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One from what feels like a millennia ago, well, 2014 :) I spent 90 minutes in the freezing cold Lake Wanaka with leaky waders, seemed like a good idea at the time. Anyway, this is one of the shots captured on that fortunate night.
To remember a time when sitting on a tree wasn't so offensive...
#ThatWanakaTree
Green Heron (adult) - Florida Wetlands - 9/23/21
In The Wild - Palm Beach County, Florida USA
The Green Heron is relatively small. Adult body length is about 17 inches. The neck is often pulled in tight against the body. Adults have a glossy, greenish-black cap, a greenish back and wings that are grey-black grading into green or blue, a chestnut neck with a white line down the front, grey underparts and short yellow legs. The bill is dark with a long, sharp point. - Thanks for looking.
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - in the shadows]
*[FYI: They are called "green" herons
because of the green color on their wings]
Okay, there is this green box in the kitchen with no use, but it looks pretty good for the background of this macro...hopefully.
In some of the National Forests you can camp for free outside the organized campgrounds and that was the case with the Bridger-Teton National Forest. You can see the fire ring here of fishermen who had previously camped along the Green River not far below the Green River Lakes. A little fog always does wonders.
The green catbird (Ailuroedus crassirostris) is a species of bowerbird found in subtropical forests along the east coast of Australia, from southeastern Queensland to southern New South Wales. It is named for its distinctive call which sounds like a cat meowing, although it has also been mistaken for a crying child, or a scary vampire sound early in the morning.
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Nikon D500, AF-S 500mm f4G ED VR, TC-14E II
Shot this wide open on a D500 / AF-S 500mm f4G VR + TC-14E II (f5.6) for two reasons:
a. to get a better background blur
b. to check if I properly & accurately performed the AF fine tune on the camera / lens & converter combo the day before.
This is a record shot of a Green Heron, which I saw in Newfoundland this past summer, just hours before I was to return to Nova Scotia. I nearly missed posting it, until My recent scan through photos from this past summer.
VirginiaLake,
St.John's,NL
September 2024
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A Banded Demoiselle by the River Trent at Attenborough Nature Reserve.
The banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) is a species of damselfly belonging to the family Calopterygidae. It is often found along slow-flowing streams and rivers. It is an Eurasian species occurring from the Atlantic coast eastwards to Lake Baikal and northwestern China.
This is a large damselfly with a total length of up to 48 millimetres (1.9 in) and a hindwing length of up to 36 millimetres (1.4 in).
Male and female are variable in color and pattern. The male has translucent wings which each have a broad, dark iridescent blue-black spot (or band) across the outer part. On immature individuals the spot is dark brown. The body can be a metallic blue or bluish green or a combination of both colours, depending on the time of year and location.
The dark wing patch of the male starts at the nodus (the slight dip midway down the upper edge of the wing) but can reach up to the wing-tip in southern races. In the very similar beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo), the dark patch starts before the nodus.
The female has translucent, pale green iridescent wings with a white patch near the tip (a pseudopterostigma), and a metallic green or bronze/green body.
Post is in fact two parts. One I dont really like the colour yellow or green and I often try my best not to include these colours in my images.
However a recent visit to fladbury mill, on the River Avon between Pershore and Evesham the other week the lush green vegetation was everywhere and a warm streak of sunlight caught the south westerly windows of the old mill whilst the sun was beginning its descent into the night.
Roll on a couple of weeks since then and the continued warm weather has now turned most of the lush areas around where i live into brown sandy tones, reminiscent of some scorched earth 50's b-movie set not to in the distant future... if you believe the media that is.
Cool water and soothing greens perhaps I like you after all.
Admittedly not taken in Manitoba. This one is from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
This beautiful Green Heron was foraging around one of the small ponds on the resort property where we were staying.
All constructive comments are appreciated. TIA
To learn more about these beautiful birds please visit www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Green_Heron
The sun emerges after a day of rain showers as the Ohio Central's ZVL-1 job has just tied down in the small yard in Zanesville, Ohio after a run from Cambridge. The pair of GP38-2's are parked next to a quartet of SD40's used on the trash trains to New Lexington.
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CUOH Cambridge Subdivision
Zanesville, OH
OHCR ZVL-1 (Local; Zanesville, OH to Cambridge, OH Turn)
OHCR 2072 GP38-2 Ex. KRR 3803 GP35, MP 613, TP 613 Blt. 1964
IORY 2165 GP38-2 Ex. NS 5146, SOU 5146 Blt. 1974
Unassigned Power
OHCR 3339 SD40-2 Ex. BNSF 7806, BN 7806, CS 936 Blt. 1977
OHCR 722 SD40-2 Ex. NECR 722, FEC 722, PRSX 3756, UP 3756 Blt. 1980
OHCR 3306 SD40-2 Ex. CP 5591 Blt. 1972
OHCR 3305 SD40-2 Ex. CP 5673 Blt. 1973