ELEGANT and long-legged wader, can look very white at a distance, but a close view, if your lucky, reveals finely patterned feathers on the upperparts. Its breeding season is normally now in Scotland, and southern coastal waters from Oct to March. This one did not read the script. A joy to see.

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THANK YOU for your visit and kind comments, enjoy the long weekend for the U.K, Stay safe, God bless.....................Tomx

Barnegat Jetty

Drake Long-tailed at the Barnegat Jetty

I spent President's Day at the jetty. Warm weather and cooperative ducks made for a fun day.

It's a lot sharper viewed large.

Hi everyone and so hope that everyone who celebrated the Holiday had a great and wonderful time with friends and family, the worst is having your children and grand children to far away to visit, very sad indeed.

Thanks to all for everything.

I think I know just what the problem is folks, every time I ask for a taste is when they leave, so I will no longer ask and see what happens.

Thanks to all for everything.

...and us!

POSTING JUVENILE BIRDS FROM HOME

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A FAMILIAR and unmistakable black and white, long tailed bird, the Juvenile has more black plumage, with the head feathers still to mature. at close range a bluish-green sheen can be seen on the wings and tail. A opporttunistic omnivore, its diet includes fruit from our fig tree, insects, animal road kills and the eggs and young of birds, it will also happily scavenge discarded leftover foods scraps. Widespread resident all year round.

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THANK YOU, for your visit, and kind comments, will look forward to seeing and commenting on your lastest posting.

Keep safe my friends, God bless you........................Tomx

PENTAX K-70 + smcPENTAX-D FA MACRO 100mm F2,8 WR

A very good Sunday morning everyone and hope that a great weekend was had by all.

Here is a Parakeet having breakfast, and think these guys photograph so well, and be sides I really like them in their habitat.

Thanks for everything.

Hi folks, just back from a day afield and have to admit there were better days, but some nice images to edit and post real soon.

I took this image of this beauty and in an instant he bolted, and thank goodness he did not to far and was afforded a few more as you will see. It has no feathers or a beak but it's still very nice to see anyway.

So thank you for stopping by and for all the very kind words, always appreciated.

EXTREMELY VOCAL, and can be a proficient mimic of both animate and inanimate sounds. Love the way a starling walks with characteristic swagger, and the flight is rather undulating and the wings look pointed and triangular in outline. /// SOMETHING out of the norm. for me, but felt it had something of appeal going for it, so have risked posting it, hope you enjoy it.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, hope you are keeping well and enjoying this hot weather, have a great weekend, stay safe and may God bless you............................Tomx.

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"OUR EARS ARE CLOSED"

Sea and mountains, valleys and streams

Night and day were all in Gods dreams,

The Garden of Eden with its precious tree

The Son He gave to set us free.

The seed He placed in the heart He made

Don't let its flowers wither and fade,

Is the ear closed to His constant plea

For in truth we live to disagree.

Have we not learned a thing from the past?

Why is the blindness we have so vast ?

We've ignored His word since time began

To do as we will has been our plan.

Has the Saviour's death not opened our eyes

When His blood was shed for our demise,

Mocked and beaten, betrayed from within

God's Holy Lamb pierced for our sin.

When the reaper comes and we walk to the gate

Do we all stand in line, to wait and wait,

Or will the one who gives life lead you through

And walk with you to paradise and life anew ?

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POEM by John Wren, a blessed and talented Flickr friend of mine.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

Here we have the last of the Meadowlarks, but will return to some more I really like.

Have a great day and a great new week ahead, and thanks for stopping by.

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SMALL FALCON, and the regions commonest raptor,. The species habitually hovers where lookout perches are not available, scanning the ground below for small mammal prey.it will take small birds and insects, frogs ect. Hunting kestrels are also a familiar sight along motorway verges, sexes are dissimilar and its resident all year round, love watching them. The above one was seen at Northforland pumping station, Margate Kent, U.K. .........

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THANK YOU, for your time, love reading your kind comments, it means a lot to me. The weekend is coming on strong, Stay safe, God bless........... Tomx

GAMBIA TOUR feb 2020

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G.B waders in the Gambia

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5th in the series,

Had to approach using a dug out canoe, they are a little more tricky to get close to, they tend to just run away. The quality of this image is not that good, as a fairly heavy crop.

