Please help --love or hate ????

jwear

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

jwear

Wait !!was it something I said

jwear

Ok Ok YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME

jwear

well all I can do is pray for them what do you think

[Deleted User]

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.

dbaker1221

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

Giphsub

Nice series Jeff.

raptorcaptor

First phot Jeff!

BigAl

Great action Jeff

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

dallas

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

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

PrescottPhotog

jwear wrote:

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

Harv wrote:

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

I believe but if that was true the canon owner would have scared the other wildlife away :cry ask Russ

Ric Grupe

jwear wrote:

Is this mating or divorce I can feel your heart beating

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

Nice captures, Jeff.

Jackie W

Not Love
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

Harv wrote:

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

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 :ivar

jwear

draggin wrote:

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

I 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 thanks for joining in on the fun

jwear

dbaker1221 wrote:

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

it is fotball season that may be it 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

jwear

Giphsub wrote:

Nice series Jeff.

thanks buddy all shots done with out a blind

Giphsub

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

jwear

raptorcaptor wrote:

First phot Jeff!

that is what I was thinking

jwear

BigAl wrote:

Great action Jeff

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

thanks -=-yep something like that only that red thing on the forehead

Jackie W

Coot forehead
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

dallas wrote:

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

we must have 300 shots by now + todays

jwear

Jackie W wrote:

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 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

jwear

Giphsub wrote:

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

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

jwear

JohnDC wrote:

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

PrescottPhotog wrote:

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 this is not mating --has to be pecking order

jwear

riddim_maker wrote:

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

yep someone to break it up if the going gets out of hand