also on iNaturalist with other photos www.inaturalist.org/observations/128473783

Mulla mulla (Ptilotus species) are also known as Mulla mulla feather flowers for their fluffy flower spikes in pinks, mauves, purples and greens. This wildflower species is endemic to much of mainland Australia.

also on iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations/77764594

20 photos du même individu dans cet album

20 photos of th esame individual in this album

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also called European Siskin or just Siskin

Spinus spinus

sijs of sijsje

Tarin des aulnes

Erlenzeisig

Jilguero Lúgano

Lucherino

Lugre

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also a pleasure in the snow

Also known as the peewit in imitation of its display calls, its proper name describes its wavering flight. Its black and white appearance and round-winged shape in flight make it distinctive, even without its splendid crest. This familiar farmland bird has suffered significant declines recently and is now a Red List species. (rspb)

Also known as Wallace's Standardwing...

Endemic to Northern Moluccas in eastern Indonesia and is the westernmost species of the true birds-of-paradise.

The most difficult capture of my entire life.

We set off from a homestay located near the entrance of Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park park around 5 p.m. and walked about two kilometers along a very difficult trail full of mud. We had to climb over fallen tree trunks and huge, quite sharp volcanic rocks.

We had to cross streams walking on very slippery tree trunks, even more slippery because our sneakers were covered in mud.

We camped relatively close to the place where we were going to photograph and where we had to be at five in the morning.

The tent had no matress and as they had put palm leaves below, to avoid humidity, I believe, we could feel like stones or pits everywhere. Impossible to sleep…

We got up at 3 a.m. and walked in the darkness only with our head lamps, about a quilometre or more along a trail even worse than the previous one.

Then, finally, we reached the base of the tower, which is about 15 meters high, from where we were going to shoot. The vertical wooden ladder was very rudimentary, and the distance between the steps (crossbars...) was half a meter or more... and I had to climb to the third floor.

Besides not being in very good shape, partly due to the two recent hip surgeries and also because I hadn't prepared myself for such an effort, I am a short person and would never be able to climb those stairs without help. So, and now you can laugh, I climbed with the precious help of a nice young ranger who placed my feet step by step and with my friendly guide, Noldi, pushing my but!

I am eternally grateful to them for all the help they gave me that day, especially because the way back was even more difficult, since, due to fatigue, I had barely eaten dinner the night before and, after a sleepless night, I was completely exhausted.

Finally, I reached the top of the tower and, after a few minutes of waiting, the show began. It was not an easy session, with many obstacles between us and our subjects, but we managed to get some photos.

Many thanks to those who managed to reach the end of this tedious narrative.

Many of you, the vast majority, I believe, know well what a nature lover is capable of doing to achieve a goal. But some people have no idea :)

Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park, Halmahera, North Moluccas, Indonesia

Also bring a little joy to yourself ....,

Full resolution if you like. Good sensor and glass, so-and-so photographer......thank you for attention and all the best!

Also known as Pincent's Kiln, Wilder's Folly, Nunhide Tower or Flint Folly, this brick tower was built in 1769 by Reverend Henry Wilder while he was courting Joan Thoyt as a token of his love. Situated to the West of Reading, the tower occupies a commanding position on Nunhide Hill overlooking the surrounding Berkshire countryside.

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Also known as the Pink- Checked Cattleheart, Mylotes Cattleheart, and the True Cattleheart. Found from central and south America.

also on iNaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations/100598681

Following yesterday's Green version.

Also the hats fly

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The osprey, also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor reaching more than 60 cm in length and 180 cm across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts. Wikipedia

Conservation status: Least Concern (Population increasing) Encyclopedia of Life

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Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, occasionally corrupted as bobbed wire or bob wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands. It is used to construct inexpensive fences and is used atop walls surrounding secured property. It is also a major feature of the fortifications in trench warfare (as a wire obstacle).

Michael Kelly Invented the First Barbed Wire Fencing

The first wire fences (before the invention of the barb) consisted of only one strand of wire, which was constantly broken by the weight of cattle pressing against it.

Michael Kelly made a significant improvement to wire fencing, he twisted two wires together to form a cable for barbs - the first of its kind. Known as the "thorny fence," Michael Kelly's double-strand design made fences stronger, and the painful barbs made cattle keep their distance.

Joseph Glidden Was Considered the King of the Barb.

Joseph Glidden's design made barbed wire more effective, he invented a method for locking the barbs in place, and invented the machinery to mass-produce the wire.

Living patterns of the nomadic Native Americans were radically altered. Further squeezed from lands they had always used, they began calling barbed wire "the Devil's rope."

After its invention, barbed wire was widely used during wars, to protect people and property from unwanted intrusion. Military usage of barbed wire formally dates to 1888, when British military manuals first encouraged its use.

During the Spanish-American War, Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders chose to defend their camps with the help of barbed fencing. In turn-of-the-century South Africa, five-strand fences were linked to blockhouses sheltering British troops from the encroachment of Boer commandos. During World War I, barbed wire was used as a military weapon.

Even now, barbed wire is widely used to protect and safeguard military installation, to establish territorial boundaries, and for prisoner confinement.

