What bird do you choose when you have so many photos of birds? I decided on this one, as one of the most recent. I was on a wheelie in my chair through the local area and saw this beautiful speciment of a red kite above my head. Taking photos of birds is not so easy I find, as they do tend to move most of the time and suddenly disappear behind a tree or even worst, settle in the tree out of sight.
We are at the foot of the Jura mountain chains and often get visitors from the higher slopes. It is wonderful to watch them circle in the air gaining height constantly.
My neighbours are a flock of crows and often they go for a collective fly around, cawing their way through the scenery. Not for nothing are a group of crows known as a murder of crows.
Another group of feathered neighbours are the magpies. They are a little more shy than the crows and wait in the trees until the coast is clear and then pounce on the bread I throw out in the morning during the winter. Some say you should not feed them with bread, but there is always bird seed available for my sparrows and the crows and magpies tend to prefer a beak full of food. Anyhow they are thriving during the past 20 years that I have been living here.
And let us not forget the blackbirds whose main occupation seems to be gathering worms for their babies during the Spring.
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