One Photo A Day » Leeds Castle http://onephotoaday.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:19:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/uk/ White Peacock http://onephotoaday.co.uk/animals/white-peacock http://onephotoaday.co.uk/animals/white-peacock#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:16:52 +0000 Jess http://onephotoaday.co.uk/?p=152 This photo was taken with my old, and now gone, Sony Cybershot DSC-P200 during one of our visits to Leeds Castle in Kent.  I didn’t know peacocks could also be white and this one impressed us with a wonderful display of it’s plumage (more likely warning us not to come closer but still amazing).  I went back to Leeds Castle a few weeks later after taking this shot but by then all of the peacocks had shed their beautiful tail feathers.  White peacocks are often mistaken as being albino but they are not, they just happen to be white. Peacocks shed their tail feathers once a year and every year they grow longer, fuller and with bigger eyes.

]]> http://onephotoaday.co.uk/animals/white-peacock/feed 0 Flower & Bee http://onephotoaday.co.uk/animals/flower-bee http://onephotoaday.co.uk/animals/flower-bee#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:42:48 +0000 Jess http://onephotoaday.co.uk/?p=125 Browsing through my photo albums I came across this photo which was taken during one of our visits to Leeds Castle in August 2009.  I remember seeing the bee flying around the flower and quickly got the camera out hoping to catch the moment, it was over in a second but I managed to snap a pretty decent photo.

I miss summer…

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