Tag: birds

I’m a fan of cormorants

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I know that cormorants can be become pests if they are too numerous and fishers don’t like them because they can decimate fish numbers quite rapidly. This is a lonely cormorant though, which I have never seen in company – if it is the same one. These photos were taken a year apart.

Linked to I’m a Fan of … #74. More fanatical photos can be found here.

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Aino’s template for the Värikollaasit / Colour Collage this week were these peppery colours:

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and I played around.  This collage is too blue but I love the swan and his prominent beak:

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I then took other beaks into the mix: swan, duck, goose, and stork:

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And here I contrasted the softness of a painting with the starkness of a cartoon:

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And I can’t make up my  mind which I like best.

If you want to have a look what others did with the pepper spice colour, have a look.

Never stop looking up

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It’s a question of perspective: the stork looks down and I look up to him.

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And it even looks down on tall towers, water towers, and

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church spires, and

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artisans’ trees.

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Or real trees.

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Looking up, it’s more than one bird,

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yet the single one stands out

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even as it settles down.

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Point your camera upwards.

 

Sticking together

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Six ducklings, can’t tell if it’s boys or girls.

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Six ducklings, all grown up.  Everybody can tell: three boys, three girls,

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Lots of pigeons, anytime. Sitting anywhere at all.

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Lots of pigeons, in winter. Sitting in a row.

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And flying high!

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: 5+ items. Click on the link for more than 5.

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