Grumpy... yes, but never seen him when

he's not looking put out when I want to photograph him!!!

A captive beauty, from Andover Conservancy Hampshire ...UK

Making my annual pilgrimage to my accountant and not wanting to deal with the potholes, kamikaze taxi drivers and outrageously expensive parking I take the train into Manhatten to take care of business and in the 65 years of riding the trains is with exception of people heading to a ball game or some other special events subways are filled with tired looking people with mostly dour expressions going to and from work.

Grumpy Bird is a Superb Starling and they live up to their name. They are not only amazingly colourful but they also have loads of personality. Superb Starlings are an African species and I took this photo in the aviary at our zoo.

Malta's cats

In my garden Stafford UK 17th July 2023

A Yellow-crowned Night Heron is very upset that passers by woke him up.

Lioness in Ruaha

Grumpy Rocks

Grey Heron in Kensington Gardens.

Warnham L N R

Taken at Marwell zoo.

Grumpy girl. She did not like that I had the camera out.

Distant pic of a Dollarbird looking like it has lost its last cent. These are Australia's only member of the colourful roller family which appear around this time of year on their annual migration from Indonesia and New Guinea.

Somehow they all look grumpy head-on.

Rupert looks grumpy after I woke him up from a deep sleep to take this photograph. 11:14pm, Thursday the 4th of May, 2023.

My soulmate Tamino is not so excited for posing again. He wants to jump again in the water. Testshot with the Samyang AF 50/1.4 FE for the Blog of Phillip Reeve.

Used Tools:

Sony A7

Samyang AF 50/1.4 FE

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True story: on this beautiful sunny Sunday morning I cruised by to check out this fellow for my 29th picture. I paused for a four way stop intersection and glanced around for an empty parking spot.

A motorist, with a temperament similar to this fellow's, rolled up to my rear bumper and laid a heavy hand on his truck's horn for a deafening three second blast. As I often do with grumpy drivers, I rolled down my window and gave him a big friendly wave in response. :-)

Geez. Some. People.

Project 365-029

(with ear jewelry)

A Yellow-crowned Night Heron shows he’s definitely not a morning bird with that expression.

I can imagine hearing this old Walrus in the front saying, if you boys don't knock it off, I'll...

Male Walrus in the Arctic.

a warning

2 different groundhogs with similar expressions.

... guess its the Sunday Blues for him :))

Hope you folks wont be too hard on me for the slight camera shake ;)

Sulks more Large on Black

My last outing before lockdown No1

This seagull look like it does not prefer tourists who coming to Venice.

But still pretty

Ich glaube es hat nicht genügend Nüsse bekommen....

Eichhörnchen auf dem Friedhof Heilbronn

My 3 month old daughter, conveying to us her severe displeasure.

Trøndelag county, Norway.

this starling looks like he has the grumps .. probably because the wind has ruined his hairstyle .. looks like he has horns on the top of his head ! .... 😆

I've contrasted these a wee bit, but I've never seen clouds quite like this - a wee bit scary and a wee bit fluffy and a wee bit cotton wool and a wee bit sheep

Westerheide, Laren, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

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