As the Purple Swamphen walks, it flicks its tail up and down, revealing its white under tail - which I'll get next time! The bill is red and robust, and the legs and feet orange-red resembling branches from twigs.
1 year ago
Sunday, 6 May 2007
Purple Swamphen
As the Purple Swamphen walks, it flicks its tail up and down, revealing its white under tail - which I'll get next time! The bill is red and robust, and the legs and feet orange-red resembling branches from twigs.
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Knobbly knees and knuckles! Do you think he thinks I think he's a couple of twigs!?! Or you don't think at all ...
Wow! What a gem of a blog! Thank you for visiting my blog for now I have discovered this wonderful bird blog and also your photography blog. I have seen your avatar in several of the blogs I visit. I am sorry I did not say hello sooner. What a treat. Thank you.
Absolutely beautiful photographs of birds. I will now peruse and also check out your photography blog.
Thanks for visiting Ces and your nice comment :) I'm still an AnonyGhost and rarely comment, though floating around ...
Photography Blog is looking a bit scary at the moment, be careful!
They look really really exotic to little moi.... :) I guess I should post a pic of a Snowy Owl...Hheheh. But I have none! :)
A beautiful beacon of colour in the swamp regions.
I don't have a photograph of a Snowy Owl either MerlinPrincesse, they might not like wet lands :)
He was my favourite colour wise Modroom. I love his feet and matching tribal paint :)
We do not see them very often in the warmer seasons.... Maybe I could find one at the zoo-aquarium...Hheheh. :))))
They show birds with fish in Canada MerlinPrincesse? OK, I challenge you to photograph a Snowy Owl.
That is a looong and sad story, Anon.... Our zoo had to close, so the Aquarium (it's also a park) had to rescue all the birds... :( I will check if they have the "Harfang des neiges" and take a pic for ya! :)
My what big feet he has. Better to blend in with the twigs, I suppose, but the rest of him stands out like a sore thumb.
OH. NO. I don't think at all.
Oh my! Look at those feet!!!
That's wild - Seriously!!! hahahaha!
I think it has'nt got any trousers on.
I think it's got chewing gum on it's head.
Oh, it's not really sad so long as the fish don't have to fly MerlinPrincesse. Best check for your Harfang des neiges under water MerlinPrincesse!
It's the fish who have to think he is a twig and blue sky - not us Perriette - no you didn't think.
HAHA, think Joy Eliz is warming to birds, she even wants feet like a Purple Swamphen :)
You are right BoiledEggInADeckchair, it doesn't have trousers on but it doesn't have chewing gum on its head either - or did you stick some there?
The Snowy Owls never eats fish....Only mice and small animals.... Like cows and human...Mwhahahahahahaha! ....
They wouldn't put the birds with the fish if they ate each other MerlinPrincesse *pfffft*
You ate too much beans again, Anon...
Nope, I'm not jumping or in Mexico MerlinPrincesse!
Beatiful blue chest and wings, and the feet are amazing. Wow! Can they fly? Not that a bird couldn't fly with huge feet, but where would she put them?
HAHAHHAAA, I'm not sure whether she can fly Hardwax! Her feet are larger than her head; double that for the two of them ... She's the only one I saw that day fishing with her feet like in these photos. I'll have to start making a list of things to investigate ...
The purple swamphen's a bit of a nervy bird - your photos capture their character really well. The ultra-rare Takahe from New Zealand is the gigantic relation of these guys. Why do they call them "purple" swamphen's when they are blue?
AHA the European Purple Swamphens are overall purple-blue Ian T:) Like the 'Little' Black Cormorant which isn't little at all, it does make you wonder who named them; in the the Swamphen's case it was a European!
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