Posted in General on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday I saw a lovely bird swooping soft and low close to where I was walking.
I was walking down the lane shown in the photo. Birds were singing - but I couldn’t see the birds that were singing.
Then silently a bird came into sight and flew down the lane. At that moment in time the bird was [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
Bird photographs - I enjoyed myself this morning trying to get photographs of birds.
I only managed to get two good ones. Here they are -
Blackbird having a rest after eating its breakfast
Robin at home near the garden
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s a photograph of sparrows enjoying the day.
A minute or two before I took this photo they were flitting about feeding at my feeders.
Within the space of a minute I counted twenty birds at two of my feeders. Some were at the feeders some were waiting. I had to count quickly because they were flitting [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Feb 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
Hope you like these photos. It took me ages to get them. The bird didn’t stay still for a minute. It flitted from branch to branch and tree to tree. It’s song and it’s colour made it easy for me to follow it as it flew near me.
Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds on Nov 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
The domain of birds. Just had to put this phot in. The colours are the colours of the countryside, around us all the time but we never notice them.
Blue sky and leafless trees. How boring I think to myself. But looking at it from a different viewpoint the scene is worth taking a minute to [...]
Posted in Countryside of the Yorkshire Wolds on Nov 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
As some birds roost near our garden I sometimes think what it must be like sleep so close to the elements and in total darkness. I took the photo because, to me, the darkness didn’t look inviting and because to the birds that same darkness must be inviting. It must mean safety in numbers and shelter from the weather.
