These clouds hung over the bayou for a long time on Friday morning and were very slow to move along!! They managed to block the sun for a couple of hours before it finally broke through!! Since the birds were not very cooperative I enjoyed playing around with some of the rays created by the cloud!! Photo was taken from Horsepen Bayou and looking toward Mud Lake!

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A bit of blown out highlights, but still pretty decent.

Grand Rapids, MI

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Rhingia campestris...likes blue/purple flowers which made the ID much easier! River Clyde at Barons Haugh NR, Motherwell

Above Lake Wanaka.

On our way to Queenstown

On our way from Reynisfjara to Skogafoss

A male Migrant Hawker in hover mode amongst the reedbed.

Dragonfly over the lake at Pensthorpe Nature Park, Norfolk,

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Loads of Lenticular clouds this morning :)

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Platycheirus peltatus

Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

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Some more from my insect macro session. I think this is a type of Hover fly called a Sun Fly (Helophilus pendulus), correct me if i'm wrong as I am not an expert in anyway.

think this is even better than the shot below

After my Static image yesterday of this lovely male,this is my effort at trying to catch him mid-hover as he was going into his nest hole .It was very fast and he would hover for only a few seconds moving up and down as he did so.

The Light kept changing from cloudy to sunny and I was pleased to get this one shot in good light.

Although not perfect by any means,I am quite pleased with it.

Taken yesterday on Exmoor

Three LED lamps. After Ernst Barlach, "Der Schwebende" (1926).

Hoverfly caught in the flash.

The fog was hovering over the pond. You can also see my dog's bum in the air. (lol)

these hover flies are very small, I have enlarged it so that it can be seen, they are good pollinators of flowers and have a liking for aphids. Great to have in your garden. This is one of several slightly different ones. If you have a garden of flowers, you need Hover Flies.

It is a bit cold here at the moment being winter, cold overnight but usually 21 during the day. Still some insects about though.

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Kestrel hovering while surveying the ground for prey, keeping its head perfectly motionless while the rest of the body makes the necessary adjustments to keep it stationary in the wind.

A hummingbird hovers in the air as it scopes out its next source of food.

White Tailed Kite, an endangered species in N. America. I find its flying pattern interesting. It flies somewhat like a hummingbird - it stays "floating" in the air at one coordinate for a while and then moves, and then floating again and moves again etc etc. Of course, its much larger size makes that type of maneuver more challenging. I find its color combination also interesting - black hook-like beak mixed with snow-white head and body, not a good design for camouflage in CA landscape. Took 17 shots, 70% are keepers. This shot is most interesting as it shows its skill on how to stay floating in air.

reflection in a polished sculpture

Syrphus Sp. Hoverfly (possibly female S. vitripennis)

Lockdown garden wildlife from Nottingham

Artic Tern hovering over the nest on Inner Farne