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One of eight on the Townend Scrape, Blacktoft Sands RSPB. Sands RSPB. This one had some patches of summer plumage remaining.
Conowingo Dam, Md.
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Northern Lapwing, (Vanellus vanellus)
Meaning behind the name:
Vanellus = Latin for "winnowing fan" (No doubt refers to their flying with twists and turns, flapping the wings in the same manner that the farmers used to use a fan to blow the chaff of the grain in the 16th century.)
The English name is more complex. A clue is one of it's other names "Lapwinch." (Lap- winch)
The Lapwing name made it's first appearance around the 8th century as "la'epiwinche", or "la'pewince" The first element of these early words "la'epi" or "la'pe" has it's origins meaning "crest" and the latter "winche" or "wince" meaning "to move up and down" like someone would use a winch. Hence; put together, it's now becoming clear that the lapwing was named originally from it's crest which moves up and down, rather than named after it's wing flaps.
Over time, the word "winch" became corrupted by a distortion (or miss-spelling if you like) of the word to become "winca" meaning "winker" by the 11th century until around 1430 when you got "lapwingis" with the first appearance of "wing" in 1481. (Told you this name origins was more complicated than it seems)
Personally, I think the name we have today is much more appropriate as it's more in harmony with it's Latin name.
A few other Old Names included: Pewit, Peeweet and similar based on it's call that's often heard, and Horny wick, Horny Wig and Horny Wink all refer to it's "horn-like" crest.
Common Raven (Corvus corax)
Adult
Family: Corvids
Tlaquepaque--Oak Creek Riparian Area
Coconino County, AZ
2014/05/20
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The adult green heron did a lot of preening, and was pretty animated. Brazos Bend State Park in SE Texas. 8/2018.
Whilst the youngster was busy looking at everything this adult was busy doing some preening in the shade :-)
She did a great job this year,a different female this year to last year.Both this year and last year the females produced 3 young,long may they continue.
This is the adult stage of a lifecycle of creatures made from epoxy putty, painted with acrylics and varnish.
An adult male American Oystercatcher using his beak to widen the already cracked clam shell brought out by a smaller gull who could not raise it high enough in the air with flight and drop it to successfully crack it open. No worries, the Oystercatcher had no issues getting inside with his long beak.
John Mac Giolla Phádraig Leisen
Laurie Sigel
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There was still a family party of six Willow Tits at my local reservoir yesterday and I still don't know whether it comprised 4 youngsters and 2 adults, or five young and one parent. I know this picture is horribly cluttered but I thought it was worth recording how the parents fed them in this instance. The young were constantly begging for food by giving special calls and shivering their wings with their beaks open. As the party moved through the undergrowth, the parent(s) would find insects, usually caterpillars, and feed one of the youngsters. How they ensured each one got its share I do not know as it seemed rather chaotic. Here the parent bird swung trapeze-like on the bramble branch below its chick so was hanging upside-down while it fed its upright fledgling. This was a split second after feeding when the adult bird turned its head for the camera. Incidentally, the word fledging is a verb that describes the time that young birds leave the nest. But add an l and you get a noun fledgling that describes a young bird that has recently fledged.
Across most of their Eurasian ranges the Marsh Tit and Willow Tit are easy to separate as Willow Tit is a cold, frosty grey, whereas Marsh Tit is a warmer buff colour. But in Britain the kleinschmidti race of Willow Tit is warmer with buffy flanks, just like Marsh Tit. Marsh Tit usually has a pale spot at the base of its dark bill and Willow Tit usually has a pale wing panel, though my understanding is that no single feature is 100% reliable for separating them apart from call. Though the adult Willow Tit here has an astonishingly bright wing panel, but confusingly has a tiny pale spot on its bill like Marsh Tit. Marsh Tit was described new to science in 1758, but it was 69 years later before Willow Tit was described in 1827. But it was an incredible 70 years later (1897) before people realised Willow Tits occurred in Britain. Willow Tits have declined massively in Britain but still occur in West and South Yorkshire where Marsh Tits usually do not occur. Willow Tits are the most rapidly declining resident bird in the UK. The British population fell by 91% between 1967 and 2010. Research on reasons for the decline is ongoing, but we know they prefer scrub to woodland, and also need standing dead wood as they excavate their own nest holes. The endemic British race kleinschmidti is the smallest and darkest of numerous races. The latest population estimate of the British kleinschmidti is 3400 pairs, but it continues to decline.
