Migratory birds leaving the UK. Can you blame them? The UK Conservative Party has turned the UK into a failed state. Our services (NHS, transport, energy, schools etc. etc.) have been wrecked by the Conservative Party’s failed agenda. The UK Conservative Party has lost control of the economy. Brexit has been a disaster and desperately helpless immigrants are drowning in the English Channel. I predict a riot!
This unruly little chicken just won’t stay put!
A gathering of chickens on a Scottish island
Let’s see if John – https://lvphotoblog.com/blog/ – can identify this chicken (below)?
John is an expert ‘avianonics’ man from Las Vegas. John recently identified this chicken on a different post as a Mandarin Chicken.
Join me as I walk around the wood close to Duff House, Banff, Aberdeenshire, UK.
The Walk in the Woods – Richard Broom Photography
These long nose chickens spotted near to Banff, Aberdeenshire this afternoon.
Are you looking at me?
I can’t help thinking that this chicken was issued with the wrong feet…
Join me as I try to imagine the sound swooping swallows would make as they fly around the sky over our heads. I always think that swallows are avian jet fighters and yet so graceful. I could watch them for hours…
All sounds created on my Machine Mikro (what a clever little box it is!)
Join me at a bird colony on a rock which sticks out of the sea just West of Portsoy, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. If you listen, you will hear the sea washing around the column of rock and the birds, who cling to and nest of the sheer rock face (see image) and make an almighty noise. You can hear the natural echo as the bird sounds bounce off the cliff faces which surround the rock column. You will hear seagulls, gannets, razorbills, cormorants and many other birds – all squawking away. You’ll hear ‘peak squawking’ at about 2 minutes.
Recorded using my parabolic mic and a Zoom H6 (my Zoom F6 still missing in transit!)
There is always someone who wants a free ride!
Join me and enjoy the sounds from our dog walk in the woods near to Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire, this morning. You’ll hear the sounds of woodland birds, including a fine woodpecker, streams and all the other sounds (including, if you listen very carefully, golf ball hits from the nearby Dufff House Royal Golf Club.)
All sounds recorded on my parabolic (directional) microphone using a ZoomH6 recorder (My Zoom F6 still hasn’t arrived!). The sound was mixed (using adaptive noise reduction) using Adobe Audition.
The Walk in the Woods…
Join us as we listen to a group of crows squabbling over something…
My ornithology and collective noun skills are clearly out of whack.
This little chap follows us around waiting for food when we take the dog for a walk in the woods.
They really are like little wind-up toys!
Queue might just be the newest collective noun…
One of the many sea chickens we see around here….
These somewhat dim chickens are clearly lining up for a group portrait but why did they choose a rock so far away?
The chickens here in Scotland seem to be well-adapted to living in the shallows where they dig up worms and other tasty morsels. Some of the Scottish chickens even fly!
A chicken hiding out on (in?) one of the lock gates nearby.
Another in the Chicken series….(please look elsewhere on this blog for examples of other chickens)…
A big chicken seen lurking in the reeds today…
Another one of those big chickens…
The Other Big Chicken
The Chicken on a Pole
I’ve never seen a bird with a moustache before!
The Bird With A Moustache
The Big Chicken (2)
Some times your rear end just won’t fit!
The Big Bottom
The Big Chicken
The Back-scratch
The Cygnet
The Baby Grebe
The Afternoon Snooze…
The Two Chicks
A lonely heron sits and waits for the ice to melt……
The Ice Bird
You know how it is when you reach the end of your ramp…..
End of Ramp by The Photo Nomad
Pelicans by The Photo Nomad
Heron