Taken at Prees heath NR.

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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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This pair of Wood Ducks quickly skimmed over the long waterway that separates woodland and marsh at Lake St. Clair Metropark.

Explore #448 Nov 14, 2020

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Yesterday morning was rather exciting because there were several Wood Ducks in the pond. I don't know what got them going, but they were all on the move and speeding around in different directions. It made for quite the challenge, especially because I'm just starting to get outside with the camera again.

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In Wales

October skies light a meadow in the Lake Champlain valley.

Juvenile to first winter Common Gulls

A macro shot of the two main components that make up a pair of pliers.

The two halves of the pliers were put in clamps to hold their alignment and positioned over my black background. Lighting was adjusted to provide a reasonable even illumination and two focus layers were made, one on the machined surface and the other on the cast surface. The two focus layers were aligned and processed in PS. The parts measure 2.25 inches or about 2.5 inches as shown.

Macro Mondays group

Theme: Pair

Nikon 55mm f/2.8 NIKKOR Micro

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

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Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Owlets from same burrow as this adult

Carden Alvar, Ontario

Canada

For Looking close.... on Friday!

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

Elmley NR

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.

More of the tulips from the grocery store to make up for the cold snowy weather

A pair of Cooper's Hawks were busy flying to various trees and trying to extract some twigs. They were then flying back to another tree that was being used to build a nest. It was quite a neat experience and they let me get a bunch of images while they worked on their material gathering.

Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON

Daylilies and lavender in the gardens of Serenity Lavender Farm near Oxley, Ontario

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

Happy Sunday!

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.

Photo Art

Digital Art - Image-editing

Double Exposure

Painting Effect

Effects: Pastel Color, Texture,

Software: Windows Paint 3D; Pixlr; PicsArt Photo Studio

Edits made to my original photos.

Edições feitas em minhas fotos originais.

Bananaquit - Cambacica

Brasília, Brasil

It was an off winter for Mushrooms and now I've got them coming up in clusters around our property.

This majestic pair of eagles has a nearby nest with chicks getting nearly as big as the adults. Full grown juveniles look larger than their parents with larger wing feathers. Female adults are the largest in the family. . (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Blue-gray gnatcatchers are, without a doubt, one of the most special and entertaining birds the US has to offer. With a pretty sky-blue back contrasting with a paler shade of blue, along with white and black, they boast what I think is one of the more underrated color combinations when it comes to Neotropical migrants, and I’m sure they know it because they sure like to flip those tails around (kidding, that’s a foraging technique). That isn’t the only thing about them that’s underrated; males are pretty great songsters too, emitting an intricate series of what is both their own little babbles and little phrases of other species songs. I even found yesterday that they are able to mimic new vocalizations on the spot. Unfortunately, these guys have the luck of returning earlier than the warblers, and they only get two weeks of fame before what many people consider the real show falls upon our forests. That’s okay, though- they get right to pairing up and nest-building and have fledged young by the end of June, so I think they couldn’t care less about how much attention we pay to them.

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!" :)

A pair of cardinals were sitting on snow and ice covered branches in the yard after a recent snowstorm.

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a rare and endangered goose species seen on the bank of the Ariporo River in Llanos Orientales in Colombia.

This river is a part of the Orinoco River basin.

the scientific name of the Orinoco Goose is under significant discussion.

Neochen jubata OR Oressochen jubatus

Orinocogans

Ouette de l'Orénoque

Orinokogans

Ganso del Orinoco

Oca dell'Orinoco

Pato-corredor

IUCN Red List status: Near Threatened

This species is a member of the Tadorninae ( Shelduck ) subfamily of the Anatidae family ( ducks, geese and swans )

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Common Crow (Euploea core)

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Going across :)

Rissa tridactyla

Bempton Cliffs

The Black-legged kittiwake, to give it its proper name, (Rissa tridactyla),Breed on cliffs in the summer months and spend the rest of their time at sea on the Atlantic.

The population is declining in some areas, partly due to a shortage of sandeels as a consequence of overfishing and climate change.

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.

Oak trees in Government Canyon State Natural Area.

Puffins seen at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. (1887)