Friday, March 04, 2022

Four birds in the cold

 A few birds seen on a bright afternoon on Tyee Spit: the wind was brisk and chilly, and I zipped up my winter jacket and pulled the hood close around my head. How the birds, so tiny, so bare-legged, so exposed, handle it I never can comprehend.

Towhee among blackberry canes.

Through the windshield; a chilled gull.

Glorious colours of a male mallard.

Eagles love to perch on the topmost branches of tall trees.

The same eagle from a different angle.

The rest: loons and wigeons, cormorants and sparrows and crows, pigeons and more mallards, were all too fast for my frozen shutter finger.

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Cuatro pájaros vistos en una vuelta a la lengua de tierra Tyee; hacía sol, pero el viento era fuerte y helado; yo subí el cierre de mi chaqueta de invierno y até el capuchón alrededor de mi cara; como es que estos pajaritos, tan pequeños, con las patas al descubierto, tan expuestos, se mantienen activos y felices, nunca podré comprender.

Fotos:
  1. Un toquí moteado entre cañas de mora.
  2. Una gaviota algo hinchado por el frio, vista por mi parabrisas.
  3. Los patos machos mallard lucen sus plumaje de colores vívidos, sobre todo en esta temporada.
  4. y 5. A los águilas les gusta posarse en las ramas más altas de los árboles.
Los demás, los colimbos, los wigeons, los cormoranes y los gorriones y cuervos, las palomas y muchos patos mallard, todos se movían demasiado rápido para mi dedo casi congelado en el obturador de la cámara.

2 comments:

  1. You have amazing birds out there!
    We have a lovely bunch, and I sure enjoy them.

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  2. Thanks again.

    I barely got out today. I did see an Alan's humming bird, crows, morning doves, bush tits, and some sea gulls. No camera.

    Thanks as always you posts are an A+

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