wood pigeon

Bit of fun in the garden this morning,

Pigeon trying to keep dry but failing in the UK weather :)

This is real posing

First bird I saw as I walked into the arboretum. He was walking on the path ahead of me, like another tourist.

testing a lens for birds in flight - so far so good

A scarce Migrant to Shetland, Being Islands with virtually no Trees there is just no habitat for them, They feed for a few days get there bearings and move on most likely to Scandinavia.

.... take a deep breath. Couldn't resist this one for a bit of Sunday fun.

The day after last week's snow and the sun came out! There was still plenty of snow lying but it had fallen off the branches by this time. I've still some 'snowy' pictures to show you (including a few fun ones for the weekend;)) Wood Pigeon isn't the most common of my garden visitors so I...

This Woody nicks all the monkey nuts; swallows them whole. Through the double glazing as usual.

Weathers been terrible, so hav'nt been out and about, but just had to try the new lens out on something(lol)

My sister wasn't really too keen on the Wood Pigeons, or at least not in numbers... she'd tolerate one for a short while then shoo it away. This one was right at the bottom of her garden and just has the look to me of him knowing he shouldn't really be there LOL. August holiday in Wiltshire...

Wood pigeons; local pair. Guret; October 2012.

Wood Pigeons; local pair. Guret; October 2012.

Wood Pigeon; adult. Montgivray, Berry. October 2012.

Wood Pigeon; adult. Guret; October 2012.

Sorry, guys, I've had to call an unexpected halt to my trip pictures, as I've broken my external hard drive and just about every picture I've taken was on it. I just hope I can manage to get it repaired, or somehow retrieve the pictures. So this is one of the pictures that was on the card which...

I was quite pleased with this, I usually struggle to get any detail in a bird when taken against the sky. I'll need to remember the settings LOL. Another of my sister's garden visitors, but she's quite strict with them, allowing one at a time onto the patio, otherwise they gobble all the food...

After having planted up with flowers which have have now faded thought I would reopen the seed inn as its neer the window and my first new guest is a wood pigeon hope to get many more in the winter time aswell.

En route to Kenmore, we stopped at Birnam (remember the Birnam Wood from Macbeth?). Beatrix Potter spent a lot of time in this village (which adjoins Dunkeld) and a pretty little garden has been developed as part of the visitor centre. Hidden in various places are little models of her...