Striated Heron on the canal.
I only managed to get 3 shots of the same bird last year. Today I saw several along one of the canals this is one of the smallest of the herons. according to my bird book it does not often come to this area.
I managed to get a shot of 2. with the new 100x400 ef lens. from the first shot you can almost see how small it is as its next to a discarded child's shoe
.This is an uncut shot to show one next to a liter water bottle , and how much rubbish is in the canals,
.Looks like its day dreaming of a nice clean canal loaded with fish.
notice the markings. not sure of its breed could be a monitor ?
.The cattle egret
.The little white egret and a cattle egret.
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'The Hoopoe bird , upupa epops, busy digging for a grub.
.So So busy it was not bothered how close I was
.I know this bee on the Aniseed plant.should be on insectsonwings , its the only macro shot I took today so its on here. and that's that.
.this bunch of Aniseed is growing wild by the farm yard most likely it was never picked last year and the plant has self seeded, just a few yards from here there was a whole field of it almost ready for harvest, was tempted to ask the farmer for a few stems for drying in my kitchen. it grows all the year here so I can have it fresh for the cooking pot and tea,
Skint looking if there is water in the canal
.The little egret two busy fishing to notice me, see how white it is compared to the ones who look for food in the polluted Nile, http://www.myegypt.co.uk/index.php?f=data_home&a=1
.Three barn swallows taking a rest
'Two far across the canal to get a good shot of the Nile valley sun bird taking nectar from the banana flower
not seen one do this before,
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6 comments:
What a wonderful post Tony. That small heron loos like the one we call a Night Heron. This canal is a great place for taking pictures.
May I make a suggestion? It would be nice if your comment box came up on a seperate page, that way a person can easily go back and see the pictures too and comment on the rest, the same as on my blog.
Its the Striated heron. butorides striatos. there is a recent photo of the night heron on,
http://birdinginegypt.blogspot.com/2010/03/night-heron.html
and rather good shots they are too if I do say so myself.
They are EXCELLENT shot!! Are those two herons the same size?
This is perfect Tony. Thanks.
The other question I wanted to ask is if that is actually the plant you get aniseed from? We do not have it here and I love aniseed. :)
The bee is on the aniseed plant there are fields of it at the moment they drink a lot of aniseed here, I also drink quite a lot of it I also use it in cooking makes a nice flavour to the beef by putting a layer of the raw stem and leaf on the base of the tray and the meat on top and slow cook in the oven, chicken is also nice by putting some inside the carcass half way through cooking whether on a spit or in the oven,
Thanks Tony. That is very interesting for me to see. A lot of people do not like the taste of it, Thanks fot the additional picture.
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