Wedding Portraits (bride and/or groom)
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Birds ID: Indian pitta/দেশি শুমচা/বন সুন্দরী/নওরঙ
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Bird# 46
Bird Description: flic.kr/p/2fYJaT2
Ah yes, these little critters never let me down and always provide plenty of poses and expressions for my awaiting lens.
That pink tongue is working hard to clean those paws, one seen on the nose and the other just below the tongue :)
Rodents spend a lot of time grooming themselves and keeping their coats clean and shiny.
This time, Yashka behaved badly, biting the groomer's hands, so that his muzzle was trimmed with great difficulty and not entirely successfully.
Thanks for the visits, favs and comments, it's greatly appreciated!
Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) male
Making sure he looked his best for Mrs. Teal who was coming to meet him.
This Common Merganser was in the process of grooming itself as I captured several photos of it. It would work on the left side and then on the right side, each time pausing briefly to make sure there was no danger. I timed my shots to capture that brief pause and get the head in profile. Such an interesting bird!
Taken 14 October 2019 at Spenard Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska.
Got to look one's best before setting off on that long journey. This scene at Hua Lumphong station caught my eye the other day when I was getting ready to come home
Uncropped image of a late afternoon grooming session.
Kruger National Park
Mpumalanga Province
South Africa
These two common mergansers were all about being next to the log, a nice platform from which they could perch and groom themselves with those sharp serrated bills of theirs...
Taken 14 October 2019 at Spenard Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska.
Grooming is so much nicer in the sunshine, especially if you are white and fluffy and trying to stay clean is a time consuming affair...
Posted for the Happy Caturday theme "Tongues and Noses".
Anhinga
From ADW:
Males have greenish-black plumage overall, accentuated by silver-gray feathers on the upper back and wings that are edged with long white plumes. They also have black crests. Females are brown with a lighter brown head and neck; juveniles are a uniform brown color. Molting of all flight feathers at the same time render them flightless for a while. Unlike some aquatic birds, all of the body feathers become completely wet upon contact with the water, allowing them to dive through the water more easily. This feature, however, causes them to have little buoyancy, to lose heat quickly, and hinders flight. (del Hoyo, et al., 1992; Hennemann, 1982; Owre, 1967; Scott, 1983).
This one definitely had more of a blueish tone to its feathers - you can see that compared to the black feathers on the middle of the back of the Anhinga.
I'll post a photo of just the spread wings in the comments below.
The spread-wing posture allows them to absorb solar energy to supplement their low metabolic heat production and to offset their high rate of heat loss.
Explored.
Tail Grooming.
The resident Cooper's Hawk in my yard in Chester County, PA preening its magnificent tail feathers.
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Got to spend a bit of time with this merganser at the pond by the river. After floating about for awhile, she hopped up on this log and proceeded to go through a very intensive and thorough grooming ritual.
My daughter really likes the Harry Potter series, so we ordered the Hogwarts interior backdrop to set up the dinning area ... made for a great backdrop for some of the photos too.
Here is the groom and his mom and grandmother.
Used the subject selection in Lightroom and then inverted it to isolate the background to reduce clarity and focus to develop a bit more isolation.