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the pink umbrella by Nettie.B

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at Soldiers Beach, Norah Head, NSW, Australia

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dusky moorhen by Chris Burns

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Dusky Moorhen

Scientific Name: Gallinula tenebrosa

Description: The Dusky Moorhen is a medium-sized, dark grey-black water bird with a white undertail. It has a red bill with a yellow tip and a red facial shield. Young birds are much duller and browner than adults, with a greenish bill and face shield.

Similar species: Two other water hen species are similar to the Dusky Moorhen but can be easily distinguished. The similarly-sized Eurasian Coot, Fulica atra, has a white bill and face shield and a red eye. The Purple Swamphen, Porphyrio porphyrio, is much larger and has a distinct purple-blue colouring.

Distribution: The Dusky Moorhen is found from Indonesia through New Guinea to Australia. It is widespread in eastern and south-western Australia, ranging from Cooktown to eastern South Australia and in the southern corner of Western Australia.

Habitat: The Dusky Moorhen is found in wetlands, including swamps, rivers, and artificial waterways. It prefers open water and water margins with reeds, rushes and waterlilies, but may be found on grasses close to water such as parks, pastures and lawns.

Feeding: The Dusky Moorhen feeds in the water and on land on algae, water plants and grasses, as well as seeds, fruits, molluscs and other invertebrates. It will also eat carrion (dead animals) and the droppings of other birds. It does not dive when feeding; its tail is always visible above the water when upended.

Breeding: During breeding season, the Dusky Moorhen forms breeding groups of two to seven birds, with all members defending territory, building nests and looking after young. The shallow platform nests are made of reeds and other water plants over water, among reeds or on floating platforms in open water. Two or more females will lay their eggs in the same nest and all members of the group help to incubate the eggs and feed the young.

Calls: Sharp guttural crowing or harsh shrieks.

Minimum Size: 34cm

Maximum Size: 38cm

Average size: 36cm

Breeding season: August to March

Clutch Size: 5 to 18, usually from more than one female.

Incubation: 24 days

Nestling Period: 28 days

(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Gallinula-tenebrosa)

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The Ephrata Cloister by nutzk

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Following comments by Daniel Myers and James Burns and a specific question by Sccart, I managed to find on the Ephrata website an explanation of these strange buildings : they form a stage, build in 1970, and facing an amphitheater (that I had not photographed and then forgotten about, that was some 3 year ago...). It was first used for outdoor drama, and now for special programs.

That said, they are thin, but of normal height.

No Comment.. by Frans van Steijn

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Frost on a Waning Honeysuckle flower by Brian Turner

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Last Leaf by rita | v

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I meant to upload this a loooong time but never liked the edit. So I think I finally got it? Haha. Had to post it before autumn was over! :)

Crusty goodness! :D

I'm listening to all the songs from Glee right now haha. I love the show even though I've only seen 1.5 episodes :P

yarrowee river - common blackbird by Chris Burns

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Common Blackbird

Turdus merula

In Australia, the Common Blackbird is often viewed as a pest, but the early pioneers were determined to ensure that Blackbirds were successfully introduced into their adopted land. Blackbirds were released dozens of times throughout south-eastern Australia, mostly in the 1860s. Though most Blackbirds are sedentary in Australia, their range has expanded and they are capable of making long-distance movements, with some regularly crossing the Bass Strait; a few have even reached subantarctic islands!

Identification: The male is the ‘black’ bird, with deep orange to yellow bill, a narrow yellow eye-ring and dark legs. The female is a brown bird, with some streaks or mottling, and has a dark bill and legs. Immature birds are similar to the female with lighter underparts. Their average size is 27cm and their average weight is 89 grams.

Songs and Calls: A repeated ‘tchook’ call and a melodious, warbling song. Bird call recorded by: Fred Van Gessel

Location: The Common Blackbird, was originally confined to Melbourne and Adelaide. It has gradually expanded its range throughout south-eastern Australia, both on the coast and inland, as far north as southern Queensland, and including Tasmania and the Bass Strait islands.

Habitat: The Common Blackbird is most often found in urban areas and surrounding localities but has successfully moved into bushland habitats. It is often seen in orchards, vineyards and gardens, as well as along roadsides and in parks.

Behaviour: The Common Blackbird can be a pest in orchards, parks and gardens, being rather destructive of ground vegetation, particularly backyard vegetable patches.

Feeding: The Common Blackbird eats insects, earthworms, snails, spiders and a range of seeds and fruit. It mainly forages on the ground, probing and scratching at leaf litter, lawns and soil.

