5th January 2018

Maldon promenade

Barbary Macaque taken through the windscreen yesterday at Woburn Safari Park. He was happy to stay there for ages & my grandchildren loved it. No damage to the car thank goodness.

HFF!

Macro Mondays Into The Woods Theme

Credits:

Rachel (Right):

Body: Lara by Maitreya

Head: Uma by Catwa

Head Applier: Heidi newish from L'Etre

Skin Tone: Cotton from L'Etre

Shape: Heidi from L'Etre

Hair: Unati new from DOUX @ Access

Swimsuit: Ina new gachas from ViSion @ Epiphany

Chiara (Left):

Body: Lara from Maitreya

Head: Uma from Catwa

Skin: Bobbi for Catwa newish from Glam Affair

Hair: Rose from DOUX

Swimsuit: Irma from Just BECAUSE

Both:

Pose and Surfboard: Royal Dogs new from Luanes World in mainstore

Location: Black Kite

🌹POSE FROM: [..::CuCa::..] She Is A Keeper

Free pose @ mainstore - no group needed!

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Credits on my blog thesassyshoppersite.wordpress.com/2019/07/04/

Isle Lake Alberta

I love red bootlaces!

Australasian Grebe (Tachybaptus novaehollandiae)

Great to be able to see the Grebes again today. It looks like just the two chicks in this clutch. I didn't see any of the five chicks in the first clutch actually riding around on the parents back like this so was happy to get this image.

Still being unable to get out I am continuing to delve into my archive. This time though I only go back a couple of years to a visit to the local reserve at St Aidans. Alas the photo was taken through some reeds which are just visible in the image.

The subjects are a pair of little humbugs seen hitching a ride on a parents back. After the chicks have hatched black-necked grebes will desert the nest and the chicks live on the parents backs for about 4 days. After about 10 days the parents will split the chicks up with each parent taking care of half of the brood. They are independent after another 10 days and fledge in about 3 weeks.

The latest news from the reserve is that 18 were spotted on 30th March. Fingers crossed we will be treated to a repeat of such sights in the near future.

Zebras and birds coexist peacefully together and seem to enjoy each other's company.

Metal

Happy Crazy Tuesday

..in the snow at Cherishville

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We took the car ferry to get to my daughters from Port Bolivar to Galveston, TX and I looked up and noticed this crew of hitch hikers taking a free ride. I liked the light and the red, white and blue.

Happy Friday and have a nice weekend!

An American bittern contemplates the fate of a small spider.

tomfenskephotography

Found in Orvieto, Italy. A highly recommended town.

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For Smile on Saturday... "Free Theme"

As my grandson and I crossed Port Phillip Bay on a ferry this Silver Gull stayed on the rail for most of the journey.

Many thanks for your visits, kind comments and faves, very much appreciated.

This arch has an interior length of 13 feet and a height of 3 feet.

Color my World Daily - Orange

Baby Alligator riding on Mom's back. Alligators are good mothers and go to great lengths to protect their babies from predators. At one point three babies were riding, one actually straddling the Mom's head. Quite remarkable as I've never seen this behavior before, although it is well documented.

Takes awhile for me to get a decent shot of this hitch hiker. Now I had completed my collections of 3 Australian grebes hitch hikers. Only takes me 4 years😅

Created for the Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces

156th MMM UNDER THE SEA THEME Challenge

and

The Award Tree’s Challenge # 215.0 July 2022 ~ Wet Work ~

[Main image my own / koala with goggles from icon-library.com /

processed with DDG, framed in FilterForge]

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An old Little Grebe photo from London Wetlands used by The Guardian to celebrate the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust's 70th Anninversay.

www.theguardian.com/community/gallery/2016/nov/10/otters-...

Mule team; previously posted in color; I much prefer in black and white.

These mules are half sisters.

Clark County Mule Festival 2022

Kahoka, Missouri

Mamma baboon with young in the Masai Mara.

One cygnet was just too tired to carry on.

Once again I’m indebted to the gorgeous Volupturaptor Perl for this gorgeous outfit idea featuring the double cuteness of this Zenith shorts and top combo, available now at N21, and this M.Birdie jacket slung over my shoulder. The striking pose is from a brand new set from Signature Pose of which I’m sure I’ll be featuring more!

Full credits

Trying to catch a ride out of Walsh Country.

This Zebra Dove was looking for a ride to the North Shoe, on Oahu, Hawaii.

At the prairie farm

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS AND FAVS........ PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY PHOTOSTREAM, FOR GENERAL PHOTOS OF NATURE ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF WILDLIFE.

Black Sexton Beetle (nicrophorus humator) giving a free ride to a mite.

The Sexton beetles are the undertakers of the insect world. They fly to carrion, attracted by the smell (check out the antennae!). If the dead animal is small, such as a mouse, they crawl underneath and excavate the soil so that the corpse gradually sinks into the ground. They then lay eggs nearby, and stay until the larvae hatch, and even feed them.

They are on the wing maily from April to September.

They are able to fly long distances to feed on carrion and so can be seen a wide variety of habitats depending on where their food is to be found.

Love this old Buick with it's 'rat rod' finish and vintage bike to boot!

Playing with textures and color again today. Hoping your day is filled with light.

As I was doing my ocean side walk one day, in front of me I noticed this cute little Pomeranian dog sticking out of a pouch in a woman's backpack. She was about 20 ft. ahead of me, and since I only had a 40mm mounted on my camera I had to speed up and get quite close to her to get a shot. She sensed me behind her and abruptly turned around to see me bent over about 3ft. behind her taking the shot. She shouted, are you taking a picture of my rear end? Of course I explained to her that it was her dog I was interested in, not her butt, which calmed her down, she then allowed me also to take a closeup portrait of her dog which I posted long ago, if interested you can find it in my Dogs Album.

An ant riding an Australian Bustard

Serendip Sanctuary, VIC

If you pass this way, I'll take you for a ride.

map: Mother Road

tune: youtu.be/uy6-qrzFX2g

Czech singer and composer Pavel Dobeš brought a lot of memories of his visit to America, one of them was also expressed in this song, unfortunately I do not have an English translation, but google translator will help you if you want the lyrics :)

Czech lyrics:

California

Zpocená, žhavá

Opilá, pulsující, nedočkavá

Žárlivá, nebezpečně dravá

Spalující, zničující jako láva

Kalifornie

Z tý země nelze odejít

To po mně nemůžete chtít, to přece nejde

To přece nejde...

Motýlí spřežení nese tě ulicí L.A.

Opilý kalifornským vínem se nedá jít spát

O pomoc křičíš a vysíláš signály May Day

Konečky nervů spálené kůže tvých zad

A písek Santa Moniky vomejvá moře

S hukotem k tobě promlouvá oceán

Takhle je člověku, kterýmu není moc dobře

Takovej pocit má člověk, když zůstane sám

To přece nejde ...

I dnešní noc do rána slunce zem obejde kruhem

A prsty svých paprsků opře se do hrází

Připrav se na to, že za chvíli vyjde to druhé

Myslím, že právě vychází

Silnice č. 1 se přimyká k moři

Bitevní lodě kotví u Santa Cruz

A všechny cesty i odtud vedou až po Řím

Letadla, vlaky, lodě, no tak si to zkus

To přece nejde...