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A yellow lily photographed at the Altoona Enabling Garden in Altoona, Iowa. #AltoonaEnablingGarden
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The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The black skimmer was photographed resting on a sandbar along the Cuiaba River. There were about six of them there when this image was taken. Within minutes more skimmers were circling above getting ready to land.
The black skimmer (Rynchops niger) is a tern-like seabird, one of three very similar birds species in the skimmer family. It breeds in North and South America. Northern populations winter in the warmer waters of the Caribbean and the tropical and subtropical Pacific coasts, but the South American races make only shorter movements in response to annual floods which extend their feeding areas in the river shallows.
Skimmers have a light graceful flight, with steady beats of their long wings. They feed usually in large flocks, flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water (in order of importance) for small fish, insects, crustaceans and molluscs caught by touch by day or especially at night.
The black skimmer breeds in loose groups on sandbanks and sandy beaches in the Americas, the three to seven heavily dark-blotched buff or bluish eggs being incubated by both the male and female. The chicks leave the nest as soon as they hatch and lie inconspicuously in the nest depression or "scrape" where they are shaded from high temperatures by the parents. They may dig their own depressions in the sand at times. Parents feed the young almost exclusively during the day with almost no feeding occurring at night, due to the entire population of adults sometimes departing the colony to forage.
The graceful curves of Chicago’s Lake Point Tower rise into the featureless, overcast sky over Lake Michigan.
"Sharing" a meal with her sister, this Cooper's Hawk chick slips off the tree branch, but recovers and balances nicely, displaying her lovely wingspan.
The remains of the meal are in her left talon, so she's doing this on one foot. These are two of the three chicks we've been monitoring this summer. Time to go back and see if they've started their migration yet. If not now - soon!
High res as usual - zoom on in!
Accipiter cooperii in Cook County, IL 2019-07-14
“There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.'
It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go.
It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives.
It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry,
that we are moving up, rather than out.”
― Ellen Goodman
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It's really quite amazing when a Great Blue Heron gracefully balances on one leg. They are an amazing bird to watch and photograph!
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This Great Egret was defying gravity at Lake Martin near the town of Beaux Bridge . It lifts the heart just like the opening chords of Louis Armstrong’s 1928 recording West End blues 3 minutes of perfection . Absolutely nothing to do with the image but enjoy this musical miracle
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Built of stone to last many generations, the graceful bridge over Varsity Lake encourages all to slow down, take in the scene and note the ducks, koi, turtles and garter snakes.
University of Colorado, Boulder
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I am certain that youthful beauty shines brightest but standing tall with the wisdom of age illuminates better. Time is the light modifier on life.
This is an American Avocet strolling across Pond 5 at the Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch. I love their coppery plumage during breading season. I thought this one looked rather graceful with it's fluid gate and up-curved bill.
A wildflower called fringed yellow loosestrife, a tiny flower that loves deep shade and moist conditions. A hint of sun and it withers away.
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This is my third and last image in this Yellow Crocus series. Featured here is a graceful, lateral stem and flower against a soft, velvet-blue background.
Happy and Blessed Easter, everyone!
I have so many pics of sandhill cranes (Antigone canadensis formerly Grus canadensis - Gruidae), but I get excited every time I see them.
This young one I found at Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area just south of Waukau, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
Leopold Wetland Management District
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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