I would like to thank @nelinoeva for the competition.
This week's theme is - **feather**.
The rules and announcements can be found  [here](https://ecency.com/hive-106444/@nelinoeva/feathered-friends-show-me-a-987d702d26b37).

I have practically no photos of feathers, although I often find them in the forest.

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These are **capercaillie** feathers.

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Unfortunately, my meeting with this huge bird was very tragic.
I was walking along a dirt road in a pine forest, when suddenly a capercaillie appeared from behind a large hummock. Because of this bump we didn't see each other. We were both frightened by surprise, but the capercaillie tried to fly away. He hurriedly flapped his wings, but since the trees grew very close to each other, he crashed into them, hit them. And in the end, he fell on his back.
At first I thought that he lost consciousness, received a head injury. In such cases, the birds just need time to recover. I gently turned him over to the bottom of his body so that when he wakes up he immediately gets to his feet. And I left.

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A week later, I was walking the same road and saw a huge amount of scattered feathers. Anyway, he died then. And someone ate his corpse, most likely it was a badger, the traces of which I saw not far from that place, or maybe a fox.

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In these photos, someone ate a magpie. Birds of prey would not be able to do this, because of its large size. Most likely, the magpie, as usual, walked the earth, and then a stray dog overtook her,

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And I found this feather by a dried-up lake where sandpipers like to spend time. I don't know exactly which one it is.

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This is a woodpecker's feather. Either a great spotted or white-backed. Someone ate it too.