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One more day until 2020 ends!!
2019: Stay away from negative People
2020: Stay away from positive people
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2020 was the Year of the Rat🐭 ...and it will last till February!!
So we've been spending the entire year holed up, only briefly leaving to get food, running at the sight of other humans, and transmitting infection.
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Photographed the Laughing Gull resting on the beach at the Gulf Harbors Beach Club on the Gulf of Mexico in the City of New Port Richey in Pasco County Florida U.S.A.
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The last time I photographed a laughing kookaburra, I was in Australia ... Pandemic obliges, I was closer ... to a bird park, (Parc des Oiseaux, Villars-les-dombes, France), and I met this amazing character who seemed to take pleasure in being observed.
The laughing kookaburra is well known both as a symbol of Australia’s birdlife and as the inspirational “merry, merry king of the bush” from the children’s song.
According to an Aboriginal legend, the kookaburra's famous chorus of laughter every morning is a signal for the sky people to light the great fire that illuminates and warms the earth by day. The legend captures the imagination, but the true function of the familiar cacophony is to advertise the territory of this bold bird.
The Laughing Kookaburra is the largest of the kingfisher family, but unlike most of its relatives, it is sedentary and occupies the same territories the year round. Before spring breeding season, when family groups adjust their boundaries, an observer can actually locate the territories by listening to the noisy choruses at dusk as each group calls in turn and awaits the replies of neighbouring groups.
Analogica, Fujica ST 701 ( 1970 ),Takumar 55 mm F 1.8, IlFord 400 asa sviluppo con Rodinal. Ora mangio e dopo commento le vostre foto
Your age is measured by your dreams not by the years.
― Amit Ray
Isn't that what some wrinkles are called? This tulip, even though it hasn't much life left, still has a lot of beauty, in my mind. The wrinkles give it so much more character ;)
Taken in my lightbox.
#6 in series
The archetypal Laughing Cow cheese comes wrapped in the individual serving-sized foiled wedges and they are packaged in a round, flat box. Consumers have to pull a little red thread around the box to open it and the foil packaging also features a red tab for opening........
Leucophaeus atricilla, Gabbiano sghignazzante Fort Myers USA
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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.
Analogica, Zenit B ( 1967 ) priva di esposimetro, Helios 44-2
58 mm F 2.0, Fomapan bianco e nero 200 asa, sviluppo con Rodinal. La Zenit B è come la 3 M ( robuste e costruite con ottimi materiali ), sembrano difficili per la messa a fuoco ma poi in condizioni di luce scarsa sono migliori di altre reflex molto più costose, il vero limite di queste Zenit sono i tempi, sotto a 1/30 c'è solo la posa B
This is a very merry couple of Laughing Kookaburras, annoucing every new day with lots of laughs before the sunrise.
(Dacelo novaeguineae)
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.
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.
Fort Fisher - This jetty seems to be a popular "hook-up" spot - just the other day I photographed Plovers in almost the same location! It's great for me cause I can can photograph from a slightly lower vantage point than the height of the jetty!
Er ist ein Star der Flugshow im Kölner Zoo.
Laughing Kookaburra "Hennes" with his favorite toy
He is a star of the flight show at Cologne Zoo.
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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*They're a type of kingfisher but so big.
Much bigger than our parrots.
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