Céanndhubahn
Lucky Blue
Eurasian Magpie [pica pica]
An opportunistic shoot, today...I went shopping, and this guy and his partner were hanging around outside a shop, on the grass, during a lovely, sunny interlude.
Having been rushing around stores during my lunch break, this encounter made me slow right down. He was hopping around, unconcerned at my presence and even seemed to pose for the camera, a couple of times. He reminded me of a male model, so I’ve decided to call this image, Lucky Blue, after famous young American model, Lucky Blue Smith.
I have always loved magpies, but only very recently did I become aware of the amazing array of colours on their wings and tails. A very intelligent bird, it can recognise it’s own reflection in a mirror!
Olympus EM-1 OMD
(I was fed up waiting for my glacial-paced WiFi to enable Flickr to upload my images, so I took a screen shot of the photo I took this afternoon, on my iPad for this one.)
Ayr,
SW Scotland
Lucky Blue
Eurasian Magpie [pica pica]
An opportunistic shoot, today...I went shopping, and this guy and his partner were hanging around outside a shop, on the grass, during a lovely, sunny interlude.
Having been rushing around stores during my lunch break, this encounter made me slow right down. He was hopping around, unconcerned at my presence and even seemed to pose for the camera, a couple of times. He reminded me of a male model, so I’ve decided to call this image, Lucky Blue, after famous young American model, Lucky Blue Smith.
I have always loved magpies, but only very recently did I become aware of the amazing array of colours on their wings and tails. A very intelligent bird, it can recognise it’s own reflection in a mirror!
Olympus EM-1 OMD
(I was fed up waiting for my glacial-paced WiFi to enable Flickr to upload my images, so I took a screen shot of the photo I took this afternoon, on my iPad for this one.)
Ayr,
SW Scotland