a tree with fake poppy flowers tied to it
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lol son of a poo
Then we need to do some cross breeding to make this real!
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So I am not much of a photographer but this is a picture of Milford Sound from my time away in New Zealand recently. The views from within the Fjordlands is amazing, the steep cliffs covered in trees and snow capped mountains are unbeliveably beatuiful. Just for a sense of scale the little white blob on the water in the middle of the pic is a boat.
Also went up the steepest street in the world while I was over there because why not.
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I was outside today for a minute. The cold weather is an eye opener and it clears my brain at times. But just in small doses.
I happened to look out over the yard and I saw thisā¦
Couldnāt get really close. Itās a Cooperās Hawk and it has eaten a few of the residents around here who frequent our bird feeders. After the picā¦I scared him off.
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I need me a Cooperās Hawk!
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And what birds do you want eaten???
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I completely misunderstoodā¦
I thought you meant squirrels and chipmunksā¦ those sly rodents eat way more of our birdfeed than any of the birds around hereā¦
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Well it gets a few of those tooā¦but it snatches the baby birds etcā¦
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Poor little baby birdiesā¦ 
I do love seeing predatory birds in nature, although I am sure if they were big enough to fly down and take away humans, I probably wouldnāt see them in quite the same wayā¦
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I have seen them grab rabbits tooā¦those are big birdsā¦I wouldnāt want to fight one of themā¦
OH, I got a PMā¦for one of the gamesā¦Have to tend to that.
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He completely misunderstood and actually thought u were talking about some of the neighbors, he probably has a few who never return loaned items and thought this might provide the solution.
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Quite graphic explanation of guts and dead birds, proceed with caution
After seeing how he mutiladed little birds inside a cage of my grandmother for a second time. Those little birds were obviusly terrified while being tore apart with no chance of scape. Itās noteworthy my grandma was hysteric for the first time and I buried the mess and told her they escaped when I was trying to feed them.
I shot at the sparrow hawk ( 280 meters, mid fly with a single bullet in the neck, a truly surgical shoot, one of the best ones I ever made and thankful for that since it was long dead before touching the ground) .
At that moment I had around 7 years of shooting practice, 13 years old (yes, I started early, but you wonāt know anyone who is more pro gun control both in personal use and goverment control) and I inmediately felt shame and sadness for taking out the bird with no intention of eating him. That was the first and last time I ever shoot any living being, but I still feel dumb I had to learn it that way instead of just approaching the problem from a theoretical perspective.
To this day I keep taking care of several animals and I learned to accept death as part of it, even if they are the cause of each otherās death (not between mine, I teach and train to a degree, but with wild ones since they move freely). Except for Clandestino, my house cat, heās like a little kid to me because well, he really thinks Iām his mother and I do motherly duties so, I guess itās true.
In case you are curious, there are birds who can take away baby humans, even if itās not common.
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So can alligators. Most ponds/lakes have signs posted in Florida /Georgia. They have been known to taken down a deer even.
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Today: Hawk 1 Sparrows 0
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My mom recently moved in with us; she has a lot of parakeets (40-something), which we put on the balcony (in bird cages ofc); 3 days ago an owl came on the balcony, then the next day a hawk, pretty weird to suddenly have a hawk on yr balcony in a city. (Weāve seen owls before though.) I gently told him to get lost by opening the sliding door, lol, but iām pretty sure this wonāt be the last we see of himā¦
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Took a couple of pictures around my new place this morning and thought Iād share a couple of them that I liked.
First off I thought Iād introduce you to my new neighbours.
While waiting for the bus I found the light played through this frosted plane of glass pretty, tried capturing it a couple of times as cars drove by.
Then waiting again, on a train this time I enjoyed this configuration of things in the rail yard. I donāt know if it appeals to anyone else though, are you not into trains?
But here I run into the problem with cellphone cameras again in that they have too wide an angle, they capture far wider an image than my eyes do. I see something that looks kind of neat and try to take a picture of it only to find the neat thing to end up far in the distance with a whole lot of extraneous wide angle stuff included. Just cropping the image down afterwards doesnāt quite solve it. I should buy an actual camera some day, well I have two already but they take film not SD cards.
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that bit of snow reminds me of the pictures my brother sent me the other day. So even if itās technically not through my eyes, some of you might find it interesting nonetheless.
We had some snowfall in Austria for the last few weeksā¦
close to my home:
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you guys should put some of that stuff on trucks and haul it up Denmarkās way, -i sure do miss me some white powder this season 
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Walked home from work in a snowstorm today. I will gladly give you the snow.
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