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Halli A sort of sketchy, "working doodle" of Halli. I'm still trying to pin down the species' final look; they're even LESS birdy than they used to be. She's descended from a flightless alien bird, for want of a better description. She's of the "sanuki" race, which means she's fairly strikingly coloured - primarily reddish/russet in skin-tone, with paler areas around her eyes and on her cheeks, dark lips and a dark stripe up her nose and over her head. Aron, the little male/"drae", is clavare; he's a lot paler, with darker eyestripe. (He reminds me a little of a badger. :P) |
And some more pictures of "my wildlife".
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Great tits As in, the bird. And all right, OK, it's 3 shots of the same bird - but that foils my desire to make puns. |
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Hop-along You can't tell from this photograph, but this adorable little ball of fluff only has one leg. When I first saw it, one leg was dangling pathetically behind it, and it looked like a huge effort to perch on anything because the leg would catch on things. The leg looks like it's possibly dropped off altogether, now. :( It doesn't even look like it's tucked up in its fluff, just... gone. Everything is still a huge wing-flapping effort, though. I suppose it must be really hard to balance. |
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Hop-along My one-legged robin lunging for a crumb that's fallen down off the fat-ball holder. I put out a whole dish of food (you can see it in my pigeon photos), but apparently the fat-balls are better. |
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Hop-along "What'choo looking at, anyway? Stop taking photos, person." |
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Hop-along Action shot! A fluttering lunge for another morsel. Seriously, this poor little bird goes to such a huge effort to feed itself; it must be exhausting. I've not actually seen him/her for a few days, so I'm a little worried. I keep putting food out - the pigeons aren't eating ALL of it - but I've not seen either "Hop-along" or its mate recently. |
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Hop-along's friend They're either mates, or just... unnaturally pacifist. They don't fight when they're together at the feeder, at least. |
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Muted Sun On one side of the flat, the sun was peeking out through a really heavy, black cloud. |
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Twinkling Rain That feeble, clouded sun gave some beautiful twinkling rain... |
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Evening Rainbow ...and on the other side of the flat, a full rainbow! (Although it was so much brighter and more beautiful in real life.) |
There's a pair of pudgy little dunnocks going crazy out there as I type this. We've just had another hailstorm - I think we've had... five or six in the last few days? - so they look rather windswept and buffetted around, like they have huge poofy skirts on.
Edit on 16/04/2012:
Panic over! Hop-along was back in the feed dish tonight. :) Phew!
