• **Notifications**: Notifications can be dismissed by clicking on the "x" on the righthand side of the notice.
  • **New Style**: You can now change style options. Click on the paintbrush at the bottom of this page.
  • **Donations**: If the Lord leads you please consider helping with monthly costs and up keep on our Forum. Click on the Donate link In the top menu bar. Thanks
  • **New Blog section**: There is now a blog section. Check it out near the Private Debates forum or click on the Blog link in the top menu bar.
  • Welcome Visitors! Join us and be blessed while fellowshipping and celebrating our Glorious Salvation In Christ Jesus.

Nature Photos

I went for a walk earlier today. We passed an old farmhouse, where a sheep and a donkey often stay (they've been friends for years). I'll make three posts with a picture of the sheep, the donkey and the farmhouse, in grainy monochrome, which seem to fit because all three are old.

The Sheep

EM521137-rsz.jpg
 
Last edited:
The Donkey


EM521145-rsz.jpg
 
From a walk earlier today (it was very cold!): the robin has spotted me.

DSC02430_crop2.jpg
 
Arial said:
Scottish robins do not look like US robins. Super photo.
Click to expand...
Yes, ours look shorter (and rounder, especially in Winter), and with different colouration.

Thanks. It was one of the few shots of the robin without motion blur. It was at extreme zoom, in the wind and I found it hard to keep still enough.

Most of the birds I see are quite commonplace (sparrows, starlings, seagulls, crows and blackbirds), so I prayed this morning to see something more interesting, e.g. a chaffinch. What came to sit on the tree outside my window, this afternoon? A chaffinch! (God answers even unimportant prayers like that.) Here it is (the white streaks are snow falling).

DSC02467-med.jpg
 
The Lord did it again! I asked to be able to photograph a redwing (I've not managed to get a picture of one before) yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, when out for a walk, I saw one and took many photos, most of which I've deleted.

DSC02561-med.jpg
 
David1701 said:
The Lord did it again! I asked to be able to photograph a redwing (I've not managed to get a picture of one before) yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, when out for a walk, I saw one and took many photos, most of which I've deleted.

View attachment 709
Click to expand...
The only birds we have in the city in Kansas are robins, cardinals, blue jays, crows, grackles, doves, sparrows, wrens----that I see or hear anyway---occasionally a goldfinch. Now when I lived in the country the varieties greatly increased, including the ones I most miss hearing call into the summer heat. Meadowlarks, killdees, quail, or chorus mimicry from the top of the silo, the mockingbird, red wing blackbirds amont the cattails. I did have an owl swoop in and perch at the top of my giant hackberry early one morning. With your equipment you could have zoomed it an captured a magnificent photo. Boaz, my dog, did not like his intrusion!
 
Arial said:
The only birds we have in the city in Kansas are robins, cardinals, blue jays, crows, grackles, doves, sparrows, wrens----that I see or hear anyway---occasionally a goldfinch. Now when I lived in the country the varieties greatly increased, including the ones I most miss hearing call into the summer heat. Meadowlarks, killdees, quail, or chorus mimicry from the top of the silo, the mockingbird, red wing blackbirds amont the cattails. I did have an owl swoop in and perch at the top of my giant hackberry early one morning. With your equipment you could have zoomed it an captured a magnificent photo. Boaz, my dog, did not like his intrusion!
Click to expand...
Were you on a farm? Your description makes it sound very appealing. Summer here gets to the giddy heights of pleasantly warm, if it isn't raining.

I haven't even heard of a few of the birds you mention (grackles, killdees and red wing blackbirds)! I'm afraid that the only quails we have here are in the meat dept. (I've never eaten one though).

Yes, I would love to get a shot of an owl.

The redwing was really quite close to the path. It was very cold and it was grubbing about in the earth, probably looking for insects. It would almost certainly have flown off, if it had not been desperate to find food.
 
David1701 said:
Were you on a farm? Your description makes it sound very appealing. Summer here gets to the giddy heights of pleasantly warm, if it isn't raining.

I haven't even heard of a few of the birds you mention (grackles, killdees and red wing blackbirds)! I'm afraid that the only quails we have here are in the meat dept. (I've never eaten one though).

Yes, I would love to get a shot of an owl.

The redwing was really quite close to the path. It was very cold and it was grubbing about in the earth, probably looking for insects. It would almost certainly have flown off, if it had not been desperate to find food.
Click to expand...
I was on a farm a great deal of my life. Grew up on one, ages 8-15 and my maternal grandfather had a farm in western Kansas we visited often. Spent 13 years in the California desert as an adult then returned to Kansas and was on farms, stints on farms in Minnesota and Iowa, then returned again but circumstances and age made the city the necessary and wise choice.

Killdees hang out around ponds, scurry along the ground like road runners, and lay their nests on the ground, though they can fly, and I cannot begin to describe what they sound like but it is like calling and says summer. Or any of the other birds I mentioned, They are pasture and meadow and country birds. Summers here are hot, often dry, but interspersed with glorious booming thunderstorms, and right now I long for those days. (The low temperature last night was 4 degrees F, high today 20. After that we will warm into the 40's.) I have eaten quail, though not often. Their common name is bob-white because that is what they say. "Bob white, bob white, bob white."
 
Arial said:
I was on a farm a great deal of my life. Grew up on one, ages 8-15 and my maternal grandfather had a farm in western Kansas we visited often. Spent 13 years in the California desert as an adult then returned to Kansas and was on farms, stints on farms in Minnesota and Iowa, then returned again but circumstances and age made the city the necessary and wise choice.

Killdees hang out around ponds, scurry along the ground like road runners, and lay their nests on the ground, though they can fly, and I cannot begin to describe what they sound like but it is like calling and says summer. Or any of the other birds I mentioned, They are pasture and meadow and country birds. Summers here are hot, often dry, but interspersed with glorious booming thunderstorms, and right now I long for those days. (The low temperature last night was 4 degrees F, high today 20. After that we will warm into the 40's.) I have eaten quail, though not often. Their common name is bob-white because that is what they say. "Bob white, bob white, bob white."
Click to expand...
Thanks for the info..

I'm wishing for Summer as well.

We had a high of about about 37F today, but it's a wet, windy cold, which makes it feel worse.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

C
Foods that lower blood sugar
Replies
7
Views
96
CherubRam
C
Hobie
The Apocalypse falls on Los Angeles
Replies
5
Views
77
Hobie
Hobie
Tambora
Gardener
Replies
7
Views
76
Arial
Arial
R
Mormonism: The Atonement as Taught in 1997
Replies
4
Views
34
Hazelelponi
Hazelelponi
R
Hi
Replies
3
Views
47
Carbon
Carbon
Back
Top