Animals

Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Sheep

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a good day. I haven’t posted for Sally D’s challenge yet ~~this~~ last week, so thought I better fish out these photos I’ve been meaning to share since January.

We are already are up to a week beginning with a 5th Monday. I’m late for the 4th, but …

4th Monday Challenger’s Choice (Pick One: Abstraction, Animals, Architecture, Food Photography, Night Photography, Objects, Panorama, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, and Travel).

My theme here is animals, and (tongue-in-cheek) street photography.

All images were taken with the Nokia Lumia 530 Windows Phone.

Out walking, the dog and I saw a group of sheep grazing at the end of the service road.

In early January these sheep appeared in our yard, leaving enough evidence around the vicinity indicating that they were out for days. I assumed plenty of people reported them to the local council, so I didn’t bother.

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Birds, Other Stuff

Outside my kitchen window

this crimson rosella has just flown down from the tree – that’s why his tail is askew.

On Wednesday, taken with the Nikon D3000.

Usually three rosellas arrive to shelter in the tree by our kitchen wall only during extreme heat, but they arrived early, in anticipation, while it was under 30C.

crimson rosella on a rock in the water dish

When we came home from work, six tiny birds crowded close to the kitchen window, looking in at me. They might have been baby sparrows. Of course, they were now longer crowding cutely on the branch when I grabbed the Nikon. Only the one remained and it was hidden behind leaves, so no useful shot there.

And then there is this one. About 13cm. No idea what it is, and all my bird books are hiding. This morning, I saw another bird like it down by the footbridge.