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An adult Little Blue Heron in beautiful breeding colors forages for a meal
Photographed a few days ago on Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
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As the title says, these are Australian little blue periwinkles. And by little, I mean only a couple of millimetres in length.
They live in intertidal rock pools and generally live in clusters of thousands.
Not sure why these two were off by themselves, but I suspect they suffer from the same condition that I do - Destinesia. That's where you end where you wanted to be, but forgot why you wanted to be there ;)
Hapy new week !
One of the two Little Bunting that have over-wintered in Surrey. They should be somewhere in Asia rather than here in the UK.
I had never seen an adult Little Blue Heron prior to this past weekend. In terms of coloration, I think that this may be my favorite Heron. The reddish head and neck, and the slate gray wings really make for a great color combination. I was fortunate to be able to capture this Little Blue in flight as it was the only run she made during the time I was at the Rookery. Please view large for best Little Blue experience.
It is Thursday and almost the weekend. Thank you for stopping by~!
Pontiac GTO - Gran Turismo Omologato - AKA GOAT
Was in '64 that the Pontiac GTO started the muscle car era.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_FSicQWimU ***Wait for the slide show
My favorite car
Co-owned a '66 GTO in my youth :)
Best experienced in full screen
Thanks for visiting. Enjoy the last long weekend of the summer. Be safe
~Christie
I know it’s down there somewhere, let me have another look!
Little Blue Heron; Surfside, TX; June 2020
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Egretta caerulea
Little Blue Herons are common here in South Florida, and usually not overly shy. Juveniles are white, then change to a mixture of white and blue until they reach their adult stage, as shown in this image. When they are in their white stage they look a lot like a Snowy Egret. However, like getting to know identical twins, after awhile it becomes easier to tell one from the other. One easy distinction is that Snowy’s have yellow feet and the tip of Little Blues is black, as if it were dipped in ink. This one came in while Ron and I were waiting for the Belted Kingfisher to arrive at the snag. (Egretta caerulea)
The honey-eyed owlet was mesmerizing... and quite hungry :)
Great Horned Owl / Puchacz Wirginijski (Bubo virginianus).
I found this cool little barn taking the backroads Home one night. It was an unusually warm January evening and the sunset was illuminating the storm clouds in the east with a nice pinkish hue. Miami County, Kansas
Ladybugs are everywhere. This one I found at a local playground where I often go with my daughter. However, she gets bored so quickly with the ordinary play and she prefers much more the meadow patches left (after the rest of the grassland has been mown) where some ladybugs thrive. I am so happy to see her face full of wonder while watching those attractive little ladies of the meadow.
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This wader is 'little' in two senses: first, it is a member of the Little Egret species (Egretta garzetta); and second, it is a juvenile, a dainty thing darting along the mangrove edge chasing a school of tiny fish. The image was captured at dusk at the edge of Currumbin Creek on the Queensland Gold Coast.
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam, Cool, Coolhaven, Little C (uncut)
Well, what can I say about the 'Little C Lofts & offices' complex in Rotterdam? For graphically inclined photographers like me it’s surely eye candy. But notwithstanding the lofty (pun intended) goals, the architectural choices are debatable. Little C doesn’t aim to be original, it just tries to copy 'New York style' tenements (they do resemble 'The Projects'....) with their external fire staircases and the London Docklands with their skybridges. While doing this, it follows the contemporary 'red industrial brick paradigm' closely. And it is only a partial solution for the big housing scarcity in Holland since it offers no affordable housing.
Little C consists of 15 towers, connected thru skybridges. It offers 320 apartments and 10.000 square metres of office space.
Little C was designed by CULD and Inbo and is the winner of several architectural prizes, one of them praising the liveability and the social cohesion, so maybe I’m being a little grumpy here ;-)
This is number 62 of Facades.
is a small heron of the genus Egretta. It is a small, darkly colored heron with a two-toned bill. Males and females have the same coloration. The adults are darkly colored, with purple-maroon heads and blue bodies.
Little Venice is a comparatively recent name for parts of Paddington and Maida Vale in the City of Westminster, which had been referred to as London's "Venice" for a century before "Little" was added.
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Little Egret - Egretta garzetta
The little egret (Egretta garzetta) is a species of small heron in the family Ardeidae. The genus name comes from the Provençal French Aigrette, egret a diminutive of Aigron, heron. The species epithet garzetta is from the Italian name for this bird, garzetta or sgarzetta.
It is a white bird with a slender black beak, long black legs and, in the western race, yellow feet. As an aquatic bird, it feeds in shallow water and on land, consuming a variety of small creatures. It breeds colonially, often with other species of water birds, making a platform nest of sticks in a tree, bush or reed bed. A clutch of bluish-green eggs is laid and incubated by both parents. The young fledge at about six weeks of age.
Its breeding distribution is in wetlands in warm temperate to tropical parts of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. A successful colonist, its range has gradually expanded north, with stable and self-sustaining populations now present in the United Kingdom.
It first appeared in the UK in significant numbers in 1989 and first bred in Dorset in 1996
In warmer locations, most birds are permanent residents; northern populations, including many European birds, migrate to Africa and southern Asia to over-winter there. The birds may also wander north in late summer after the breeding season, and their tendency to disperse may have assisted in the recent expansion of the bird's range. At one time common in Western Europe, it was hunted extensively in the 19th century to provide plumes for the decoration of hats and became locally extinct in northwestern Europe and scarce in the south. Around 1950, conservation laws were introduced in southern Europe to protect the species and their numbers began to increase. By the beginning of the 21st century the bird was breeding again in France, the Netherlands, Ireland and Britain. It has also begun to colonise the New World; it was first seen in Barbados in 1954 and first bred there in 1994. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the bird's global conservation status as being of least concern..