Animal – Page 7

Birds of a Feather

…gathering off Tenth Avenue in September, 2009.

Balsley Park

Another image from my back catalogue of Septembers past – this one from 2009.

Birds on a Wire

This one, like the last post, is also from September, 2006.

Horses

One of our walks takes us past a horse (and donkey) farm. There were some new residents this time.

Bois de Boulogne

From La Petite Ceinture we walked on to the Bois de Boulogne, a large park in Paris’ 16th arrondissement.

Some More North Berwick Beach

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Belgian Countryside

A shot grabbed at high speed from the train window taking us back from our day in Bruges to Brussels.

Cock Robin’s Question?

The French for “still life” would be more appropriate here, nature morte.

Cows and Birds

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In the distance of the first picture you can see some white buildings. That’s as close as we got to Land’s End, the most westerly point in the country. Somewhere along the way we passed a Bronze Age barrow cemetery but it wasn’t tremendously apparent where it began and ended. If you click to enlarge the picture of the beach (click the post title first if you’re seeing this in an email), you can see a couple of people down there to provide some sense of scale and distance. As we walked back from almost-Land’s End to Nanjizal we came upon the same herd of horses who again tried nibbling at my clothes (while one napped).

Nanjizal

On Thursday 25 May, the penultimate of our walking group tour, we started out from Nanjizal. The horse below (click to see it larger) came right up and started chewing on my shirt, then my jeans and then started nuzzling my backpack. It either was smelling my lunch in there or was merely hoping for some food, I think. The long straight line in the map is us driving from Nanjizal up to Botallack. More about that anon. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.

St Anthony Head

From Killigerran Head we passed Zone Point along the Coastal path to the Battery Observation Point and Lighthouse at St Anthony Head. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.

Minions and Hurlers

The next day (23 May), we started at Minions and the Hurlers stone circles. A guide with another group entertained us with a lot of information about the circles, some of it sounding plausible, some not so much (radiation in the circle is lower than outside the circle, stuff about ley lines). Cows were resting among the neolithic stones.

We then made our way up to the Cheesewring, so called, because it looks like cheese that has been stacked to have the moisture wrung (pressed, really) out of it. If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger.

Kelsey Head and West Pentire

And, of course, we met more creatures along the way, sheep and seals (If viewing in email, click the post title to click into the images and see them larger).