Monday Portrait

A horse in Krakow, all decked up to take tourists on a stroll round the city. Something to do while the rain pours down?

It wasn’t much more than a year ago. I was walking in the grounds of Fountains Abbey when I heard a vicious one-sided conversation going on above me. It was a squirrel, a very heated and angry squirrel, who evidently had a great deal to complain about. Maybe it was me he was angry with. I never found out. The complaining went on long after I’d gone out of his sight.

Monday Portrait

I’ve selected this goat for my Monday Portrait this week. And the header image shows a troupe of different ones – Anglo-Nubian goats from Surrey Docks City Farm.

Monday Portrait(s)

On the tenth day of Christmas my true love gave to me ….

Ten stags in lieu of reindeer.

(and some hinds came along as well)

These deer were photographed at Studley Royal, Knole, and Harewood.

Monday Portrait

The goats in the header photo, as well as this fine fellow, live in Mudchutes Farm, London.

While Team Spain, in the form of my daughter and her family, are here I’ll be taking a blogging break, and it’s possible – sorry – that I may not even have time to read your posts.

Moo-nday Portrait

Monday Portraits: Herons

The river down the track from us is a favourite fishing ground for herons. I love to watch them as they patiently watch too, for fish. And I love it too that wherever we travel, we’re likely to see local herons about their business. The one in the featured photo lives on the Guadalquivir in Córdoba, but his routines seem just the same as those of our Yorkshire birds.

This one lives in Kew Gardens, and the heavy rain makes him look a little out of focus:

Here are a few more:

Elke of Pictures Imperfect demonstrates that the black-and-greyness of these birds makes them ideal for Jude’s Life in Colour challenge, as she’s seeking shots that are black and grey this month.

Monday Portrait

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.