Squabbling Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

Smaller than blackbirds, with a short tail, pointed head, triangular wings, starlings look black at a distance but when seen closer they are very glossy with a sheen of purples and greens.

Their flight is fast and direct and they walk and run confidently on the ground. Noisy and gregarious, starlings spend a lot of the year in flocks.

Still one of the commonest of garden birds, its decline elsewhere makes it a Red List species. What they eat: Invertebrates and fruit. Starlings are conspicuous and widespread in the UK, occurring everywhere except for the highest parts of the Scottish Highlands. They are most abundant in southern England and are more thinly distributed in upland areas with moorland. Still one of the UK's commonest garden birds. In winter, huge roosts can be found in plantations, reedbeds and city centres (Courtesy RSPB).

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A tree branch juts from the surface of North Texas’ Lake Lavon.

Psalm 58:8: “Let them (wicked rulers: David is probably speaking about King Saul and his cohorts) be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!”

The Alabama Hills in California contains strangely eroded rocks, some of which appear to be sharp points poking at the sky.

Happy Saturated Saturday!

Warwoman Wildlife Management Area (WMA), Rabun County, Georgia

College Park, MD

Decided to go with a utilitarian object rather than something vintage. Had to stick the lens inside the glass to take this which got interesting when I tried to put some sparkling water in there too!

Riga, Latvia

Fun Find, of a Rose Thorn,Poking Back,Funny stuff.

One of my attempts at the "Smile on Saturday" theme "multicolour bubble bokeh".

Shot with a Rodenstock "Magnagon 75 mm F 4 " (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.

Lititz, PA

Nope! Not me. Just let him snooze. He's earned the break

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Instax - Link Wide (Digital Image to Instax Converter)

Film - Instax Wide

Scan - Epson Perfection V600 Photo

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.... don't judge me. >.> I know, I know! Some break ~ but I just see these pictures and then I wanna take them, so I do! So here's another, before I jump back into the other projects I've been poking about on. <3

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Light on the path.

I decided to take a mini-walk at lunch today with the intention of taking pictures. It was cloudy and temperature was not too cold. I think it's starting to warm up in the PNW and spring is just arround the corner. With just the right amount of light I was able to create this. Hopefully this one is looking like it's poking through your monitors.

An American Oystercatcher pokes and prods a large shellfish, making it roll.

Chillum, MD

I bought a beautiful piece of Ahi Tuna and made poke, a hawaiian dish using raw Ahi Tuna. The last step is to add the green onions.

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Blue Sky Poking through the Low Clouds and lighting up this Group of Canada Geese.

A Carolina Chickadee pokes and prods through the moss for bits and bites.

Almost a year old BNSF 7915 pokes its front end out of the bridge in Sibley, MO as it leads a w/b towards Kansas City.

BNSF 7915 built 7/2010. Photo taken 5/21/2011.

More berries! The black ones are actually the ones that are ripe. The red ones are arrested development because of the cold weather.

Awesome Poke bowl by Poke Theory in Somerset.

*Note: More food pics in my: Favorite Food Album.

This snipe is hunting for food by poking his beak into the mud. It just finished poking on the right side of that clump of stuff right under its beak and now it is taking a step to poke on the other side. The snipes need those rather long beaks because they are often poking deep up to their face.

Taken in the Rich Grissom Memorial Wetlands at Viera, Florida.

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