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#feathers #nature #photo #photography #myphoto

I sometimes wish I'd taken my #camera along with me when I'm #cycling. As today was going to be a bright sunny day, I made sure I did.

Part of the #cycle #track is along the side of a #canal and here you can see what I presume is a family unit of #swans. The #cygnets are pretty well developed by this stage and I guess it won't be long before they will shed their grey #feathers for white ones.

Further along, the path goes over a #straight section of single #RailwayTrack and so you get a nice illustration of the #VanishingPoint of two #ParallelLines. Notice the reflection of the of the blue sky on the smooth #track surface

Not on my usual route, there is a section of double #Tracks which you can see curving to the #left,

or to the #right depending on the direction you're looking.

Finally, here's my faithful #bike itself, which is a veteran of of 20,000 km and counting.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Summer #Biking

#Birds naturally tend to move rapidly around the area and so it is sometimes difficult to be able to record the various species passing by. I often see #starlings around but not often in the #garden. In this first #photograph, you can see three of them sharing a fence with two #sparrows and a mystery bird. These #pictures span no more than about three minutes of time.

Here's more detail of the bird whose species I don't know along with its mate. Can anybody help identify it?

A minute later this #Jay arrived and because it's a predator, the other birds soon vacated the area but you could hear them sounding alarms to others. You can see that its #feathers are ruffled and so I think it has recently been in some sort of altercation.

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