Breeding: The Common Blackbird builds a cup-shaped nest of dried grass, bound with mud, and lined with fine grasses. It is usually placed in a tree, shrub or low bush, but they will also use tree hollows. Their clutch size is 3 to 5 eggs (usually 4 eggs) with an incubation period of 14 days and a nestling period of 14 days. Breeding season is from September to January.

(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/common-blackbird/)

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Comment if you know what and where this could be taken. by Phirun Sam

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BossVerse Marvel #2 by Boss Bricks

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So, I have a bunch of last ditch posts to make before November starts.

More info on that here: www.flickr.com/photos/142100445@N08/30320504152/in/photos...

Red and Black figs!

Here we go.

LtR

Black Widow:

She is an updated version of the one seen here: www.flickr.com/photos/142100445@N08/26842522240/in/album-...

Since that one, I changed the head, Added some leg detail, and painted on some metallic silver and flesh details.

Overall, I'm super happy with the update.

Daredevil Year One:

This guy is a Mash of all sorts of figs I've made.

The beanie is from My Reaper fig. The head is from himself (www.flickr.com/photos/142100445@N08/27827290650/in/datepo...). Torso is Star Wars. Arms are from a Scarlet witch I did and legs are from Bucky. Overall, i like the combos.

Iron Fist: Hair is from Luke Skywalker. I painted the head, but I don't remember what it was originally. All of the torso is by me. Hands are wrapped in labels and the legs are from Star-Lord.

10/10 for this bunch In my opinion!

in the spotlight.... © C JONES by Carl Emma Jones

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170A9334 by Ricardo Gomez A

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In perfect order by Priscor_RIP

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Taken from the cruise ship off the Atlantic shore. Adjusted / enhanced in Photoshop.

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170A0904 by Ricardo Gomez A

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The Haunting on Hallowed Ridge by cootiepie11

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Created for "Sinister" Kreative People October Challenge:

www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157721919491017/

Also entered in The Award Tree's challenge ~October Colors~:

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Created in DDG from my source below which utilized Kathy's two sources below it, using the prompt: On hallowed ground. An eerie spirit. Processed in Photoshop Beta 2023 v 25.1. Topaz Gigapixel AI, Topaz Studio to alter the size, texture, color, glow, shadows, and highlights. This is 3 layers in total. Some hand painting to take out a third foot and fix trees and modify the shadow below and behind the spirit.

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Winter and summer II by Kerto Elvin LRPS

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Your comments please...which one do you prefer, this one or the previous one?

Original image here: www.kerto.co.uk/summerandwinter.html

Two totally different moods, but I just had to have another go at it...I simply can't decide which one I prefer...

4L8A1101 by Ricardo Gomez A

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170A6800 by Ricardo Gomez A

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Your shining heart by Serena Tan

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Looking close... on Friday! - Heart

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Spring by Solveig Ø Schrøder (No Multiple Invites Please)

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Lago Huesca by Goretti Moreiro

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2024-02-12_3424│KASPRYBA 3│Wiltonhaven Schiedam by Peter Boot

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Scheepsnaam: KASPRYBA 3

IMO: 9202699

MMSI: 273279200

Scheepstype: Vissersschip

Vlag: Onbekend / Rusland?

Lengte: 50 meter

Breedte: 11 meter

GT: 1041

DWT (t): 524

Bouwjaar: 1999

Bouwer: PS WERFTEN WOLGAST

Boyero negro, Solitary Cacique (Cacicus solitarius) by Lucas de Ciria

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LUCAS DE CIRIA : Canon 80D + 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary 015

Fotografia Lucas de Ciria.

Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur CABA, provincia de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA.

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Zurich’s Opera House. 1AC30D27 by Ricardo Gomez A

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170A8098 by Ricardo Gomez A

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high water mark - the alice retro by Chris Burns

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The Alice River in central Queensland, Australia rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range. It has been very dry so the river is a series of waterholes - it needs a good flush. You can see the water marks on the trees from previous flows. The river flows in a south-westerly direction towards Isisford and its confluence with the Barcoo River to later form Cooper Creek. Barcaldine is located on Lagoon Creek, which flows into the Alice River.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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Parc animalier d'Auvergne by BerColly

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Une série réalisée au Parc animalier d'Auvergne à Ardes sur Couze.

Bonne journée à tous.

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A series taken in the wildlife Park of Auvergne Ardes on Couze.

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Eine reihe durchgeführt, die im tierpark der Auvergne zu Ardes auf Couze.

Guten tag an alle.

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Una serie tomada en el Parque de vida silvestre de la región de Auvernia Dirección en Couze.

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Een serie genomen in het wildlife Park van de Auvergne Ardes op Couze.

