featheredfriday - Greenhouse Day

On my #wednesdaywalk post I mentioned some of the critters and that I would try and get a post out Friday and show a few of them. Well I'm a day late, got wrapped up in other things yesterday. Here is a quick link to my wednesdaywalk -post if you missed it. So now on with the show and tell portion.

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After looking at and taking a lot of pictures I wandered over to the birds. It is a ranch along with a greenhouse, and well sort of a tiny sized zoo. The owners welcomed people to wander around. Here is a very cool looking chicken, I just loved the color of his tail feathers, such a vibrant neon-ish looking green. When I first saw him he was making a bee-line for one of the sheds, I don't know if it was to get a drink of water or what, but I had to wait for him to come back out. Hard to tell he is behind a couple layers of fence, I got lucky on that shot because you can not really see the fencing. Not so lucky on a lot of others.

The bar above was created from a portion of our next guest to the page, once again if you have a need for a separation bar feel free to use it. This guy was not an easy one to get a picture of, I don't think he stopped moving the whole time I was standing there trying to get pictures of him and the others. I did get a couple of very lucky shots of at least his head with out getting fence in the shot. His blue and that blurred out green, very lucky shot. They had a female peacock, but unfortunately with where she was I was unable to get anything even remotely like a postable picturre.

Okay back to the barnyard type critters, I know a lot of people do not see peacocks as a farm animal, but they really are, a lot of farms have them as warning systems. Here is Ben Franklin's favorite bird. Not only Ben Franklin's favorite bird but I think come a certain day a favorite bird of many people for the dinner table. You can see a little of the fencing on him, but it was not to bad, I am not sure what happened to his tail feathers, likely a victim of a jealous peacock or one of the other birds in the bird area. He does have a pretty nice display despite the damage, almost like he is trying to punk himself out and say, "Yeah, I'm Bad. ohh yeah baby check out my styling". Who knows what really goes on in the minds of our feathered friends.

We have been going out and hoping to get a picture in a natural setting of a swan, but things are just conspiring against us this year to get a picture out in nature. We have a pretty good sized fire preventing access to the mountains and the lakes, so her we go, they had a pair of swans, I don't think swans do well by themselves, so it was nice to see both of them so close together and seemingly happy. Once again the fence did get in the way a bit of a full body shot, and I had a difficult time trying to get it to fade like I was able to on the turkey, so a nice close up of the head. Well that pretty much covers the feathered friends.

Of course no so called Ranch would be complete with out a Horse of Course. They also had some donkeys and other horses, but this was the best shot. The pictures of the donkey's did not come out as well as I hoped, and the other horse was to busy eating to even take notice, I did get a few head down in the food shots of him, but there really was nothing notable about the pictures. I did like this shot, he/she looks like they are at least curious as to what I was doing.

#featheredfriday is hosted by @melinda010100. Here is a link to her post and some great Rose-breasted grosbeak pictures. So build a post, and drop your link on her post.