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It is always exciting to see a "new" bird around our house. This morning I noticed the mistletoe in one of the gum trees had berries so I went looking to see if I could find a Mistletoe bird. After about 30 mins of listening and searching I saw two young birds high in the treetops. After lots of attempts to photograph the two birds, I had to settle for just a few "in focus" shots. Hopefully I will get another opportunity now I know they are living in the trees near the dam.
Mistletoe, away from Anglesey and near to home and while it's Christmas, so nice to see the Mistletoe growing up north.
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Mistletoe, and a female plant with the berries, I haven't said where it is so it can stay on the tree, lovely green and white.
MISTLETOE - Card design (18)
Taken 18 October 2015. High key genre
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Camera: Nikon D600
Lens: 105 mm Micro Nikkor
Exposure: ƒ/20; 1/100 sec; ISO 400
File ref: MISTLETOE-20151018-DSC_9313©ELN
"Mistletoe Cooties"
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Stay-cation, 09/24/2022, Franklin, TN
Panasonic DMC-G2
LEICA DG SUMMILUX 25/F1.4
ƒ/4.0 25.0 mm 1/125 100
reminds me of the trees in the Dr Seuss book, The Lorax. The mistletoe stays green all winter at the expense of the host plant.
Nectariniidae:
Dicaeum hirundinaceum
The tiny Male Mistletoe bird having a drink. It is so shy.
Photo: Fred
Viscum album – the original mistletoe of European myth, legend and tradition.
The word 'mistletoe' derives from the older form 'mistle', adding the Old English word tān (twig).
'Mistle' is common Germanic (Old High German mistil, Middle High German. mistel, Old English mistel, Old Norse mistil).
In France it was often given as a Porte-Bonheur - a gift for luck, particularly for the New Year, rather than at Christmas.
This association with peace may have origins as ancient as the kissing custom, as the plant is associated with peace in the Norse, Greek and Roman traditions about mistletoe.
The peace association was a tradition in Britain too at one time, though it has become eclipsed by the kissing custom feature.
During the First World War embroidered ‘silk’ postcards sent from the Front at Christmas often depicted mistletoe, perhaps emphasising mistletoe’s value both as a symbol of peace and as a message for loved ones.
There are many explanations of the kissing tradition – though most relate either to the Norse legend of Baldr or to the view that mistletoe is an ancient symbol of fertility.
The most obvious fertility aspect is that, as an evergreen growth on a deciduous host, mistletoe, as a parasitic can be seen as symbolic of the continuing ‘life-force’ (and vitality/fertility) of the host tree through the winter (which may be particularly significant if the tree is your sacred oak, in Druidic traditions).
According to the custom, any two people who meet under a hanging of mistletoe are obliged to kiss. The custom may be of Scandinavian origin.
It was described as early as 1820 by Washington Irving in his ‘The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon’:
‘The mistletoe is still hung up in farm-houses and kitchens at Christmas, and the young men have the privilege of kissing the girls under it, plucking each time a berry from the bush. When the berries are all plucked the privilege ceases!’
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