Wednesday 21st October - life humming on

[byslantedlight]

A change in the weather...





Carpark trees again... and the thickest rainbow I've ever seen, though it didn't get very high!

Comments

[tinturtle]

What killed the pheasant? Did you just find it?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It was just lying there in the field by the track, poor thing. No blood, no visible trauma, nothing to suggest what happened. I can only imagine it was sick...

[just-ann-now.livejournal.com]

These are all just gorgeous. I'm enjoying your daily photo posts very much!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I must admit it's fun doing them again!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

Blimey, that is some bird! I thought pheasants were a kind of boring brown colour but I was wrong. More gorgeousness in the leaves, so many fabulous colours.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It's a beautiful bird, isn't it - I love their colours, so strong and so autumn-y... I guess the female pheasants are less colourful - perhaps that's what you were thinking of...

The leaves are beautiful, aren't they. Not show-y like autumn in North America, but beautiful just the same... *g*

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

I haven't been to our local zoo all year, given the virus. Usually I go a few times a year. I miss it. It is infested by free-ranging peacocks. One of my favorite parts of a visit in spring is the peacock drama. The males display their tails, shake and rattle them and scream to each other ... and the females utterly ignore them. I do see chicks sometimes, but no other indications that the peahens even know those flashy loud fellows.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Lol - go peahens! I do agree though - free-ranging peacocks are rather fine things! *g*

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Stunning colours and such beautiful images! Virginia creeper (?) is so incredibly vivid :-) (I have to ask, though, is that an ex-pheasant? It does look very ex! If so, I hope it got eaten and did not exit in vain *g*)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the leaves are - I assumed plain old ivy, but that's really just assumption...

And yes, sadly it was a very ex-pheasant... It was just lying in the field, and there wasn't any sign of trauma or anything, so I presume it was ill - in which case probably not a good idea to try and eat it... Poor old chap...

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Um, eaten by somebody who eats pheasants, I mean, not by you.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee - I must admit it never occured to me to eat it, because I presumed it had died of some illness, and assumed whatever it was wouldn't make good eating for humans... although who knows, perhaps it died of fright... It had died in the field though, by the track which was how I saw it...

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

Ah, it just looks so perfect (and undecayed/un-nibbled by anything) that I assumed it was maybe freshly shot :-s
Probably a wise decision not to eat it, for anyone! Perhaps a fox will get the benefit instead.

[jat-sapphire.livejournal.com]

Like a rain blot. The rain is similar where I am. Glad this wasn't my day to early vote. That hour in socially-distanced line would have been brutal.

[ariss-tenoh.livejournal.com]

The wall of leaves is gorgeous.