Bird portraits at Stover Country Park
It’s cold and I fancy a walk. There are Black Headed Gulls at Stover Country Park.
I love the way their toes dangle.
The male Blackbird has a bright yellow beak in the low sunshine:
A Robin sits in the shade:
There are Cormorants perched on the top of a tree, with one drying its wings, and a Mute Swan coming to see if I have any food:
And there’s a Woodpigeon with its duck-egg green eyes and egg-shaped iris:
We share the Earth with aliens.
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