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Often associated with compact dead wood of various broad leafed trees. Adults can be found in woodlands visiting flowers from April to August.
often light conditions in forests are challenging but sometimes they are magical
Common Buzzard
buteo buteo
buizerd
Buse variable
Mäusebussard
Busardo ratonero
Poiana
Águia-d'asa-redonda
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I'm often very difficult to see
I like to sit and watch quietly
sometimes maybe up in a tree
often somewhere special . . .
waiting my moment consciously
when I look around here and there
cameras I see from afar and near
don't think I don't notice . . .
for indeed I do
watch your back, sides and front
I'm still active
I might just surprise you !
my legs are crossed my paws too
expression intent
yes I'm watching you
don't be fooled by my elegance too
I'm a quick mover
watch out all of you !
From Bev
I often see deer in the woods near my house. This doe was coming through a break in the pine trees as I was driving home late one afternoon last winter. By the looks of her belly, I would say that she was carrying one of the fawns that I saw last summer.
DAZZLINGLY ATTRACTIVE bird, not often seen in our corner of Kent UK, and was not expecting to see it in the Grove Ferry Feast Hide, but what a joy when it landed, he caught a couple of tiddlers and was off, leaving me with the biggest grin ever.
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We often find ourselves driving the backroads of the Ozarks right as the sun begins it’s slow descent behind our many hills. It’s a beautiful, peaceful time of day, and is often the backdrop for old barns or weathered farmhouses. City skylines are amazing and I love them, too, but…..
Often associates with the Tufted Duck. A rare breeding duck in Western Europe including here in the UK. Will often dive from the surface to feed on roots seeds and shoots. Will often rice up and flap their wings in 'comfort' movement as associated with other waterfowl species.
Often seen at flowers feeding on nectar with its proboscis. The majority of these flies are black and white or black and yellow. The larvae of these flies are internal parasites . The adult female intercept's their host in flight and deposit their eggs. The abdomen of the female is modified to form what acts like a 'can opener' in which to pry and open the segments of the host's abdomen as the egg is inserted.
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Named from the similarity of their prominent proboscis that looks like the beak of a snipe. Adults can often be seen sitting on vegetation or on tree trunks waiting to catch and pounce on passing prey. Some species of snipe flies are hematophagous as adults and some are predatory of insects. Larvae develop as predators in the soil and wood detritus. Found in wet meadows, marshes and woodland margins. Can sometimes be know as the Down-Looker Fly as they have the habit of perching head-downward on tree trunks.
More often heard than seen… A Black-crowned Antshrike - Thamnophilus atrinucha in the rainforest in Panama, Central America. This bird is uncommon in tropical lowlands, mainly in forest borders, plantations, open woodlands, and secondary growth. Mainly forages at low to middle levels and, like many antbirds, often in pairs, which keep in touch by singing.
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I often think Luke is part cat. He will cuddle with you. He will follow you everywhere. He barks at everyone he meets and he sounds loud and mean but he is basically telling you to come and pet him. He is so loving it is crazy.
Smile on Saturday
Black-crowned Night-Herons often spend their days perched on tree limbs or concealed among foliage and branches. They forage in the evening and at night, in water, on mudflats, and on land. In flight they fold their head back against their shoulders, almost making the neck disappear.
I come here so often I'm sure you must be getting bored ! Couldn't resist this late afternoon light and the sky, so I painted it. I only had my phone with me, so this isn't SOOC !
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Gary Moore Still Got The Blues (Live)
Thank you as always for your views, comments and faves... every one is appreciated immensely. A little 'blue' today - hence the music, which I've always loved ever since I first heard it.
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Often seen in flocks with other species of duck such as Tufted Ducks. Will spend much of their time diving for food of which a large proportion of the diet consisting of plant material.
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Often times when we go birding we take our dog, Louie, with us. Sometimes he gets bored and tired but at Radio Road life's good. He gets to visit with kindred spirits of the four legged variety, at the adjacent dog park, and we get to do some birding with a well worn out dog. While there we walked over to a sparsely populated pond and found the baby ducks, now juveniles. When they saw us they immediately started chirping loudly for mum. Just like a teenager to think he/she knows it all until something scares them, then they can't call for mum loud enough (smile).
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Grass from Needpix
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Often Herring Gulls can look pretty mucky because of their foraging but this glorious adult was immaculate.
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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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DELIGHTFUL and often confiding little bird with a proportionately very long tail and seemingly an almost spherical body. The long-tailed Tit is often seen in rather animated flocks; it moves in a rather jerky fashion and has acrobatic feeding habits, which is so entertaining to watch, one of my favorite birds, captured through the kitchen window on a very wet day, hence the 1/30 shutter speed on a I.S.O of 1250.
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"GODs BEAUTY is SIMPLY AMAZING !"
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Glossy Ibis- Plegadis Falcinellus
Flocks of Glossy Ibis forage quite close together, advancing slowly as they probe a muddy area. This activity often attracts Snowy Egrets and other species of waders, which capture minnows and other prey moving away from the feeding ibis flocks.
