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Taken on Acaill (Achill), County Mayo in Ireland. I used a Lee 10 stop ND filter which I learned to use during the workshop I was doing.
293) LongBilled Spiderhuter
Long-Billed Spiderhunter, Arachnothera robusta, Kelicap Jantung Paruh Panjang
This spiderhunter can be found in the rainforest of SouthEast Asia. Usually hunting in the highest part of the canopy, thus not easy to spot. The long bill is the obvious characteristic that differentiate it from another spiderhunter species.
I posted three Long-eared Owl images this evening.
This is a lifer and one I have wanted to photograph for many years. I posted two shots of the adult. The other adult image shows the behavior of elongating their body when in the presence of an intruder. I also posted a shot of a nestling.
If you look at the adult shots, you can see that something is wrong with her right eye. The left eye pupil contracted in relation to the light. but her right eye pupil remained dilated and fixed with some of the pupil crossing the boundary of the iris at the bottom.
Richard Chamberland who provided me with this opportunity told me he has seen this condition in a few Owls of different species and thinks it is an injury caused by a poke on a twig. It doesn't seem to impair their ability to fly or hunt. These Long-eared Owls are raising four and at least two are at the branching stage.
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A view of the Manawatu countryside taken from the Apiti lookout. Some beautiful spring trees and light flowing across the hills.
© Dominic Scott 2022
This one is about 8mm (0.314inches) long. As far as flies go these are quite pretty.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: All Natural
always great to first hear and then see a group of these wandering around
Aegithalos caudatus
staartmees
Orite à longue queue
Schwanzmeise
Mito Común
Codibugnolo
Chapim-rabilongo
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Briefly at rest in a riverside meadow in the Parque Natural Canon del Rio Lobos in Northern Spain (3124)
A long-billed curlew strolls along the beach.
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Long Forest Composition. Best full screen!
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Larry and I had such an exciting birding day yesterday. We actually saw three Long-eared Owls with two sitting on the same long branch! Here is a photo of one of the two sharing a branch - this beauty actually had its eyes open for a bit. It was a beautiful day with pretty decent light so I was able to get a number of photos of all three of them.
Prior to the end of February, I had never been lucky enough to see a Long-eared sitting in its environment so this really was incredible and something that I will never forget!
"Long hot summer days
Traveling out far
This driving music, makes us feel
More than we ever are..."
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Long-tailed Skippers are my favorite butterflies with their iridescent blue/green color on the upper wings and body. They avidly visit flowers for nectar, and often hang upside-down to feed. ( This Skipper is feeding on nectar from Milkweed flowers). These frequent garden visitors cannot tolerate freezing temperatures in any stage of their life cycle, so they overwinter in tropical and subtropical areas.
Photographed on Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
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So glad they're back in the same roosting tree like last year. Unfortunately they tend to get active quite late so long exposure and high ISO are needed. Bavaria, Germany
Long distant shot so apologies for the lack of detail but this shot did make me chuckle.
Little owl (Athene noctua)
Baildon Yorkshire
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It's funny , I had a great Christmas, and even though there was a lot of sickness in the house, we all had a great time. The family music session singing old Irish songs was the highlight for me. It was a long slow goodbye to a year I wished hadn't come quite so quickly. Full of wonderful highs and the lowest lows imaginable. I only really thought how much I missed Sue on the journey back yesterday, all alone with her in the car. I'll be giving her a long slow goodbye for a long while yet. The track is by Queens of the Stone Age. Thank you all for your wonderful kindness and support, Love Paul x
As the sun sets on the Tamar Valley long shadows appear in the landscape. If you enlarge this shot you can see the East Tamar Highway winding its way from Launceston to George Town. In the foreground there are football fields and cattle grazing.
Wrapping up my shorebird set with this Long-billed Curlew found in a coastal wetland in Port Lavaca, Texas.
From the Cornell Lab:
"North America's largest shorebird, the Long-billed Curlew, is a graceful creature with an almost impossibly long, thin, and curved bill. This speckled, cinnamon-washed shorebird probes deep into mud and sand for aquatic invertebrates on its coastal wintering grounds and picks up grasshoppers on the breeding grounds. It breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin and spends the winter in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields, and beaches."