View allAll Photos Tagged Click
Panorámica nocturna, desde la parte de arriba de Aguadulce. Merece la pena subir el pedazo de cuesta que hay para llegar, porque después se disfruta de estas vistas tan espectaculares.
"Las Antenas de Aguadulce". Roquetas de Mar.
Please, click here for more information and credits, thank you
❤️ +ILO+ ❤️ for @Flourish event
❤️ Architect. ❤️ for @Flourish event
❤️ ACORN ❤️ for @TheArcade event
and more...
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rosesternbergsl/
Twitter: twitter.com/RoseSternberg
Blog: quatrettocs.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
Pinterest: www.pinterest.es/roses1196/
Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus (M)
(Double click)
The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel".
This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.
Kestrels can hover in still air, even indoors in barns. Because they face towards any slight wind when hovering, the common kestrel is called a "windhover" in some areas.
Unusual for falcons, plumage often differs between male and female, although as is usual with monogamous raptors the female is slightly larger than the male. This allows a pair to fill different feeding niches over their home range. Kestrels are bold and have adapted well to human encroachment, nesting in buildings and hunting by major roads. Kestrels do not build their own nests, but use nests built by other species.
Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside; the remiges are also blackish. Unlike most raptors, they display sexual colour dimorphism with the male having fewer black spots and streaks, as well as a blue-grey cap and tail. The tail is brown with black bars in females, and has a black tip with a narrow white rim in both sexes. All common kestrels have a prominent black malar stripe like their closest relatives.
The cere, feet, and a narrow ring around the eye are bright yellow; the toenails, bill and iris are dark. Juveniles look like adult females, but the underside streaks are wider; the yellow of their bare parts is paler. Hatchlings are covered in white down feathers, changing to a buff-grey second down coat before they grow their first true plumage.
Data from Britain shows nesting pairs bringing up about 2–3 chicks on average, though this includes a considerable rate of total brood failures; actually, few pairs that do manage to fledge offspring raise less than 3 or 4. Compared to their siblings, first-hatched chicks have greater survival and recruitment probability, thought to be due to the first-hatched chicks obtaining a higher body condition when in the nest. Population cycles of prey, particularly voles, have a considerable influence on breeding success. Most common kestrels die before they reach 2 years of age; mortality up until the first birthday may be as high as 70%. At least females generally breed at one year of age; possibly, some males take a year longer to maturity as they do in related species. The biological lifespan to death from senescence can be 16 years or more, however; one was recorded to have lived almost 24 years.
Population:
UK breeding:
46,000 pairs
Click the link, there is a selection of my photos for sale waiting to become photo panels or paintings!
➡ www.saal-digital.net/share/OEaNyWL/
Sony a7rII | Sony FE 70-300 F4.5-5.6 G OSS
Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus (M)
(Double click)
The common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a bird of prey species belonging to the kestrel group of the falcon family Falconidae. It is also known as the European kestrel, Eurasian kestrel, or Old World kestrel. In Britain, where no other kestrel species occurs, it is generally just called "the kestrel".
This species occurs over a large range. It is widespread in Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as occasionally reaching the east coast of North America.
Kestrels can hover in still air, even indoors in barns. Because they face towards any slight wind when hovering, the common kestrel is called a "windhover" in some areas.
Unusual for falcons, plumage often differs between male and female, although as is usual with monogamous raptors the female is slightly larger than the male. This allows a pair to fill different feeding niches over their home range. Kestrels are bold and have adapted well to human encroachment, nesting in buildings and hunting by major roads. Kestrels do not build their own nests, but use nests built by other species.
Their plumage is mainly light chestnut brown with blackish spots on the upperside and buff with narrow blackish streaks on the underside; the remiges are also blackish. Unlike most raptors, they display sexual colour dimorphism with the male having fewer black spots and streaks, as well as a blue-grey cap and tail. The tail is brown with black bars in females, and has a black tip with a narrow white rim in both sexes. All common kestrels have a prominent black malar stripe like their closest relatives.
