Among the shadows

The title may sound gloomy... but it's not, quite the opposite! Blame this week's fun theme for the SMAP contest: Shadow of a bird!

I thought I didn't had any shadowy birds in my photos, but after some digging, I found out that wasn't truth. And since Neli chose a crow to illustrate this week's contest, I decided to stick to the Corvidae family for this post, only with one outsider.


Corvidae family encompassed birds like crows, jays or magpies. And look who I found spreading their shadow:


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Jackdaw - Coloeus monedula

Probably my favourite crow species! Jackdaws have black plummage with a beautiful silvery colour on the back of head and dorso, but what really stands out are the clear eyes, quite a contrast with most of the crow species. It's not that apparent in these photos but I chose them since they had the most marked shadows of my picks.


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Normally they hang around in groups and can be noisy, which is great for anyone that likes to see birds, since they don't go unnoticed!


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This one was more interested in the fingernails than posing for the photo... but still casted a decent shadow!

Let's add some more colour, shall we? We fly to southern Portugal, to see one of our endemic species!


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Iberian magpie - Cyanopica cooki

Beautiful, aren't they? If jackdaws are my favourite crow species, these cuties are my favourite magpie species. And there they were, jumping around in a freshly cut lawn, providing shadows for a future smap contest! :)


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As jackdaws, they are normally in groups, although less noisy than the former species; still, easy to spot. Not that easy to photograph, at least for me, because they are not the quietest bird.


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Another bird that don't photograph that often, is the outsider of this post; mainly because I don't see it as often as I would like. But it's an awesome species, and was sharing the lawn with the magpies. And when I saw the photo, realised it fit perfectly in this smap theme, so it's the perfect way to end this post:


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Hoopoe - Upupa epops

It looks like she's contemplating her own shadow! :)

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Gostei muito das fotos das Gralhas!
Excelente colecção, moço!

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O raio dos bichos são fotogénicos! ;)

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E alguém tem um um especial talento para os fotografar!

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Esse tipo é um sortudo! :P :P

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Como o meu pai dizia: Ter sorte dá trabalho... ;)

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Um trabalho do c... 😂😂

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Irá ser um dos temas para a nossa próxima torradinha! Para além dos que já foram propostos! Ahaha

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Nice post Amazing that you have such a big library of bird photos you can compose a whole post of birds with shadows that are all Corvidae! (almost 😉)

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Good think I still have a decent memory, most bird photos are scattered all over the place! :))

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Lovely photos!
I must say that this year we see an increase of jackdaws in our area. They are truly noisy and naughty. They pecked the pipe insulation of our old aircon.
I love the hoopoe. 🙂

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