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Here I'm close in (with the 800mm) for some feeding of this Red-necked Grebe chick receiving some food from one of its parents. I'm not sure exactly what this food is but it's either a dragonfly larvae or possibly a leach, which we do have in the lakes up here.
Taken 21 June 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Para o nosso zoo de sábado trago uma ave.
Pombão ou asa branca
Classificação CientÃfica
Reino: Animalia
Filo: Chordata
Classe: Aves
Ordem: Columbiformes
FamÃlia: Columbidae
Leach, 1820
Espécie: P. picazuro
Nome CientÃfico
Patagioenas picazuro
(Temminck, 1813)
Nome em Inglês
Picazuro Pigeon
I was thrilled to get this shot of a perched Short-eared Owl a month or so ago. BK Leach Conservation Area. Lincoln County Missouri.
Cooling down in the Blackwater River
Floating along the river in a canoe or tube, it’s easy to imagine why people sought out this place. Wide, sandy banks are the perfect spot to stop for a picnic. The river is shallow, with an average depth of 2.5 feet. That means even though the river is tannic, or colored dark by nutrients that leach out of leaves, its waters are a clear golden-brown against a shallow, sandy bed. Swimming is a popular activity, as is spotting the wildlife that gathers near the banks and in the pine forests overhead.
Tapestry Wall, Lake Powell. The lake level fluctuates with variable inflow and discharge from Glen Canyon Dam, creating a bathtub ring that was 100' high on this occasion. The red color results from dissolved iron salts running down from iron-rich formations higher up. The light color is where the iron oxides have leached out during high-water times.
Leach Lake with Whirlpool Peak and Mount Fryatt. Jasper NP, Canada.
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Captured at Leach Botanical Garden in Southeast Portland. Processed for Sliders Sunday using Deep Dream Generator and Snapseed. HSS everyone!
This truck used to operate in my area, I wish it still did. This was one of several Leach's that WM of Ormond Beach owned, and if I remember correctly, it was on the yard waste route
Leach’s Petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous) is a difficult bird to see in Britain as it only nests on remote islands like St Kilda and Sula Sgeir, and even here it only returns to its nest under cover of darkness. The best place to see them from land in Britain is from the Wirral in autumn after strong north-westerly gales. Yesterday the weather looked promising courtesy of Storm Amy, so I went across to the Wirral. I managed to see a number, mostly distant, but one closer bird enabled me to get a photograph. Leach’s Petrels are a bit larger than Storm Petrel with a pale bar across the wings, and a characteristic forked tail. Here’s a European Storm Petrel in a similar pose for comparison: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/52239759374/in/photolist
It is named after William Elford Leach (1790-1836) who managed to outbid rivals at an auction in 1819 when he bought what he thought was the only known specimen for his employers, the British Museum. The auction was a sale of William Bullock’s collection of 3000 bird specimens and Leach bought the petrel for £5 15s (and a Great Auk with egg for £16). The petrel had been collected in 1818 on St Kilda by Bullock himself and was the first British specimen. Temminck named the petrel Procellaria Leachii, however it transpired that three other specimens had already been collected, including one in Baillon’s collection, taken in Picardy (North France) and described by Viellot in 1817, which was the year before Bullock collected his specimen. So Viellot’s name leucorhoa, meaning white rump, took precedence over leachii. It was originally in the genus Oceanodroma (ocean wanderer) but in 2021 it was been placed in Hydrobates (water wanderer) following a molecular study of the Storm Petrels. One final thing; The scientific name leucorhous derives from the Greek word órrhos meaning rump or tail, but it is originally where the word arse derives, and still survives in the word haemorrhoid, which literally means bloody arsed.
Ontario, Canada September 2018. Lots of these around and probably the commonest butterfly we saw. Very similar to our Clouded Yellow Colias croceus.