Sunday, September 23, 2018

BIRD NEWS:433


One of my last photos from the between bus wait in Worthing is of the seagull watching the pigeons. I do have a couple more pictures of the turnstones to share before ending the pictures from this excursion though.



The very next day, I was off out again - this time with Liz to Pulborough Brooks. I only took a couple of pictures on this trip. The first is of a bird of prey we spotted on our wanderings along a footpath that lead from the RSPB reserve to Pulborough. On our return trip we found it sitting on a post. The photo makes it look like a wood pigeon - but thru binoculars it was seeable as a bird of prey.


We later discovered that the first one we had seen was a marsh harrier, with a later sighting of a buzzard. Earlier still we had seen both buzzard and red kite - so this trip was definitely a good one for spotting birds of prey! Regular readers may guess that this destination would result in a couple of show pigeon pictures, as it did.


The first shot shows a city pigeon on the pigeon hole roof and two white show pigeons further along, while my final photo from this trip shows 3 show pigeons enjoying the fresh water recently poured into the bird bath by a staff member.


My next excursion relative to birds was to Findon sheep fair with Liz and Megan in early September. Obviously there were more sheep than birds, but there was a birds of prey display that we caught the tail end of one showing and the start of a second show, and a pair of tents filled with the birds for me to photograph.




There are a couple of birds on THIS path!

3 comments:

  1. I like that bird of prey tent, with everyone just waiting for the waiter to deliver their meal. :D

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  2. lol, thats water bowls.... i have a couple more pictures from that trip to go....then nothing!

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  3. Oh, I thought they were having a picnic. :D

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