Some birds for the Gallery

I love the Gallery posts but so rarely get around to compiling one and entering it (um, once so far I think?) but this week has the additional draw of there being chocolatey goodness on offer in the form of prizes so I couldn’t resist

Having said that, it took me all day to actually publish this post, and I would have given up on it, except @tara_cain was lovely and encouraging on twitter!

The theme is nature.

I’m quite fond of nature. Where we live, although residential, it’s very quiet and as such we get a fair bit of wildlife in our garden right outside the french window. Soa likes to sit and watch the birds through it and we feed them right outside to keep drawing them in. (This also means I spend some time chasing the cat off or rescuing slightly chewed birds but you can’t have everything!)

As we’re within a mile of the sea, we get quite a few seagulls around. I’ve set myself a challenge to take photos of them – which is proving very much more difficult than expected. For such big birds, they are incredibly nervous, and they don’t hang around. And it takes a flock of them seconds to clear a garden full of scrap food (not much makes it to our bin nowadays, it goes out for the birds or into the compost!)

So far I’ve got lots of pictures of an empty garden:

and occasional pics of (slightly blurred) seagulls in motion.

Thankfully, the bluetits in our relatives garden were more cooperative

For this shot, I was sitting out in the garden, with soa, while everyone else was inside watching England play football very badly. I think I had the more enjoyable afternoon!