It's a nice scene. I thought guinea fowl were ancestral to chickens, but just checking (or, er, chicking) wikipedia I see that I was mistaken and it's jungle fowls. I further note that they are to be found on Christmas Island, among other places. Now if there really were a God she'd have put the chickens on Easter Island, and the turkeys on Christmas Island.
B > On 9 Apr 2015, at 19:18, Donald Guthrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Cool picture. Guinea fowl were not common but sometimes seen on farms here in > Iowa when I was a kid. Seems to me we ate the eggs although they were small. > So a little nostalgia for me. > >> On 4/9/15 11:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> Message: 4 >> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 16:23:11 +0200 >> From: "Alan C"<[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List"<[email protected]> >> Subject: PESO: Numida Meleagris >> Message-ID: <34C9E34BD98F4FED97871679DA6E3C15@AcerTM5744> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; >> reply-type=original >> >> A small flock of Guinea Fowl (Tarentaal) sand-bathing in my garden this >> afternoon. Two chicks have survived - an improvement on last year's zero. >> And then the dog saw them & they scattered in all directions. >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/16468428923/in/photostream/ >> >> K7 HD 55-300@100mm f4 1/500s ISO400 Overcast >> >> Alan C > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
