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Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris), Laguna Seca Ranch, Texas.This species are still fairly common, but populations have been dropping for several decades. The North American Breeding Bird Survey estimated a decline of 62% between 1966 and 1995, but the 1966-2014 survey does not find significant decreases, suggesting that populations may have stabilized, or at least the decline has slowed, since 1995. Painted Buntings are popular cage birds and are often trapped on their wintering grounds and sold illegally.
Same scenario folks, she was very smitten with a very handsome Male that we will see tomorrow, the strange thing is for me anyway is the color of this gal, for as many as I've photographed they never exhibited color like this, and I have done nothing to it in edit, your thoughts please.
Have a great day, be safe, and thanks as always for stopping by, always appreciated.
The Painted Hills in South Australia taken from the air. These remote amazing hills are surrounded by flat dry desert and lie in Anna Creek - the world's largest cattle station. The station is some 24,000 square kilometres (or bigger than Wales if you prefer a tangible scale).
Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui
The Painted Lady is a long-distance migrant, which causes the most spectacular butterfly migrations observed in Britain and Ireland.
Each year, it spreads northwards from the desert fringes of North Africa, the Middle East, and central Asia, recolonising mainland Europe and reaching Britain and Ireland. In some years it is an abundant butterfly, frequenting gardens and other flowery places in late summer.
Painted lady butterflies have a pale buffy-orange background colour to the upper wings. The forewings have black tips marked with white spots; the hindwings have rows of black spots. The undersides are pale with blue eyespots.
Painted ladies do not hibernate in Britain; instead they migrate to and from northern Africa. They can arrive in early spring, but late May and June are more usual. They are fairly common across Britain, numerous in some years.
Females lay their small, green eggs on a range of species, such as nettles and mallows, but thistles are the general favourite. When the caterpillars hatch they begin to eat the underside of the leaf. As they grow, each constructs a tent of folded leaves fastened with silk.
Caterpillars pupate and remain suspended in a large tent of leaves until the adults emerge in August and September. The whole British population dies or emigrates to Africa in the autumn.
Caterpillars are black, speckled with tiny white spots and have a yellow stripe down each side. They are covered in spines.
What looks likely to be my last sunny shot of 2021 saw me finally get the Construction livery 66. Even though that day was the first time I saw it since it got painted. 66793 seen passing Kirby Bellars with the 6M60 1107 Whitemoor yard - Mountsorrel sidings 10/12/21. (Taken using a pole)
LYCAON PICTUS, also known as Painted Dog, African Wild Dog, Cape Hunting Dog, and Painted Hunting Dog are listed as Endangered in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa, and it is estimated there are fewer than 5 500 free-ranging wild dogs in Africa.
In South Africa, the population is estimated to number fewer than 250 mature individuals. Wild dogs need large home ranges, and habitat fragmentation has led to population declines. Unfortunately they have a mistaken reputation for attacking livestock, and therefore are often persecuted by humans. Infectious diseases, especially canine distemper and rabies are also exacting a toll, and recently road accidents and incidental snaring have also become major threats to this species.
The individual in this image was photographed in the southern part of the Kruger National Park and we counted at least 8 individuals during this special sighting, the first of two packs we saw within a week's time.
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Passerina ciris
At long last I've been able to capture one of these beauties! The most spectacularly colored songbird found in North America.
Circle-B-Bar Reserve, Polk County, FL
Painted pillars in the Gothic church St Mary (Marienkirche) in Anklam, Germany. This church was mentioned for the first time in 1296, but the beginning of the work on the church dates to the middle of the 13th century. When the building started they were going for the Romanesque style, but when tastes changed (in the Middle Ages), so did the plans for the church. Today it is a quite beautiful Gothic church with the ubiquitous high, slim pillars and vaulting - and a lot of well preserved painted decorations. The building was hit by bombs in the Second World War, but of the interior only the south aisle was more severely damaged.
The church is a so called hall church, in the Gothic style known as brick Gothic.
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I was in a park last week and noticed a dozen Painted Lady flying around and decided to pack up and check the Experimental Farm just in case. Glad I did, there were about 300 butterflies.... so this time around I decided to challenge myself for the next 3 days and try to acpture two on the same flower. Not that easy with so many of them around, you don't have time to check your shots I took a break and played with bokeh.
Ran across several Painted Buntings, including this one keeping a close eye on us as we setup on a rural road to take a few clicks of him. I can't pass up a chance to shoot these super colorful birds. I would say the most colorful in North America, at least the US. Passerina ciris
Over the past week or so I have observed the Painted Buntings returning to their breeding grounds in my area and I have to say it is exciting. I spotted this one recently in a wooded area near my home and was delighted that he hung around long enough for a couple of photos.
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Passerina ciris
The colorist movement, which took place in the '60s, are responsible for the bright colors of the Seven Painted Ladies. During the second World War, many homes were painted in cheap gray paint and the city looked drab. So a local artist, Butch Kradum, began painting homes in bright blues and greens and it caught on.
Padre Island National Seashore
We had never been to this part of the island before and I'd seen reports of Aplomado Falcons there. We didn't see any falcons here so we decided to explore the beach.
As we walked down the boardwalk to the beach, I was just looking at the beautiful dunes and suddenly a blue bird popped up next to the boardwalk. OMG, it was a beautiful Indigo Bunting RIGHT next to us in the sunflowers!! What an absolute treat!!!! The icing on the cake was right after that I spotted a Painted Bunting even closer to where I was standing...oblivious to us. This was a double OMG for me! :D
This panorama is looking north toward the painted desert within Petrified Forest National Park. It's at the southern border of the 1932 addition to the originally designated National Park. It is simply amazing to see such geologic formations. To many it is hard to believe that this park rests over a mile in elevation above sea level.
Brian the snail really loves a bit of DIY - but no nasty solvents for him! Although it is a struggle and takes much longer, he prefers to peel off the old paint by hard work!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Peel'. The snail's shell is about 1.2 cm long, so the image spans around 6.9 cm.
Several very large old metal storage containers have been placed at the end of the road to the new pier in my village. They have been painted numerous times over the years, in all sorts of colours, as is evident from the peeling of the many layers of paint. I had to take Brian on a 'field trip' to photograph him peeling back paint layers - I think he quite enjoyed the outing.
No snails were harmed in the making of this photograph.
A Painted Lady Butterfly sipping nectar from our Zinnia flower. I could not find any Zinnia flowers out our local nurseries, so I planted seeds. The flowers are blooming and gorgeous. Photo taken in our backyard in Camas, Washington.
I just thought I'd upload one last picture of this fading Painted Lady to make it a hattrick to finish off this series. She's still Beautiful in my eyes and I'm pleased to have captured her...
A strong westerly wind was blowing over Langstone Harbour, Hampshire yesterday evening at sunset so no reflection around so decided to have a go at some long exposures over the old rotten posts which are the remains of the old Billy Line Station.
Quite like the effect in the sky from the long exposure which looks like it's been painted(badly)!
150 second exposure using a Lee "Big Stopper" 10 stop ND filter + a 0.9 ND grad over the sky.
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