Tag: birds

The Bird Trilogy

Photographers of WordPress, do you ever print your pictures?

I did, towards the end of last year, so that I could decorate my living room walls. After all the works done on my flat, it was time for change. I bought a new string of lights with the little pegs to attach the pics. The string runs horizontally over my sofa, rounds a corner above the book shelf and ends vertically next to the book shelf. (I hope that makes sense enough for you to picture it). Here I share with you three pictures from the vertical section–you can spot the common theme:

The robin and the duck pictures have featured here before, the crow one hasn’t.

Some Photblog is not short of pictures of crows and ducks. It was the robin that was a true scoop–I was so lucky that day!

Robin, Robin!

And this, my friends, is the proof that it pays not to be lazy, sometimes.

I had a couple of days off work and on one of them, the weather being camera-friendly, I decided that instead of sitting at home, I would go to Heaton Park. This is normally too early for me, I don’t go there before Easter, but like I say, it was dry and sunny and as it was a weekday, I knew there wouldn’t be many people. It turned out to be a right decision because I scored an absolute scoop:

Funny thing is that I don’t think I’d seen a real robin before, ever in my life. I couldn’t believe how friendly it was, coming quite close and not scared at all. I snapped a few photos; these are the best ones.

So, there you have it. Also, the second time I went to Heaton Park outside of my usual season and returned with something beautiful!

Starlings In The Tree

They fly together in loops above the roofs of the houses in my neighbourhood, and once they’re done with that, they settle down on this tree next to my house and chill out.

I wonder if they know how much they provoke my cat!

They also make appearance in my flash fiction short story The Camera Smiles (written for a prompt by The New, Unofficial, On-Line Writer’s Guild). The story is true, except it was initially a crow that made me reach for my camera, not the starlings, but by the time I got it out and pried the lens cap, which really got stuck on the lens (to the point where I had to google how to take it off), the crow flew away and the starlings took over the tree.

Magpie in a Tree

The first post of 2021 is here!

I start the year with a photo of a bird in a tree, for once not taken from my window. I took the picture while I was walking under the tree.

The magpie looked pleased with its catch–I think it’s the little cup-like thing that you bake muffins in, I don’t know what it’s called.

There are lots of crows and magpies in my neighbourhood, I can always hear them shouting, especially the crows in the mornings.

Caw It From The Rooftops

Look at this majestic crow, sitting there and cawing like it’s on top of the world.

Okay, from the picture you can’t tell it was cawing but believe me, it was. That’s how I noticed it, as I don’t normally look at tops of houses.

Pics captured on the way from the supermarket.

I love it when I get amazing results when doing something so mundane as shopping for groceries. It’s the little things, hey. Which is a lot, in this year of hell.

World in October Part 2

A follow-up to my previous post, World in October–more October pics!

I like crows but birds are always so impossible for me to photograph. This was taken from quite a distance and I cropped it a lot afterwards, hence the weird composition.

Over the years, I’ve taken a million pictures of this tree from my living room window (well, not literally a million but you know what I mean) but I have never seen that many birds on its branches. Must have got lucky to catch them at a conference. Or maybe they’re just chilling after some big event, whatever that was.

Birdy

While staying home saving lives, I took a picture of a bird chilling on a tree branch.

This tree is popular among crows and magpies. They like to sit there and make noise and it makes my cat crazy!

And so, it turns out taking photos from the window is not a stupid thing after all.