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Madrid has spectacular skies. Every day we were there, clear skies gave way to clouds as sunset approached, always richly textured and never the same.
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Listening to Carole King today… another old Rocker that’s made beautiful music for a number of years.
Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who has been active since 1958. King has made 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry, which held the record for most weeks at No. 1 by a female artist for more than 20 years.
Her record sales were estimated at more than 75 million copies worldwide. She has won four Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a performer and songwriter.
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The Hooded Merganser:
Spotted this Female Hooded Merganser Strutting Her Stuff after finishing a breakfast of Frog Legs alfresco. The legs were still attached to the frog, so it took her awhile to dine, but she seems to have had a Happy Ending : )
Hooded Mergansers are fairly common on small ponds and rivers, where they dive for fish, crayfish, and other food, seizing it in their thin, serrated bills. They find their prey underwater by sight. They can actually change the refractive properties of their eyes to improve their underwater vision. In addition, they have an extra eyelid, called a “nictitating membrane,” which is transparent and helps protect the eye during swimming, like a pair of goggles.
Hooded Merganser ducklings leave their nest cavity within 24 hours of hatching. First, their mother checks the area around the nest and calls to the nestlings from ground level. From inside the nest, the little fluffballs scramble up to the entrance hole and then flutter to the ground, which may be 50 feet or more below them. In some cases, they have to walk half a mile or more with their mother to the nearest body of water.
The oldest recorded Hooded Merganser was a male and at least 14 years, 6 months old when he was shot in Mississippi in 2009. He had been banded in Minnesota in 1995.
(Sony, 200-600 @ 600 mm, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 5000, edited to taste)
Along the beautiful East Coast of Tasmania - Australia.
Topaz Studio + Texture thanks to Takenawho.
Thank you everyone for your visits, comments and friendship.
Best viewed large.
Master of Photography - Members Choice.
Looking a little bit tacky here but this Robin is over two years old now which is a good age for a Robin. Always hanging around in the same area in one of my nature reserves I often go to visit. Ever since I first spotted this as a juvenile there has always been a dark patch below the right eye that is still there to this day. My little friend here has become very tame and always so very photogenic and hopefully will be around a bit longer yet. In the 1400's when the Robin was named the colour orange had not been classified and this is why we say that the Robin has a red breast and not orange. America has an eagle so it's about time the UK had the Robin as its national bird !!!!!!
I looked at this beautyfull landscape every morning when i went to the kitchen. Too bad it was only for the holidays.
Mine is the sunlight,
Mine is the morning,
Born of the one light Eden saw play.
Praise with elation, praise ev'ry morning,
God's recreation of the new day.
Cat Stevens
This beautiful Neotropical hummingbird has been reclassified since I saw it nectaring at a feeder in Panama. The Blue-chested Hummingbird (Polyerata amabilis) was formerly placed in the genus Amazilia. It is also found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Nicaragua, but its numbers are sadly decreasing. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and heavily degraded former forest.
Males – like this one – form leks to try to gain the attention of females during the breeding season.
August has been going by so quickly for me - my day job continues to be busy, and the Great Salt Lake continues to be covered with smoke from massive fires burning in California and Oregon.
This shot is from July before the wildfire smoke - my heart goes out to all those who are have been impacted by those fires.
The Great Salt Lake - GPS is not the exact spot of the shot.
Sucky 2020 has left me feeling nostalgic. So here are some of my favorite photos from 2019.
Link to photo 1 (far left): www.flickr.com/photos/baihley/48702145042/
Link to photo 2: www.flickr.com/photos/baihley/48432521632/
Link to photo 3: www.flickr.com/photos/baihley/48538938616/
Link to photo 4 (far right):
☼My works are often BEST VIEWED LARGE ☼
A few Money Plants came up. Not much flowers anymore, so enjoying the small, but pretty purple show.
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Just day break and I'm waiting to capture this beautiful Georgian building with the lights still on. (circa 1827 ) Tasmania - Australia.
Textures thanks to Cris Buscaglia Lenz and Evelin Flint.
Please view large.
Gestalt Gallery .
Admin photo of the month (July) Kurt Peiser Group.
Thank you Isabel ( Musymas)
Excellence Award - Masterclass Elite.
Excellence Award of Gallery de la Gravure.
~ taken at MonRepos ~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXWI6ISkzlI
Special thanks to Valois for his tireless patience to play the same song on the violin again and again (he needed a lot of patience)
Cloud Brushes: javierzhx.deviantart.com/art/Cloud-Brushes-34277964
Moons Stars Sparkles Brushes: falln-stock.deviantart.com/art/Moons-Stars-Sparkles-Brush...
It has a nice halloween mood ;-))
Enjoy your Friday !
Mural called "IK ben bizAr"( in English "I'm bizarre").
Street Art Ghent, Belgium.
Artist mural unknown.
It's has been a year today since I joined Flickr. My photostream contains now (dec 11, 2007) 194 photos and has been viewed 32 000 times.
Thank you all very much -- for your comments and encouragements, for your friendships.
Most popular photo: Walking along the beach at sunset www.flickr.com/photos/henribonell/396371810/ (833 comments, viewed 5,707 times and 375 people call this photo a favorite)
Anything goes: Paper
One of the challenges of getting older is that our parents get older too. Both of my parents are facing some pretty tough health issues at the moment. So I will be taking a few months off Flickr so I can fly home and spend some quality time with both and help out where I can.
See you all then!!