My Most Interesting Photos | My Sunset and Sunrise Set | My 500px Photos

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".

THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT AND FAVES

ON THE REACTIONS I WILL TRY TO RESPOND BACK

I love the smell of fallen leaves, and the sound of them crunching beneath my feet.

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.

Winter Aconite

I like the way that on the greyish, colourless winter earth the bright yellow gives the impression that some sort of filter has been used, but it hasn't.

I took this with a 135mm but couldn't get close enough so I used the aps-c mode hence the exif showing 202mm, but with a 135mm f1.8, full frame d.o.f.

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.

Wikipedia

Ground level is not as powerful as from the upper floors - but still a good view

Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, CA

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

My warmest thanks for your visit, fave and comment.

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_ground_squirrel

fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otospermophilus_beecheyi

July 2019 - Edited and uploaded 2022/05/05

© Copyrigh Miguel Churruca, All Rights Reserved.

None of the images in this gallery may be copied, reproduced and/or used in any form without the author's express consent.

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

Summit County, Colorado

Below ground, Münchner Freiheit is a colorful U-Bahn station. The above ground bus and S-Bahn station are equally as interesting.

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.

XK140 build in Joe's garage now freshly painted

Nikon D500, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 600mm, f/8, 1/250, ISO 3200. Captive. View Large.

Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda

from the archives

a huge bird with a length up to 110 cm (43inch). It is the northern cousin of the better known Southern Ground Hornbill.

It lives in dry savanna and open grasslands and forages on the ground where it captures reptiles, small mammals, birds, termites etc

also called Northern Ground Hornbill

bucorvus abyssinicus

noordelijke hoornraaf

bucorve d'Abyssinie

Sudanhornrabe

Many thanks for your views, favorites and supportive comments.

All rights reserved. ButsFons©2021

My photos may not be used on websites, blogs or in any other media without my written and explicit permission.

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.

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

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

Many thanks for your views, favorites and supportive comments.

All rights reserved. Fons Buts©2023

My photos may not be used on websites, blogs or in any other media without my written and explicit permission.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Details.

Thank you to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated.

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.

new york

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.

At this time of the year you find the lovely dandelion almost everywhere in nature. This grounded dandelion looked almost lost by the wayside. It felt like an Discovery !

The Small Ground-Finch is one of the most common and highly adaptable, as well as widespread of the Darwin’s Finches of the Galapagos Islands. In towns and villages they are found foraging on dusty margins of streets and act very much as would a House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) in other parts of the world. Yet in higher and moister areas they may be seen perched on a Galapagos Tortoise, waiting for bugs or seeds to be uncovered by the movements of the large reptile. This is the smallest and smallest billed of the ground-finches and thus it eats the smallest seeds available.

OLYMPUS EM-1 Mark II

They look really attractive in the later afternoon sun lights.

new york

An adult European ground squirrel (Spermophilus citellus) or European souslik sits in green gras next to a flowering Ranunculus

One of the saddest sights one can imagine - a bird never able to fly again. Be safe.

Kruger National Park, South Africa

This adult Brown Thrasher was out foraging for lunch. They are such a striking bird.

September 11 memorial located at the World Trade Center site. The two pools correspond to the footprints of the Twin Towers, which were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.