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This is an amazing variety of amaryllis called Exotic Peacock. If you ever find this variety, get it! It is in a class by itself.
2 May 2023
Indiana
A little selection of floral images for you all dear Flickr friends xx
♡wishing you all a wonderful weekend♡
A lot of these ring-necked parakeets around here. They live in large groups in winter time and terrorize the forest. The woodpeckers have be driven out of their nests here and the parakeets have taken over their homes.
This is one of those ring-necked parakeets that have claimed a woodpeckers' nest in the tree trunk on the right.
For the lensflare I removed the lenshood and kept the sun just out of view, used a fill flash to lower the shadows. No crop...
Another installment of my strange fruit series. I have another shot I might put up that makes it look a little stranger. My stepson thinks it tastes like grapes.
Lighting - lightbox on the right
The great egret (Ardea alba), also known as the common egret, large egret, or (in the Old World) great white egret[2] or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret, with four subspecies found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe, recently also spreading to more northern areas of Europe. Distributed across most of the tropical and warmer temperate regions of the world, it builds tree nests in colonies close to water.
he great egret is a large heron with all-white plumage. Standing up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall, this species can measure 80 to 104 cm (31 to 41 in) in length and have a wingspan of 131 to 170 cm (52 to 67 in). Body mass can range from 700 to 1,500 g (1.5 to 3.3 lb), with an average around 1,000 g (2.2 lb).[10] It is thus only slightly smaller than the great blue or grey heron (A. cinerea). Apart from size, the great egret can be distinguished from other white egrets by its yellow bill and black legs and feet, though the bill may become darker and the lower legs lighter in the breeding season. In breeding plumage, delicate ornamental feathers are borne on the back. Males and females are identical in appearance; juveniles look like nonbreeding adults. Differentiated from the intermediate egret (Mesophoyx intermedius) by the gape, which extends well beyond the back of the eye in case of the great egret, but ends just behind the eye in case of the intermediate egret.
It has a slow flight, with its neck retracted. This is characteristic of herons and bitterns, and distinguishes them from storks, cranes, ibises, and spoonbills, which extend their necks in flight. The great egret walks with its neck extended and wings held close. The great egret is not normally a vocal bird; it gives a low, hoarse croak when disturbed, and at breeding colonies, it often gives a loud croaking cuk cuk cuk and higher-pitched squawks.
Owing to its wide distribution across so much of the Americas, as well as Africa, Europe and Asia, the great egret shares its habitat with many other similar species. For example, the little egret (Egretta garzetta), intermediate egret (Ardea intermedia), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes), and the western reef heron (Egretta gularis). In the Americas, the snowy egret (Egretta thula) — a medium-sized heron that shares the same habitat as the great egret — is one such species. The snowy egret is readily distinguished from the great egret because it is noticeably smaller, and it has a more slender bill which is black in color and yellow feet, whereas the great egret has a yellow bill and black feet. Another species that — in North America — is easily confused with the great egret is the white morph of the great blue heron (Ardea herodias). The great blue heron is a bit larger, and has a thicker bill than that of the great egret.
In North America, large numbers of great egrets were killed around the end of the 19th century so that their plumes, known as "aigrettes", could be used to decorate hats. Numbers have since recovered as a result of conservation measures. Its range has expanded as far north as southern Canada. However, in some parts of the southern United States, its numbers have declined due to habitat loss, particularly wetland degradation through drainage, grazing, clearing, burning, increased salinity, groundwater extraction and invasion by exotic plants. Nevertheless, the species adapts well to human habitation and can be readily seen near wetlands and bodies of water in urban and suburban areas.
The great egret is partially migratory, with northern hemisphere birds moving south from areas with colder winters. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
In 1953, the great egret in flight was chosen as the symbol of the National Audubon Society, which was formed in part to prevent the killing of birds for their feathers.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_egret
Dejo una bonita canción para hoy
Ellie Goulding-->Love Me Like you Do
Dejo una bonita canción para hoy
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Nada é inútil; dos homens aos insetos
vão-se estendendo todos os aspectos
que a idéia da existência pode ter;
e o que deslumbra o olhar é perceber
em todos esses seres incompletos
a completa noção de um mesmo ser... (Raul de Leoni, Petrópolis, 1895-1926)
Wishing you all lovely wednesday!
Kisses...
I always liked taking an occasional trip to Duluth's Canadian sister city as Thunder Bay seemed both familiar and exotic relative to the Twin Ports. I wasn't one to take many slides of rolling stock but this 40-ft grain loading boxcar caught my eye. The stencil says not for interchange - Churchill and Thunder Bay grain service only. They kept a number of these cars in service for lines with light load limits.
(Camera settings)
Camera: FinePix HS20EXR (FUJIFILM)
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Aperture: f/5.6
Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec