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271/366 Tooty fruity

27 Sunday Sep 2020

Posted by sconzani in autumn, trees

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autumn berries, autumn colour, autumn fruit, berries, fruit, hips

‘Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.’
~ Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1912.

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248/366 The bramble eater

04 Friday Sep 2020

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature, plants

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autumn berries, birding, birdwatching, blackberries, bramble, British birds, Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, Pheasant, pheasant eating blackberries

A rustle of vegetation … an eye … who’s this lurking behind the ‘snipe paddock’ fence at Cosmeston?

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A female Pheasant? A common enough bird in the local countryside but not normally seen here in this dog-full park. She has quite short tail feathers and she’s not too bothered about my presence so I presume she’s a juvenile.

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It seems she’s quite partial to blackberries.

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Are there more of those delicious treats?

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Aha, yes, another ripe one.

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And, after scoffing those couple of berries, she wanders off in search of more.

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227/366 Guelder rose

14 Friday Aug 2020

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants

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autumn berries, autumn colour, Guelder rose

You thought I was joking with yesterday’s post about autumn arriving early this year, didn’t you? Well, the gorgeous colours of this Guelder rose look very autumnal to me. Bring on the glorious shades of autumn!

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336/365 Birds and berries

02 Monday Dec 2019

Posted by sconzani in birds, nature, plants, winter

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autumn berries, birding, birds eating berries, birdwatching, blackbird, British birds, Fieldfare, Mistle thrush, Redwing, Song thrush, winter thrushes, Woodpigeon

It’s only been a few weeks since I saw my first winter thrushes of the season but now they’re everywhere, feasting on autumn’s bounty of lush, delicious berries. Song and Mistle thrushes, Blackbirds, Redwings and Fieldfares and, not a thrush, the Woodpigeons are also indulging in the berry-fest. The Redwings are particularly skittish but I’ve managed to sneak up on a few to grab photos, though, more often than not, the whole tree I’m trying to approach will suddenly erupt with birds flying off in all directions. And then I feel a little guilty about interrupting their repast.

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305/365 Autumn decay

01 Friday Nov 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants

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autumn berries, autumn colour, autumn decay, berries, rotting berries

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‘Autumn wins you best by this, its mute
Appeal to sympathy for its decay.’
~  Robert Browning, Paracelsus, scene 1

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270/365 Clusters of berries

27 Friday Sep 2019

Posted by sconzani in autumn, nature, plants, trees

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autumn berries, autumn colour, berries, black berries, red berries

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‘On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like
clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruit were jewels …’
~  Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

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Berries and birds

25 Saturday Nov 2017

Posted by sconzani in autumn, birds, nature, plants

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autumn berries, berries, berries and birds, berry eating birds, birding, birdwatching, Song thrush, thrush

In recent days, on my regular walks, whether in suburban streets or in the local parks and nature reserves, wherever I see berries there are birds, usually thrushes, gobbling down as many berries as they can find.

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A Song thrush found its golden treasure trove in a tiny, but well-planted-for-wildlife garden amongst the apartments of Penarth Marina, and, below, this thrush, at Cosmeston Lakes Country Park, looked to have chosen a berry far too big for its beak but it persevered and, eventually, by applying a little pressure to squash the berry a fraction, down the hatch it went.

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