Rio Silanche - Ecuador

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A barred owl will always appreciate a good joke.

Leucophaeus atricilla

This is the black-crowned night heron is the one that was in the background of the heron flyby from yesterday. I liked this shot with the beak open, looks like it's laughing.

This wild laughing kookaburra accepted hand held raw meat and it allowed my daughter to pat its head and back.

At one stage it had a piece of raw meat in its beak and another between its legs on the balcony handrail and I could see it thinking "what do I do now". After about 20 seconds it flew off and left the first piece in a safe place and then quickly returned to collect the second piece.

It is a native of eastern Australia and belongs to the Kingfisher sub-family Halcyonine. It is almost exclusively carnivorous and preys on a variety of small animals and snakes. . . .Sigma 70 -300mm f4 -5.6 APO DG Macro.

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Listen: Cluster & Eno - Ho Renomo

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The feeling you get when there is no pain. I captured this very low point of view of these gifts from the Pacific Ocean. iPhone image.

Dawlish, Devon. Known for it's sea wall being battered by waves, even on a calm day! Here the water monster is climbing up to drench yet another victim!

Taken Zimanga Private Game Reserve, Mkuze, Zululand, South Africa

Black-headed gull in Winter plumage/ the head is predominantly Black in the Summer months.

The genus name Chroicocephalus is from Ancient Greek khroizo, "to colour" and kephale "head".

The specific ridibundus is Latin for "laughing" from ridere "to laugh"

(Chroicocephalus ridibundus, Syn: Larus ridibundus)

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A very serious laughing kookaburra.

Laughing Kookaburra (wiki)

It was on the clothes line in our backyard this morning.

They laugh. It was slightly rainy yesterday evening and they were laughing so seriously. When they laugh, they laugh so super hard that if you hear multiple kookaburras laughing together you'll laugh so much till falling down 😆

Above Wikipedia's link or this Youtube video show seriously laughing Laughing Kookaburra

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youtu.be/UXA0-YAoo9Q

*They're a type of kingfisher but so big.

　Much bigger than our parrots.

(Streptopelia senegalensis) 022A7723 Mopani area - Kruger NP - South Africa

The Laughing Gull is the dominant species on the Texas coast. They are year-long residents along the Gulf coast and up the Atlantic coastline. They breed as far north as the coast of Maine. They will winter as far south as both coasts of northern South America.

Notice how nearly identical this gull is to the Bonaparte's Gull, except the bill and legs on the BG are dark red and the eye ring is a bit more pronounced. Its call is different, too, as it does sound like a laugh.

I found this bird in Texas. Like many gulls, it didn't seem to mind people. I was happy he posed for me. The sky was overcast, so I didn't get any gleaming light on the bird, but he still presents well here.

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Aqua Bowl Park

Lina on expired film

This kookaburra was sitting in the tree in our front yard. The photo was taken through our open balcony door and the kookaburra was at about eye level.

Or at least kind of smiling

Anstead Bushland Reserve - Brisbane - Australia

Thanks Colin

Rio Silanche - Ecuador

Taken at Fort Desoto County Park in Florida.

Thanks so much for the visit!

or is it a bird ?

Laughing Gull Leucophaeus atricilla Ft Myres Beach Florida, USA.

No post-processing done to photo. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SND3v0i9uhE

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You start off by pretending

You're a dancer with grace

You wiggle till they're

Giggling all over the place

And then you get a great big custard pie in the face

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

Make 'em laugh

~ from MAKE 'EM LAUGH - Donald O'Connor, Soundtrack "Singing in the Rain"

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I don't get it...what's so funny.

It's only a gull, but they can be fascinating to watch sometimes.

Taken in Florida.

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on a rainy day

the hida scan came in normal. so my next procedure will be an endoscopy and then I give up.

I'm sick of being sick and tired. time to move on.

I had a forbidden cup of coffee this morning to kick start my day. it helped.

I asked my surgeon when she called tonight if I could please have a pancake. I got permission to try one.

I'm supposed to be off all milk products, all caffeine. I'm going to add them slowly and see if I explode or not.

I plan on not.

polaroid.