Still
on my Highdown trip, I took one or two more shots of those
unidentified big black birds. I know they cannot be jackdaws due to
not having pretty silver eyes, but they could be more or less any
other 'big black bird'.
Here
is a blackbird that is just a blackbird - much easier to identify!
Parents and young were seen bug-pecking to one side as I walked over
the top of the hill on my way home from the gardens. Regular readers
may recall that the last time I took a trip up the hill, I came down
and found a pair of pigeons on the fence near the windmill turning.
Well, I came down the hill this trip and....
...yes,
there they were again! They were on the same fence, so I assume they
hang out at this pathway. If so, I shall probably have regular shots
of them throughout the years to come.
My
final photo to share today is a sad one. The local garden center
where I have begun to buy my suet pellets - as they stocked a wide
variety of flavors at a reasonable price - has closed. It has been
holding out promising not to for a long time - but the pressure to
sell must have finally got through. Housing will soon replace my
suet-stash-store...
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I always hate it when some nice, natural place like that gets developed. :(
ReplyDeleteBut I love the birds on the fence and the field full of black birds-- another scene that's like a van Gogh. :)
yeah - a garden center becomes a bunch of houses - YUK!
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