I found this barbed wire along with the male Blue Dasher Dragonfly perched on it, at a Polk County park along Lake Kissimmee. Polk County, Florida.

Also known as Spearfish Falls,this easily accessible beauty lies along the scenic route from Lead to Spearfish in western South Dakota.

Militärhistorisches Museum in Dresden

Also, hochladen geht noch nach dem Großputz

Also called Vagrant Darter.

This is a young male.

cutter 2

*Hauhechelbläuling an Gras-Ähre*

Before there are new ones, another butterfly from the archive... the 2024 ones will also look like this ;-).

Bevor es wieder neue gibt noch ein Schmetterling aus dem Archiv...auch die 2024er werden so aussehen;-).

Also see the next shot which shows the staging of this picture.

also on iNaturlist

www.inaturalist.org/observations/153239868

also in "bed3 bent s3ood"

Also known as Solanium Rantonnetii.

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Though related to the potato and tomato plants, all parts of this plant are regarded as toxic to humans.

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'Putin, stop the war against Ukraine immediately!'

Nelli protesting on the roof of our garden shed - Frankfurt-Nordend

for a peaceful Caturday!

Also known as the Silver Y, this is a common European moth, which looks like something the stealth aircraft was based on. Not so well camouflaged on the green, but usually very hard to spot when settled between brown sticks. HMM!

ohara begrazing Rekken

actually could sleep but ....a little busy coming weeks ..

will not be much on Flickr ...

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple, or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest Service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America. The red maple ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and southwest to East Texas. Many of its features, especially its leaves, are quite variable in form. At maturity, it often attains a height around 30 m (100 ft). Its flowers, petioles, twigs, and seeds are all red to varying degrees. Among these features, however, it is best known for its brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn.

Also single ones for the windows works......

Also for the Macro Mondays Theme: Flower(s) in Black & White.

This one reminds me of a star, but I also found the sun yesterday ;-))

But we can only upload one to the group and I choose for the sun.

A very beautiful HMM everyone ;-)

Also Called: Perry Arch or Grande Ronde River Bridge

History: Built in 1924, Rehabilitated in 2008.

Location: Perry, Oregon. Union County.

River: Arch bridge spans the Grande Ronde River.

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at the Rose Cafe

This was taken just last week, when it hit 80 here.

Winter has since returned!

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Also known as Scarlet Darter.

Taken at Cala Galdana Gorge in Menorca

HMS Endeavour, also known as HM Bark Endeavour, was a British Royal Navy research vessel that Lieutenant James Cook commanded to Australia and New Zealand on his first voyage of discovery from 1768 to 1771. (Wiki)

This replica is anchored in Whitby, where James Cook began his three major voyages.. Firstly on the Endeavour then the Adventure and Discovery... (another ship Cook commanded was the Resolution)

She (the Endeavour) departed Plymouth in August 1768, rounded Cape Horn, and reached Tahiti in time to observe the 1769 transit of Venus across the Sun. She then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabora, and Raiatea to allow Cook to claim them for Great Britain. In September 1769, she anchored off New Zealand, the first European vessel to reach the islands since Abel Tasman's Heemskerck 127 years earlier. (Wiki)

Also known as the Mosque of Uqba

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More experimentation this was taken near Fleet Place, Smithfield area of London, this is either an office building or housing flats.

Distorted Architecture. This is/was a photograph....

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I recently visited APCA, an NGO for cats and farm animals, located in Uruguay in the department of Canelones.

APCA arises from the need to generate a safe place for the rehoming of colonies of feral, endangered or abused cats. They currently also have farm animals that have been rescued from human abuse.

The work they do is exceptional.

Among the animals rescued there are cases of cruelty, accidents, paralysis, cancer and other diseases, as well as cats that have been abandoned.

In viable cases, they are available for responsible adoption.

🐾 APCA.UY

Also werden die Letzten die Ersten und die Ersten die Letzten sein. Denn viele sind berufen, aber wenige auserwählt.

Mt 19, 29-30

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

Also know as a Scarlet Hawaiian Honeycreeper. The 'I'iwi is a large, nectarivorous honeycreeper (~6 in in length).Endemic to the main Hawaiian islands in native forests above 600m .Hosmer Grove Maui

Also called Southern Wood Ant or Horse Ant. Taken in Rempstone Forrest, Dorset with a captured caterpillar.

Also called Rose of Venezuela...

Many trees of the Amazon Rainforest exhibit cauliflory, an adaptation in which flowers are borne directly on the trunks near the ground, where they are available to animals that pollinate them and disperse their seeds.

Sinchi Warmi Amazon Lodge, Puerto Misahuallí, Ecuador

A water sprite (also called a water fairy or water faery) is a general term for an elemental spirit associated with water, according to alchemist Paracelsus. Water sprites are said to be able to breathe water or air, and in some cases, can fly. They are mostly harmless unless threatened.

Leaves of an aquatic plant floating at the edge of a lake.

ICM and texture

Also known as Gayfeather, Blazing Star or Meadow Blazingstar, this lovely flower is a wildflower, but can also be found in gardens. I spotted a few blooms of liatris in a local park's garden this past summer. Background texture from Topaz Studio 2.

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