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This is a black and white warbler, a lifer for me! I've been told by a Flickr pal that this is a male (Thanks, Bill). It's rare to see these in Arizona so I was pretty pumped. Woohoo!
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.
We had our second Massachusetts Wildlife Group event at Mt Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Massachusetts. The day started off cloudy but then the weather turned for the better with full sunshine and only slight wind. I want to thank Susan & Debbie for making the event as we all took to many photo's to count. We saw many species of birds which at last official count there are 101 species at Mt Auburn alone.
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.
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.
Silly me... going through old photos and realized I missed out on posting photos from an entire day at Malhuer...
We found a Black Necked Stilt nest on the side of the road on the way to the refuge, we passed it every day there and back and stopped every time to see them. I have never been close to those birds and wow they are fun to photograph. We even got to see the difference one morning when there were no eggs at the beginning of the day and two eggs by the end of the day.