Grounds for Sculpture – A bird

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Not a sculpture, but a real bird. Anyone reading this blog will know by now that I struggle to get pictures of birds. It’s not that I’m not technically capable of taking the pictures. Rather it’s that I can’t find birds to take pictures of – except for Canada Geese and Mallards. Can it be that these are the only birds that like having their pictures taken?

I’m no expert, but I believe that this is a Grey Catbird:

“The gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis), also spelled grey catbird, is a medium-sized North American and Central American perching bird of the mimid family. It is the only member of the “catbird” genus Dumetella. Like the black catbird (Melanoptila glabrirostris), it is among the basal lineages of the Mimidae, probably a closer relative of the Caribbean thrasher and trembler assemblage than of the mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers. In some areas it is known as the slate-colored mockingbird.” (Wikipedia)

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II

Grounds for Sculpture – When shall we three meet again?….

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It’s actually called: “Has Anyone Seen Larry? (The Three Fates)”, but it reminds me more of Macbeth’s three witches than it does of the Morai of ancient Greek religion and mythology, often known in English as the Fates. Three sisters: Clotho (the spinner), Lachesis (the allotter) and Atropos (the unturnable, a metaphor for death), they were the personifications of destiny.

Of course, the witches in Macbeth are nameless, and do bear a striking resemblance to the three Fates of classical mythology.

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The skulls in the cauldron were rather gruesome.

Taken with a Fuji X-E3 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II