{"id":279,"date":"2008-09-04T10:08:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-09-04T10:53:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:53:41","slug":"an-unexpected-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamhadjes.com\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"An unexpected visitor…."},"content":{"rendered":"

this morning Elias woke me up with excitement in his voice, ‘Momma, Mom, Mommy! There is a new bird in our yard!’\u00a0 I got up and grabbed my camera to go see.\u00a0 When I looked at the bird I was shocked as it looked nothing like the little chickadees and robins that we’ve come accustomed to seeing in our yard- this birdie was ‘different’.\u00a0 Standing about a third of the size of our chickens, with thick stocky legs and feet (unlike a chickadee but more like chicken legs), intriguing markings and little desire to fly away- this bird was worth getting a picture of and finding our bird guide book.\u00a0 The bird book wasn’t entirely helpful other than telling us what it wasn’t, so I called in more help- I called my friend Val<\/a>, the resident authority on all things nature.\u00a0 She listened to my discription and said her guess was grouse or pheasant.\u00a0 At that point it was just a short google search through images of each and related birds before I found our bird- the Chukar Partridge<\/a>, national bird of Pakistan!\u00a0 Native to areas in Europe and Asia but now found many places around the globe this ground nesting bird has a favorite food, the weeds in our yard<\/a>!\u00a0 Little Chukar seems quite interested in wanting to be in the coop with the chickens which makes me wonder if its possible that this bird came from a local neighbor (they are sometimes kept for their eggs aparently<\/a>).\u00a0 I’ll decide later if I need to post ‘Found Chukar’ posters about the neighborhood, in the mean time he\/she seems quite happy to eat our weeds and bed down in the bean bed near the chicken coop.\u00a0 The kids can now find Pakistan on the world map!\u00a0 *click on any of the images to see them bigger*<\/p>\n

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