Oh Look! There’s Bird on the Roof

I thought of Brian on Sunday. Here’s why. Brian is the blogger charged with introducing this week’s theme for Monochrome Madness. And he’s chosen ‘On the Roof’.

I was with the family in Borough Market on Sunday. And we were having fun as we picnicked, at the expense of this poor gull try to land – time after time after time – on the roof of one of the sales kiosks.

Every time his feet touched down, he slithered and skittered, unable to find any purchase, until at the bottom, he more or less tumbled off … again. He persisted and persisted until, finally…

Here are some more herring gulls, all in either Whitby or Staithes: the seaside in fact. Perhaps they feel more at home and comfortable.

Here are birds who are definitely at home on a roof. Storks. A roof’s the perfect place for nest-building and raising a family. Let’s go to Tudela in Spain.

We could go to North Macedonia now, and stay in a hotel crowded with peacocks. One even had to escape to the roof for a bit of peace.

Back home for some more domestic shots: a crow on a nearby chimney pot, and a robin on the roof of a nearby bird house (does that count? I think so.)

We’ll finish off with a shot to complement the featured photo. Here’s a line of pigeons on some ridge tiles. They echo the ones which begin the post: a host of ceramic cockatoos (?) decorating the roof of a house in Busan, South Korea.

Thanks for a fun challenge, Brian!

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Author: margaret21

I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

32 thoughts on “Oh Look! There’s Bird on the Roof”

  3. Great birds! That featured shot though, those faces … to keep away visitors to the house?

    I was amazed at all the gulls on roofs when we visited Sunderland, although once I started thinking about it, it made sense.

    And thanks for including that little fluff ball. I love robins. They hit all the childlike features that makes me go awwwww.

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  4. A fabulous gallery Margaret. The opener is rather strange and as others say, unnerving but South Korean fun can be like that. So glad you had Storks as well. I like Storks. The cute Robin is on a roof no doubt about that.
    Thanks for joining in MM #56 😀

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    1. Oh, I’m bothered! I suspect you may be right, looking at that beak. I was brought up with ‘ If you see a crow with lots of other crows, it’s a rook. If a rook is by itself, it’s a crow’. I was working on the ‘it’s all on its own’ principle…. Note to self. Must try harder.

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  7. I had to smile at your account of the gull at Borough Market 🙂 The opening photo is intriguing – their faces are human while their bodies are definitely bird-like! And yes, the bird house roof has to count when it provides us with such a cute robin!

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