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Parque das Nações, Lisboa, Portugal.
This Pacific golden plover has been probing the rain soaked ground for earthworms and insects. There is mud on its bill and head. But my favorite detail is the adorable eyelashes. (View large.)
Camouflaged for ground nesting, the Kolea (Pluvialis fulva) annually migrates from breeding grounds in Alaska and Siberia to tropical Pacific islands over thousands of miles of open ocean. After 3 to 4 days and nights of non-stop flying it arrives at the first landfall, Hawaii. A magnificent navigator, it uses the stars and the earth’s magnetic field to find the exact same location each year. This one winters in Hawaii. Some continue on into the southern hemisphere as far as New Zealand.
Need to go Large on this one if you have time
This must be one of the most low contrast shots I have ever posted. The grey seals and the mud they are fighting in merge together totally. The fight was as ever over territory and they kept it up for some time with no clear result. It could even be seen as a metaphor for the crazy times we are living in.
It was taken at the Donna Nook reserve on the Lincolnshire coast
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In Vermont, early spring is called "Mud Season" mostly because there are so many dirt roads in Vermont, and at this time of year, they are almost impassible because they turn to pure, deep mud. Just before Christmas, we had 3 feet of snow, and then on Christmas day it rained, which caused the stream behind my house to flood. Now that the snow is gone, my backyard is filled with the left over silt from the flood, so it's all muddy too. But on the bright side, the weather has been warm and the dogs loved it (even if Pokey looks miserable in this photos - but that's mostly because he wasn't in the mood for picture-taking - he wanted to run around)
A solitary Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) on an evening graze at Kaziranga National Park.
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, the eastern Indian state of Assam is said to have around 2400 rhinos - almost 2/3rds of world's population of the species.
Irrigation season is over so the flow of water into the Bear River Canal has stopped for the year. As the water level dropped, the muddy bottom appeared, showing muddy ripples made by the moving water.
"The sun goes down, and over all
These barren reaches by the tide
Such unelusive glories fall,
I almost dream they yet will bide
Until the coming of the tide. ..."
"Low Tide on Grand Pré"
Bliss Carman 1886
Conforme se retira la marea va dejando al descubierto una orilla llena de alimento, pero también cubierta del fango más fino.
En la fotografÃa un correlimos común ( Calidris alpina) maniobrando para intentar salir de la orilla fangosa sin mancharse después del baño
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As the tide recedes, it reveals a shore full of food, but also covered in the finest mud.
In the photograph a dunlin (Calidris alpina) maneuvering to try to get off the muddy shore without getting dirty after bathing
© Austin Sullivan 2010
What better way to get a good picture then to take your shit off and crawl into a ditch pipe and rub mud all over yourself? I don't really know. Haha This was not planned at all, I just did it. And I know you can't tell in the picture but I had tons of mud in my hair, took forever to get out.
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