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Happy Emilia ( with Maxi in the background) enjoying some rough playtime in their pond.
Photographed at Wolds Wildlife Park
Little Tern - Sterna Albifrons
This delightful chattering seabird is the UK's smallest tern. It is short-tailed and has a fast flight. Its bill is a distinctive yellow with a black tip. It is noisy at its breeding colony where courtship starts with an aerial display involving the male calling and carrying a fish to attract a mate, which chases him up high before he descends, gliding with wings in a 'V'.
Its vulnerable nesting sites and its decline in Europe make it an Amber List species. It is also listed as a Schedule 1 species in The Wildlife and Countryside Act.
This bird breeds on the coasts and inland waterways of temperate and tropical Europe and Asia. It is strongly migratory, wintering in the subtropical and tropical oceans as far south as South Africa and Australia.
There are three subspecies, the nominate albifrons occurring in Europe to North Africa and western Asia; guineae of western and central Africa; and sinensis of East Asia and the north and east coasts of Australia.[4]
The little tern breeds in colonies on gravel or shingle coasts and islands. It lays two to four eggs on the ground. Like all white terns, it is defensive of its nest and young and will attack intruders.
Like most other white terns, the little tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually from saline environments. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
At the beginning of the 19th century the little tern was a common bird of European shores, rivers and wetlands, but in the 20th century populations of coastal areas decreased because of habitat loss, pollution and human disturbance.
The loss of inland populations has been even more severe, since due to dams, river regulation and sediment extraction it has lost most of its former habitats. The Little Tern population has declined or become extinct in many European countries, and former breeding places on large rivers like the Danube, Elbe and Rhine ceased. Nowadays, only few river systems in Europe possess suitable habitats; the Loire/Allier in France, the Vistula/Odra in Poland, the Po/Ticino in Italy, the Daugava in Latvia, the Nemunas in Lithuania, the Sava in Croatia and the Drava in Hungary and Croatia. The status of the little tern on the rivers Tagus and lower Danube is uncertain.
Driving through Denbyshire on my back from Betwsycoed. Snow from the past nights was still lying on the the moore lands high up.
2016 01 16 150411 Wales Betws y Coed PM1
Alfie was helping to roll up the wire,
but he rolled himself with it ;-))
This little pup was nearly 1 year old here.
My dearest ✞ Alfie.
Today (August 5, 2022) it's been 1 year
since he crossed the rainbow bridge.🌈
NB: Alfie was not hurt or anything else during his play that day.
St Andrew’s is one of Norfolk’s many round tower churches. The county contains three quarters of those still standing in Britain
The tower - of the usual local flint and mortar construction and thought to be 11th Century Saxon - is an enigma because it is quite separate from the rest of the building.
A clearly visible filled in arch on the tower's east side suggests that a nave was once attached there but the reasons for that church’s subsequent demise are unknown. Was it actually finished? If not why? Was the current church contemporary - Elsewhere in Norfolk two churches are so close that they touch.
*There is also a Great Snoring which is actually the smaller village. ‘Snoring' derives’ from someone named Snear rather than any stentorian prowess of the locals..
The baby geese, called goslings, take about a month to hatch. Babies are covered with soft feathers called down. They hatch with their eyes open and will leave the nest within 24 hours, following their parents. Goslings can swim right away.
Small colorful harmonic in human hands. Photo taken at the NAMM exhibition in Sokolniki, Moscow. Russia.
There are pink spots on the plastic parts of the instruments, I really dislike them, but this is not digital noise, but a pearlescent coating. I've tried removing them, but the patterns can be damaged.
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🌼 Glam Affair Charlie Skin (@ Collabor88)
🌼 Addams Mazu Flirty Dress Patterns (60L Happy Weekend)
🌼 Lyrium Cindy Animations Set (@ Equal10)
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