Far From the Madding Crowd: A Touch of the Silhouette

Thursday, 1 October 2015

A Touch of the Silhouette

A couple of pictures of silhouetted birds. The first one was taken in Poole Park of a Kingfisher. I was really surprised to see a Kingfisher in the park, not just one but two, they were flying around the reeds and calling to each other. It was their calling to each other that alerted me because it was a bird sound that I have never heard in Poole Park before. The second is a cormorant in West Bay.

The Kingfisher, a big surprise, Kingfishers in Poole Park!

The Cormorant, as you can see, the sea is going down hill abit ;-)

2 comments:

Richard Pegler said...: I've been away from Bloggerland for rather a long while, Linda, but I'm delighted to come back to find these beautifully atmospheric images from you!

Best wishes - - - - Richard; 18 October 2015 at 19:12
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Richard :-); 18 October 2015 at 22:40

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I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.