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You can just see the pilot as he concentrates to bring this Cessna Citation Longitude in to land at Houston’s West Side Airport. This is a business jet produced by Cessna, part of the Cessna Citation family. The Model 700 made its first flight on October 8, 2016.
I spent some time today witnessing one of the most remarkable waterfowl sights in the whole world. Somewhere between 10,000 - 15,000 tundra swans are staging right here in the Upper Mississippi River before heading east to Chesapeake Bay for the winter. I took video footage on my smartphone to add some sound, which is sensational, but then I wasn't smart enough to get it on Flickr. Sorry.
Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)
So intent on scanning the water it paid no attention to us as my mate Gil and I walked along the boardwalk.
Eastern Great Egret (Ardea modesta)
The resident Egret at the Heathdale - Glen Orden Wetlands was so intent on its hunt that it didn't notice me.
I love to watch Terns negotiate their landing spots. They need to find a spot within the other shorebirds on the rocks and it takes full concentration. The background is the water. The shot was taken very early in the morning.
The shot below is a close-up of its head and feet which show its intense focus.
Elegant Tern
Thalasseus elegans
Member of the Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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The Lesser Goldfinch
Lesser Goldfinches are tiny, stub-billed songbirds with long, pointed wings, and short, notched tails. They are most common in California and Texas, with pockets of local populations throughout the rest of its U.S. range.
Lesser Goldfinches feed in weedy fields, budding treetops, and the brush of open areas and edges. Depending on food availability, they may concentrate in mountain canyons and desert oases, but they are also fairly common in suburbs.
The oldest known wild Lesser Goldfinch was a male, and at least 7 years old when he was recaptured and re-released during banding operations in California in 2015.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 559 mm, 1/1600 @ f/7.1, ISO 5000, processed to taste)
White-faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae)
I'm not sure what this one was concentrating on. From 20
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha -
Have a great week ahead my friends. :-)
Sony a6000+ Leica Summilux 50mm 1.4 ASPH+ Voigtalnder V-E close focus adapter+ Kenko DG Extension tube(16mm+10mm)
I have visited Oldmoor Wood many times over the ten years or so. I have done all the usual shots with the thick carpet of bluebells amongst uniformly aligned trees, etc, so every time I go back I try something different. This time I decided to concentrate on using my 50mm f1.4 lens for some dreamy shallow depth of field images and my plan was that they might look most effective from the perspective of being level with the damp woodland floor.
Hunting for rodents on the summer tundra, this fox is concentrating on movement and noise. The red fox, when it finds its prey, will stop, point ears forward, and when its target is found, leap high into the air, arch its back and dive nose-first into its prey.
(note the mosquito riding on the fox's side)
I love his face here. In actuality though, he had ahold of a slippery salmon below the water surface and he was just concentrating on not letting it slip away before he could get it up to his jaws.
I've had a very busy couple days so I'm sorry I haven't been getting around to commenting, but I will catch up with you today.
Thanks everyone!
The 173,000 heliostats of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility concentrate sunlight onto three towers containing boilers to generate steam for electricity in California near the Nevada border.
She may thought , wasss up!!!..:)))
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On Bhogi, people discard old and derelict things and concentrate on new things causing change or transformation. At dawn, people light bonfires with logs of wood, other solid-fuels, and wooden furniture at home that are no longer useful.
Great Egret (Ardea alba) hunting for prey at Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve in Lee County, Florida, USA.
Gasteruptiid Wasp (family Gasteruptiidae (subfamily Gasteruptiinae)) female
Usually these Wasps will fly off if I get within five feet of them. This Lady, however, was so engrossed she allowed me to get in very close for a number of shots. I chose this one for today for the Eyes of March Two group.
Happy Eyes of March!