The difference in texture between long feathers and fluffy downs is very noticeable on this juvenile (I think it’s a redstart) .
A feather with a downy and a smooth part.
Guinea fowl with constrasting feathers.
Smooth egg and rough leaves.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
White Birds: dove, stork, swan, duck.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Words beginning with the Letters B or W
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My worst “looking up” moment with birds came many years ago when I saw 15 louries in the trees in our garden and I looked up and kept looking up and didn’t see where I was going and I fell in the pool, scraping my thigh which left me with a bruise that took literally years to go away. But it hasn’t cured me from looking up.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Birds
I saw this magpie last week sitting up in a tree and I marvelled how beautiful it was.
They are around but usually don’t let me get close.
There are exceptions to the rule.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Patterns in nature.
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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