Category: David

Some garden ornaments, some gatepost decorations (an alternative to the usual lions or eagles) and a couple of bronze statues in the form of lambs and piglets.

Animated moose (or perhaps elk or reindeer) on one of the beer stalls in the Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market.

The larger than life-sized head was making a return after missing the last year or two.

It’s Christmas, so it’s time for a change of pace. The next few posts won’t be pictures of actual wildlife. Instead, they will be of portrayals of animals that have caught my eye on my travels.

For starters, the Birmingham Bull Ring bull. The statue gets a costume for the Christmas season.

Here is this year’s. For comparison, check out the earlier posts with the 2013 costume, and showing the bull unadorned.

Carrion crow on Bushbury Hill, checking whether I am getting too close for it to carry on searching for food in the short grass.

Tiny mushroom growing on moss, and just peeping through the short grass. The cap all looked the same shade of yellow – perhaps the whitish spokes heading towards the rim are a product of overexposure.

The current turkey at Northycote Farm, the replacement for the bird killed by a fox after vandals wrecked its pen a year ago. Perhaps characterful rather than handsome.

This shot caught the bird as its nictating membrane was covering the eye. Sometimes called the third eyelid, it lets birds protect their eyes while still partially seeing their surroundings.