What a good idea Becky had when she began to start her blogging week with a favourite portrait! I’m going to follow suit, and choose to give fifteen seconds of fame to a special bird: a stork, nesting on a church in Tudela in Spain.
Monday Portrait
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Well done you!
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Thanks! I like this fine fellow.
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I have his Romanian cousins in images!!
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Fabulous shots, Margaret! It’s just like being at home….
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Jealous now …
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Don’t be! I still get the miseries.
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Oh dear. We’re never happy, are we?
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Excellent photograph.
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Thanks! And zoomed, to boot!
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😎 cool I enjoy your posts Margaret 🙂 why would post a link to a very malicious malicious web site (Becky) ❓ ❓ ❓ ~Willy
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It is a very attractive bird.
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Gotta love a stork.
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I always love to see storks! And yes, a good idea for a Monday post, although I will be ‘walking’ with Jo later 🙂
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A woman with your capabilities could do the lot!
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😊😂
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Great shots. I wonder if children are still told that it’s the stork that brings brings babies?
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No idea. Either that or found under a gooseberry bush 😉
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remember as a child thinking that either I was or my sister!
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Amazing shot.
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Lucky, really, that my zoom lens was on form.
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I recognise him. His name is Sebastian.
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Not, that’s not Sebastian. It’s Juan. An easy mistake to make 😉
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Every Juan looks the same to me!
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Gorgeous absolutely gorgeous, coming a very close second to the Whitby Cormorant.
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I am completely besotted with storks, so these chaps win on points.
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Beautifully captured, Margaret!
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Considering how far away he was, it ain’t bad!
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Glad you joined in with a wonderful photo Margaret 😀
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Any stork is wonderful in my eyes, Brian.
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Have to agree Margaret
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Excellent photos, Margaret! I have never seen a stork and would love to. Such elegant birds.
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Oh Clare, seeing so many storks pretty much made the holiday complete. Not a first for me, but seeing them in such abundance was..
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Great looking bird. No baby? 😉
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I think they’d probably grown up and flown off.
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Joke about the human kind they sometimes deliver. 🙂
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I’m a bit slow 😦 . But like many English people, I grew up knowing that babies are found under gooseberry bushes 😉
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Aha, a new twist on the tale! For someone from the US. 🙂
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Oh, he is a handsome fellow – a great profile with a magnificent beak. I’m glad that you have given him his 15 seconds of fame.
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He deserves it, doesn’t he?
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oh this is superb – what a fantastic shot
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Lucky really that my zoom lens passed the test.
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One of the reasons I upgraded was so I could photograph the birds!
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