Two pairs of "Argynnis paphia" butterflies feeding on a flower in summer sunny day

Boats on river Mrežnica, Keići, Croatia

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I recently spotted this pair of dahlias at a local park. What caught my attention were the subtle colour variations within the petals.

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River Korana, Karlovac, Croatia

For Macro Mondays - Pair

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Une autre paire

This pair of Northern Shovelers were seen at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Florida.

The green-headed drake leads in this picture.

Pair of windows of a renovated house in the streets of old Kastoria.

Juvenile to first winter Common Gulls

On the niger seed feeder in Wales

I went to the Sandhill Crane Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska and was pleasantly surprised. I was expecting four days of rain but we had two nice afternoons of some sunshine otherwise it would have been disappointing for photograhy! One of the rainy evenings I was thrilled to see hundreds if not more than a thousand cranes arrive to Creamer's Field in Fairbanks. Here I've captured two cranes coming in to one of the fields to eat and rest for a bit on their migration south.

Taken 25 August 2018 at Creamer's Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.

On a birdfeeder in Cornwall

This Bald Eagle pair (Male-upper left, Female-lower right) share a bough and bask in the early morning sunshine.

Nonbreeding Northern Mallard pair from 2017.

Few more day before I put my waterlilies in the pond.

Happy Sunday!

A pair of blue-winged teals (Anas discors, Anatidae) zoom by as they do over last year's brown cattails in the marsh.

Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area

Leopold Wetland Management District

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Winnebago County, Wisconsin

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Cowichan Bay, B.C.

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Elmley NR

Different stages of bloom different colors on the Lily

Wild South Africa

Kruger National park

Taken through the window. Greenfinches have been absent from our garden for many years so it was nice to see this pair enjoying the sunflower seeds I put out.

Fullerton Arboretum

This image took one hour waiting for this moment. The temperature was high and these butterflies are fast. I got lucky to capture two in one image.

This pair is well practiced in flying in formation. It's hard to see from this photo but they were inches apart and perfectly synchronized in their wing movement. Beautiful to watch.

A pair of seagulls @Nyack, NY

A pair of Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata) resting in the shallows of a wetland on the prairie landscape east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

17 May, 2018.

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Mottled Ducks are quite common in Florida. They sometimes breed with Mallards and hybrids form, much to the consternation of my biologist friend who is interested in preserving the Florida line. Here is a mated pair in flight. You can tell the male is in the foreground by his brighter yellow bill. The female's bill is more orange and duller.

I just looked up the Latin name and I'm almost jealous. How'd you like to be named "Anas fulvigula"? Not great: "Hey Anas, get a load of this!" Great: "Hey, Fulvigula, get a load of this!" :)

One of which is slightly blemished, but still lovely.

pair of orchids singing and swinging together

Macro Mondays

Pairs, France

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A pair of chalkhill blue butterflies mating on a field scabious in the quarry on Aggs Hill in Gloucestershire yesterday morning.

Going across :)

Oak trees in Government Canyon State Natural Area.

I did go looking for Wood Ducks on this day, but of course couldn't pass on this fast-cruising pair of Mandarins. They were in and out of shade, which sort of accounts for my ridiculous EXIF settings. These exotics, likely descended from caged escapees, show up during our SoCal winters. As you can see, the female looks a lot like a female wood duck, and they were mixed in with the wood ducks I was hoping to find.