Just had a quick look thru the very few pix i took today..and found these...
I was photographing an excellent flower...[herb robert]...in a pile of descarded slates that had been tipped on my local patch. Whilst taking pix i noticed a discarded gorilla....!!
Ah, memories of another flower/herb that was once in our herb bed and slipped away from us unnoticed. I know we had it for years but can't remember the last time I saw it. I do seem to recall though a little gorilla eying it suspiciously....................
Chuckle..!
[usually the only 'great ape' i see is myself in reflections]...
Mate. Too good. When's the folio out????
Just had a quick look thru the very few pix i took today..and found these...
I was photographing an excellent flower...[herb robert]...in a pile of descarded slates that had been tipped on my local patch. Whilst taking pix i noticed a discarded gorilla....!!
Amazing what is to be found.....:cat:
ps...i have a crude but excellent carving of gorilla's that i bought from the locals in Uganda a while back...it takes pride of place on my wall...marvelous creatures....[like you didn't know]....
just having a lunchtime browse- thought provoking as ever- the unexpectedness of the gorill reminds me of this favourite from one David Fullarton (the image, not the sentiment, I hasten to add..)
http://www.society6.com/studio/davidfullarton/Gratuitous_Simian_Profanity
Nicked my line . . . :-OGadwall's a first for Leicester is it?! Well there's a thing!
Mike
Gadwall's a first for Leicester is it?! Well there's a thing!
Mike
Chuckle...!
[Actually...gadwall was new for my local patch quite recently...not that that's relevant or remotely interesting to anyone but myself]...
Was 'patching' this morning amid the rains and by good fortune found a second pair of hobbies....[they found me in reality]...
I nipped up to where the original pair are and found the damp female perched in the shooters oak.....[see attached pic]....
I sat on a fallen tree nearby and got equally damp....:smoke:
those hobbies
all those years expecting to find them in pine trees, and it turns out to be oaks oaks oaks
and how strange that they do so well as swift numbers plummet- must be at least for now that prey does not limit them even in july/august when they move to taking birds, but they were nest site limited when crows were more controlled..
. . . embryonic? - the start od the Ibis colonisation of the east Midlands. Please don't apologise for being either a Hobby-nut or for posting pics of them - tremendous little bird with which I only have had a handful of encounters (almost as charismatic as an arctic skua . . . .).ps...haven't a clue why i've done it egg-shaped...:smoke:
. . . embryonic? - the start od the Ibis colonisation of the east Midlands. Please don't apologise for being either a Hobby-nut or for posting pics of them - tremendous little bird with which I only have had a handful of encounters (almost as charismatic as an arctic skua . . . .).