Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful

This week’s challenge is Graceful. I have chosen as my subject for interpreting the theme these kestrels in flight.

kestrel in flight

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I have just installed the application MyPaint on my computer and I’ve been playing around with it. This is a photo of the sparrows that congregate on Tavisuplebis Moedani (Liberty Square) in the centre of Tbilisi.

A blast from the past:

 

My Following on Twitter is Growing…

At Sadguris Moedani (Station Square) I heard a twittering above me and saw all these sparrows in a tree.

These sparrows I spotted while waiting for a bus at Liberty Square in Tbilisi.

 

Sparrows on a branch

Sparrows on a branch

I had to crouch down to get this shot so they would be silhouetted against a grey sky and not a messy background of buildings.

sparrow

…and here a single sparrow isolated by cropping from his friends on Twitter 😉

Should I post this on Twitter?

sparrows

pigeons

sparrows

I often promote my blog, posting on Twitter. I don’t tweet much, I find the character limitation limiting.

I think this should be shared on Twitter.

Feeling Peckish?

Sparrow feast

What are you looking at?

Swallow მერცხალი

“One swallow doesn’t make a summer” but as its August and day time temperatures regularly hit 

40°C, I think it is definitely summer. Yesterday our windows were wide open and I heard a lot of twittering outside, on investigating I found four swallows on our laundry pole. 

Early version of Twitter

I love watching the swallows fly around but it also makes me sad, as I remember watching swallows with my late ex-wife one September in the French lake district. 

One swallow family are nesting on the third floor of our apartment block.

swallow nest

Capturing them in flight is more tricky, as they move so quickly.

swallow in flight (blurred)

The swallow has a high slightly mechanic “t-weet” and a twittering song uttered on the wing or on a vantage point like our laundry pole.

swallow Hirundo rustica

Swallow

swallow

Swallows make me sad. I love watching them but when I see them I remember watching them in France with my late first wife. Here in Tbilisi there are abundant swallows in the summer, we even have a couple nesting in our block.

Magpie

Magpie on the crossbar

BBC Documentaries

This is just amazing: