Blue Jay Branch waiting to swoop in and get a peanut, being a bit cautious.

Wonderful Bokeh

Posted for the Smile on Saturday theme "Branches and Twigs".

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I loved the background in this one. The foreground element required compromises (overlapping branches) and I had to move away from the square.

Chipping Sparrow on my apple tree

Montseny Natural Park, Catalunya

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A Black Walnut branch fills this mosaic with beauty and subtle color. The shining sun beams through the nine leaves on the branch.

The original image was captured with my iPhone 11 in my right hand, while my left hand held the branch up against the sun.

This collage was created in picmonkey.com using my one original image and replicated six times here.

Beauty is everywhere. Reach out and capture it!

A Great Blue Heron delivers another stick to the nest!

There are at least a dozen active heron nests at the GB heron rookery, and I counted 16 herons perched on or near their nests.

Common Yellowthroat (m)

Morning light through the branches emerging from fresh snowfall.

The first one out of the nest and branching. This nesting tree is the coolest. Not only are the nest holes unique, but the entire tree has also so much character.

Tree Swallow, Lincoln Marsh, Wheaton

Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 400, f/7.1, 270mm, 1/2000s

Water falls

The branches of this gnarled old Ash tree were lit up by the low winter sunshine

First time to photograph an Aurora from the Brecon Beacons

Great gray owl perched in the very early morning.

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Pentax K-5

Kepcor Auto Wide Angle MC 28mm 1:2.8

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Dogwood Blossom branch Spring shot of this beautiful Dogwood branch in North Carolina.

Krematorielundens begravningsplats, Norrköping, Östergötland, Sweden

In some European countries winter has already arrived but in the south of England, autumn foliage is still on display, probably due to the unusually warm, dry and wind-free October that we have had; low level light and deep shadows make every scene look attractive and special, it's hard not to take a few snaps :)

Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge

Created for the TMI Art & Nature Group

Winter Branches- January 2018 contest

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The waterfall there drops about 24 feet, and then the stream makes an immediate 90 degree turn. With a little bit of climbing you can get down on a ledge there next to the waterfall giving you this view as it turns heading off into Falling Branch Creek.

The Reeds Branch of Norfolk Southern led by a trio of Union Pacific locos pops out of a tree tunnel headed from nearby Cosgrove Yard.

There was something about the shape of this branch that caught my eye, I like the downward symmetrical curve, almost reminiscent of a tightrope walkers pole! Taken on a chilly misty morning in Hillock Wood, Buckinghamsire.

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy." Norman Vincent Peale

Canyon Road – Santa Fe, NM

Silvereye (Zosterops lateralis)

It was a cold and foggy morning at the Western Treatment Plant on this day in 2019