You can click on the pictures for a bigger view.
They are quite small and very round. Almost... pear shaped? ;-)
They noticed me here, so I had to stop taking photos.
I found a short video on the RSPB website, so you can see them in action. Very charming little birds.
I used to think these birds were few in number.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why they're in that Christmas song, in a pear tree.
G~G
ReplyDeleteApparently they are endangered, so seeing that many was a treat. :)
And me too on the pear tree thing. These are ground birds. It's like singing about a chicken in date palm! So I went searching and it seems the song always just had a partridge. No pear tree in the oroiginals. They think it comes from the French version. in French was a PRETTY partridge and somehow the French word for pretty might have got mangled into pear tree, but no one really knows.
Cute and round! :-) So those are what they call partridges? Interesting. Same as GG, I also heard the name in the Christmas song ha ha...
ReplyDeleteHi Amel
ReplyDeleteYes. Very cute and round. :)