Stuff on the Ground
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Found this little guy foraging for nectar around some flowers that hadn't even opened up yet. Looks like it will be good weather for the bees this year. We didn't see many of them last year.
Smile on saturday theme "from the ground".
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8th February 2015 - This windy and foggy day was way to much for these seagulls who decided to wait it out on the gantry on Waterloo duck pond.
La Ceja, Colombia.
Columbina talpacoti rufipennis
(Ruddy Ground Dove / Tortolita)
The Ruddy Ground Dove (Columbina talpacoti rufipennis) is a small New World tropical dove. It is found from S.E. Mexico to Colombia and Venezuela. Adult males have a pale grey head and neck, and rich rufous upperparts, black-spotted on the wing coverts. The female is grey-brown rather than rufous, and has less contrast between head and body than the male.
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This is what I see most of the time in my area. Even if I walk over the ground wave to get a better view of some kind of valley, I will only end up standing in front of yet another ground wave.
Fields near Böttigheim, Germany
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Wild South Africa
Kruger National Park
The number of Southern Ground-Hornbills outside formally protected areas in South Africa is declining due to loss and transformation of habitat, poisoning, persecution and electrocution. The species is listed as globally Vulnerable and have been uplisted to Endangered in 2014 in South Africa.
It is the largest hornbill species in the world.
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Europäischer Ziesel (Spermophilus citellus) - European ground squirrel
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Europäischer Ziesel (Spermophilus citellus) - European ground squirrel
Die Ziesel (Spermophilus, Syn.: Citellus) sind eine Gattung der Erdhörnchen, die in Eurasien in 15 Arten verbreitet ist. Dabei umfasste die Gattung lange Zeit deutlich mehr Arten, die auch in Nordamerika vorkommen; diese wurden jedoch nach einer Revision auf der Basis morphologischer und molekularbiologischer Daten in insgesamt acht Gattungen aufgeteilt.
European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_ground_squirrel
The European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus), also known as the European souslik, is a species from the squirrel family, Sciuridae.[2] It is among the few European species in the genus Spermophilus. Like all squirrels, it is a member of the rodent order. It is to be found in eastern Europe from southern Ukraine, to Asia Minor, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and north as far as Poland but the range is divided in two parts by the Carpathian Mountains.
The California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi), also known as the Beechey ground squirrel, is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and California and its range has relatively recently extended into Washington and northwestern Nevada.
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July 2019 - Edited and uploaded 2022/05/05
instead of going in the afternoon, i went to my spot early morning due to bad weather prediction.
I took this one with the 50mm f/1.4 and had a lot of fun with this tiny lens :-)
Most of the mushrooms were lying upside down. I guess playing kids had a lot of fun destroying these beauties...
Thanks everyone for visiting my stream.
This was as full a shot as I got when this buzzard (buteo buteo) landed amongst the heather. Photographed near Llandrillo, Denbighshire, Wales
This place is where early Mormons settled. It's no wonder why they chose these spots; they are splendid!
Doves in general aren’t one of my favored birds mostly because they tend to be bullies at the backyard feeders. However, ground doves aren’t common in the places I go to so I decided to document this one.
This species is endemic to South Africa (and the small nations of Lesotho and Swaziland) where it is found on cool rocky slopes of mountainous regions. As the name implies, it spends its time on the ground as its habitat is devoid of trees. Sani Pass, Lesotho
There were several different “rodents” running around in the fields out west. The beauty of camping along the way is that you get better opportunities to capture the wildlife around you. It was also spring when we travelled which meant lots of young life around. This Prairie Dog mom is letting her young one nurse. These animals are cute and quite social but many farmers think they are a nuisance because of all the holes they dig.
Photo with camera on the ground. At the markets today. For 'Smile on Saturday', theme: 'From the Ground'
Lake Manyara NP, Tanzania
The largest hornbill in the world.
A ground dwelling bird that lives in pairs or in small groups in savanna or in woodland.
They have a loud booming call that is typically heard in the morning.
Beautiful in flight when the white parts of the wings are visible
Southern Ground-Hornbill or Ground Hornbill
Bucorvus leadbeateri
zuidelijke hoornraaf
Bucorve du Sud
Rotgesicht-Hornrabe
Cálao Terrestre Sureño
Bucorvo meridionale
Calau-gigante
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The number of times I have cut off the dead flower clusters this summer, only to have them replaced by new ones, is extraordinary!
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Aegopodium podagraria - Égopode podagraire
Apiaceae - Apiacées
Common Names: ground elder, herb gerard, bishop's weed, goutweed, gout wort, snow-in-the-mountain, English masterwort, wild masterwort, gout-weed bishop's
Noms communs: podagraire, petite angélique, herbe de saint Gérard.
On a recent walk, I saw many catkins on the ground, blown off the trees from the wind. I marvel at the beauty of these tiny flowers.
Continuing the small critters/large critters occupying the same habitat series. Representing the smalls in Yellowstone National Park is this Uinta Ground Squirrel. It was chattering boldly atop a large boulder.