Cycling Photo Challenge - Entries and Chat

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Do you think I will be able to convince @Spinney that it's an egret?

do you really want an answer to that one?
I think you stand a better chance of it being a tawny owl really

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

No - it looks nothing like the egrets in my piccies!

the judge is not convinced it is an egret of any type....

 

[AndyRM]

This is spring in the countryside.....the greens are just starting to show through.

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F*cking egrets! they should be made to clean up their mess!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Twice in two days now I've had the winning picture just waiting for me to capture it, and both times my phone was wrapped up in my bag and I was riding slow, so couldn't stop to snap it without being late for work.

Might get to snap it next week

 

[Katherine]

Newly hatched Purple Egrets

 

[Katherine]

Snowdrops at Heaton Park.

 

[Katherine]

A little bit of Spring in Heaton Park

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

A little bit of Spring in Heaton Park

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yellow greater egrets! or are they yellow greater herons? that one will have hatched come the weekend!

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Snowdrops and it was still light when I left work at 17:00. - This isn't my winner by the way, that one will be worse

 

[Spinney]

Snowdrops and it was still light when I left work at 17:00. - This isn't my winner by the way, that one will be worse

 

[AndyRM]

yellow greater egrets! or are they yellow greater herons? that one will have hatched come the weekend!

Those are actually puffin eggs. They retain a small amount of the yellow colouring in their beaks.

Honestly, this is basic stuff!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Those are actually puffin eggs. They retain a small amount of the yellow colouring in their beaks.

Honestly, this is basic stuff!

I thought puffin eggs were, well how can I put this, more of a smoke colour (grey, white, black, speckled) from what I recall of my visits to puffin colonies in the Orkney's and off the west coast of Scotland...

 

[AndyRM]

I thought puffin eggs were, well how can I put this, more of a smoke colour (grey, white, black, speckled) from what I recall of my visits to puffin colonies in the Orkney's and off the west coast of Scotland...

No. Puffin eggs are white, with a yellow, orange and blue ring around the top. The black colouring you see on them isn't natural, it's added in a factory just outside Oban, so the birds aren't confused with stunted albatrosses.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

No. Puffin eggs are white, with a yellow, orange and blue ring around the top. The black colouring you see on them isn't natural, it's added in a factory just outside Oban, so the birds aren't confused with stunted albatrosses.

So what color are penguin eggs, I'm confused. I thought they had the black stripe as well...

 

[AndyRM]

So what color are penguin eggs, I'm confused. I thought they had the black stripe as well...

Penguin eggs are a bit of a curveball, because they are bright pink! This is to stop Eskimos stealing the eggs to make omelettes, because as we all know, they are terrified of that colour.