THE CHERRY PICKER

[FUJI]

I just had to share this with you all...

 

 

It was extremely hot, the other afternoon, I had decided to go on a longish walk all the way round our Castle, I had my Panasonic GX7 with the Lumix  2.8-200 lens attached, ready to shoot any wildlife chanced upon.

 

On the homeward leg on a roadside footpath I spotted a pair of male Blackbirds seemingly sunning themselves, they looked hot and bothered and not too inclined to move.

 

Well, me being me, decided to creep ever closer, until the first one scarpered under a hedge, whilst this dopey looking thing stood (or sat) his ground.......I was amazed when he lazily plucked a cherry of the ground and ate it......he then sat like this, looking dopey and Stupid without taking his eye off me.

 

I was able to take a whole series of shots, these two being the best for my tale:

 

Questions?......was he just hot and bothered a bit like me, and I wasnt an obvious threat....or.....were he surfiet of Cherries making him DRunk?

 

over to you wildlife experts:

 

 

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FUJI

[annie]

Drunk on Cherry Brandy............Been there done that!

 

That second shot is so comical..

[bugmeister]

Dunno, but that second one, he's looking rather guilty about something.

 

Excellent couple of pictures there

[NannyFerret]

Lovely shots.

[ChrisLumix]

Injured, possibly?

[FUJI]

Injured, possibly?

No, Chris, not injured at all, just look at him in the first shot not many seconds before.....I do have other of him looking perfectly normal........

FUJI

[Kobione]

Fuji - some of our birds fluff the feathers and drop the wings when it is very hot. Seems to be some sort of 'cooling process', so maybe that was the reason. Nicely caught anyway

[annie]

We had a young starling the other day sitting on the tree by the kitchen...he kept fluffing himself up and holding out one wing..Brian said he was doing it to keep cool...looked so funny.

[CanonChrissy]

He looks comical, sticky up hair. Lovely images. Sharp and clear.im sunning myself as I type here now on a lounger by a serene pool in tenerife up in the hills. I cant be bothered to move either!

[Craftysnapper]

Very comical set Fuji.