Egret with Fish: Monday Portrait, Apr 24, 2023
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Category Archives: Birds
Long-legged Birds for NPC #9
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From Lake Chapala to La Manzanilla to Alabama to Wyoming to the rainforests of Peru, I never met a bird I didn’t have to photograph. Here are a few of the long-legged ones, as directed by the prompt! Yes, I got carried away a bit.
Lifelessons
Lifelessons
My perception see-saws between wonderment and worry,
all our lovely world devoted to such hurry
that in the furious ruckus, much is overlooked,
as if every second has been overbooked.
Take time to watch the sunrise and to hear the finch’s song.
Pick these things like flowers and carry them along.
Everything’s a lesson. All of nature is a book,
so between your rushing-offs, be sure to have a look.
(Be sure to click on the blue links in the poem to see the rest of the story.)
Prompt words today are wonderment, ruckus, see-saw, perception, lesson and sing.
Duck!!!!
This duck came all the way across the lake to see us, hoping for crumbs. Sadly, we had none.
ducks
Caged Bird
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Caged Bird
My cage is comfortable, but
it is a homey sort of rut.
Is it not reasonable for
a bird to want a whole lot more?
Confined to this continual squeeze,
I yearn for freedom of the trees—
the air, the feel of wind on wings.
One should not confine wild things.
Prompts today are reasonable, homey, confine, trees.
Hummingbird Breakfast
Hummingbird both perched on and feasting on its favorite meal—an aloe vera blossom.
For the Whatsoever is Lovely Week 1 Prompt, Jan 2, 2023
CFFC Birds, Sept 27, 2022
Oriole
Pelican
I never have been able to figure out what was sticking out of this gull’s head.
Egret
For CFFC Birds
Water Denizen Trios: Which Do You Prefer?
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Which do you prefer? Three different shots of the same scene. I couldn’t decide. Night Herons at rest.
Here is another. Egrets walking.
2022
And finally: Three more choices of water creatures of another sort. Closeup or far view? Which do you prefer?
For Lens Artist Challenge: Three of a Kind
Sunday Stills: Feathers and Fur
Lift
You can see the fish dangling from the beak of this brave bird who nearly brushed me with his wings as he swooped in for his desayuno.
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Lift
You burn the air with tail and wing,
not thinking about anything.
Each lift of pinion simple, sure,
anonymous, unplanned and pure.
No slipshod planning, everything
insures facility of wing.
Each barb, each shaft composed with care
made less of matter than of air.
We only guess. We do not know,
what hand has engineered it so,
 merely wonder at its might
as we watch your easy flight,
lifting up with ease most rare
by miracle of wing on air.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 