Did you know?

Chough feathers always have an orange tip. As far as I know, they are the only corvids to have this. The photo below shows a row of chough feathers on the top, and a row of jackdaw feathers along the bottom. Cool ay?

Extraordinary colours

Today was a day for extraordinarily vivid colours when the sun came out.  The yellow lichen in the bottom photo is lifted a little by the use of a flash, but the sphagnum moss in the upper shot is naturally lit using the super macro setting on the Canon compact SX200IS