This pair of owls are atop the trees in the woodland walks outside of Nymans, which was our final trip for February.
At home, a pair of collared doves seem to have moved into my yard.
Our next trip was to Wakehurst Place. Above you can see a pond of birds which was near to the start of our several hours of ramblings.
This is the first of many pheasants we encountered on this trip. I just thought it looked nice and colorful in spring plumage at this point. We had many more pheasant encounters on our day's outing though.
A woodpecker seems to have enjoyed this branch prior to its falling off the tree.
Talking of pheasants, we arrived at a possible picnic spot in the Himalayan Glade to find one using one of the picnic seats.
We sat down to eat our lunch and this fella came and stood in front of us....as if to say 'gimme food' in seagull, ibis, pigeon, or pelican style. I was unsure if it would like my fare - but offered it a small corner from my dry seaweed crisp...which it took and devoured - with little enthusiasm but high intent.
The pheasant was not the only one eyeing our lunch... a treefull of blue tits and great tits and a single coal tit eyed us as soon as we brought food out of our backpacks.
Wow, what a great bunch of pictures. I love the pheasant in the field of yellow flowers, especially.
ReplyDeleteyeah the contrast between pheasant colors and daffs is cool....
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