Animal Fear

12/07/2022

Although not always the case, chiffchaffs often have dark legs and a short pale eye stripe, whereas the willow warbler - a very similar looking species - has pale legs and a long yellow eye stripe. It is readily distinguished by its song, from where it gets its name.

06/07/2022

06/07/2022

The glaucous gull is a large pale gull with white wing tips. Younger birds are creamy white or more biscuit coloured, depending on age. All have pale wingtips. It is bigger than a herring gull and bulkier, with a fiercer expression, larger beak and squarer head than the smaller but virtually identically-plumaged plumaged Iceland gull.

06/07/2022

The goldeneye is a medium sized diving duck. Males look black and white with a greenish black head and a circular white patch in front of the yellow eye. Females are smaller, and are mottled grey with a chocolate brown head. In flight, birds show a large area of white on the inner wing. First nested in Scotland in 1970, and since then birds have been attracted to nest in specially designed boxes put up on trees close to water. In winter, birds from Northern Europe visit the UK.

06/07/2022

СТРАННИЦА

Там синяя течёт вода –
у берега.
И не волнуется она,
а – стелется.
И нет дороги меж камней –
лишь тропочка.
И в мире нет меня смелей:
как звёздочка,
Я освещаю путь во тьме –
уверена,
Что выйду к свету по тропе,
вдоль берега,
И встречу на пути тебя –
негаданно,
И боль утихнет, как душа
под ладаном.
…Чтоб не шагали вслед за мной,
не зарились,
Чтоб не шептали за спиной
«товарищи»:
«Давай следить, куда спешит –
ишь, прячется!»
И путь им преградит самшит...
Я – странница.

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05/07/2022

With heart-shaped face, buff back and wings and pure white underparts, the barn owl is a distinctive and much-loved countryside bird. Widely distributed across the UK, and indeed the world, this bird has suffered declines through the 20th century and is thought to have been adversely affected by organochlorine pesticides such as DDT in the 1950s and '60s.

05/07/2022

The black guillemot's striking black and white plumage and bright red feet make it easy to identify in summer. Unlike most other European auks the black guillemot is typically found in ones and twos, scattered around rocky islets. It is typical of the larger sea lochs of western Scotland and the northern and western isles, but is also found in Ireland, the Isle of Man and in a handful of spots in England and Wales.

03/07/2022

The pomarine skua is a large seabird, nearly as big as a herring gull. It has long spoon-shaped tail streamers. There are two colour forms: dark - birds are all dark brown with small white flashes on the wings; light - birds have a pale breast and a dark cap on their heads.