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Wilson's Plover ~ (Charadrius wilsonia)
The Wilson's Plover is one of my favorite shorebirds to watch when they hunt. They scurry around at breakneck speeds, hunched over as they speed toward a meal (small crabs and insects) that is peeking its head up over the sand. Then they abruptly hit the brakes and pull the meal out.
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I was lucky enough to spot this fine Red Deer stag digging through the snow to get to the soft grasses below. You can see the snow being kicked up by it's front left hoof ..
We headed to the coast early in the morning to search for bear activity on the tidal flats. Coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos), like this young male we encountered, forage for razor clams at extreme low tide. Silver Salmon Creek Lodge, Lake Clark National Park on the coast of Cook Inlet. Alaska. Conservation status: Least Concern
We have just moved into our new place .. I will catch up when I can.
Back shot from January 2017
Flowers in my garden January 14, 2017, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand.
Sometimes I think photography is what strikes you at the time. You just drive around until you see something interesting.
This was one of those moments. Usually these are yellow to orange in colour.
Happy Saturday
Dave plowed our driveway and I opened the window and took a picture of him making a spot with the snow blower for Maggie to go out and do her duties. I had to go out to the hospital for blood work this AM and couldn't make it. So fast again tonight. Trees, electrical lines and drifted shut roads are this morning here. Just about everything is closed. Dave has had 6 fire calls this AM for various helping other agencies with problems. Neighbors across the street without power for hrs but we were lucky we didn't loose power.
This young spoonbill went all‑in to secure its morning meal, disappearing impressively far into the parent’s throat.
Male Hoopoe trying to extract a cricket larvae withe the female looking on.
No idea how they tell there is one there, but once detected they really go to town with a rapid series of ground strikes to extract it.
Algarve Portugal.
Sometimes I take a picture of something which seems very appealing to my eye, but then the result on my screen is disappointing. So I try to dig into that image to find what struck my eye and sometimes something which 'rebuilds' that first sensation appears.
This is what happened in the passage from the original picture below to the final result above.
(Maybe someone might find a vague connection between these words and S.Heaney or W. Wordsworth)
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A volte fotografo qualche immagine che mi sembra particolarmente attraente, ma poi il risultato sullo schermo del computer è deludente.
Allora cerco di scavare dentro quell'immagine per ritrovare ciò che ha colpito il mio occhio e a volte alla fine compare qualcosa che 'ricostruisce' la mia sensazione iniziale.
Questo è appunto successo nel passaggio dalla foto originale qui sotto al risultato finale qui sopra.
(Anche se magari alcuni preferiscono l'originale)
What a glorious sound these 4 Utah six motors made as they crossed the apex of Soldier Summit on a fine October afternoon. I was always a fan of this fine paint scheme. 10.00
Still digging through the archives instead of taking photos in our 97f heat (36c).
This was a beautiful late evening in late October of 2011 at Lake Lowndes. There just wasn't any color and then, when I got to a particular point on the hike around the lake, there was a joyous bright spot in the midst of a monotony of dull greens and browns. Until then, I had just decided that it was too late and I was just trudging to the car.
As I considered how to post process this, I realized that I had been "Surprised by Joy" and the photo just didn't convey the beauty and joy that I'd experienced so I cut off one of my ear lobes and used a little bit of the blood :-) to pump up the red and soften the image in order to create an impressionistic interpretation of the scene and convey my mood/joy/shock/awe
There is still a lot that I would like to have done better on this photo but I was afraid that pumping up the greens in the background would make things look too gauche. Let me know what you think (good/bad) about my effort at impressionism with the NIK collection.
Suddenly I've discovered that there are no oystercatchers in my photostream on Flickr. So I dug in my archives and found heaps of photos. This is the Sooty Oystercatcher (Haematopus fuliginosus) digging for some other kind of food on the beach at low tide near Tidal River.
female of the digger wasp Bembecinus tridens digging -
grabendes Weibchen der Zwergkreiselwespe (Bembecinus tridens): Brandenburg (LDS) - Germany
In an idyllic scene, an Alaska Brown bear digs for clams at low tide along the shore of Cook Inlet. This is a scene setting wide angle view with the bear reflected in the foreground and mountains with patches of snow and forests in the background. Cook Inlet, Alaska. Note all the little patches of mud dug up by the bear in its search.
12/06/2023 www.allenfotowild.com
A grizzly bear is hard at work digging for clams early in the morning at low tide in the Khutzeymateen estuary. Notice how you can see the long fingers/claws digging into the sand. In the springtime the grizzlies supplement their sedge grass diet with clams and other intertidal species that they scavenge along the beaches at low tide.
18/07/2019 www.allenfotowild.com
This Lyrebird was busy digging underneath the Rhododendron and other trees at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Park and was not particularly worried at the small group of watchers.
You can often find them busy scratching away in the undergrowth. Menura novaehollandiae. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird
This Honey Bee, like one of many visits our garden several times a day to collect that much sought after gold to make into honey. The beauty of nature just amazes me !!