Robert, Desert Son OM kindly reminded us that today is Caine’s birthday. I am rubbish at dates, but I always prefer birthdays to death days, as they speak of life and quite often, of happy memories.
How to better celebrate Caine’s birthday than with a bird, so here’s a duck on a sea of gold. Happy Birthday, Caine!
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Hello and welcome to Monday Mercurial, a regular feature for all the critters out there. Sadly we won’t be able to keep up the Daily Bird, but we will replace it with three regular features throughout the week for the winged and furred inhabitants of planet Earth.
This is a young magpie that kept begging for food, even though it was already old enough to get over to the bowl of dogfood some campers had forgotten outside.
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Magpies!
Another species that lived at the camp site. They were a lot less shy than the ones I’m used to.
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Another one of the swallow pics, this time being nicely framed by the reeds.
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Another one of the swallows, a young fledgling that sat in the bougainvillea on its first day out.
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A Eurasian Serlin
They live at the camp site, too, and they are damn loud.
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Back to the swallows. An estimated 500 pictures yielded some actually nice ones.
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Collared Doves were another species that inhabits the camp site and that will come and pick breadcrumbs from basically under your feet.
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We’ve been neglecting the Daily Bird, which is a thing that cannot be.
So here’s a gorgeous Sardinian Warbler for you.
The funny thing about shooting with the 600mm lense is that I sometimes don’t even know what I’m shooting and only find out at home when I look at the pics on the computer screen.
Sardinian Warbler
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A quick birdie before I crawl back to bed.
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Camp sites are probably an El Dorado for sparrows, who know no shyness but really like breadcrumbs
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A Barnacle Goose family having supper together, from Ice Swimmer, click for full size!
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Tree chickens!
The “private area” of the mini farm was directly opposite our caravan, and while it was protected with a reed fence, there was a tree that was higher than the fence and the tree had a ramp for the chickens. In the evening some of them enjoyed to walk up the ramp and then hop from branch to branch. I so love that chess board pattern one.
What yer lookin’ at? Never seen a bird in a tree? ©Giliell, all rights reserved
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