Birders' Nest

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After chocolate, we ventured out onto the jetty. The air was almost tangible: a blue mist everywhere, and the Lakeland mountains across the bay looked like something out of a Turner watercolour. And a few views looking like something from a science fiction movie: strange things on the water in the mist on a distant planet.

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And of course there were birds: waders in profusion along the waterline. The usual suspects: mostly oystercatchers and redshanks. I've yet to see cormorants out here, but I know they're here somewhere.

[Iota]

Love those shots in the mist across Morecambe Bay, Elgarian! Easy to get lost in them in dream-like fashion, and the last one of the solitary post standing in the sea, you could almost apply your memorable description of owlice's Heron to, being set strikingly against the context of nothingness.
And the gull showing its John Travolta side made me smile.

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Love those shots in the mist across Morecambe Bay, Elgarian! Easy to get lost in them in dream-like fashion, and the last one of the solitary post standing in the sea, you could almost apply your memorable description of owlice's Heron to, being set strikingly against the context of nothingness.
And the gull showing its John Travolta side made me smile.

It was all so very like walking about inside a Turner watercolour!

And the jive-talkin' gull did look very pleased with himself, dancing, dancing, dancing .. worm!!

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A footnote to the above:

I have never till a few days ago seen a herring gull dance on grass to catch worms, but since then I have seen three! I've obviously never noticed this behaviour sufficiently to register or think about it.

[Kalevala]

Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251217-turkeys-ornate-ottoman-era-bird-palaces

K

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Turkey's ornate Ottoman-era 'bird palaces'https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20251217-turkeys-ornate-ottoman-era-bird-palaces

K

Wow. Sadly, there's no room in our garden for such bird houses...

[Kalevala]

Wow. Sadly, there's no room in our garden for such bird houses...

You might be able to make (find?!) a mini-version.      Or perhaps build something out of brick...and? and very English-looking?

Just built two "nests" for my "birds".  I do this for the holidays.  I have a relatively large feather red bird which sits on a mantle-piece.  For this (and my other bird) I cut some fairly short pieces of shrubbery and tree bits and make a temporary nest for it to sit on.

The other "bird" is a metal work (a bit bigger with cut-outs on it--It actually holds a votive, though obviously I don't light it when it's on its nest!).  I do the same with it in a different room.  It even gets a petite bow tie (narrow metallic ribbon around its neck) for the holidays.  Silly, I know, but it makes me and I think some others happy...a bit of whimsy as it were.    A bit more decorating (and cleaning to do.  So it goes this year).  Hope to finish up tomorrow.  And you?

K

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You might be able to make (find?!) a mini-version.      Or perhaps build something out of brick...and? and very English-looking?

Just built two "nests" for my "birds".  I do this for the holidays.  I have a relatively large feather red bird which sits on a mantle-piece.  For this (and my other bird) I cut some fairly short pieces of shrubbery and tree bits and make a temporary nest for it to sit on.

The other "bird" is a metal work (a bit bigger with cut-outs on it--It actually holds a votive, though obviously I don't light it when it's on its nest!).  I do the same with it in a different room.  It even gets a petite bow tie (narrow metallic ribbon around its neck) for the holidays.  Silly, I know, but it makes me and I think some others happy...a bit of whimsy as it were.    A bit more decorating (and cleaning to do.  So it goes this year).  Hope to finish up tomorrow.  And you?

K

I'm all for a bit of silliness now and then, as you know. The world has enough miserable seriousness without me adding to it. Your idea of home-made birds and nests sounds a good one! Do you have photos?

It looks as though the pheasants will be spending Christmas with us this year!

All the best to you.

[Kalevala]

I'm all for a bit of silliness now and then, as you know. The world has enough miserable seriousness without me adding to it. Your idea of home-made birds and nests sounds a good one! Do you have photos?

It looks as though the pheasants will be spending Christmas with us this year!

All the best to you.

Hello.

I have some photos of them, but don't have one of those accounts to which one can upload.  The birds themselves I didn't make.  I found the red feathered  bird some years ago at a shop which had a number of Christmas ornaments.  I think that I might have found the votive chicken there too at another time.

A bit more coffee to sip and then back to mad house cleaning and decorating [Hope to have a friend over later to share some dinner].

Enjoy the pheasant company! 

K