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Una serie di immagini scattate nel Parco faunistico di Auvergne Ardes a Couze.

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Uma série tirada no Parque de vida selvagem de Auvergne Ardes em Couze.

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DJI_0061 by Ricardo Gomez A

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greatings from a steampunk expo - second life unedit (Engine Room SEPT 2021: Submerged Speakeasy, Syndicate) by wuwaichun (sometimes on - sometimes off)

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A historically inspired fantasy and science fiction expo featuring steampunk, dieselpunk, aetherpunk, historical and various styles for roleplay and more! The event is housed in a large exhibition building created by Faust Steamer.

Visit this location at Engine Room SEPT 2021: Submerged Speakeasy in Second Life

025D08 by Ricardo Gomez A

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river bend - silver eye by Chris Burns

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Silvereye

Zosterops lateralis

Identification: The Silvereye is a small bird with a conspicuous ring of white feathers around the eye and belongs to a group of birds known as white-eyes. The Silvereye shows interesting plumage variations across its range. The grey back and olive-green head and wings are found in birds through the east, while western birds have a uniformly olive-green back. Breeding birds of the east coast have yellow throats, pale buff flanks (side of the belly) and white on the undertail. Tasmanian birds have grey throats, chestnut flanks and yellow on the undertail. To complicate this, the birds in the east have regular migrations within Australia and may replace each other in their different areas for parts of the year. Birds in Western Australia have yellowish olive, rather than grey, backs

Location: Silvereyes are more common in the south-east of Australia, but their range extends from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, through the south and south-west to about Shark Bay, Western Australia. They are also found in Tasmania.

Habitat: Urban, Woodland, Forest. Silvereyes may occur in almost any wooded habitat, especially commercial orchards and urban parks and gardens.

Habitat: The Silvereye can travel great distances during migration, with Silvereyes from the most southerly regions of Tasmania travelling all the way up to Southern Queensland. Birds are seen alone, in pairs or in small flocks during the breeding season, but form large flocks in the winter months.

Feeding: Silvereyes feed on insect prey and large amounts of fruit and nectar, making them occasional pests of commercial orchards. Birds are seen alone, in pairs or in small flocks during the breeding season, but form large flocks in the winter months.

Breeding: Silvereye pairs actively defend a small territory. The nest is a small, neatly woven cup of grasses, hair, and other fine vegetation, bound with spider web. It is placed in a horizontal tree fork up to 5m above the ground. The nest is constructed by both sexes, who both also incubate the bluish-green eggs. If conditions are suitable two to three clutches will be raised in a season.

Songs and Calls: The contact call, a thin “psip”, is given persistently.

(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/silvereye/}

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lagoon creek - square-tailed kite by Chris Burns

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Square-tailed Kite

Scientific Name: Lophoictinia isura

Although it usually occurs singly, the Square-tailed Kite is sometimes seen soaring in pairs during the breeding season, and family groups of adults and one or two dependent young may be seen during post-fledging period. The Square-tailed Kite usually hunts by flying low over the treetops, occasionally plunging down through the foliage to snatch a bird or insect from among the leaves or twigs. The species often eats the nestlings of birds, and sometimes it will remove the entire nest to get at the young birds, and at other times may remove the tiny birds, one clutched tightly by the talons of each foot. They also catch adult birds by surprising them in the canopy of the forest.

Description: Often solitary, but can be seen in pairs when nesting. Squared-tailed Kites have a long, square tail with very long, upswept paddle-shaped wings and a large cream crescent at the base of their wing tips.

Similar Species: Immature Black Kite, Black-breasted Buzzard, and Red Goshawk

Distribution: Endemic to mainland Australia.

Habitat: The species mainly inhabits open eucalypt forests and woodlands, often where there is a broken canopy, but it also ranges into nearby open habitats. In southern Australia, Square-tailed Kites mainly inhabit open eucalypt forests and woodlands, often dominated by stringybarks, peppermints or box–ironbark eucalypts, as well as Woollybutt, Spotted Gum, Manna Gum, Messmate, River Red Gums, as well as other trees such as Angophora, cypress-pines and casuarinas. It also occurs along the edges of dense forest and along in road verges with remnant or planted trees, and in clearings within forest or in areas of regrowth, up to 4 years after the area has been logged. Other habitats which occasionally support Square-tailed Kites include mallee, heathland (mallee or coastal) and other low shrublands including saltbush plains, and also grasslands or open or cultivated farmland near remnant woodland.

