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Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea caesia) perched on a tree trunk with a seed in its beak.
Kowalik (Sitta europaea caesia) siedzÄ…cy na pniu drzewa z ziarenkiem w dziobie.
The robin has been coming to the feeder to pick up dried mealworms and suet pellets for days and flying off to feed his late brood. It wasn't until I took a photo of him on his favourite post prior to coming to the feeder that I saw he already had a beak full of grubs and things with wings!
Meat and two veg!
Snowy plovers make nearly invisible nests on beaches, where they are easily disturbed by humans, dogs, and beach vehicles. Young Snowy Plovers leave the nest within 3 hours of hatching and are able to forage unassisted almost immediately (though the parents still brood them periodically to keep them warm). If a predator approaches, the parent gives a signal and the chicks flatten themselves against the ground.
Snowy Plovers often raise 2 broods of chicks a year. Females occasionally abandon their mates when the chicks hatch to begin a new nest with a different male
Note the strong curve and tip of the beaks of these two eagles. The shape of any bird's beak is a clue to what is its main source of food.
For the bald eagle the hook at the end of its beak shows it mainly tears its food apart instead of swallowing it whole or pecking at seeds. Their beaks are also instrumental in building their nests, preening, fighting, communication and feeding their young.
The beaks have incredible strength, able to tear apart larger animals (and turtles) and are essential to the eagle's health and lifespan. An eagle with a broken or damaged beak could soon starve to death.
Stellers zeearend - Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus), a juvenile, sporting the largest beak in a bird of prey.
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The great egret, also known as the common egret, large egret, or great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Recently it is also spreading to more northern areas of Europe. Wikipedia
Conservation status: Least Concern Encyclopedia of Life
Wingspan: 4.3 – 5.6 ft. (Adult)
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One way to tell the wood-peewee from the phoebe is the bicolored beak of the wood-pewee. It has a dark upper beak and a light lower beak.
Wood-peewee photographed in Bombay Hook NWR.
Heard a songster while strolling at Malibu Bluffs Park ! Eventually managed to catch a view - a California Trasher with its uniquely beautiful strong beak ! Wish I saw them more often !
Clianthus puniceus is from the Leguminosea family (pea family).
It is a soft woody shrub with a rather sprawling habit and has pendulous clusters of bright red flowers in Spring.
It is rare and endangered in the wild with only a few wild populations been found, in the North Island.
It was widely cultivated by pre European Maori.
Kaka beak can be relatively short lived.
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Digital - Canon Rebel T7
Instax - Link Wide (Digital Image to Instax Converter)
Film - Instax Wide (Color)
Scan - Epson Perfection V600 Photo
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Ardmucknish Bay - Scotland
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life is full of me and thee.
if thee were me than i would be free.
free to fly free to eat free to shed my skin for feathers wings and beaks.
so let me be thee and let thee be me.
soon we would know how lucky we truly are
soon we would know that our's is the same.
i may look yellow and lifeless
you may look black and lively
two as different as opposites could be
but in truth we are all the same.
i have no worries i sit and watch and have no cares
you have to fly and eat always moving thru the air.
if i were thee and thee were me we would soon enough know
that life is hard, life is not easy no matter the ride.
so whether your the black bird or the yellow toy come enjoy the ride.
An In-Camera high-key photograph of this beautiful gannet, I upped the exposure by two stops and just about kept some detail. Does it work? I'm not too sure. 🤔
The photos in today's post were take at Shell Mound Museum on Florida's Fort Meyers Beach.
Here is a flock of Ibis grazing on insects and the Estero estuary is in the background.
These Marbled Godwits were seen taking a bath at Malibu Lagoon State Beach. Godwits are normally described as having a "slightly upturned beak" (see previous image). I noticed that the Godwit on the right had the upper mandible turned upwards when the beaks were approximately closed, but was not prepared for the image above that appears during energetic bathing.
I suspect this is caused by "rolling shutter distortion" although it may be caused by the beak bending during times when the head is thrown back.
Checked online and found out that this beak flexibility is real and is known as rhynchokinesis. Also, not restricted to Godwits but occurs in a number of shorebirds !!
Another from a sequence of shots of this powerful beauty mission accomplished and it's prize firmly gripped in those huge talons.
A fabulous advert for conservation.
White tailed eagles were driven to extinction in the UK by the ill advised hand of man, with the last bird being shot on Shetland in 1916.
These gorgeous birds were reintroduced on Rum in 1975 with further releases on Wester Ross in 1993. Since then most of the eagle population has found it's way to Mull where a healthy population is now well established.
Once again the population is starting to spread out across western Scotland and the Isles.
White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
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