This week's PhotoHunt theme is "Birds."
My blog has been crashed all week and I thought I'd have to miss this week's PhotoHunt. I was bummed too because I love birds. But low and behold, it came back to life a few minutes ago (cross your fingers that it stays fixed).
From Venice, a pair of kissing Byzantine birds~
The North Carolina state bird is the Cardinal, a beautiful red bird who's a year-round resident of our state~
Another one of my favorite birds is the owl. Saw this one in a Paperhand Puppet Intervention parade~
You can find more Photo Hunters and join the hunt here.
Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend!
Comments (27)
Yay! We're back in blogging business!
I have no fondness for birds, but I do love your photo of the marble Byzantine birds!
Posted by sandrac | November 20, 2009 2:34 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 14:34
Great choices for the theme. I've photographed the cardinal in Durham's Central Park before too. It's a fun sculpture. I also like the turtle near it in the park. The kissing birds from Venice are a treat. I love it and also the owl is marvelous. Great take on the theme. Happy Weekend, Carver
Posted by Carver | November 20, 2009 2:46 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 14:46
Hi Annie, yay! Great photo collection of birds for this week's theme. That first one from Venice is something very special. And I didn't know that the Cardinals were a year round resident in NC. Love the paperhand Owl puppet too.
Have a great weekend!
Posted by Kathy (Trekcapri) | November 20, 2009 3:50 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 15:50
A great take on the theme. I love all of your bird-related photos but that owl is amazing! Happy weekend
Posted by jams O'Donnell | November 20, 2009 4:14 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 16:14
Annie,
I love your selection for birds for this week. I especially love the Byzantine birds.
Posted by candi | November 20, 2009 4:40 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 16:40
Hi Annie!
I like those venitian birds! Do you remember where you found them?
Have a nice week-end!
AnnaLivia
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Hi AnnaLivia,
That paterae was in Castello, on one of those little streets off Via Garibaldi, but I'm not sure which one. You have a great weekend too!
Posted by AnnaLivia | November 20, 2009 8:16 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 20:16
These are fun photos :)
Happy weekend!
Posted by julie | November 20, 2009 9:47 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 21:47
Glad you got the blog back in time for the Photo Hunt.. Your photos are great.. my favorite the owl..
Posted by ann | November 20, 2009 10:54 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 22:54
great series of pics. the kissing birds and the owl are stunning. have a lovely weekend.
Posted by liferamblings | November 20, 2009 11:02 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 23:02
Interesting posts for this week theme !
Happy hunting~
Posted by keeyit | November 20, 2009 11:34 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 23:34
Great photos - I'm glad you could take part in this week's Photo Hunt. (And have my fingers crossed that you can read my comments on this comments thread!)
Posted by YTSL | November 20, 2009 11:38 PM
Posted on November 20, 2009 23:38
Very interesting post!
I haven´t known anything about the red cardinal before I saw Carver´s photo and now I know this beautiful red bird is the state bird of Carolina.
I love the kissing Byzantine birds.
Happy weekend.
Posted by Randi | November 21, 2009 2:14 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 02:14
Love your "bird collection" this week.
Stop by and check mine out.. it took me a while to post with ST challenges... but I am back to posting. :)
Posted by Eden | November 21, 2009 4:06 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 04:06
Cool photos! I love owls too, they are so different from other birds.
Glad our blogs are back up, although we did have some fun with them being down! :)
Posted by Anne | November 21, 2009 6:37 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 06:37
What interesting and unusual captures!
Posted by Barbara H. | November 21, 2009 9:39 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 09:39
My kind of birds! Thanks for sharing
Posted by Chris | November 21, 2009 11:11 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 11:11
I also like the love birds in the first picture and the owl is interesting but kinda scary.
Posted by Marta | November 21, 2009 11:24 AM
Posted on November 21, 2009 11:24
Cool representation of birds, all made of different materials. It must be wonderful to get to see the red robin year round. Love the paper owl. I’ll have to show that one to Pablo; he loved owls as a child and still has a collection of owl things (pencil holder, coasters, and stuff animal).
We don’t have any interesting or pretty birds in the dessert, except perhaps the roadrunner but pretty he's not. There are owls that live in the saguaro cacti but they are seldom seen.
I'm thrilled to see MT back in operation. I was in San Diego last week and tried to do a post with photos and couldn't get it to save the entry or publish it. I'll do my PH entry later tonight. Have lots of blog reading to do. :)
Wishing you a great weekend!
Posted by Maria I. | November 21, 2009 1:33 PM
Posted on November 21, 2009 13:33
Thanks so much for your very kind words on my Hunt post. I'm so glad you did, 'cos I returned the favour and found a new fave Hunt blog to add to my reading list! Love your takes on this week's theme - as a fellow bird lover, I love all your choices :D
Posted by Anne S | November 21, 2009 4:57 PM
Posted on November 21, 2009 16:57
Fun Photos. Love the Byzantine lovebirds. Cardinals are near and dear to my heart (my son's little league team way back when). Strange football game today! menehune
Posted by menehune | November 21, 2009 5:09 PM
Posted on November 21, 2009 17:09
Love your choices for this week!! And glad you are back online.
Happy Weekend.
Posted by Pat | November 21, 2009 5:12 PM
Posted on November 21, 2009 17:12
wow! what a fantastic array for this week's theme =] the Byzantine birds are my favorite =] thanks for visiting my blog!
Posted by ian | November 21, 2009 9:21 PM
Posted on November 21, 2009 21:21
Great collection of bird photos :) My favorite is the Venice photo.
I am also happy that the blogs are back up again - just in time for photohunt. Hopefully this will be the last major problem.
Posted by girasoli | November 21, 2009 10:52 PM
Posted on November 21, 2009 22:52
All very cool photos! The owl is very neat.
Posted by Tomara | November 22, 2009 1:01 AM
Posted on November 22, 2009 01:01
Great bird photos!
It's good to have our blogs back online again - guess we had better get busy with some posts!
Posted by nancyhol | November 23, 2009 1:32 AM
Posted on November 23, 2009 01:32
Hi Annie, me again. Since I might be off line for awhile after tomorrow, I wanted to stop by and wish you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving Holiday!
Kathy
Posted by Kathy (Trekcapri) | November 23, 2009 3:29 PM
Posted on November 23, 2009 15:29
Of course I am partial to the marble Venetian birds! LOL
Posted by Jerry | November 24, 2009 7:09 AM
Posted on November 24, 2009 07:09