The 'Moorhen' Images
of the Day
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This Sparrowhawk touches down on the edge of the Kitchen Bird table.
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As this two Wood Pigeon try to fit onto the limited area of the
top of the Meadow Post, we see that the brilliant sunlight has
reduced the bird's iris to a tiny short slot.
The more usual Iris is a 'droopy' appearance of various sizes.
Before ID books being mostly selected photographs rather than drawings, and the ability
to scan hundreds of photo in the internet, we always found that the iris was illustrated
with a Round iris, even though in the living bird it is round only when fully open
in poor light. We suspect that illustrations were made from taxidermy creations
(with glass eyes) or dead specimens.
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