The bird in Mio’s tanka has white wings, but what about birds where you live? Your task is to take a photograph of a wild bird in your local area and upload it here. Each team member can take one photo each for more light orbs. The photo must be taken by you, cannot be taken before the start of the festival, and each photo from the team must be a different species!
This event will run from now until 23:59 UTC on the 21st.
Teams will receive one Light Orb per participant for a max of 3.
Their battle cries and wild wing beat made the very earth tremble. Yes, that’s totally why the picture is so blurry. Feel free to use your imagination to un-blur this epic scene within your minds.
I was not discouraged by their reckless charge, for I came prepared. Following the example of Key’s best girl, I have started feeding them with bread crusts.
(Sorry, the bread crust pictures are blurry, too xD)
And sure enough, they were pleased with my offering.
For the glory of team Buff Busters, I present the Australian Magpie:
I only managed to get two half-decent pictures of it.
Pretty good-looking specimen actually, too bad I couldn’t get a better picture.
You can’t have Christmas without robins in the UK so I was lucky that one flew into my path yesterday and sat obligingly so I could snap a pic, I only had a small camera with not much telephoto, and the light was appalling so it’s a wee bit blurry. It’s not a stuffed one I put there, honest! (would have got a perfect picture if it were so!).
I’ve ventured out even though it looked like it could rain at any minute only equipped with my old phone (everything else was too much at a risk of rain) to do the dangerous and difficult mission of getting a picture of a bird!
It was a hard and long endevour but I finally caught one sitting on a tree. I have no idea what kind of foe it is, but here you have it:
From Team Buff Busters I present you with our local winged demon, the Canadian Goose.
Between it being winter and the rain the last couple days I couldn’t manage any photos of birds that weren’t soaring overhead. It took an hour of scouting around the neighborhood with my camera at the ready just to get this blurry thing. I think some of my neighbors were getting weary. But I finally managed one where you can actually distinguish the shape of the bird instead of just being a blurry streak of black!
The Canadian Goose is fairly common all year around here. They flock swarm in large numbers, and are fairly large and aggressive. Large and aggressive enough where my 35lb Corgi mix was the one who backed down when he ended up in standoff against one particular goose that had become territorial over a chunk of sidewalk we frequented on our walks.
I have no idea what species of birds they are, but they are quite quick to fly away, haha. I didn’t really have time to take pictures of birds at the right time (they only come in the morning, it seems) not to mention how hard it was to look for them (thanks city life) but I don’t know, it felt nice finding these birds in the early morning~
