On chooks

One of the things I find very amusing about chickens is the way their heads bob when they walk. When they run?

Bobobobobbobobobobobobbobobobobobobbob!

As Boldie demonstrates below. Her head and neck are all blurred. OK, so is one foot.



I also find their eyes quite freaky - I reckon if you want to know what dinosaur eyes looked like, look no further! After all, chickens are a recently evolved dinosaur really - like pretty much all birds.


Isoldie was also running away from me - these chooks are mighty difficult to get pics of, but had slowed down some and was in focus and not motion-blurred. I have to say I don't find their heads particularly pretty. I think Isoldie shows her English Game Bird heritage quite well - I would not be surprised if she is a pure bred. Boldie clearly is not, with her big floppy comb. Goldie, who declined to join in the photo shoot, is somewhere in between in comb style.

BTW, if you have free ranging chooks and like nice neat paths and garden beds?

HA! You have no hope unless your favourite thing is sweeping paths and you have LOTS of time on your hands....