]

Great series Jeff, very funny, and glad you could wade through the fight images to get this post worked up. :thumb :thumbwe must have 300 shots by now :D + todays :rofl

[jwear]

The red mark on the forehead is common to adult coots, both male and female, I think. First year, or immature, coots probably won't have it.

Great shots!you are very right but look at the way it stands out more in the fight than when they just walk about also right about how the h--- to you tell male from female :huh :dunno :scratch we looked agian today the mark stands out more in fighting but todays was to kill the other coot now this was a fight --Russ will post this one :thumb

[jwear]

:rofl :rofl :rofl Excellent! Maybe I don't need one after all! Can you teach me your silent ninja technique?:scratchno way it's me and the coots -- ninja all the way :D little coots and an old coot :thumb

[jwear]

I agree with Harv-- a couple of old coots arguing about cameras.... in a pretty kinky kind of way. Nice shots in any case!thanks -

[jwear]

Great action. Not sure what they are doing but from all the fights I've seen break out lately between all the different birds it seems they they all have this love-hate relationship when it comes to mating.

Ya know the other thing that surprised me about Coots. For all the time they spend on the water.. they don't have webbed feet.the feet have loobs [sp] on them not webbing but boy can they move on water :huh this is not mating --has to be pecking order :dunno

[jwear]

:D Man, these guys can really go for it.
You can easily fill-up a couple of CF cards on this kind of nonstop action.
I'd say love nor hate. See the third Coot in the second picture? That's the referee, just another Ali/Frazier match:D
:clap :clap :clapyep someone to break it up if the going gets out of hand :D

[jwear]

Since this IS in Callyfornya...they could be exchanging nipple rings!!! :barb

Nice captures, Jeff.:thumb so if they do the rings :scratch it would be marriage :dunno right :D only in LA --thanks

[jwear]

Fantastic series!

This is definitely not mating. Birds are pretty straight up fella on top when they are mating. And very quick, too. Most mating encounters are seconds long. Plus it's not mating season. You'll see mating behavior mostly in early spring, depending on the species.

So it's some kind of rivaly/aggression, although I've never seen coots fight this way. However, it is very common for some birds to fight primarily with their feet. the mating thing was only to make the joke -- this is not mating but I still have not found enough info for the true behavior and thanks for the input and your nice comment :thumb

[jwear]

Geez Wheez Louise ya know the answer is :


BOTH !! :ivar

nutting like a little loven after feudin and fussin

now where's DasiyMae when I need her :lust :ivar :roflnow now we are talking wildlife here :dunno :scratch oh so are you :D

[Giphsub]

no way it's me and the coots -- ninja all the way :D little coots and an old coot :thumb


Awww, dagnammit!:pissed

[Jackie W]

the mating thing was only to make the joke -- this is not mating but I still have not found enough info for the true behavior and thanks for the input and your nice comment :thumb
There I go again being too literal.

[raptorcaptor]

that is what I was thinking

Are you going to enter it then? :dunno

[dallas]

I think they're fighting over concert tickets, but a good fight it is.:clap :clap :clap