Feeding: Searching for prey from the air, where they are highly agile at low levels, they mainly hunt in eucalypt open forest or woodland, and less often in low shrublands, heath, grassland or crops, and the margins between open and timbered country (forest–heath; woodland–heath; forest–open field; mallee–open paddocks; woodland edges; riparian timber; belts of trees in urban or semi-urban areas; and clearings in forests) are especially favoured. They specialise in hunting among trees, twisting between and below tree-tops, and they take most prey from the outer foliage of the canopy, but do not enter the canopy.

Breeding: Square-tailed Kites nest on horizontal branches in mature living trees, especially eucalypts, often near water, and they need extensive areas of forest or woodland surrounding or nearby.

Calls: Yelping, yeep, yeep, yeep. Also squealing ee ee ee ee

Minimum Size: 50cm

Maximum Size: 55cm

Average size: 53cm

Average weight: 568g

Breeding season: Aug - Dec

Incubation: 37 days

Nestling Period: 63 days

(Sources: www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Lophoictinia-isura and www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/square-tailed-kite)

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river bend - ♂ supurb fairy wren by Chris Burns

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Superb Fairy-wren

Scientific Name: Malurus cyaneus

Description: Adult male Superb Fairy-wrens are among the most brightly coloured of the species, especially during the breeding season. They have rich blue and black plumage above and on the throat. The belly is grey-white and the bill is black. Females and young birds are mostly brown above with a dull red-orange area around the eye and a brown bill. Females have a pale greenish gloss, absent in young birds, on the otherwise brown tail. The legs are brown in both sexes. Males from further inland and in the south-west of the range have more blue on the back and underparts.

Similar species: Several other species of fairy-wren are found in Australia. The males of each species are quite distinct, but the females and young birds are often difficult to separate. Of the species that overlap in range with the Superb Fairy-wren, the female White-winged Fairy-wren Malurus leucopterus and Red-backed Fairy-wren M. melanocephalus lacks the chestnut colour around the eye, while the female Variegated Fairy-wren M. lamberti has a dull grey-blue wash. Both the Superb and White-winged Fairy-wrens are similar in size. The Variegated Fairy-wren is slightly larger in size and has a longer tail.

Distribution: Superb Fairy-wrens are found south of the Tropic of Capricorn through eastern Australia and Tasmania to the south-eastern corner of South Australia.

Habitat: Seen in most habitat types where suitable dense cover and low shrubs occur. They are common in urban parks and gardens, and can be seen in small social groups. These groups normally consist of one dominant male and several females and young birds.

Feeding: Superb Fairy-wrens feed on insects and other small arthropods. These are caught mostly on the ground, but may also be taken from low bushes. Feeding takes place in small social groups.

Breeding: The nest is a dome-shaped structure of grasses and other fine material. It is usually placed in a low bush and is constructed by the female. The female incubates the eggs alone, but both sexes feed the young. Other members of the group will also help with the feeding of the young.

Male Superb Fairy-wrens have been labelled as 'the least faithful birds in the world'. Females may be courted by up to 13 males in half an hour, and 76% of young are sired by males from outside the social group.

Calls: The Superb Fairy-wren gives a series of high pitched trills, which are given by both sexes. The male often extends these trills into song.

Minimum Size: 13cm

Maximum Size: 14cm

Average size: 14cm

Average weight: 10g

Clutch Size: Three to four.

(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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Gabbiano by Mario Spedicato

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the common crow by Chris Burns

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Common Crow Butterfly

Scientific Name: Euploea core

Identification: The Common Crow Butterfly is a large black butterfly with white spots on the fore wings and a band of elongated spots on the hind wings. The outer wing margins have small white spots. The males have a pair of hidden orange-yellow brushes at the tip of the abdomen, which they can extend into bright coloured patch as part of the mating ritual or to deter predators. These brushes emit a musky odour. The caterpillars are striped. Pupa have metallic silvery sheen.

Other Names: Oleander Butterfly

Size: wingspan 70mm, Caterpillar about 50mm

Habitat: The Common Crow is found in open forest and woodland. Often seen in parks and gardens

Food: Common Crow Butterfly caterpillars feed on a wide range of native plants. They are often found in gardens feeding on Ficus (figs), Hoya, Mandevilla, Nerium oleander, Trachelospermum (star jasmines). The larvae eat the leaf and soft stem parts.

Range: Throughout tropical Australia and eastern Queensland. Adults sometimes disperse further down eastern Australia as far as Victoria, but there are no permanent breeding populations further south than northern New South Wales.

(Source: www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Common-Crow-Butterfly/Euploea/co...)

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Shelley Beach by Phil Jackson

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Silhouettes in the Topkapi Palace Istanbul by Ricardo Gomez A

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