Pics from the Kitchen Window (bandwidth heavy)

[Rod Paradise]

Living in the city I kind of miss seeing wildlife (as opposed to wild life). Got a few pics from Mum & Dad's kitchen window though....

Baby Blue Tit
<img src="http://www.piczs.com/is.php?i=32963&img=bluetit.jpg" border="0">

Robin
<img src="http://www.piczs.com/is.php?i=32970&img=robin.jpg" border="0">

Doves
<img src="http://www.piczs.com/is.php?i=32965&img=The_doves.jpg" border="0">

Pheasant (and my Dad I were on the threat of death to try and shoot it)
<img src="http://www.piczs.com/is.php?i=32966&img=pheasant_1.jpg" border="0">

Partridge (escapee from the Duke of Buccleuch's shoot)
<img src="http://www.piczs.com/is.php?i=32971&img=Partridge_close.jpg" border="0">

And, probably becasue of all the others, the Sparrowhawk
<img src="http://www.piczs.com/is.php?i=32968&img=hawk.jpg" border="0">

[thetank]

Is this at the folks house?

[Rod Paradise]

Yep, saw the sparrowhawk on Saturday morning, you can tell when it's about as all the others disappear.

Also watched a Buzzard fighting a crow (the crows usually outfly the buzzards until they take the huff and land, pretending not to see the crows).

On Sunday I say 3 kids in the quarry ferretting for rabbits - haven't seen kids actively doing anything approaching involvement in the countryside for years, so was pleased to see them, they got a few as well.

[matt674]

<done in my best Mick Dundee accent...........>

Thats not a view from a kitchen window.......

Thats a view from a kitchen window!!

(ok so we dont have windows, just holes in the walls!)

[Rod Paradise]

Not too great a view from the back window - an old quarry, but there's a great view of the hills from the front.

Mind you I'd swap for somewhere tropical like yours Matt.

[madasahatstand]

lovely photos Rod
the food looks great and akin to what i usually eat......where does you dad stay?

[doubleup]

I used to work outside Stirling in the middle of the countryside.  I hated driving up there in winter but springtime was fantastic.  One year a family of ducks made there home in a garden beside the car park. I think they mistook the black tarmac of the car park for a lake as it was about half a mile from the river.  The security guards put the nest on high pririty watch and trained a camera on it.  They also fed the female when the male did a runner.  End result was two ducklings who made their way to the river one Sunday morning.

[tantrum]

Nice, thnx for posting

Because of the cat, no birds in my garden...

[Rod Paradise]

lovely photos Rod
the food looks great and akin to what i usually eat......where does you dad stay?

Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. We're above the town and get all kinds of wildlife about. We've not managed to get a picture of the stoat that winters under the garage yet, it's too quick.

[kinboshi]

Nice, thnx for posting

Because of the cat, no birds in my garden...

Being a bird-lover, no cats in my garden.  Done our damndest to keep the neighbours cats from using the garden as a toilet and attacking the birds - and our hard work seems to have paid off eventually.

I live less than mile from the motorway, but because of the hedgerows near the house we get all sorts in the garden.  Mostly finches, tits, thrushes and pigeons.  But we also get the odd kestrel making a kill and feasting in the garden (they don't leave much behind when they're done, just a few feathers), and the occasional water bird from the nearby lakes. 

[Trace]

I once saw a Sparrowhawk make a kill and eat it on my back fence right outside my dining room window - I was torm between fascination and wanting to chuck up everywhere.

It is very surprising how quiet the sky goes when one is in the neighbourhood!

Most fascinating thing I ever saw out of my back windows before I had a fence put up, was a Deer stood in my back garden.  Simple things like that blow me away.