First some birds, and then the sickle moon.
I have divided the post into 3 sections with 3 shots of each topic.
A morning nest building bird, then late afternoon bird flyovers, and finally the moon that revealed a secret.
We started the day at the center for disabled children that Papillon supports, and as we sat down for some coffee during a break, the sweet little sparrow came in to sit above our heads on a pipe. She might even be the same sparrow that we saw last year, or maybe one of the babies that is now an adult. In any case, she knew where she was born, and now also to raise her own babies in the same nest. So, she just had to change the furniture in the nest :)
The smaller birds have the habit of nesting in the same nest every year, unless they get disturbed by humans, as then they will abandon the nest to go and nest elsewhere. There is also a pair of wagtails here whose nest is in a hanging pot plant, but they departed because a gardener watered the plant with a hose. So, I don't think that they will return to the nest. In any case, I also posted them and their babies last spring season.
She is a female Cape Sparrow (Passer melanurus) and she decided to pose for a few shots.
A real model, isn't she?
Seagulls flew over in the late afternoon.
Conditions must be just right for the moon to reveal what you will see below.
Yep! Look what was hiding in the moon's shadow (earth), and there was also a planet below that might have been Jupiter or Venus.
And the closer that one zooms, the earth's shadow starts to disappear.
Until finally the earth's shadow on almost full zoom could not be seen anymore. It's called the dark side of the moon.
I know that there is a wide variety of shots in here, but as we were busy on the day I didn't have much time to take photos, but I took what I could get, especially if it is interesting. A pity that my camera cannot get the satellites that we see crossing over every clear night. Our current highest count of satellites at the moment is 50 within an hour, so the sky is very busy at night. I just hope that all those manmade things flying around in orbit will not have the same result as the humans down here have on the birds trying to nest. Just imagine the earth flying away:)
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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