Glossy Ibises nest in colonies, often among other species of ibis, heron, egret, or spoonbill. Colonial nesters have the advantage of many extra sets of eyes looking out for predators. Colonies might also be places where highly gregarious species like ibises can share information about the most productive foraging areas.
Glossy Ibis is a cosmopolitan species, also found in Europe, Asia, and Africa. In recent decades, its population in Spain has been increasing rapidly, probably helped by increased rice cultivation there. Glossy Ibises banded in Spain have turned up as far away as Barbados, having crossed the Atlantic—a remarkable feat but one that several species of heron and egret have managed as well.
The oldest recorded Glossy Ibis was at least 21 years old and lived in Virginia between 1971 and 1992.
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Often I think of Tuscany, when I stand above the Wittlich valley in the morning and the early light and fine mist enchant the landscape.
A picture of this week shortly after sunrise (August 30, 2017, 6:57 am).
Oft denke ich an die Toskana, wenn ich morgens oberhalb der Wittlicher Senke stehe und das frühe Licht und feiner Nebel die Landschaft verzaubern.
Ein Bild von dieser Woche kurz nach Sonnenaufgang (30.08.2017, 6:57 Uhr).
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It is often difficult to comprehend and appreciate the size and scale of a glacier until you’ve seen it from the air. Mendenhall Glacier here for example is 13.6 miles long, 3.8 miles wide, around 2000 feet at its deepest, and rises from beneath sea level to over 6200 feet in elevation.
Having seen glaciers from a distance on foot in Iceland, it was a completely different experience to see one via helicopter. We flew over the glacier for several minutes before landing on a flat area for some hiking. A few things that amazed me while flying overhead though was how deep the crevasses were, how insanely blue the ponds of melted glacier water were, and how far the ice field stretched up into the mountains. But most of all, the sheer size of the glacier was just incredible.
The other remarkable thing was the visible path of dirt and sediment that revealed the flow of the glacier as it bent around the curves of the mountains on its way to the sea. The path must have represented decades of movement.
If you ever get a chance to visit Juneau, Alaska the Mendenhall Glacier is definitely worth a visit!
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A low-key presentation is what I often "end up with" when it comes to Macro Mondays, so this week's big challenge for me was to find a nice subject. And this wasn't easy because, usually, I don't even think about doing low-key, it simply happens naturally. So my mind went blank regarding the subject I would like to photograph as low-key.
Somewhat luckily, however, I have just recently rekindled my old love for Casio watches, especially the G-Shocks, and after 20 or more years with only two Skagen watches to choose between I thought it was time for something new, so I bought one of the "Origins", a square one with a metal bezel that has a beautiful sunset gradient finish (from a series called "Shanghai Night"). That bezel is a beautifully shiny, blingy thing (while the watch module itself, unfortunately, is of the more simple kind), so you bet that I keep polishing it with my shirt, pullover, whatever I wear, or what comes to hand.
But what was the first thing I saw when I looked at the camera's display? Of course: lint and dust. But what else did I expect in macroverse, after all, dust will be dust ;) So I did some more polishing before I placed the watch inside of a black cardboard box to prevent diffuse daylight from coming into the little scene. The final image is a single upside-down shot (with my camera snugly and safely mounted to an overhead table tripod) with the main focus on one of the four pushers (each pusher is 4 mm / 0,15 inches in diameter). Processed in DXO PL5, Analog Efex, and PS where I did the final polishing touches (=dust removal). I decided to leave some of the dust in the image, namely where it had transformed into some nice, starry milky way bokeh ;)
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
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We’ll sew clothes from the stem of our womb…
Heal off the weightless you held
from the start of me…”
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La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Stilpnia vitriolina (Scrub Tanager / Tangara Rastrojera)
The Scrub Tanager is a common open country bird of the Colombian and Ecuadorian Andes. Due to its preference for scrub and bushy areas, it is most easily found in dry intermontane ‘rainshadow’ valleys but is expanding into more humid areas in the wake of human disturbance.
The Scrub Tanager is identified by its silvery greenish plumage, rust-colored cap and black mask. In further contrast to this typically gregarious genus, the Scrub Tanager most often is encountered as solitary pairs.
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She often lies on a little towel just behind my computer screen on my desk, but yesterday she watched me typing with just her chin on the desk. She waits for my breaks so we can play the chase games she loves.
Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia),commonly called the Julia Butterfly, Julia Heliconian, The Flame, or Flambeau, is a species of brush-footed butterfly.
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It's not often you get to return a favor, even if over four years have gone by. When I was really new to SL, this guy encouraged my new-found interest in photography. He left SL and when he returned, he discovered the beast he had left behind. When he asked me to take his profile picture, I was honored to help him out.
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I have often asked myself weather sunsets have brothers or sisters, and knowing that sunrise is actually Sunset's brother, I, for my entire life searched for it's sisters.
And than it happened the other day. Climbing a small grassy hill in the most beloved part of the world, my Homeland, I came about what I was searching for. Sunset sisters were there talking to the Sun in a way lovers talk to each other.
Now I have to find out about who is it's Mother...b.mikic
My one minute poetry/prose continues...
Redstart (M) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
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