Lovely birds for Old Year's Eve.

in #hive-1064443 years ago

A Happy New Year to everyone and your families.
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I have some different birds in here to please your eyes and hope that you will enjoy them.

At this time of the year everybody is at home preparing for the old/new year parties tonight.
We don't have such things and thankfully the nature reserve was deserted when we arrived for a quick walk.
When I took the first photo a cloud was in front of the sun, but a bit of waiting cleared the sun and I got the rest of the photos.

This is a Cape Sugarbird (Promerops cafer) and it's one of our birds that have the longest tails.
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Here we have a Ringneck dove taking a drink in our birdbath.
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Some more photos of the Sugarbird.
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I saw this Pied Crow landing between some cars in the traffic and someone in one of the cars dropped a chicken bone out of the window.
Luckily the crow came my way and landed on the roof of a house across the road.
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He knew that I was watching him and he gave me the evil eye.
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So he took his bone and he flew away with it to go and eat it in peace.
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Oh yes, many of us say that it was tough year, but what are we going to say if the new year is even tougher?
We certainly hope and pray that things will get better, especially over here as we are in dire straits here with our huge un-unemployment problem and the electricity shut downs. But we also know that there are troubles all over the world.

But even if the new year is tougher, life will go on and we only have to try our best to get along every day. Not to insult or harm others and to sow the seeds of kindness in whatever we say or do.

And so we as Papillon and personally what to wish only the very best for everyone in the new year.
Come what may, we pray that we all will get through it.

And That's All Friends.

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

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Happy New Years to You and Yours!
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Thank you kindly and may the New Year also be very kind to you and yours.

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No outings nor parties here either, hope the rains come down super hard at midnight to stop anyone who is planning to use them this year 😌

Raining most the day with no sunshine, might enjoy a braai tomorrow with sun promised till 5pm then showers again.

Happy New Year Stephen, Marian and Troy, we cannot wish our lives away only hope they may be better.

@tipu curate 2

I simply struggle to understand where all of the money comes from for the alcohol in the poor areas.
We expect to hear many alarms of the cop vans chasing past to areas of conflict as it was the same last year. We have a history of violence and I think that alcohol plays a major part in it.

Hope that you will see much rain coming down tonight my friend and wish you all of the best with the planned braai tomorrow.

Let me also take the opportunity to thank you for all of your support and friendship over the past years Lady Joan. Pleas know that we sincerely appreciate it.

A Happy New year also to all of you and may this new year also be a much better one for you.

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Fireworks and parties last night went on throughout the night with curfew gone, where does the money come from? Rain did not belt down the way I had hoped, instead we ended up having thick smoggy smoke lingering in the air from the fireworks.

Heard the Hadada flying in fright, dogs yapping, I am actually disgusted with human behaviour, started at 10 pm and carried on to 2.30 am this morning....

All going well we will keep going supporting one another through 2022 building for a better tomorrow.

!LUV


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You can't believe how glad we are to finally be rid of that my friend.
Rosettenville and other poorer suburbs are a nightmare to be in over this period, but then again over all periods.

The years in hive have trained us to to stand together methinks.

!LUV
So I know exactly what you guys are going through.

Will see what this year brings, hopefully some moves depending on what transpires with family.

Standing together is what makes most stay.

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Well we can only hope that it will be good for you guys.

Yes, agreed as united we stand.

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Wishing you and Marian a happy New Year

Thank you kindly JJ, I thought that I had already wished you guys.

May this New Year also bring many blessings into your lives.
And you know that we wish only the best for you and Lulu my friend.

!BEER !PIZZA and !LUV to both of you.

Maybe you did I am loosing track of who has to be honest

Thanks 🙏

!BEER !PIZZA and !LUV to both of you.

Same here JJ, but you and I have an excuse for losing track.
We were born BC (Before Computers) 🤣

Best wishes and love to you guys my friend.

Lol that’s true we were


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A very Happy New Year to you and yours!

The tailfeathers on the Sugarbird are just amazing; great photos.

=^..^=

Thank you kindly and we also wish the very best for you and yours.

That tail always fascinates me my friend.

!PIZZA

Happy New Year! Have a great weekend!

May all of your wishes come true in 2020 my friend and thank you for the wishes.

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Those are beautiful :) ... I hope the crow enjoyed his bone! Aren't cooked bones dangerous for them though?

Happy New Year's, my friend 🙌

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Thank you and no the crows can eat basically eat anything. They can eat the bones same as a dog can.

May 2020 also be kind to you my friend.

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Dogs really shouldn't have cooked bones, only raw. Especially never cooked bird bones. Same goes for cats, if the bones don't choke them, the sharp brittle pieces can damage the stomach.

Thanks so much ❤️ Let's see if I have any left.

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I don't think even wild dogs should eat them cooked?

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Ha, like the crows the wild dogs eat anything good or bad.

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Lovely bird photos to end the year - nice, and the first one looks so cool 😍

I'm wishing you a Happy New Year, dear Zac, all the best and healthiness for 2022 for you and your Lady Marian and the squirrels - may all your wishes come true 🤗

A little New Years gift: looking through my archive I have found one of my rare bird photos - I have met this little curious Nuthatch last year two years ago during a morning walk:


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Ah, so you can indeed take very nice photos of birds my friend 😊

I am glad that you liked the post Hannes and may all of your wishes and dreams also come true in 2022.
Know that I always appreciate our friendship.

Cheers and thanks.

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Of course I can, but only if the birds are nice enough to sit still for me 😂

My friendships here on the Hive are most important for me and I would never want to miss your friendship or some of the others.


!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Well you must join the "Bird Modeling Academy" only an annual fee of 6 packets of bird seed.
Mother nature owns the academy and she will send you models to pose for you like they do for me.
She will also instruct some models to fly sloooowly over you close by so that you can get them with your short lens 🤣
Just remember that we are talking about birds here and not girls 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Same here regarding friendships and I think that most of us have our favorites.
But of course we treat everyone with kindness and respect 😊

Cheers and thanks.

Oh, you shouldn't have reminded me that you were talking about birds and not about girls, because there was a quite nice movie already playing in my mind 🤣 !LOLZ

I think I'm going to join this Academy sometime :)

Kindness and respect is most important ... I just don't talk to the others 😎


!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Oh, my sincere apologies for wrecking the movie that you were playing in your mind 🤣 !LOLZ

Lady Patience will give you the application forms when she moves into the room in your mind one day 🤣

Agreed as kindness costs nothing and it makes others feel better. The exact opposite of rudeness.

Cheers and thanks.

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Thanks for your apologies, that helped a bit 🤣 !LOLZ

I'll have to search in the internet if these forms are somewhere downloadable that I can prepare everything beforehand 😉

Yep, if everybody would think that way the earth would be a much better place.


!PIZZA and !BEER - sounds like a nice dinner :)
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Great that I could help 🤣 !LOLZ

You will sadly not find the forms on the internet, as the birds have their own Flockchain, just like we have a Blockchain 🤣
They charge a fee of 20 packets of bird seed for membership and their tokens are maize pips.

Just like most of the old qualities like friendliness, decency, respect and many others have disappeared, do too will kindness disappear my friend. Sad but true.

Cheers and thanks.
Once you are a member then you will find the forms on their Birdcord, which is the same as our Discord 🤣

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