The cere, feet, and a narrow ring around the eye are bright yellow; the toenails, bill and iris are dark. Juveniles look like adult females, but the underside streaks are wider; the yellow of their bare parts is paler. Hatchlings are covered in white down feathers, changing to a buff-grey second down coat before they grow their first true plumage.
Data from Britain shows nesting pairs bringing up about 2–3 chicks on average, though this includes a considerable rate of total brood failures; actually, few pairs that do manage to fledge offspring raise less than 3 or 4. Compared to their siblings, first-hatched chicks have greater survival and recruitment probability, thought to be due to the first-hatched chicks obtaining a higher body condition when in the nest. Population cycles of prey, particularly voles, have a considerable influence on breeding success. Most common kestrels die before they reach 2 years of age; mortality up until the first birthday may be as high as 70%. At least females generally breed at one year of age; possibly, some males take a year longer to maturity as they do in related species. The biological lifespan to death from senescence can be 16 years or more, however; one was recorded to have lived almost 24 years.
Population:
UK breeding:
46,000 pairs
perhaps this is one of my favorite situations of my work, when a hundred years of life in one click of the camera shutter.
The story develops by itself, it remains only to silently smoke outside the edge of the frame ..
___
"..The Old Rock has always been here. But there were many worries, and I looked through it.. When we are young we all run.. Now my children and grandchildren drive cattle themselves. Having grown old, I look at these stones all the days, sitting in front of the yurt.."
They are bound, the old rock, and the old woman. Bound in this desert for a century. Soon the woman will leave, and the eagles nesting on this rock will peck at her body in the desert among these stones, as her mother and father too..
In the corral behind the yurt, a small white kid is closed.. he always wants to run... And a little boy, great-grandson, constantly runs away from the old woman to him too,
He is dressed in the clothes of a small girl - Spirits should not know for the time being..
- he is the heir of this old yurt, near the Old Rock
___
filmed on Fuji CU21 S-1600 and scanned
Himantopus himantopus
Camargue
Pas facile de faire de la voltige aérienne avec ces longues pattes !
double clic pour voir les détails
Camargue
Not easy to do aerobatics with these long legs!
bouble click to see details
Click image for a closer look at Canada Place (cruise ship terminal) and the city skyline
Seen from Kings Mill Walk Park
Harbourside Pl, North Vancouver, BC
HBM
The three brother-in-laws (Indiana, Virginia, Texas) vacationing and bringing me and my sisters together...at Chapman beach in Westbrook...:))
Click beetle (Athous haemorrhoidalis) on a leaf.
Nieskorek rudobrzuchy (Athous haemorroidalis) ma liściu.
2° - "Still life" -- Click THE CONTEST
2° - "Still life- Solo colore/Only color" -- Click THE CONTEST
Please, click here for more information and credits, thank you
❤️ .: Tm:. Creation ❤️
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rosesternbergsl/
Twitter: twitter.com/RoseSternberg
Blog: quatrettocs.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
Pinterest: www.pinterest.es/roses1196/
Click to enlarge it - Cliquez pour l'angrandir
Danaus plexippus (Nymphalidae - Nymphalidés)
The Monarch has two rows of spots along its wing margins while the Viceroy has only one row.
Le monarque a deux rangées de taches le long de ses bords d'aile tandis que le vice-roi n'a qu'une seule rangée.
Other common names depending on region include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black veined brown
Please, click here for more information and credits, thank you
❤️ .:Tm:. Creation ❤️ for @Swank event
Instagram: www.instagram.com/rosesternbergsl/
Twitter: twitter.com/RoseSternberg
Blog: quatrettocs.blogspot.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
Pinterest: www.pinterest.es/roses1196/
.......Strikes back!! It shines all over me!! On my face !! I close my eyes....It fills my heart with warm feelings of Love and Hope!! God, please, help me live the rest of my Life's life with dignity and Beauty!!
( Walking again alone along my "secret path " in the Château frozen and snowed wonderland , one recent January late morning...)
( ***Click on the picture to BE there with me!!)
Dear friends!
Thank you so much for your kind comments and visits! They are appreciated.
