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Long-tailed Skippers are my favorite butterflies with their iridescent blue/green color on the upper wings and body. They avidly visit flowers for nectar, and often hang upside-down to feed. ( This Skipper is feeding on nectar from Milkweed flowers). These frequent garden visitors cannot tolerate freezing temperatures in any stage of their life cycle, so they overwinter in tropical and subtropical areas.
Photographed on Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
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Wrapping up my shorebird set with this Long-billed Curlew found in a coastal wetland in Port Lavaca, Texas.
From the Cornell Lab:
"North America's largest shorebird, the Long-billed Curlew, is a graceful creature with an almost impossibly long, thin, and curved bill. This speckled, cinnamon-washed shorebird probes deep into mud and sand for aquatic invertebrates on its coastal wintering grounds and picks up grasshoppers on the breeding grounds. It breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin and spends the winter in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields, and beaches."
So glad they're back in the same roosting tree like last year. Unfortunately they tend to get active quite late so long exposure and high ISO are needed. Bavaria, Germany
Long distant shot so apologies for the lack of detail but this shot did make me chuckle.
Little owl (Athene noctua)
Baildon Yorkshire
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It's funny , I had a great Christmas, and even though there was a lot of sickness in the house, we all had a great time. The family music session singing old Irish songs was the highlight for me. It was a long slow goodbye to a year I wished hadn't come quite so quickly. Full of wonderful highs and the lowest lows imaginable. I only really thought how much I missed Sue on the journey back yesterday, all alone with her in the car. I'll be giving her a long slow goodbye for a long while yet. The track is by Queens of the Stone Age. Thank you all for your wonderful kindness and support, Love Paul x
With one eye in the light and one eye in the shadow it's interesting to see the different size of its pupils. Northern California
As the sun sets on the Tamar Valley long shadows appear in the landscape. If you enlarge this shot you can see the East Tamar Highway winding its way from Launceston to George Town. In the foreground there are football fields and cattle grazing.
Juvenile long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) perched on a branch.
Młody raniuszek (Aegithalos caudatus) siedzący na gałązce.
This was one of my favorite birds in south Patagonia. Like all meadowlarks they really prefer to show you their camouflaged backside, but this guy hopped up on a rock and posed. Gracias, señor. Torres del Paines National Park, Chile.
No, not that one down there in SoCal. This one exists solely in my head and in the image. Wish I was there now. Getting in some playtime with an otherwise useless shot.
I came across this old buckboard in a shed at the Chellberg farm, located within the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in northwest Indiana. Anders and Johanna Chellberg were among the many Swedish immigrants who purchased land and began farming in the area in the 1860s. The National Park Service has restored the Chellberg farm to its appearance around 1900, though I don't think the buckboard was totally restored. :-)
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Flickr friends, I am back after some time away due to computer problems. I will be catching up with your latest images soon.
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Very difficult shot to get this year if this is their new tree. This is one of three owls seen here. Very dark and a very small window to see them. Located in the same grove but more towards the outer edge of the grove. Luckily, this one bent over and looked down at us.
Monmouth County, New Jersey,