A Photo a Week Challenge: Birds
Heron on the Housatonic River
Cardinals have scarlet beaks to match their feathers
Flying across the pond
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BIRDS – THE PHOTOS OF THE WEEK
THAT GOOD OLD RULE OF THIRDS – Marilyn Armstrong 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
Some super bird photos. I take a lot but mainly British domestic birds.
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As the woods have closed in around us, it has gotten harder to get good bird pictures. Also, the come out much better with snow as a background!
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Beautifully captured! The flying bird image is incredible. 🙂
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Thank you. For once, I was there with a camera at the right moment. It’s that “right moment” that is SO hard to find!
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Beautiful photos, Marilyn! It always warms my heart to see your entries for my challenge. Thanks for joining!
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This year, not so many birds, but some amazing butterflies. And I NEVER have a camera when I need it!
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Butterflies are so hard to capture with a camera!
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Even harder when you don’t happen to HAVE a camera 😀
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We didn’t even have a working phone. Two totally unprepared photographers!!
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That’s so sad. LOL
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I LOVE these photos. Beautiful Marilyn. I LOVE birds. I want to do this challenge. How do I do it?? Just post it or is there a site I should start with? Or is it YOUR challenge? (That’s a lot of questions and the caps don’t ACTUALLY mean I’m yelling. I’m just emphasizing dramatically.)
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Go to this post: A Photo a Week Challenge: Birds
at this address:
https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/a-photo-a-week-challenge-birds-2/
Follow the instructions. Nancy is lovely 🙂
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Thanks Marilyn.
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You are most welcome 🙂
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Something so inspiring about those birds – beautiful photos, Marilyn.
Leslie
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It’s amazing they survive our winters. They are so small and light.
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They are tiny.
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And weightless.
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They’re just a bundle of feathers.
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Was going through a rough patch a couple of weeks ago. Started out with one cardinal coming to sit in the back yard, then two, then four. Two have stayed and built a nest. Rough patch resolved. Peace from my beloveds watching over me.
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You usually won’t see TWO male Cardinals in one place, but you might see one male and a few females. The males fight for territory. We used to watch them attack each other in the winter when they are scrounging for food. I find them comforting, too. If the Cardinals are here, can the world be that bad?
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Now THERE’s something you don’t see every day… a Gull-winged Swan! 🙂
That Cardinal would make an awesome feature on your door side-panels! 🙂
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It is interesting the way the gull in in the water right in front of the swan.
We usually have a family of Cardinals living near us. They are one of the more common (and beautiful) local birds. And they are “all year round” birds. They don’t fly south when it gets cold. They sit and shiver through the winter.
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They are very pretty birds – we have nothing like them (well that colour anyways). There must not be very many predators your way in Winter ‘cos they would just shout out “Eat Me” in a snowy forest. 😉
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These are really small birds, so they aren’t worth hunting. The big hunting birds — owls, eagles, hawks — hunt small animals. Squirrels, rabbits, anything warm-blooded. Even baby deer.
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Beautiful motion in the third image. I would love to meet a cardinal in person. He is lovely!
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That was one of the very lucky catches. I don’t usually get much action in my pictures. I seem to need everything to sit still while I arrange the picture, but this was so interesting — all those different birds very excited because a lady was feeding them. What was most interesting was that those were the largest number of gulls I’ve seen in the valley. You don’t see gulls here much. They are normally shore birds. But if you look, you can also see the swan and some ducks too. Bread may not be good for them, but they sure do like it.
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Bread’s not good for us either but we eat it every day and even mention it often in literature.
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The smell of freshly baked bread … ahh.
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Gorgeous bird shots!
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Thank you. These are favorites.
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