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La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Icterus chrysater
(Yellow-backed Oriole / Turpial Montañero)
The Yellow-backed Oriole is well-named, as it is one of the very few species of orioles with a yellow back. Indeed, this oriole shows only two colors, yellow and black: the wings are entirely black, the feathers lacking the white or yellow feather margins that are shown by most other species of oriole.
The Yellow-backed Oriole has an oddly discontinuous distribution: it occurs from southern Mexico south to northeastern Nicaragua, and again from Panama south to northern Colombia and Venezuela, but is absent from Costa Rica and from most of Nicaragua. This oriole has a very broad elevational range, ranging up to 2500 m in Central America and almost to 2700 m in Colombia.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Icterus chrysater
(Yellow-backed Oriole / Turpial Montañero)
The Yellow-backed Oriole is well-named, as it is one of the very few species of orioles with a yellow back. Indeed, this oriole shows only two colors, yellow and black: the wings are entirely black, the feathers lacking the white or yellow feather margins that are shown by most other species of oriole.
The Yellow-backed Oriole has an oddly discontinuous distribution: it occurs from southern Mexico south to northeastern Nicaragua, and again from Panama south to northern Colombia and Venezuela, but is absent from Costa Rica and from most of Nicaragua. This oriole has a very broad elevational range, ranging up to 2500 m in Central America and almost to 2700 m in Colombia.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Well, not back as such, I never left! Do you take play shots waiting for the light? Well, this is mine. Can you imagine how excited I was? And then the clouds rolled in snuffing out any hint of dawn colour. As the sun rose behind the wall of cloud, the inversion dissipated leaving not scrap of mist 😆
Crap, noisy high ISO shot (to keep the definition in the cloud). How I wish I'd taken an LE and blended! Ah well, you live and learn. Still an absolutely brilliant day charging around the fells.
*** Edit: Swapped noisy for smeary. The noisy version is here (not like you care but for my own records 😁):
I went looking for salamanders on Wednesday and found a few Red-backed ones. They are the ones usually out first so it wasn't a surprise.
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D
The Osprey's are coming back and this is the first one that I have seen. It was on the nest box and lucky for me, it decided to hunt or gather nesting material and flew past me. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway, NJ.
the osprey are nesting in the same nest again now so I'm excited. I will go back periodically and check on them and take photos. And thankfully now, I won't be lugging a toddler size lens and a tripod. Yah!!! I love this much smaller size and lighter weight equipment!
I go see my ortho doc this morning and hopefully won't have to wear my cast anymore. Things are healing well. Let's hope that's what the ex-ray will show. I'll catch up with you all later! ❤️
Mara North Conservancy in the Greater Masai Mara ecosystem , Kenya
a large, noisy and social African Shrike with a black face mask. In the Eastern part of it range it is found in acacia savanna like here in this picture but also in fields and gardens
also called Grey-backed Fiscal Shrike
Lanius excubitoroides
grijsrugklapekster
Pie-grièche à dos gris
Graumantelwürger
Alcaudón Dorsigrís
Averla cenerina africana
picanço-de-dorso-cinzento
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The vista from my back porch of Kitt Peak Observatory in southern Arizona, with lightning, storm clouds and Crepuscular rays.
VENICE - Reminded me of the wonderful track by Curved Air - I went to a Festival at Cardiff Castle (Headliners: Status Quo) and was told that Curved Air were Danish - not true, though the lead singer Sonja Kristina was danish sounding. Nowadays I can re-live Sonja singing 'Back Street Luv' via the internet - Amazing? (Youtube is the obvious option)
The view out of a kitchen window for Saturday self-challenge "Through a pane" and
2019 one photo each day.
Creí que, como el mar
una noche de verano, tu sonrisa
me invitaba a sumergirme
(únicamente
a mi)
en tus aguas
profundas.
Pero salió la luna
y vi la playa llena
de exhaustos nadadores
Poema " Ingenuo" de Karmelo Iribarren
There was something so familiar about this scene...
Please take a minute to press L and view in large!
This wonderful jaguar was the first one we found in our last expedition to Pantanal. The situation there is very sad, the forests are burnt and the the drought lasts for 3 years. I hope that soon the monsoon starts and bring life back to Pantanal. Luckily, the site where the jaguars are didn't suffer so much from the fires and we were lucky to find female jaguars with cubs, which I'll be posting in the coming days.
Facts: The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline species after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Americas. The jaguar is a near-threatened species and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat. While international trade in jaguars or their parts is prohibited, the cat is still frequently killed by humans, particularly in conflicts with ranchers and farmers in Brazil.
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Estornino Amatista, Violet-backed Starling, Cinnyricinclus leucogaster.
Especie # 1.395
Mahango Game Reserve
Bwabwata National Park
Namibia
I was looking for another post card and found this one. Mailed in 46 from a young man of 16 that went on the road as help for a carnival. Mailed from Colorado to family back in Arkansas. One of the articles I thought was lost in the flood but it survived, how much longer will this get past through family lineages. There was no way of knowing that when this was mailed that one day it would be subject to world wide view. Smile on Saturday - Postcards & Greeting Cards.
Credit @ Sway's in FLF (19th April)
Vase bunny : Sway's [Flower Pot Bunny] mocha
Vase bunny : Sway's [Flower Pot Bunny] charcoal
Vase bunny : Sway's [Flower Pot Bunny] cotton
Sway's [Bunny Egg] Mr.
Sway's [Bunny Egg] Mrs.
Credit @ Park Place in Swank
bed : [Park Place] Oriana Boho Chic Bed - Adult
ceiling lamp : [Park Place] Oriana Pine Ceiling Lamp
wall cloth : [Park Place] Oriana Boho Chic Wall Hanging
side table : [Park Place] Oriana Boho Bedside Table
dresser : [Park Place] Oriana Dresser
table lamp : [Park Place] Oriana Lamp - Teal
sofa : [Park Place] Oriana Boho Pallet Sofa - Adult
hanging chair : [Park Place] Oriana Boho Chic Hanging Chair - PG
chair : [Park Place] Oriana Papasan Chair - PG
table chair : [Park Place] Oriana Dinette Chair
table : [Park Place] Oriana Dinette Table
table lamp : [Park Place] Oriana Lamp - Yellow
Credit @ Magnum Opus in On9
wall clock : [MO] Functional Wall Clock Shiplap
wall clock (right) : [MO] Functional Wall Clock Green
Credit @ [CIRCA]living
[CIRCA] - "AZIZA" Tall Vase - Tropica Plant - Russet Metal (L)
[CIRCA] - "Aziza" Hanging Fern Basket (long)
[CIRCA] - "AZIZA" Bowl Vase - Snake Plant - Umber Ceramic (L)
[CIRCA] - "AZIZA" Tall Vase - Tropica Plant - Gold Metal (L)