I know, I know, ya'll are sick of me posting this bird! Last one for this Creation adventure. This is the adult stage with the bright red frontal shield. with a golden tip! There's tons of these birds in Florida! Probably equal to the numbers of American Coots! I'm just saying if I only had a dollar for every Coot ...
My birthday isn't until tomorrow but I can eat it when ever I want, that's the beauty of being an adult haha
On the wall by the front door of our house. Original size image here: www.flickr.com/photos/bruunphoto/50242260657/sizes/o/
Widespread and often fairly common in the Andes, mainly in fairly open habitats from scrub to bogs and rocky slopes. Often relatively conspicuous, running on the ground with tail strongly cocked and often dipped, or singing from a prominent rock. Plumage rather plain overall with brownish upperparts and dark-centered, bright rusty tail.
Santa Eulalia, Lima, Peru. October 2018.
Adult Herring Gull at Corsham Lake - Wiltshire. Testing out my Sigma 500 f4 lens which has been in Japan being repaired after a catastrophic failure back in October 2020 - seems to be working ok but fingers crossed!?
El jueves estuve con Pipa y Pepe Ros en Los ojos del Luchena. Sabía que habían Zygonys torridus volando pero ni en sueños hubiera podido acercarme a la realidad. ¡¡Una multitud!!
Como pillarlas al vuelo no es lo mío, monté 100 pero por el camino me encontré a este macho que hacía el mismo trayecto de ida y vuelta a la altura de mi cabeza. Así que lo intenté y de diez disparos, 2 entraron en el encuadre y relativamente enfocados.
Este tiene un 18% de recorte.
En Los Ojos del Luchena. Lorca (Murcia) España
On Thursday I was with Pipa and Pepe Ros in Los ojos del Luchena. I knew there were Zygonys torridus flying but even in my dreams I could not have come close to reality. A crowd!!
As catching them on the fly is not my thing, I rode 100 but on the way I met this male who made the same round trip at the height of my head. So I tried it and out of ten shots, 2 came into the frame and relatively focused.
This one has an 18% trim.
In Los Ojos del Luchena. Lorca (Murcia) Spain
This shot was taken back in August, off the East coast of America.
A pretty unremarkable shot on the face of it, but this really marked an amazing & memorable moment for me.
This adult Male Humpback whale passed directly under our boat, before surfacing just a few yards away.
I'd been watching Shearwaters bobbing on the surface, when I was suddenly aware of this huge shape looming out from beneath the boat, with those fabulous white pectorals stretching out like the wings of an aircraft.
You can just make out the bubbles beginning to escape from his blow-hole & mouth here, just before he broke the surface & blasted a jet of spray high up into the air.
The sight, sound & the feel of the spray on my face was just incredible.
While walking back home, I decided to stop by a nearby field to check for bugs. Almost as soon as I approached the field, I spotted a huge adult female Phidippus audax clutching a particularly large yellow soldier beetle. I didn't have my camera with me, so I quickly headed towards home to get it.
About half way there, I noticed a little dark spot on a concrete column about 20 feet away. I walked over, hoping it would be a jumping spider, and sure enough it was! I instantly new it was not a species I am familiar with, and that it was male (enormous front arms, slender abdomen, weird palps, and the enormous protruding chelicerae). I coaxed him on to my left hand and continued my trip home with him perched on the end of my finger.
He proved a real pain to photograph, as he would run towards anything in front of him (the lens). Eventually (58 photos later) he settled down and allowed me to photograph him.
Really a beautiful spider, the size of those fangs are surely the largest I have seen for a spider this small (4mm).
Taken at ~4.5:1 magnification with the 28mm reversed on some extension tubes and cropped a bit.