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We visited this colony of Black Skimmers but unfortunately they where unsettled due to a human walking through the middle of the colony during breeding season!
These bird are normally viewed at a distance by boat as we did.
Sorry Tris nothing as good as your African Skimmer. Will post a side on view in a few days.
A KAI T-50 from the "Black Eagles" display team performs a topside pass during the rehearsal for their staring role at the 2022 Royal International Air Tattoo.
Aircraft: Korean Aerospace Industries T-50B Golden Eagle #7 of the Republic of Korea Air Force "Black Eagles" display team.
Location: RAF Fairford (FFD/EGVA), Gloucestershire.
Wild South Africa
Phalaborwa
Limpopo Province
The call of the black-collared barbet consists of the duet of a pair, with the calls being so perfectly synchronised that it sounds as if they are made by one bird. As they call, the two birds bob up and down in front of each other on the branch, with slightly spread wings.
The reason that this barbet is named after its black collar, rather than the more conspicuous red head, is that there are already several similarly named barbets throughout the world, including red-headed, red-faced and crimson-throated barbets.
They feed on insects and fruit.
Info obtained from the internet.
This is the little black cat that brought Larry and I together.
We met while rescuing her and her 4 brothers when they were kittens.
She had a long and wonderful life here at Cat Hill Farm.
Diamond Jökulsárlón Beach is an otherworldly contrast of black sand and dazzling blue ice. Every day, icebergs break off nearby Vatnajökull glacier, journey through the glacier lagoon and eventually drift out to the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.
I initially ignored this particular chunk of ice, since it had a coating of black sand on it’s surface, but when I looked at the image back home, I decided I liked the contrast it provided.
What a bird...
There's a spot on Vancouver Island where black scoter can be photographed fairly closely. The list of conditions is long though:
Light: late winter, basically March is the only option as the area is in shade from a cliff the other months these birds are present.
Sunny skies - not in plentiful supply near Vancouver in winter, though usually better by March. Though with my point below, some cloud is often preferable.
Time of day: Roughly 11AM-2PM, while the sun is high enough to reach over the cliff. Trouble is, the light can be rather harsh even in March at this time.
Tide: must be incoming high tide to get them close enough to shore
Wind: relatively low for smooth water
Sometimes it all works out :)
This is a studio photo of an abandoned cat. One of my neighbors decided he did not wanted to care for him anymore. He simply left the cat outside! So I adopted him with my next door neighbour. We are both taking care of him. I call him Bamboo and he calls him Baby. Bamboo has more fingers than regular cats. I have not yet counted them as there are too many. Bamboo is now very happy with 2 homes, 3 adults and 3 kids to love him.
Sometimes things in this world are mostly just black and white. But if you look closely, I feel like there's almost always just a little bit of color. This photograph was taken in a rain storm on the way up the F-road to Landmannalaugar in the highlands of Iceland. One of the most popular hikes on the planet probably, it's no real secret why. The land is unlike most other places in the world. Black sand, green mossy mountains, and unreal light.
I saw this guy at the Water Ranch Riparian Preserve, in Gilbert, AZ. He seems prettier than our ones in the PNW. He has blue eyes!
The Black-necked Stilt is found throughout the tropics and subtropics of North, Central and South America. Though it will only breed at freshwater sites, it occurs in a wide variety of shallow wetlands including marshes, swamps, lake edges, river courses, sewage ponds, salt-pans and coastal salt marshes where it feeds on aquatic invertebrates with a variety of visual and tactile methods. The Black-necked Stilt is highly distinctive, being white below, black above with very long, thin bright red legs. Two subspecies occur in the Americas, differing only in the presence of a white-cap and collar in the southern subspecies. The two subspecies grade into one another fairly rapidly and in general the northern subspecies occurs from the central Peruvian Coast north, including the Andes, to North America and across northern South America and the southern subspecies occurs throughout the Amazon south to edge of the southern Temperate zone and along the southern Pacific coast but their breeding and non-breeding distributions are poorly known and require further study.
FL (Ft. De Soto), Feb. 2018
Would someone please tell me why all water birds (from Least Sandpiper's to Flamingo's), love to stand on one leg??
Black Terns breed on freshwater lakes in Central and Eastern Europe (and east of here across Russia, and in North America too). They used to breed commonly in Britain until the middle of the 19th century but disappeared with the drainage of the fens and now breed here very infrequently. They are common enough on spring and autumn passage in Britain, but usually on freshwater lakes. However, this adult male was frequenting an Arctic Tern colony on the Northumberland coast and has been displaying to Arctic Terns with sandeels caught at sea. The usually eat aquatic insects which they pick from the surface but sometimes take small fish from the surface. Sometimes the take flying insects in the manner of a swallow, and its scientific name Chlidonias niger means "black swallow-like". They don't remain black for long and by midsummer have usually started to moult into a much whiter non-breeding plumage like this: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/28130560672/in/photolist The intense black colouration on head and body identifies this as a male, as females have a lighter grey head and body, contrasting with a black cap. Here's a female for comparison: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/34874625114/in/photolist
On 20 July it was decided that this bird can be identified as an American Black Tern by the uniform black head and underparts, the paler underwing and the grey outer tail feathers. European Black Tern has a black head contrasting with a grey body, darker underwings and white outer tail feathers.