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Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birds. Show all posts
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Flocking starlings

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click photo to enlarge Ever since, during childhood, I developed an interest in birds  I've enjoyed watching and learning from these ...
Saturday, February 07, 2015

I really don't photograph birds...

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click photo to enlarge ...except when I do! Today's photograph refers back to a post I made in 2008 which itself referred to a coupl...
Saturday, June 29, 2013

Private schools and song thrushes

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click photo to enlarge The other day I walked past the scene shown in this photograph and fell to thinking. My first thought centred on t...
Monday, February 27, 2012

Doves, pigeons and breeding seasons

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click photo to enlarge One of the things I remember from my younger days, a time when I pursued bird-watching with a deeper interest tha...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Ring-necked parakeet invaders

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click photo to enlarge Walking along Rotherhithe Street in London the other day my ears and then my eyes were drawn to a ring-necked par...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Birds, man and the plough

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click photo to enlarge Today I was looking at the bird box in my willow tree. I placed it there two years ago in the hope that a blue tit (P...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Rooks

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click photo to enlarge I recall that on at least one occasion during my childhood the gun club in the market town where I lived took their w...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Sculpture as perch

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click photo to enlarge Whenever I visit Whitby in North Yorkshire I trudge up the steps of West Cliff, to the statue of Captain Cook at the ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

The carrion crow

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click photo to enlarge "Carein Crowes...neuer medle with any quicke flesh." The earliest known record of the name Carrion Crow in ...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Feather

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click photo to enlarge "Birdbrain n. colloq . a stupid or flighty person" (Concise Oxford Dictionary). Anyone with a passing inter...