Saturday, 13 July 2019

Birds of a Feather


A magpie in its watchtower
 There's not much going on here, so I thought I'd dump these photos of various birds that visit the gardens of the DeVice Mansion onto the blog.
 The avian visitors are overseen by a magpie (right, who is sometimes harried by a couple of crows), and include a family of great spotted woodpeckers, a pheasant couple, no end of chaffinches, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, long-tailed tits, greenfinches, and goldfinches, one or two robins, a jay, a couple of collared doves, and some wood pigeons.
 There was also a partridge on the front lawn once, and a grey heron did a very low flyover not long ago, pursued by a couple of seagulls. 

Great spotted woodpecker







Cock pheasant
"What?  Can't a guy stand on one foot for an inordinate amount of time if he wants?!?"

 The hen pheasant is pretty fearless - if she sees movement through the paysho doors, she'll come running over, clucking away, for a handful of seed.  The cock is a little more wary, and hangs back a bit.


Tits!
A couple of young blue tits, and a coal tit


Chaffinch: "I'm not speaking to you."   Juvenile blue tit: "Well, I'm not speaking to you, either!"


Not a bird


Young blackbirds, which can only mean...


BEAKY!!!
"What are you looking at?!"

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11 comments:

  1. Ms Scarlet13 July, 2019 12:07

    I was about to trill and a Partridge in a pear tree and then I find that you've put the partridge on the lawn, totally ruining my fabulous comment.
    You have a lot of tits. I am just saying.
    Sx

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    1. The Mistress13 July, 2019 13:15

      You're absolutely right, Miss Scarlet. For a gay man, he sure does talk a lot about tits.

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    2. Ms Scarlet13 July, 2019 13:47

      I just hope Mr Devine isn't a budgie smuggler as well.
      Sx

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    3. Inexplicable DeVice13 July, 2019 18:57

      I rather like tits. They bounce about all over the place, are as camp as Christmas, and are rather good at getting rid of greenfly!

      And, no. No budgie smuggling. I don't want to set Dinah off about Australia's previous Prime Minister again.

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    4. dinahmow13 July, 2019 21:10

      Duly noted.

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  2. Jon13 July, 2019 19:53

    Never mind the tits - that's a magnificent cock!

    It's also good to know that Beaky is breeding, just to ensure that if anything happens to him, he has successors to haunt you. Jx

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    1. Inexplicable DeVice13 July, 2019 21:43

      As cocks go, he's both a show-er and a grower (you should see him when he puffs himself up - more than a few feathers are ruffled!).

      Beaky has been haunting me in one form or another since I was about 10. The little bastard...

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  3. Hound of Hecate13 July, 2019 21:08

    Beaky is one of my heroes! Right up there with Diana Dors and Lord Lucan.

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    1. Inexplicable DeVice13 July, 2019 21:45

      Oh, don't encourage him! He'll be wanting to take part in some Adam and the Ants tribute video, or star in a remake of The Two Ronnie's "The Worm That Turned".

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  4. dinahmow13 July, 2019 21:12

    Only one magpie? That's sad.See if you can entice another, for joy...

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    1. Inexplicable DeVice13 July, 2019 21:46

      There were two, but the other met a somewhat ignominious end, poor sod.

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