A real bird..

...and not a concrete bird. The wax-eye feels very superior!
Honey soaked bread meant that the wax-eyes and the sparrows competed for it but I preferred to shoot the sweet little birds also called 'silver-eyes' and 'ring-eyes.
Three Good Things:
1. A nice walk up to the post box.
2. The time to experiment with the camera
3. Another great Granddaughter for John! He's now got 19!

[Bep]

#3 Congratulations!

[Beryl Lloyd]

A super shot Maggiemae , he is such a delightful little bird with his ringed eye !

[Graham Thresher]

Wonderful.

[Nadiya Bilovodenko]

so cute shot!

[Lisa Pouncy]

Sweet xx

[summerfield]

i rather like the high key treatment. the other bird isn't real, right? and congrats to john on the new granddaughter!

[Maggiemae]

@summerfield I poked the other bird in the beak and he didn't move so yes, he's not real.. And as John says - he had nothing to do with it!

[Julie F]

Great capture of this interesting bird - I can see the ring, and the silver.

[Helen Jane]

The eye and the profile shape of the real bird are delightful.

[Pat Knowles]

A trapeze acrobat bird! I love the little birds with the rings round there eyes! I think the waxwing is wondering what's wrong with that stuffed one!!

[Pat Knowles]

Congratulations to the new grandfather & grandmother!

[Pat Knowles]

GREAT!

[Maggiemae]

@happypat The birds all avoided this feeding plate for months because of this silly parrot like sculpture! And thanks for the congrats but we have stopped counting with 21 grandchildren!

[katy]

So happy for John. This is a terrific shot of a very intriguing looking Bird. Both of them, actually!

[Faye Turner]

Such a sweet shot!

[Maggiemae]

@grammyn the new grandchild is John's eldest daughter's grandchild and her first! She is ecstatic!

[katy]

@maggiemae then I am incredibly happy for her as well. Grandchildren are so much fun

[Maggiemae]

@grammyn Grandchild lives in Holland and grandmother lives in NZ, Katie!

[katy]

@maggiemae ouch! No fun at all😩

[Islandgirl]

Sweet capture!

[KWind]

Nice close up!!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Congrats on the newest family member! Wow- 19! I wonder if she'll follow in the footsteps of her great great grandfather and race motorcycles? You never know! Nice shot- such a curious little bird!

[Maggiemae]

@olivetreeann Our youngest son is working that way on his one year old daughter - wants to buy here a motorbike!

[Myrna O'Hara]

it's a chick magnet!!!!!!!!!

[gloria jones]

Neat capture, composition #3 WOW

[Joan]

Great shot. Soft..

[Karen Mitchell]

wow, these are magical!

[Dawn]

Lovely capture Maggiemae

[Cathie]

Charming.

[tony gig]

Fan shot Maggie...Fav

[Sally Ings]

Such pretty birds. We have some that look very similar and are known as 'white eyes'. For such little birds they make quite a lot of noise.

[Maggiemae]

Ours don't make much noise, Sally - just a soft tweeting! @salza

[Yao RL]

The real bird must thinking the other bird is so rude.

[Maggiemae]

@yaorenliu Or else he doesn't have bird language or a stance that protects his own area! YUP!

[Corinne]

Pretty catch !

[Dione Giorgio]

19 grandchildren, you said? Amazing! I only have two but they live very close so I see them almost every day. Only this morning I took them out with me to look for Pokémon (not me, them - I don't even understand the game). Beautiful capture and at first I thought they were both real. Love that eye.

[Terri]

Stunning. I love the light and colors.

[Tremerryn]

Very pretty - love the expression!

[Ruby Shepherd]

Great shot. Fav

[Ann Williams]

Bright and cheerful. Birds have such a hard life but always seem to be upbeat and chirpy.

[Maggiemae]

@sangwann Thank you Dione for your comment - all our grandchildren live miles away from us!

[Bev]

Great shot. I love birds. These are quite cute!

[*lynn]

fabulous composition

[tommykeith]

love reading your three things! great idea.

[Jacqui Jay]

A new great-grand-daughter is a VERY good thing.

[Harry J Benson]

nice presentation, congratulations on the new infant