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THANK YOU FOR FRIENDSHIP, keeps me from going completely insane, we have along weekend coming up to celebrate V.E on Friday, 75yrs

Stay well and safe, God bless..................................Tomx

NO FAVE WITHOUT COMMENT PLEASE! // DISTINCTIVE FINCH, and a familiar garden resident in many parts of the U.K. The greenfinch has a relatively large, pinkish and conical bill. In all plumages, the yellowish patch on the wings- seen as a yellow bar on the closed wing. Greenfinches are associated with parks, gardens and hedgerows, resident all year round, A beautiful bird that is in charge, when it gets to the feeder, excluding smaller species.

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THANK YOU for your visit and comment, it is always appreciated and find encouraging, Am praying we get some sunshine soon, its so dull and wet. please keep well and warm friends, God bless........ ......Tomx.

Had a pretty good day yesterday folks, slow with other species but again not with the Hawks, as you will see in the days to come.

Have a great day and as always thank you for visiting, it has been an ordeal for sure.

For Macro Mondays - Numbers and Letters

Happy Macro Monday!

WELL-MARKED gamebird. The species is generally wary because it is heavily persecuted in many parts of the region. Grey Partridges are Native to the region, out of breeding season are often seen in small parties that prefer to run from danger rather than fly. Favors open grassland which is in short supply in Kent, a rare find for me!

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THANKS FOR YOUR FRIENDSHIP, any comments are always appreciated, and find encouraging, stay safe and well, enjoy your weekend, God bless................................................Tom.

Always nice to see these guys folks, not seeing them to often, and when we do there not so easy to capture like this. Still editing and after 900+ images taken there is a lot to edit and delete.

Thank you as always for the visit, comments and well wishes, much appreciated.

NOT SEEN THIS BEFORE, a out of water, little grebe, (25cm in length) and walks very awkward with its great big feet, and not sure what it was doing, soon wandered back on seeing me. A beautiful little grebe in the water, but less attractive out of it. Seen at the Scrape, Sandwich bay, Kent. U.K. Just had to show it, something different!

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Thanks for your visit, any comments are very appreciated,will return the visit, if already not done so.

Have a great weekend!

Remember its Mothering Sunday , and the clocks go forward one hour in the U.K................Stay safe....God Bless

...............................Tomx.

AN UNOBTRUSIVE LITTLE WOODLAND BIRD, it is easily overlooked as it creeps up tree trunks, probing for insects and spiders. This bird, for me is very difficult to capture, this is the best of a great undisclosed number of shots, and its not that good!

Thanks for your visit, comments are very appreciated ,

Stay safe..........Tomx.

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A very early shoot tomorrow folks, leaving at 4:30-a.m. that is unheard of, so my post for tomorrow is here.

Have a great day and thank you so very much for visiting.

I should also mention folks and something you all know is that I continue to see only one image per contact, and that there is no one over looked, ever.

FOUND a better image, than shown before, from my Skomer Island visit, it was so good to be able to see these rare beauties, and to get fairly near one for a few seconds.

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THANK YOU, for your visit and kind comments, please stay safe, God bless..............Tomx.

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"Yesterday today and forever, Jesus is the same!"

"ITS BEHIND YOU !"

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PHOTOGRAPHING waxwings, this Kestrel landed very close to me, oblivious to my presence, so it would have been rude of me not to take the opportunity.

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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship.

Keep that smile on your face and love in your heart for everyone.

God bless ... Tomx

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taken with a Revuenon 50mm f1.4

SEEN IN THE GAMBIA, IT favors freshwater fringes and mangrove swamps and is generally solitary. It is seen with its large feet stanging on Lillie leaves and giving out soft, vibrant, grating croaks.

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THANK YOU for your visit and any comments. Enjoy your day.

God bless you...............Tomx

EVEN THE MOST PLACID OF BIRDS CAN HAVE A BAD

DAY !

Seen at the Kotu bridge in the Gambia.

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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, I trust your day will be as special as you. God bless

...............Tomx

Hanging out with the locals.....

At the top of Conwy Castle, Conwy, North Wales, UK.

" TIME TO GET OUT AND ABOUT MY FRIENDS !"

