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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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dpack
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Posted: Sun Oct 11, 20 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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birdtown, the burbs
about 70m away on the other side of the main road is a strip of grass with bigish trees, tis quite birdy
there was a jackdaw with a pair of one very white and one very black wing feathers on the right wing
having noticed a few with random albinistic feathers and started to take notice it seems far more common than i would have expected
the white and black dividing the more usual shades of grey was proper dazzle pattern, i had to do a double take to get the bird shape, on short grass 5 m away
perhaps it is urban evolution, a few white streaks or patches works quite well in urban compared to unbroken shadow fades or bush patterns
having failed to grab the camera, turn it on and get outside in time i can only report that a young grin was getting mobbed in the air by 4 jackdaws
as they had all gone in less than half a minute it probably swapped altitude for speed and left them behind*
there was a kite pottering about on Saturday
* other grin news i was quite surprised that a pigeon can do those moves and make them work tactically, proper combat flying while unarmed
it got away having been ambushed at a few hundred feet up in open air and evaded beautifully until it lost grin between houses
air brakes, controlled stalls, good vectors and use of ht/speed
pigeons are equipped to avoid their primary predator
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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