This
brings us to my next excursion, taken on bank holiday Monday with my
friend Liz. We went to the final of 10 days of the 40th Arundel
Festival. Regular readers might have expected me to mention Arundel
when spotting my first photo - as it is the sort of shot I take when
attending the Arundel Christmas celebrations most years. Here we see
three sculpted birds, including a rook (far right) that more
resembles a blackbird to me.
Amongst
many other activities, we had a peek at a woodwork display. This
seemed to focus on birds and bears, although there were other
sculptures. I took 2 or 3 shots of the bird related pieces.
As
you see, eagles and owls seem to be featured prominently. Another of
our activities was popping along to Swanbourne Lake to feed the ducks
- and pigeons. Both mallards and city pigeons were in attendance,
along with gulls, jackdaws, and a breed of duck Liz knew as the Carolina.
Above
you can see the pigeons our seed offering attracted, while below you
can see how close they would come for food and an example of this
female Carolina duck.
Information
about migration can be found HERE.
That picture of the bunch of pigeons is great, as is the Carolina duck.
ReplyDeleteThe sculptures are terrific, too. I love that swooping owl.
yes i rather like that bunch of pigeons round liz's foot snap too - make a great desktop wallpaper!
ReplyDeleteI love the variety of markings.
ReplyDeleteyes, despite all being 'city pigeons' they are mutli-colored 0- we found that when breeding with show pigeons varying characteristics of color came out - for example, our B&W crossed with browl owl-styl.e pigeons came out 3 x magicians snow white and 1 x pal grey...
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