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SEE at Stodmarsh, Kent, in the Elder Wood, this Female was acting very brave, it was a pure joy to see on my first trip to a nature reserve with a camera.. Did not see a lot, but the bird song was amazing, and being back with nature, was heavenly , I will never take nature for granted, and this has taught me to appreciate it far more, and to thank God for every new day on this planet.

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THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND, it means so much, in these difficult times. Please stay safe and well, enjoy the new week, Gods blessings go with you..................................Tomx.

A well marked and distinctive warbler, the sexes are dissimilar with the male with a black cap, and the female seen above with a chestnut cap, note also the pale eye ring. ONE of the few birds where I think the female is better looking than the male.

Seen at Strumpshaw Fen, my sincere thanks to the T.V personaltity, Naturalist Photographer, Elizabeth Dack, for all her help. This was a long weekend with family, on the Norfolk Broads, but had to slip away with my camera early, hope I was not missed....lol.

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THANK YOU for your visit and comment, will try to catch up with your lastest image very soon. Hope the Bank holiday weekend went well, 30c in most southern UK spots.

Stay well and safe, God bless you !..................................Tomx.

Here we have another bird that has been eluding me for a while folks, but managed a few of this guy.

Early shoot today and will catch up later.

Thank you for stopping by everyone, and have a great day.

ورجعت اكممل بروجكت العدسه

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The smallest bird in the region, with its colourful crown stripe, always on the move, and difficult to locate at first, best found during winter months and nearly always favours conifers, have not had much luck in the past photographing them, so quite pleased with these.

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Thanking you for your visit, any comments are greatly appropriated, Stay safe my dear friends, Tomx..

UNEXPECTED VISITOR Just as we were packing up from seeing anything decent from our hide in a wooded area, this beautiful male cuckoo appeared, with glistening emerald green plumage. We had a mad panic trying to get back into shooting mode again, as it did stay more than a few seconds. Seen in the Gambia, and lucky to do so.

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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, I am still looking back and enjoying some of my old images, and I hope you are too.

Keep Warm safe and well

God bless ..................Tomx

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NESTS IN HOLES AND CAVITIES, seen at the chalk undercliffs at Ramsgate, Kent, A sizeable flock of them, have taken up residence, going in and out small gaps in the cliff face. Love to see them, and the way they seem to swagger when they walk, it has essentially dark plumage with a green and violet iridescence discernible in good light.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISIT AND KIND COMMENT, it is always appreciated, please stay safe, happy clicking, God bless......................Tomx.

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Weave Jesus into your life today!

08/52 (Reflections)

Sound: Eyes Without A Face by Maxence Cyrin

Mushroom art

Taken with a petri cc kuribyashi 50mm f2 preset from 1959

The last one folks in the Hawk series for a while, promise. My post for tomorrow due to a long road trip which I hope is successful.

Have a great day tomorrow, and a great weekend and thanks as always for visiting.

for best view

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كنت في محاوله اتعلم كيفية توزيع الاضاءة

وطلعت بهالصورة

ادري انها شطحه عن تصويري

بس نجرب وش ورانا :D

* بنقدكم نرتقي

From Broadway Street in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

Good Friday morning folks, and so hope that a great Holiday and safe Holiday was had by everyone.

Spent some time with this guy and did some flight images, I'm needing to post 2 images a day until I clean up my desk-top, and shooting every day and coming back with things I'd love everyone to see I need to do this for a while, apologizing in advance for this action.

Thank you all for visiting and for understanding.

Lonely mushroom

Taken with a soligor wide 28mm f2.8 from 1965 with extension tube

Taken with a sankor 135mm f3.5 (triplet) from 1960. this is a bokeh monster with 14 aperture blades

We spotted many of these beauties

in the Royan region of France, where these robin-sized birds are very trusting. In the UK, they are Red listed with only about 100 breeding pairs.

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ENJOY the weekend my friends, stay safe and well....

God bless you ..............Tomx

ASSOCIATED typically with heathland sites, a small short-tailed lark, with a wonderful yodeling song. This was part of the support act for Colin the Cuckoo.

Seen at Thursley Common, and have not seen one since.

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THANK YOU for your visit and friendship, keep safe and well.

God bless you ...........Tomx

Last mushroom of autumn

Taken with a Meyer gorlitz oreston 50mm f1.8 from the early 60's