Tag: Birds
Baby chickadees
These baby chickadees are off to a great start in life. They’ll be flying away soon and I can’t imagine what their future holds. Five tiny nestlings, five different futures.
They’ve had the very good fortune to have hatched inside a nest box provided by our dear friend, nature lover Greg Grant. Outside a beautiful, wild landscape is waiting for them that seems lifted out of a storybook. Continue reading
Looking Out Over The Grand Canyon
Can you make out the tiny people on the rocky outcrop in the foreground? It must be an amazing feeling to be standing there, assuming you’ve got a head for heights.
Garden Companions: Pelican and Alligator
I saw these two friends in a garden in New Orleans. They look like they’ve been sitting side by side at ease (or on guard) in a shady, green corner for quite some time. Continue reading
City Twitchers’ Garden
The post inspired by this week’s photo challenge (circle) has been hatching for some time – since July’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show to be precise!
When I first saw the garden, the snug dimensions of the globe wicker structure puzzled me until I realised it was a bird hide, woven by willow sculptor Carole Beavis. I must have been experiencing sensory overload at the time (Hampton Court can be like that) or you would have thought the bird houses on the walls, the log pile to attract insects and the wildlife-friendly flowers might have been a clue that this is an urban bird watchers’ garden. Even the cushion covers inside the hide have birds on them! Continue reading
Weekly photo challenge: Sea bird
The best thing for me about the weekly photo challenge is that it encourages me to share pictures that would otherwise never see the light of day. Continue reading
Weekly photo challenge: depth
A blue bird sits on an old contorted branch at the top of a dying tree and looks out over the edge of the Grand Canyon. How wonderful it must be to be a bird there! Continue reading
Wintry Lancashire Walk
Recipe for a winter walk, with a chance to peep into some gardens along the way, starting in Chapeltown, Lancashire.
Roseate Spoonbill
I photographed this colourful bird in Florida. I think it’s a Roseate Spoonbill, but am happy to be corrected.
I’d have loved to see it in flight.
