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I love watching the birds and other wildlife in my garden, and take a lot of pictures. I would like to share a few of them with you! I have thousands and thousands, and so obviously can't show them all, but here are just a couple of my favourites to get you started. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do! :)
This is my first time here on this forum and so I have no idea how I'm supposed to use it - apologies if I've done anything wrong!
Hi Anna.
What brilliant pictures! Welcome to the forum.
Paul.
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Thank you everybody!
If you are interested in some more pictures which aren't confined to the birds and wildlife in my garden, I have uploaded a few to my personal gallery. I don't know how to link to it though, you'll have to go to my profile page and view them from there for now!
I'm not entirely sure this counts as true wildlife, but it's a life, and it's in my garden! A lonely lost racing pigeon - I know pigeons aren't always the most popular of birds but who can deny this one's splendour? Well I can't, I think it's gorgeous.
And here it is again :)
Wow! Now there's a bird that knows how to pose! What a film star!
Where kestrel hangs wing-stiff at hungering dawn
And fern fronds, unfurling, from winter are torn
Absolutely - great shots there, Anna. Is the bird still with you or has it decided to continue on home now?
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
Love that iridescence!! Lovely shots!
"All weeds are flowers, once you get to know them" (Eeyore)
My photos on Flickr
Squirrel B said: Absolutely - great shots there, Anna. Is the bird still with you or has it decided to continue on home now?
It has since moved on - it stayed for about a week or so, feeding and drinking in my garden or just sitting on my roof. I was beginning to worry about it! I hope desperately its homing instinct kicked back in and it returned to its owner - if you're interested, I managed to read its ring number from all the photographs I took and did a bit of research - it was an Irish bird, so it was a long way from home (I live in Cornwall!!)
Unknown said: ... - it was an Irish bird, so it was a long way from home (I live in Cornwall!!)
... - it was an Irish bird, so it was a long way from home (I live in Cornwall!!)
Summer holidaying?... ☺
Squirrel B said: ... - it was an Irish bird, so it was a long way from home (I live in Cornwall!!)
Could well have been - it did pick the best week, weather-wise, that we've had for a long while!
Hi Anna,
Again more lovely photos!
We had a racing pigeon that came in once, we named him Schumacher! He was black and white and stayed for a couple of weeks feeding from the feeder, quite tame. One day I came out to find him perched on the back of the garden chair right near the back door watching me. So I chatted away to him (as you do) and he then flew off. We never saw him again. I'd like to think he was waiting to say goodbye in a silly sentimental kind of way.....but when I saw the rather large deposit he'd left on the chair...mmmm perhaps not!
We did have photos of him but alas we lost these when our hard drive failed.
Regards
Kerry
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