Birds: Mallard in early s\Spring

Mallard in early spring, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Straight shot with
300 zoom lens. No effects. Nashua Creek, Belle Isle, Detroit, MI.

bird: gulls

a couple more from Mary.

birds: gull from Pictured rocks

Gulls at Pictured Rocks, by Keith Taitt.

birds: gull at the marina

I feel guilty because I haven't been posting but I've been so BUSY
that I haven't had time to look for my best work. Or tweak it. So
here's a bird for August 4th. I took it this morning.

BIRDS OF SCILLY

Sandlings. I had camera on wrong speed here as it was at 300mm but forgot to up the speed to allow for camera shake. So this was the best of a bunch.

Blackbird singing on a post. Our blackbirds at home have bright yellow beaks but Scilly blackbirds' beaks are redder.

A thrush amongst the lettuce seedlings. The thrushes and blackbirds on the Scillies do not fly away from humans

Two lesser black backed gulls obligingly posing on a rock

Late evening on Bryher. I added the birds since this was how I remembered it but couldn't get a pic with all these birds in at the same time. There are Lesser Black backed Gulls flying and perched on the end of rocks. There are Oyster catchers flying over the sea to the left and there are shags flying over the sea to the right.

ANIMALS - FARM ANIMAL

And this is after using liquify plus the ordinary smudge brush. It is also for a zany images comp we are having at CPS. Thanks to Mary for inspiration!!

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