My husband built this birdhouse back in Alaska to specific sizes for swallows. Chickadees used it two years in a row. It stood high on a metal pole away from interlopers.

Then we moved here, birdhouse included, and finally, tree swallows! Sounds like quite a few hungry ones inside.

Photo today by my husband, Howard Marsh, using his D4 and my 500mm f/4 on the Manfrotto monopod.

Quiraing, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2015.

Technical

1/25 second at F13 @ ISO100 at 28mm in Manual mode

Canon 60D

Sigma 10-20mm F4-F5.6 at 20mm

Manfrotto 190 XDB

Optechusa Camera Strap

Format Hitech Firecrest Polarizer

Format Hitech ND Grad

Mindshift Filter Case

Hahnel Industries remote capture

Nach langer Zeit klappte es endlich mal mit einem Bild der Rohrdommel. Ich bin schon oft unterwegs gewesen um Sie abzulichten,meist muste ich weit dafür fahren und dann eigentlich immer ohne vorzeigbaren Erfolg. Im Ruhrgebiet ist diese scheue Art ja nicht so stark vertreten. Dazu kommt noch das der Schilfbewohner sich meist im Dickkicht versteckt und nur langsam bewegt.. Seine Färbung ist optimal für seinen Lebensraum..Eine wirklich Interesante Art...

Bin total froh über dieses Bild und die Begegnung....

wünsche euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche...

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Iluminada por dentro con cajas de luz cálida, por fuera con luz fría. Trabajo realizado en compañía de Julian Hoyas.

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The sea stack at Waverley Beach - looking at all the cracks in it, I'm not sure how much longer this might be here! Originally it had a full arch connecting to the shore rock but this collapsed several years ago in 2012.

Lee Landscape Polariser and Lee 6 Stop IRND Filters.

(c) Dominic Scott 2020

Sonnenaufgang am Sommerfels bei Annweiler. Im Hintergrund: Reichsburg Trifels und Asselstein

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I was going through old photos and found this shot.

An adult dunlin in breeding plumage shows the distinctive black belly which no other similar-sized wader possesses. The winter dunlin is basically grey above and white below. Juveniles are brown above with two whitish "V" shapes on the back. They usually have black marks on the flanks or belly and show a strong white wingbar in flight.

...tried the Manfrotto tripod.....

better in large!!!!!!!

About to start a long exposure session, to capture the Pink Granite Coast at sunset

Technical details;

Exposure 1.5 sec @ F11 at ISO100

Canon EOS 60D & Canon EF28-135 F3.5-5.6 IS

Manfrotto 190 XDB tripod

Hahnel Remote Capture remotes

Formatt Hitech Filters Firecrest CPL, ND 0.6 SE

Mindshift by Think Tank Filter Case

Optechusa camera strap

Mandarin duck the adult male has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face and "whiskers". The male's breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, and he has two orange "sails" at the back (large feathers that stick up like boat sails). The female is similar to the female wood duck, with a white eye-ring and stripe running back from the eye, but is paler below, has a small white flank stripe, and a pale tip to its bill. Both the males and females have crests, but the purple crest is more pronounced on the male.

Sunset taken at Skagen harbour December 2.

The reclamation of Haarlemmermeer by means of steam power marked the breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution in the Netherlands. “De Cruquius”, commissioned in 1849, pumped Lake Haarlem dry in three years and three months, together with two identical steam-pumping stations. Both other pumping stations were drastically modernised after 50 years, but the Cruquius remained untouched.

Salto biralto

me rompo el naso

me rompo el viso

salto in Paradiso.......

Filastrocca veneta , molto molto vecchia ....

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Dublin Docklands, Dublin, Ireland at night. Taken from Sandymount Strand.

I had my camera on my Manfrotto 190 tripod

2つのアルプスが望める長野県駒ヶ根市、そして、駒ヶ池の水鏡に映える中央アルプス。

千畳敷カールまではっきり見える清々しい朝でした。

Gear: Nikon D7000

Lens: Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 DC OS HSM

Manfrotto MT190XPRO4

C-PL(w)

The whooper swan is similar in appearance to the Bewick's swan. It is larger, however, at a length of 140–165 cm and a wingspan of 205–275 cm. Weight typically is in the range of 7.4–14 kg with an average of 9.8–11.4 kg for males and 8.2–9.2 kg for females. The verified record mass was 15.5 kg for a wintering male from Denmark. It is considered to be amongst the heaviest flying birds.