7 posts tagged “birds”

I saw this on the BBC and these rooks just blow my mind...

how long would it take you to come up with these solutions to the problem?

Urracá has some suggestions... Kitty too come to think of it..

Sunrise, now also with snow.
Sunbeams criss crossing down through the clouds.
- Always make me think of religious paintings.
What's that over behind the bushes?
Is it? OOh, it IS a flying ship!
Sailing through the clouds just over the horizon.
I like flying ships, did I mention that?
It's freezing, I fed the birds, but they preferred the rose hips on the bushes.
The duck pond is frozen too.
and it's freezing inside my house...
I had a guy spend hours trying to get my radiator to work again...
some little thingy got itself stuck shutting off the heating in my bedroom
- he couldn't fix it...
 it better get fixed though before it gets REALLY cold.

The grass is high, and the roses are full of thorns, so it's easier to walk down here by the water. The sound of the waves is really nice too.

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There's really nobody out here today. We'll go up the beach.





There is a little harbour with loads and loads of ships in it. It looks like a natural harbour... like a little cove with a few islands in it where the moorings are on the inside... but I suspect the sea-side is old manmade dikes.


There are loads of flowers in the tall grass we're walking through on the inside of the harbour.
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The sun is low, the grass catches the last rays.
Hey, look at all those birds out in the harbour


Those are eiders... just one boy in black and white with a green mullet and loads and loads of girls... They should nest where polar bears roam.. but a few nest as far south as Denmark. There's a grebe and a tern in the background too. Oh yeah, and there's a somewhat largish  buoy.. with some birdshit on it...  That's the orange thingy.

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We're coming closer.
Have you seen it yet, what I found?
It's not the herefords although they're cute too. They are in the other field.



It's a Shaggy Coo!
Isn't it adorable... I didn't get any really good pictures because the light was failing me... but I'm so happy to know there are shaggy coos in the neighborhood.



It's getting dark now, we best be getting home before the mosquitoes come out... Did you bring repellant??  Oh, never mind they hardly ever bite.


   
 

Come visit my garden!

It's not a particularly interesting garden as SUCH, but I love it....

For several reasons.

The view over the sea first... but I'm having a hard time catching the view... it kinda gets too small in the pictures. So I'm still working on a good representation of the view.

 Zooming all the way out to the little sailboats gives a totally different picture.

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The garden has loads of birds. Nothing fancy or rare or anything, but lovely little guys who go about their daily business right in front of me...





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This little blackbird dude had just left the nest and hadn't quite realized that it's dangerous to sit around and scream for your parents in the middle of the lawn..
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The guys below here are tits... and I have no idea how they earned that name in English... but they're awfully cute and they like cleaning out aphids from the trees.

But every once in a while the view from my garden is just magic....
It could be a rainbow... or a flying fishing boat..

This film shows the Canadian forests and their importance to the entire rest of the world.... 

special dedication to Ruth who's doing archaeological work RIGHT now RIGHT there...
go visit her blog to hear about it.

wild chronicles podcasts are free...