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Two birds, of sorts

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A quick snap ended being the last on my camera SD card. A sparrow on a mossy roof. It looked better in profile but it turned its head.

The yellow car in the second row is of course, a Citroën 2CV – in German lovingly nickname “Ente”, aka “duck”. It’s my last photo on the phone for May.

Last on the Card in May

Just Visiting

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I took this picture of a sparrow at the local bird park. He was only visiting and compared to the mostly larger, mostly more colourful and/or exotic he looked almost ordinary. But I find his long, thin claws fascinating and I adore the yellow base of his beak. In his way, he’s unique. And, of course, he’s free.

I learned to appreciate even the common sparrows from a friend, who is the current world record holder of having the most birds species logged (10,000 species this year). He’s seen the most exotic world all over the world, sometimes arranging a whole holiday around seeing one particular bird. I’ve been on walks with him and seen him getting satisfaction out of watching sparrows and wood doves and crows.

Monday Portrait

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Inhibitions, that is. FOWC with Fandango: Inhibitions Now for the fiction to go with the photos: Chase, Nick, and Gad, three sparrow brothers born in the same nest only this spring, were used to hanging around the bakery. The pickings were good – if the … Continue reading None.

I’m a Fan of a Maize Maze

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What it looks when you’re in the maize maze:

And this is what it looks like if you’re tall and on your tippy toes;

But mostly it looks like this:

The object is to find nine boards with clues to a puzzle which will lead to a one word solution. Every year the maze is new and has a different theme. This year it is about Greek and Roman mythology.

In the middle is a tower structure where one is able to get an overview of the maze:

With renewed hope to find the final board and the last clue one can go back down but then it’s back to this:

Fortunately we weren’t stuck in the maze until the end of the harvest. This little fellow led us out. If you believe that.

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