Tag: Wings

‘No Bird Soars Too High if He Soars with His Own Wings’

It was William Blake who said that. And as this week’s Lens Artists Challenge, hosted by Beth is all about Wings, I thought I’d focus on birds.

And they’d better be flying, to illustrate William Blake’s thoughts. Here’s an Arctic Tern. There’s another as the featured photo.

Here’s an egret landing. It caught me unawares, so not the whole of its wings made it into the image.

But most of my shots will feature birds at rest – all the better to demonstrate their plumage. Although here is a cormorant with wings extended. Not flying though.

Here are some of the rest. These images were taken at a demonstration at Thorpe Perrow, and while I know the first one is a ferruginous hawk, I didn’t note the owl names. Can anybody help?

I thought this female mallard deserved a close-up of her wing feathers.

Just as I thought this peacock could afford to show off his wing feathers, and I could for once ignore his splendid tail display.

And finally – a pigeon with slightly OTT wing markings.

Also for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness.

... and I. J. Khanewala’s Bird of the Week – even though I have birds, plural.