Booted bantams

We went looking for butterflies and found bantams. A good day with photography in the morning and DNA genealogy in the afternoon and a very nice lunch in between.

Added late a piece from Wikipedia about them.
The Booted Bantam, also called the Dutch Booted Bantam and the Sablepoot, is a bantam breed of chicken. Its name is derived from the bird's extravagant feathering on the feet and hock joints, which are called vulture hocks or "sabels" in Dutch. With no large fowl counterpart from which it was miniaturized, the Booted is one of the true bantams.