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Taken at Wolseley Nature Centre, Staffordshire
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Female Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
It was very windy as this little lady hangs on in a gust of wind at Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Kent County, Delaware.
And this was our second last evening in Iceland and we already started feeling intense sadness for having to depart soon. more so after spending the evening at such a splendid spot: Kirkjufellsfoss waterfall, where we camped nearby at night to enjoy this place to the maximum.
More entries from my Lofoten diaries: This was a day truly to remember with a light to die for and where ever we passed, the landscape was looking fresh and new like recently created :)
Typical volcanic landscape in Iceland, where ashes mingle with snow, brown grass contrasts with black rock and white sugar-coated mountain peaks. The whole thing reminded me of the colours of a Tiramisu :)
Happy Textural Tuesday!
Juvenile Tricolored Heron (Egretta tricolor)
After leaving Stone Harbor, we drove through Nummy Island and spotted this beautiful Tricoloed. We pulled over and got a few shots.
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Black Skimmer Chick (Rynchops niger)
This little chick kept it's parents on their toes as it was running around. It did listen to them once in awhile. Nickerson Beach Park, Long Island NY.
A species of dabbling duck that is native to South America and can sometimes be also known as the Argentine Red Shoveler. Preferred habitat is dense reed beds, lagoons, marshes and shallow lakes and pools. Like other species of shovelers they feed by sifting the surface of the water filtering out small aquatic animals and plants through their bill which contains tiny vertical slits known as lamellae along the lower and upper sides of the bill. The female hen differs from the male who has a red to pink plumage.
a beautiful little romantic spot offering lots of mystery and I decided to believe that this might be one of the many spots Icelanders tell stories about trolls, alves or hidden people. The landscape certainly invites to create such myths.
One of the most common and widespread sparrows in North America. Fairly large with a long, rounded tail. Overall coarsely patterned with gray and brown, usually with more reddish-brown wings and tail. Look especially for thick brown streaks on the underparts and a broad dark mustache stripe. Significant variation in plumage geographically: relatively pale and rusty in the southwestern U.S.; blacker streaking in California; overall dusky in the Pacific Northwest. Larger, longer-tailed and usually more rusty than Savannah Sparrow. Found in a variety of scrubby habitats both near and far from human development, especially edges of fields, often near water. Listen for husky "chimp" calls and melodic song with chips and trills. (eBird)
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Always happy to see a Song Sparrow. This one is in fresh breeding plumage and looks great against the pale grey background of the Ottawa River.
Andrew Haydon Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 2024.
This is another shot from Grasmere Lake on a very still September evening. I wanted to capture the concentric circles around the Swan. I used HDR again from a single RAW image.
This photo was short-listed by National Geographic for their 2015 Photo contest. It can be seen and downloaded as a wallpaper from here: photography.nationalgeographic.com/contest-2015/gallery/w...
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Standing nearly 150' tall, this isolated ridge of yellowish white sandstone is home to a unique double arch. The larger arch is nearly 100' in diameter.
The formation is named for the first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine and, later, president of the National Geographic Society, Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966).
Just south of Kodachrome Basin State Park, Grosvenor Arch is deservedly one of the most popular features in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
While traveling through southern Utah to visit National Parks, this became of interest to us, because we previously lived near the Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro Station in Bethesda, Maryland.