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Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus)
After a little work on the background I decided I would post a second image of the Kingfisher seen in the Werribee RIver Park last Tuesday.
Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)
Seen at the Heathdale - Glen Orden Wetlands on this day in 2019.
It was concentrating on finding a meal and didn't notice me get very close.
Black-shouldered Kite (Elanus axillaris) juvenile
A look back to this day in 2020. The three chicks were just out of the nest, this one had ventured further then the other two and was concentrating on getting its balance on this branch.
A very alert Grey Heron hunting on the river Coquet. This Heron was on the weir very close to the main road and wasn't cocerned at all by my presence.
Cleo in the garden today. It was still dry but menacing clouds were gathering again and she heard thunder in the distance. Cleo isn't afraid of thunderstorms but she is afraid of getting wet and always tries to make sure to get indoors in time. :)
A white throated kingfisher intently watching the water body from a perch. He was so engrossed that I could approach very close to him for this uncropped shot.
Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopus Major
The great spotted woodpecker occurs in all types of woodlands and is catholic in its diet, being capable of extracting seeds from pine cones, insect larvae from inside trees or eggs and chicks of other birds from their nests. It breeds in holes excavated in living or dead trees, unlined apart from wood chips. The typical clutch is four to six glossy white eggs. Both parents incubate the eggs, feed the chicks and keep the nest clean. When the young fledge they are fed by the adults for about ten days, each parent taking responsibility for feeding part of the brood.
The great spotted woodpecker occurs in Eurasia from the British Isles to Japan, and in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, and it is absent only from those areas too cold or dry to have suitable woodland habitat. It is found in a wide variety of woodlands, broadleaf, coniferous or mixed, and in modified habitats like parks, gardens and olive groves. It occurs from sea-level to the tree line, up to 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in Europe, 2,200 m (7,200 ft) in Morocco and 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in Central Asia.
The great spotted woodpecker became extinct in the island of Ireland in the seventeenth century, due to deforestation, but the island was naturally recolonised by this species, with the first proven nesting in County Down in 2007. Its expansion in range is continuing, with breeding proven or suspected in at least 10 counties by 2013, with the main concentration in Down and County Wicklow. Genetic evidence shows the birds to be of British, rather than Scandinavian, ancestry, with the populations in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic having separate origins. The great spotted woodpecker was also found to have been nesting in the Isle of Man from 2009.
Population:
UK breeding:
140,000 pairs
Not even the slightest movement from adoring photographers would disturb the concentration of the Northern Hawk Owl.
Petite concentration de Fuligule Milouin et Morillon, Chipeau, Nette rousse et Foulque Sur et autour d'un des derniers Iceberg du lac de Neuchâtel ;-))
He's concentrating on that flower, I'm concentrating on him. He seems to have better focus than I do.
I don't have very many good pics of hummingbirds (despite The Great Hummingbird Hunt of 2015), and came across this image I shot several years before that, stashed away with some flower pics. I had forgotten all about this one.
Explore Feb 10/08 Bald Eagle. Large is better www.pbase.com/woody/image/76685482/original.jpg Occasionally one gets to stand underneath a eagle ...this one was sitting on a telephone pole. Any closer and I would be shooting his eyes. Impressive view from that close. .IMG_0854 copy