With love
Geetha :)
HMAM 😊 😊 😍
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
(Flickr Friday: #316 Click)
According to the current theme, group members were supposed to submit a photo related to the word 'click'. I took a photo of a lock for the metallic sounds it makes every time you close it. I tried to keep the composition as minimal as possible.
De acuerdo con el tema propuesto, los miembros del grupo teníamos que subir una fotografía que tuviera alguna relación con la palabra 'click'. Escogí un candado por el sonido metálico que hace cada vez que se cierra. Intenté que la composición fuera minimalista.
<3 Click on the Picture to take a Closer Look<3
Head : Lelutka EvoX <3
***********************************************
Skin: Psycho Pills <3<3
**********************************************
Moon Bindi From: :[P]:- Lunabindi
**********************************************
Earrings From: e.marie // Kimara Earrings - Golds
**********************************************
Eyes From: [avarosa] Jazmin Eyes
and
[avarosa] Jazmin Eyes V2
**********************************************
Eyeliner From: Gloom. - Crybaby Overlay -
**********************************************
Hair From: Exile - Phoebe
**********************************************
LipStick From: TOP1SALON - HD EXUDE LIPSTICK (Lelutka Evolution) BASIC TAN
**********************************************
Tattoo From: :[P]:- Mannili Tattoo [Groupgift]
**********************************************
Necklace From: :[P]:- Ethereal Panyia Butterflies
+ Butterfly in my hand
**********************************************
Outfit From: +Psycho Barbie+ [Aura Long Dress]
A red kite swoops into relieve some juvenile buzzards of their food. Taken at David White's Raptor Hide in Wiltshire, UK.
Agfa Click-1 (1959)
Toy Camera
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Mi galeria en Color www.flickr.com/photos/samycolor
Mi Galeria en B&N www.flickr.com/photos/samycollazo
Kodak BW400CN
Kodak D-76
Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Lightroom 3
Robin - Erithacus rubecula
Wash and Brush up!
Double Double click!
.
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher.
The robin occurs in Eurasia east to Western Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira. It is a vagrant in Iceland. In the south-east, it reaches the Caucasus range. Irish and British robins are largely resident but a small minority, usually female, migrate to southern Europe during winter, a few as far as Spain. Scandinavian and Russian robins migrate to Britain and western Europe to escape the harsher winters. These migrants can be recognised by the greyer tone of the upper parts of their bodies and duller orange breast. The European robin prefers spruce woods in northern Europe, contrasting with its preference for parks and gardens in Ireland and Britain.
Attempts to introduce the European robin into Australia and New Zealand in the latter part of the 19th century were unsuccessful. Birds were released around Melbourne, Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Dunedin by various local acclimatisation societies, with none becoming established. There was a similar outcome in North America as birds failed to establish after being released in Long Island, New York in 1852, Oregon in 1889–1892, and the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia in 1908–1910.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary.
Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
The robin features prominently in British folklore, and that of northwestern France, but much less so in other parts of Europe. It was held to be a storm-cloud bird and sacred to Thor, the god of thunder, in Norse mythology. Robins feature in the traditional children's tale, Babes in the Wood; the birds cover the dead bodies of the children.
More recently, the robin has become strongly associated with Christmas, taking a starring role on many Christmas cards since the mid 19th century. The robin has appeared on many Christmas postage stamps. An old British folk tale seeks to explain the robin's distinctive breast. Legend has it that when Jesus was dying on the cross, the robin, then simply brown in colour, flew to his side and sang into his ear in order to comfort him in his pain. The blood from his wounds stained the robin's breast, and thereafter all robins got the mark of Christ's blood upon them.
An alternative legend has it that its breast was scorched fetching water for souls in Purgatory.
The association with Christmas more probably arises from the fact that postmen in Victorian Britain wore red jackets and were nicknamed "Robins"; the robin featured on the Christmas card is an emblem of the postman delivering the card.
In the 1960s, in a vote publicised by The Times, the robin was adopted as the unofficial national bird of the UK.
In 2015, the robin was again voted Britain's national bird in a poll organised by birdwatcher David Lindo, taking 34% of the final vote.