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Les-Piccolo — Bohemian Waxwing
Published: 2011-08-21 16:41:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 3532; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 0
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This is a shot from last January when the Bohemian Waxwings pass through the area every year feeding on the berries still in the trees.Related content
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Great shot and great reference material, nice job!
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Wow, beautiful!!! Looks like a painting! Great photo!
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This is insanely good. I've never seen quality like this before, really. The soft light, the amazing amount of detail, I'm speechless.
So, do they get drunk on the berries? When I lived in a wilder place, they would come through and feast on the fermented juniper berries and get quite inebriated.
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I've never seen any indication of inebriation in these birds but it is a non stop eat and poop session. They are pooping so often it is a way of finding them, because the droppings are under the trees they most frequent.
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Ah yes, that's how I know the blackberries are ripe...I think the drunken birds is a late summer thing. The juniper berries ferment on the bush and it's quite obvious the birds are affected, you would definitely notice.
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It' so poetic and magical, at first I thought this was a drawing too!
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Thank you. The bird did most of the work growing the feathers.
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Wow! I thought this was a drawing or a painting! I would make a really cool drawing on some nice brown paper!
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OMG I'm so going for it! And maybe a painting too!(if that's ok) I have questions about the back ground....what was there?
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The background was just more of the same small trees and branches but at a distance to make a nice blurred effect. I'd like to see the finished project when you're done if you don't mind
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oh I see! Oh of coarse I don't mind showing it to you when it's done.
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