Eastern Phoebe on a Park Bench, near a Flower Garden in album flowers
Jun 26th, 2011, by Alex Zorach
This isn't so much a photo of one particular thing as it is a colorful scene that I just found so cute I could not resist. The small-looking bird perched on the bench is an Eastern Phoebe, a bird that perches for long periods of time, often flicking its tail, while it waits for a large insect, which it proceeds to chase, and usually catch and eat.
The rest of the photo shows a colorful flower garden, which includes daisies, black-eyed Susans, petunias, scarlet bee balm, and numerous other flowers. The tiny portion of car showing on the right of the photo is my car. This picture was taken in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia.