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Portland Bill was built 118 years ago and replaced lighthouses that had been there since the 1700s. It is some 41meters tall (135feet) and there are 155 steps to the top. It first shone its familiar 4 flashes of light every20 seconds in 1906 and had a range of 25 nautical miles. In 2019 the lens was replaced with a modern LED technology light, which has a range of 18 miles.
Portland Bill - Portland is the name of the island and the bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) and is the most southern most point of Dorset.
Pied-billed Grebe Early Morning Light
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Bill Bayer and his Pentax 6x7 in a random Seattle alley sometime in 1994
Kowa 6, 85mm Kowa Lens
Kodak TMY120 neg copied off light table
I think this is the coolest bird of them all!! Shot taken in Kruger national park, South Africa.
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Nikon FM
Nikkor 50mm 1.8
Ilford FP4+ @ 125
Home developed in Caffenol C-H
12 minutes @ 20 degrees C
Epson V 850 scanned
Short-billed Corella
We don't see these all year round on the East coast where I live. They come here from the Western inland areas when those areas are in drought.
Scientific name: Cacatua sanguinea
The pied-billed grebe is a species of the grebe family of water birds. Since the Atitlán grebe has become extinct, it is the sole extant member of the genus Podilymbus. The pied-billed grebe is primarily found in ponds throughout the Americas.
Portland Bill Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse at Portland Bill, on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England. As Portland Bill's largest and most recent lighthouse, the Trinity House operated Portland Bill Lighthouse is distinctively white and red striped, standing at a height of 41 metres.
Blue-billed Duck (male)
Oxyura australis
Endangered in Victoria
September 4th, 2018
Keysborough, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS 1D X Mark II
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS II USM lens
Fascinating to watch this lad put on a show for his lady friend. He would bob up & down along the water filling his bill with water before spitting all of it down his chest (pictured). The female was suitably impressed with his display.
Portland Bill Lighthouse in Dorset in the UK, a bright sunny day, I thought the panorama format with the longer exposure allows the Lighthouse to sit in the picture without taking over. Also I like the wave on the left as it adds a bit of interest to the sea.
Hope is a Pied-Billed Grebe -- Since life has slowed down I’ve started to notice things that went unnoticed before. Like this tiny little Pied-Billed Grebe who apparently has been here all along but I’ve neglected to see. Read the story behind the photo and see more photos of this cute little guy today on the blog: annemckinnell.com/2021/02/22/hope-is-a-pied-billed-grebe/
This past weekend, I made a brief foray into Pulaski County, Virginia; quite far from where I usually bird. I looked for and found a continuing fallout of greater white-fronted geese and tundra swans, and was also treated to diving ducks and my first-of-season tree swallows. These ring-billed gulls were part of a flock of roughly 60 individuals I encountered there; not unusual at all in winter in Pulaski, despite being in the mountains.
While thinking about my image for today I stumbled upon this old cassette tape of comedy legend, Bill Cosby. On road trips, my husband and I would listen and laugh and could recite from memory his funny stories. They were so endearing and provided hours of entertainment and some great memories. Would I listen to them now and find the same joy? I am not sure, somehow when your heroes fall it is hard to separate their achievements from their crimes. Does anyone else feel this way?
PS - I don't even know why I have cassette tapes around, we don't even have a way to play them. Time to purge some more stuff...
A ring-billed gull glides gracefully through the air, its wings fully extended against a blurred brown background. The bird's feathers are highlighted, showcasing a mix of white and speckled patterns and has splash of the water close to the tail!!!
Bill Molony, President of the local Blackhawk Chapter of the National Railway Historic Society, poses in front of a Metra commuter train on the BNSF line in Hinsdale, Illinois. Donning the uniform of a station master from the past, Bill was recording the opening narrative of a documentary on railroading in Chicagoland by British freelance producer/videographer Clive Turner.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/10.0, 46mm, 1/400s
The Queens Zoo is an 18-acre zoo located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City.
The thick-billed parrot is a medium-sized parrot endemic to Mexico that formerly ranged into the southwestern United States. Its position in parrot phylogeny is the subject of ongoing discussion; it is sometimes referred to as thick-billed macaw or thick-billed conure.
We went to this zoo for the first time... it was so beautiful and the animals are all well cared for... I took close to 300 shots, so using the collage makes it easy to post them all...
Portland Bill Lighthouse is a functioning lighthouse on the Isle of Portland, Dorset. The lighthouse is located at the very south of the island, warning coastal traffic off of Portland Bill. The lighthouse and its boundary walls are Grade II Listed.
