I Want To Make You Laugh With My Photographs Of Birds From The Front (36 Pics)
Frontals is a series of bird photos I have been collecting for over ten years. When you get the time to take a series of pictures of one single bird, you will always have one or two frontals in between. I realized from the start that they made the birds look completely different. From that moment on, I decided to focus on it and make sure I would have at least one frontal in each series. Some birds start to look like angry birds, some funny or even ridiculous.
Especially waders change completely as they tend to have long bills not visible from the front. I am familiar with the species, but when you don’t know them, frontals can hide extreme characteristics of the birds. In owls and birds of prey, frontals are basically the normal way of looking at you, so they are only fun when they twist their heads. I think only spoonbills are really much prettier when they show their great bill with yellow spots and tufted head.
Frontals also allow you to create unusual compositions, from a photographic point of view. "Less is more" works great with frontal birds.
Enjoy the pictures and I think after seeing the frontals, you can never look at birds in the same way again!
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Short-Eared Owl
Fun fact about owls: they can rotate their heads 270° to make up for not being able to move their eyeballs.
Spoonbill
I’ve seen a Roseate Spoonbill, which is even more gourmet than this!
Red-Breasted Goose
Canada geese are too successful a species, at least in my mind. In the San Francisco Bay Area they NEVER LEAVE! Where I live now (still in California but farther north), they’re—thankfully—only here in the winter.
Load More Replies...is it just me or does the bird look painted, it looks really cool that way
Black Stork
Great Egret
Great Bittern
There Is also an old steam train called bittern.
Load More Replies...Bitterns do this because they tend to hang out in reeds and it helps them blend right in. However, I once saw an American Bittern that was pointing up like this but it was actually standing out in the open, so it looked pretty silly.
Most of the beautiful and majestic birds turn funny when you take a pic from the front XD
Lesser Black Backed Gull
Marsh Tit
The same person who named the Great Tit, the Blue Tit, and the Coal Tit
Load More Replies...In a world of amazing birds, they’re definitely among the cutest.
Load More Replies...Looks just like a North American chickadee - which is in the same family, I believe.
Yep: Paridae. North America has several chickadees: Black-capped (the most common), Boreal, Carolina, Chestnut-backed (my personal favorite), Gray-headed, Mexican, and Mountain.
Load More Replies...Wood Pigeon
The second pic looks like the head id upside down!!!!!!!!!!! and a bit scary!!!
Waxwing
Now it will fly head-first into somebody's window after getting drunk on fermented berries.
That happened frequently at my childhood home in California. We had a ton of pyracantha bushes, and the berries are like bird wine.
Load More Replies...That’s a Bohemian Waxwing, found in many parts of the world; in California we get Cedar Waxwings, which are just in North America. They’re both gorgeous birds. I once watched a Cedar Waxwing and an American Robin tussle over just who had access to the pyracantha bush full of fermented berries!
Anyone see that comedian , I think it's Burt Chrystler or something like that. The skit where he talks about acting with a bear , and the trainer said to put a marshmallow in his mouth to entice the bear over
Red Kite
The first is so majestic and stunning, the second looks like my two year old nephew when we tell him no :)
They’re ubiquitous throughout North America. I’m very fond of Red-shouldered Hawks myself.
Load More Replies...second is me in math class when someone asks me for help...."DO I LOOK SMART TO YOU??! Get your eyes checked!"
Common Whitethroat
Hawfinch
Yes its amazing!
Load More Replies...In the lower photo it’s pretty clear that bird is about to give someone what-for!
First picture: "Not now. I'm busy." Second picture: "You're still here? What did I tell you?!"
Kingfisher
In my place it is called tengkek.. I capture this bird once with my bare hand.. Just grab it to its tunnel on river side
Long-Eared Owl
Magpie
Magpies are related to crows and ravens (Corvidae), so you know they’re smart! California’s only endemic bird is the Yellow-billed Magpie.
I don’t care how smart they are. They’re all pigs. Constantly shooing crows away from my feeders! Have noticed lately bluebirds don’t tolerate their💩! Been nice watching my birds being cooped these pastmonths!
Robin
Thank you for clarifying. I was about to call BS that's not a Robin lol
Load More Replies...booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop it
This kind were called robins before ours. Their robins are warblers ours are thrushes.
Load More Replies...Bearded Tit
Any day is a great day for tits as far as I’m concerned...
Load More Replies...Grey Patridge
Ringed Plover
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Bluethroat
Eider
You can’t even see it’s eyes! So perfectly matched with the feathers! I’m sooo loving these close shots of these birds!
House Sparrow
These birds may be the most invasive species in the world, but man, they are still adorable
Water Rail
Slaty-breasted Rail; ubiquitous in Southeast Asia’s wetlands. The front view of its little sticky-up tail is pretty dang cute.
Little Grebe
Great Tit
Somebody with a tittle fettish LOL I would like to know too! How about Great D***
Black-Necked Grebe
Common Snipe
Red Throated Diver
Yes exact its divers and loons family
Load More Replies...Oystercatcher
What’s He doing in a cow pasture? Is he a Rocky Mountain Oystercatcher? : )
Would like to borrow him for a couple hours if he does, in fact catch oysters
Jay
https://www.boredpanda.com/birds-photography-counting-jays-garden-ruurd-jelle-van-der-leij/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic is this also your post? Great story!
House Martin
I'm pretty sure they're eating bugs or berries small, thin stems.
Load More Replies...Woodcock
Most 'rude' words are named after the animals. Yes, that means tits, boobies, c***s. There's even a mammal called a dik dik. And nuts and balls also come from pre-existing objects. You can stop losing your mind on every photo now.
Load More Replies...Caspian Gull
I've never really understood the general dislike of gulls; I simply see them as the beautiful creatures they are.
They appear out of nowhere in the large group when you try to eat French-fries on the streets of Amsterdam. Pretty creepy.
Load More Replies...Loved all his photos and laugh I did! Along with some other bird watchers!
Whinchat
Curlew
North America has the incredibly gorgeous relative, the Long-billed Curlew!
That was the most impressive list of birds I have ever come across. Especially showing both top and front. Thank you, I loved it.
They said I couldn't become a Kiwi Bird. I proved them all wrong!!!
Thanks I Will keep that in mind
Load More Replies...I am impressed by the qualities of photos, nothing funny here, i just enjoyed it all :)
Thank you. Wonderful--especially the house sparrow. Of all the millions of kinds of birds, this is my favorite. Tossing fries (I know) to several sparrows at a fast-food joint is my first memory of birds.
Okay, before other people downvote Kryogen, he wasn't exactly INSULTING this post.
Load More Replies...Thanks I Will keep that in mind
Load More Replies...I am impressed by the qualities of photos, nothing funny here, i just enjoyed it all :)
Thank you. Wonderful--especially the house sparrow. Of all the millions of kinds of birds, this is my favorite. Tossing fries (I know) to several sparrows at a fast-food joint is my first memory of birds.
Okay, before other people downvote Kryogen, he wasn't exactly INSULTING this post.
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