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Ventral view of most of it. Voracious predator of aphid and similar that carries a camouflage pack on its back. This load seems to be composed partly of insect parts. *Stereo pair follows.
Green snake (East African Green Mamba, thank you RAStr for info) , pictured in Tropicario, Helsinki.
Green ship mounted on blue tank. Small front canopy ship detaches. Larger computer console area in rear with swiveling command chair. The roof makes use of mostly smooth soccer baseplate pieces. The chunky wings are slightly adjustable and open for storage of weapons, etc. Ship stands on 3 round feet which nestle on circular smooth tiles on tank
This male green crowned brilliant hummingbird thinks that he is a well named species. It is hard to disagree with him. It was poring with rain when I took this photo in Ecuador and the moisture just added to the lustre of this spectacular bird.
The green-crowned brilliant is a is a resident breeder in the highlands from Costa Rica to western Ecuador. It is also known as the green-fronted brilliant.
Male brilliants are typically polygynous and the behavioral observations suggest that male Green-crowned Brilliants do not assist females during the nesting phase of the breeding season.
finally got some popsicle molds, which for me makes summer feel like summer.
this is made of green tea boba mix.
Abu Dhabi, 'green pearl' of the Gulf. Featured on the left are the 'Trust Towers', part of Abu Dhabi's new Central Market. This development was by designed Foster & Partners. In the foreground, we see the landscaped green gardens and jogging/biking pathways along the Corniche Road. On the right side, the imposing ADIA headquarters, home of the world's richest sovereign fund.
Green-crowned Brilliant (Heliodoxa jacula) feeding from flowers at Cinchona, Costa Rica. For more visit www.chrisjimenez.net
Green Cove Station was a rail stop along the Virginia Creeper railroad that ran from Abingdon, Virginia to Todd, North Carolina. Built by the Virginia Carolina railroad about 1914, it also served as a post office, general store, and telegraph office, managed primarily by William M. Buchanan. Famed photographer O. Winston Link memorialized this building in his 1956 photo "Maud Bows to the Virginia Creeper" (you can see this print by doing an internet search). The last train passed here in 1977, but the station remained as a general store for a few more years. In the early 1990s, the former station was restored as a U.S. Forest Service visitor and education center for the Virginia Creeper National Recreational Trail.
The green bee-eater (Merops orientalis), also known as little green bee-eater, is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and the Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to Vietnam. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water. Several regional plumage variations are known and several subspecies have been named.
Like other species in the genus, bee-eaters predominantly eat insects, especially bees, wasps and ants, which are caught in the air by sorties from an open perch. Before swallowing prey, a bee-eater removes stings and breaks the exoskeleton of the prey by repeatedly thrashing it on the perch. Migration is not known but they make seasonal movements in response to rainfall. These birds are somewhat sluggish in the mornings and may be found huddled next to each other on wires sometimes with their bills tucked in their backs well after sunrise. They sand-bathe more frequently than other bee-eater species and will sometimes bathe in water by dipping into water in flight. They are usually seen in small groups and often roost communally in large numbers (200-300). The birds move excitedly at the roost site and call loudly, often explosively dispersing before settling back to the roost tree.[12] The little green bee-eater is also becoming common in urban and sub-urban neighborhoods, and has been observed perching on television antennae, only to launch into a brief, zig-zag flight formation to catch an insect, then return to the same perch and consume the meal. This behaviour is generally observed between the hours of 7:00 and 8:00am, and after 4:00pm.
The breeding season is from March to June. Unlike many bee-eaters, these are often solitary nesters, making a tunnel in a sandy bank. The breeding pairs are often joined by helpers. They nest in hollows in vertical mud banks. The nest tunnel that they construct can run as much as 5 feet long and the 3-5 eggs are laid on the bare ground in the cavity at the end of the tunnel. The eggs are very spherical and glossy white. Clutch size varies with rainfall and insect food density. Both sexes incubate. The eggs hatch asynchronously with an incubation period of about 14 days and the chicks grow fledge in 3 to 4 weeks and in the fledging stage show a reduction in body weight.
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Handwashing my pink blouse in a green Tupperware Fix 'n Mix Bowl
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Tenuous Link: Dry Cleaning >> Wet Cleaning (washing)
H.L. Green was a chain of variety stores that may have been limited to the South. Green's was ultimately merged into the McCrory conglomerate of variety stores, which caused the remaining Green's stores to shutter when McCrory's finally bottomed-out circa 2000. The old Downtown Atlanta store seems to be in pretty decent shape and I believe it's on the historic register.
Broad Street at MLK, Atlanta.
My first attempt at 'grass' themed cupcakes. Not bad, they will look better with more decorations though!
2018.06.29 - Meeting between the IOC President, Thomas Bach and President of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
Copyright: IOC/Christophe Moratal
I love photographing lizards and there are plenty here in Florida. The most common in my area being the green and brown anoles.
The male green anole shown here is displaying what older southerners refer to as "his beard". They display these in mating rituals and to defend territories.. It is most commonly displayed in conjunction with head bobbings.
This male is showing battle scars on his face. Males are known to be aggressive towards one another when defending territory or winning over a female. They often lock jaws and twist and turn not unlike an alligator death roll. Just when you think one is surely going to kill the other. The jaws unlock the heads bob and the injured walks away. The victor often bobbing his head and displaying and retracting its dewlap victoriously. I have seen males shortly after fights with toes missing, scarred faces and legs and even ripped dewlaps (beards).
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Stanford University campus.
One of the two entrances to Green library. This is the "Bing Wing," which is usually used to run exhibits. The current exhibit shows some of the documents of the founding fathers, including a couple of (early) versions of John Hancock's signature.
Got a little sloppy with this photo, too - I was concentrating so much on the bench and the roof tops that I missed seeing the branch right in front of me was obstructing too much of the building. After uploading to flickr, I was thinking of deleting it, but in the end, decided to leave it in as part of the set, and as a reminder to myself to replace it with a better shot one of these days.
Nikon D700 + Leica Elmarit-R 19mm f/2.8 with Leitax mount
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For information about using this Leica lens with Nikon cameras, please see this link. I have also created a new set called Leica 19mm Elmarit-R, to which I will keep adding new photos taken with this lens that I upload to flickr.