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Nature at Work – A photo a week challenge

`A picture of innocence having completed a raid on our garden plants.

However sometimes you have to give nature a hand when a bird like this –

Male bullfinch on a garden wall

– flies into your lounge window

My rabbit, birds, frogs and the occasional hedgehog pale into insignificance compared with nature in action on my daughter’s property in the USA. How about watching these from the back of her house.

For more examples of nature at work just follow the links on Nancy Merrill’s challenge at https://bit.ly/39D4avL

Photo a Week Challenge – Funny Signs

Nancy Merrill’s Challenge this week (https://bit.ly/3oZotZb) is for funny signs.

I decided Puff, the Magic Dragon, from our village qualified for this.

A sign that Christmas at this house will be fun.

Photo a Week Challenge – Food

Nancy Merrill’s Challenge this week is food and a challenge I could not resist,

A bit of a contrast to a breakfast platter in the USA.

All this has done is make me hungry. so visit Nancy’s blog for more food.

CRBC Looking through or into a window

For this B&W challenge https://bit.ly/3DvM2gj my daughter’s dogs just want to be let out to join the fun.

Concrete Structures

Although the Cee’s Challenge is for black and white structures (https://bit.ly/39Rmwp8) I felt I just had to post these pictures from my time in Norway in the 1980s.

**Statfjord B** GBS leg under construction

**Trial Leg Structure for Troll Platform.**

Vanishing Point

Nancy Merrill’s Challenge (https://nadiamerrillphotography.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/a-photo-a-week-challenge-vanishing-point-2/) this week was too good to miss with a similar bridge to illustrate the point.

**Infinity Bridge over River Tees at Stockton**

Banging my head against a wall

This is a butterfly I had not seen before on the wall of our North Yorkshire bungalow. It makes a change from the cabbage whites, peacocks, tortoiseshells and red admirals that are common each summer.

Can anyone confirm what it is?

My guess is that it is a Wall Brown.

I’ll bet the crane fly outside my study window would know.

A Photo a Week Challenge – Reflection

After a heat wave lasting a week we have had some rain and the chance to get some reflections.

Trees by the pavement – reflections in puddles

For Nancy Merrill’s Challenge – https://bit.ly/3BWHQ9y

Small animals in Britain on Postage Stamps.

An all time favourite of mine is this stip of five stamps issued in 1977.

We have had a hibernating hedgehog in our garden once. Now the only time we see one is when it has become ‘roadkill’.

We see grey squirrels visiting our bird feeders waiting for seeds to be dropped. I’ve never seen a red one.

There are no hares in the local fields. I think they have been driven away by all the house building developments that no-one wants.

I have never seen a live badger – just a sett in Cornwall.

I not aware of any otters in our local rivers but have a vague memory of otter hunts on the village rivers in Rutland where I was a boy many years ago.

The Lonely Crow

I just wonder about this crow that I see alone whenever I walk by – Has it been ostracised on account of the colour of its feathers?

It is always on the ground, either on this track for farm vehicles or on the grass verge. There are many rooks and crows, all black, in the trees on the other side of the road but never any anywhere near this poor bird.

I will be looking out for him (or her) every time I go by. Is there any chance you think of there having been hanky-panky between a crow and a magpie to account for its plumage?