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The metal post has become a firm favourite with the local cormorants, this beauty was coming in to land.
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Ardmucknish Bay - Scotland
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No Bokeh today.. Just had to put this one up. Taken from my sun roof, this gull was being fed with bread by a tourist. The ultimate landing June_14c_2009_162_di
Butterfly in flight
Heliconius charithonia, the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. The boldly striped black and white wing pattern is aposematic, warning off predators. It is the state butterfly of Florida.
Least Bitterns are a favorite subject not just because of their beauty, but because they are so challenging to get in flight. I haven’t yet gotten a good sense of when they are about to fly, although they often display a pattern of catching a small fish and then moving on. It’s like their cover is blown and they have to go hide somewhere else. They are a small bird, which are listed as 13” tall, but I think that’s when they stretch out their magic neck. Normally I’d say they are about 6-8”. Quite attractive, the male, shown here, has more contrast with those dark wing feathers. I caught this one just as it was making a landing to a new fishing spot. (Ixobrychus exiles) (Sony a1, 400mm lens, f/2.8, 1/3200 second)
Great Egret - - - - - - ( Ardea alba, aka Casmerodius albus )
"Air Brakes" applied to slow her speed and steady her landing in windy conditions.
Lake Emerald, in Oakland Park, Florida -US- near Fort Lauderdale.
Shot from my balcony above the lake, Friday afternoon, January 5, 2007.
See her LARGER,
or 12" x 16". (Remember to click "expand" for full image.)
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Sparrows, seen in my garden - Enjoy! :-)))
Subject Distance - 15.525 m
Olympus E-M1X
OM 150-400mm F4.5 TC
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I was recently at Fort de Soto, which is back open for business after hurricanes Helene and Milton. There are still a few areas that are closed due to storm damage but for the most part everything is back to normal. There seemed to be a lot less bird activity than in past years, maybe due to the storm, but it was still great. This Osprey has a nest in a wide-open tree adjacent to North Beach and I was lucky enough to be in the right position, on my way to the beach, as I saw it coming back to the nest. The wind was perfect to be able to catch the landing, talons out. (Pandion haliaetus) (Sony a1ii, 400mm lens, f/5.6, 1/4000 second, ISO 640)
Not much post processing here, but lots of playing around with a tiny LED lights, a 2cm crystal sphere and even smaller crystal beads ;o)
This shot made me think of the refrain "we are stardust - we are golden" from "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell
The version I know best is sung by Matthews Southern Comfort - www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIHfuihoz70
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Penn's Landing
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)
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A belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon, Alcedinidae) landing on an emergent log in the low waters of the Rainbow Flowage of the Wisconsin River in Oneida County, northern Wisconsin.
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