Animals around your house...

Wildheart wrote:

We will miss the ducks!Happyfeet especialy!

WOW!The man had crested cranes!
Did he have mandarin ducks,too?

I will miss Happy Feet the most too, I still can't believe she's gone.

He didn't have any Mandarin ducks, but he had different kinds of Teals. He had female and male Turkeys too. The females were free but he males were shut in a barn, they were massive.
He had these smaller cranes, very plain colours, light greys and yellow/brown. Don't know what they were, perhaps they were young ones.

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Rio wrote:

Gorgeous photos, Harriet !

Your horse pictures remind me so much of Bob Langrish's work ^_^ I have quite a few of his pictures on my wall.

Thank you Rio! I wish I could photograph horses more often.

You wouldn't believe the place I went to yesterday. It was fabulous. We've been looking around for some new ducks, because on Monday night last, the Mink got into the run and killed all my ducks, it didn't take any of the bodies away as I think my brother and I frightened it off as we ran down, but all four were dead. So because my brother and I were so upset (my brothers on holiday at the moment) I decided to buy some more as a surprise for when he comes home.
But to cut a long story short, the place we went to buy the ducks from was this Farm, and the nice chap you owned it bred the most wonderful geese, cranes, chickens and ducks! It was like a zoo. The farm was beautifully kept, really tidy and clean. He also showed us some adorable Beagle puppies! It was a thrill to look round, the chap really enjoyed showing us too. Because it was so lovely there we asked if we could bring my brother back and the guy said of course and that the best time to come back would be in September when all the birds are the most colourful. So we're going back We'll buy something then as well, as he sells everything so cheap ( I guess he's so well-off he doesn't mind selling cheaply) for three Khaki campbell ducks and a rare breed drake (forgotten the breed) it only cost £22.00! When some ducks we looked at elsewhere were £15.00 - £20.00 EACH.
He had a Crane pair with red on the back of their heads, they were so beautiful. Two other cranes were showing off and calling. Their heads were grey, yellow colour. It was so loud their call. I don't know what type they were, but it was fantastic watching them.
I wish I had pictures to show, but of course I didn't have my camera.

Yes, too bad for your ducks, I'm sorry Harriet.

Thank You Harriet and Christophe for cranes photos

Ana wrote:

Yes, too bad for your ducks, I'm sorry Harriet.

Thank you Ana, I shall miss them. But I love my new ones too, I'll upload some pictures of them. I just have to move on quickly and not dwell on what happened. It was a horrible experience and a shock.

The Crane pictures Kiki and I put up weren't ours I got mine from Google images and I think Kiki from Wikipedia.

Here are some more pictures which I took yesterday, also my new additions...
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and I have this beautiful sunflower, which planted itself, it has two or three more heads coming out too.
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I still can't remember what breed the Drake is, does anyone recognise it? The ducks are Khaki Campbells as I think i mentioned. They're all young, hense the fluffy down on them. The Drake and the ducks are around ten weeks I think, the drake slighty older.

The ducks are sweet!I would love to live in a house with such a wonderful garden!
Here are 39 degress outside,and the only natural thing I see is my cotton T-shirt.

Wildheart wrote:

The ducks are sweet!I would love to live in a house with such a wonderful garden!
Here are 39 degress outside,and the only natural thing I see is my cotton T-shirt.

thanks :)
They are getting more and more friendly. I sat with them for an hour, to get them used to me, they are more relaxed now.

Beautiful pictures Harriet. I love the horse, so majestic. I am also a horse lover and always have been. The chicks are soo adorable too and the kitten. The butterfly is beautiful and your new additions are awesome. Sorry to hear about your losses. Be sure to take your camera the next time you get to go to the farm so you can take some photos.

aandmkw wrote:

Beautiful pictures Harriet. I love the horse, so majestic. I am also a horse lover and always have been. The chicks are soo adorable too and the kitten. The butterfly is beautiful and your new additions are awesome. Sorry to hear about your losses. Be sure to take your camera the next time you get to go to the farm so you can take some photos.

Thank you Amy! Yes, I will certainly take my camera next time.

As many of the domestic duck-species are bred from the Mallard duck, it doesn´t wonder that the drake looks like one, with his almost dark-green head...
So it can´t be very much of then i guess...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

As many of the domestic duck-species are bred from the Mallard duck, it doesn´t wonder that the drake looks like one, with his almost dark-green head...
So it can´t be very much of then i guess...

I remembered the name of the drake it's a Black East Indie.

This thing landed on my rabbit's, Midge, head today. It annoyed her and upset her because she wouldn't go by that part of the garden afterward.

As I got closer, it jumped and landed on my nephew's plastic paddling pool with an audible thud.

Sorry about the fuzzy photos, I only have a compact camera.

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Wow Rio, he's amazing! He looks really big too, no wonder your rabbit was frightened!

The foto's are great Rhianna, the grasshopper looks great on them!

Great grasshopper photos. I had a few interesting visitors the last couple of days too, so I thought I would share some photos.

1st is the turtle that came to visit my yard.

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Next comes a bunny that lives at the church. I had 3 in my yard, but the pictures all turned out blurry for some reason.

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Last, but not least is a horny toad that I saw run under my car so I caught it and took a few pictures.

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Hope you enjoy the photos.

Wow! look at those claws!
I watched my kitten eat a baby spider this morning and thought about intervening..I'm a sucker!

Amy what wonderful creatures you have visiting!! Fantastic photos!

I just imagine sitting outside,enjoying the fresh air and those nice critters nearby.
Uff!You are lucky!I must start school!The VIII'th grade! :)

Thanks Nova, Harriet and Mihnea. I am glad you liked the photos. I also have a couple of roadrunners that hang around quite often, but I can't ever get a good picture of them or the other birds.

That's why you need a new camera!It is worth buying the 300mm lens!You will catch the road-runners in a photo easily!

I was taking pictures of butterflies when something large caught my eye and I looked up to see a Grey Heron flying over. I quickly took some pictures... They're not that great as I don't have a good zoom for that kind of thing and he was reasonably high up.
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Two Red Admirals
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Another Red Admiral I had been taking pictures of was eaten by a Blue Tit right in front of me, it was terrible, so sad, it was a really beautiful one too Blue Tits don't do that usually.

Like Willy I have a small apartment in the building. But 300 meters from our apartment we have a garden located 18 m to 20m bordering the old avenue of plane trees and clones of silver along the River. There, in the spring and summer, our neighbors took pictures of nature. The first two pictures I did at the beginning of April and it was the first of which saw a bumblebee. However, oak's acorn grew roots in the corner of the garden. And I think autumn has brought him next to the crow he has no oaks
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And this is our bird neighbors. Blackbird nest was just outside the fence
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This tit took a seat on our fence
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The grebes did you stop at the pond which is beside our garden
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Wildheart wrote:

That's why you need a new camera!It is worth buying the 300mm lens!You will catch the road-runners in a photo easily!

I have actually caught a road runner before. When we moved into our new house, we still had an old house and one of the windows got broken. I went in there one day to get some stuff and there was a roadrunner in there. Scared me half to death. I wasn't expecting anything alive to be in there. I caught it in an old bird cage and took it outside, took a few pictures and let it go free.

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Beautiful pictures Harriet and zbyszek. The heron is gorgeous and so are the butterflies. Great photo of the bee and the birds. The ducks are cute. The dragonfly has such beautiful colors. Thanks for sharing.

Your pictures are wonderful zbyszek, beautiful
Thank you Amy. What a fantastic photo to have of a Roadrunner, he/she is stunning!