Both Portland Bill and Chesil Beach are the locations of many wrecks of vessels that failed to reach Weymouth or Portland Roads. Portland Bill Lighthouse guides vessels heading for Portland and Weymouth through these hazardous waters as well as acting as a waymark for ships navigating the English Channel.
As Portland's largest and most recent lighthouse, the Trinity House operated Portland Bill Lighthouse is distinctively white and red striped, standing at a height of 41 metres. It was completed by 1906 and first shone out on 11 January 1906. Originally, both the Old Higher Lighthouse and Old Lower Lighthouse were the two functioning lighthouses on the island, where both were opened in 1716 and continued to warn ships of the coast until 1906, when both were decommissioned. The Old Lower Lighthouse became a bird observatory whilst the Old Higher Lighthouse became the home of Marie Stopes, and today remains a holiday let.
The lighthouse was was built with stone from surrounding quarries at Portland Bill. The area was quarried for centuries until they were abandoned by the early years of the 20th century, following the lighthouse's counstruction.
Arguably Portland's biggest attraction and most photographed feature, the Portland Bill Lighthouse is open to the public, where tours are operated by Trinity House, and a visitor centre is also a big part of the lighthouse.
Portland Bill is a narrow promontory (or bill) of Portland stone, which forms the most southerly part of Isle of Portland. One of Portland's most popular destinations, Portland Bill is also noted for its rough coast.
The light pollution in the sky just above the horizon is from the coastal town of Weymouth, 11 km (7 miles) away.
I spotted a couple Pied-billed Grebes in a canal not far from the parking lot at Willband Creek Park.
Oregon Zoo
sadly, the hippos were't on show while we were there - and Bill loves hippos - this one had to do
Taken at Boundary Bay, Delta, BC in Late August 2017.
I had a great time photograping three Short-billed Dowitchers a few days ago. The birds were on the edge of a flock of Black-bellied Plovers, and it took over an hour of patient approach on my belly in the water to get this close.
I liked the look of this photo, looking through the marsh grass at this adult Pied-billed Grebe.
Sackville Waterfowl Park
Sackville,
Westmoreland County,
New Brunswick
September 9, 2025
592A3055.1
The Isle of Portland Lighthouse, commonly known as Portland Bill.
This can also be viewed in Black & White here flic.kr/p/2m3vuns
This is continued shot from Portland Bill. The sky that day made me get dark and freaky with my verotrama's. I love this place, the rocks and sea have Soooooooooooo much power. :-)
Peace Valley Park.
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The Woodcreepers look and behave like large Treecreepers, but they are unrelated. They are part of that early offshoot family of songbirds called the suboscine passerines which have a different structure of the syrinx from all other songbirds. The syrinx is the structure that enables songbirds to sing. Woodcreepers are only found in the Neotropics and their nearest relatives are the Ovenbirds (like Rufous Hornero). There are about 60 species of Woodcreeper that are similar and can be difficult to tell apart but this one is Narrow-billed Woodcreeper (Lepidocolaptes angustirostris). The scientific name rather boringly translates as narrow-billed scale-pecker. I photographed this one at Costanera Sur near Buenos Aries.
Broad-billed Hummingbird (Cynanthus latirostris )
The broad-billed hummingbird (like most hummingbirds) consumes over 1.5 times its body weight in nectar each day.
Arizona-Senora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ, USA
Blue-billed Duck (male)
Oxyura australis
Endangered in Victoria
December 13th, 2021
Braeside, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon EF 600mm f4L IS III USM lens
Spent an interesting morning at a local wetland in mid December. I arrived just before sunrise, & as the sun light started to encroach on the water, there was a small passage of the water that would light up with the background bushland in complete shadow. All I needed was a nice bird to swim through it!
I was getting absolutely eaten alive by insects as I lay in the mud (I ended up with bites on my hands, torso, neck & face - basically every exposed part of my skin!) & the birds were not cooperating & just milling about in front of me. As I was wriggling into a different position to improve the angle, this male Blue-billed swam right into the light & in my excitement I swung my lens & smashed the shutter as he started to rise into the air & flap his wings! I was thrilled but also nervous as I knew I hadn't caught him in the middle of the frame & was a little concerned I may have clipped a wing.
However upon reviewing the image I was really pleased with the positioning of the duck & the faint dark green leading line created by the duckweed towards the bank of the swampy water. The more I looked at the image the more I liked it. This is actually the full frame image.
This image was created by deliberately underexposing in camera to completely blacken out the background & foreground shadows. I'm really pleased with the result.