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Hi there,

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

Thanks to everyone for the time you spent looking at my photo, comments, faves, invitations and awards. I really appreciate it. 😀

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.

Juvenile to first winter Common Gulls

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Brian Piccolo Park, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Owlets from same burrow as this adult

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

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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On the niger seed feeder in Wales

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

Its with great happiness I read the Gannets have returned to the Bass after a long winter our at Sea. Im booked up for a Bass Rock landing trip in June and cant wait to go back! The assault on the senses is mind blowing and the gannets are just all around you! Hopefully ill get some nice shots like this one taken a few years ago!

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

Cowichan Bay, B.C.

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

Happy Sunday!

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

Cape Coral, FL

One of which is slightly blemished, but still lovely.

The best I could do under difficult lighting conditions in the early morning with heavy clouds. I've seen these fantastic hornbills before, but only in flight. I was so thrilled to see this pair sitting in a fig tree. There were also around twenty brown and pied hornbills flying in and out of the tree gorging themselves with figs.

Wikipedia: The great hornbill (Buceros bicornis), also known as the concave-casqued hornbill, great Indian hornbill or great pied hornbill, is one of the larger members of the hornbill family. It is found in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Its impressive size and color have made it important in many tribal cultures and rituals. The great hornbill is long-lived, living for nearly 50 years in captivity. It is predominantly frugivorous, but is an opportunist and will prey on small mammals, reptiles and birds.

The great hornbill is a large bird, 95–130 cm (37–51 in) long, with a 152 cm (60 in) wingspan and a weight of 2 to 4 kg (4.4 to 8.8 lb). The average weight of 7 males is 3 kg (6.6 lb) whereas that of 3 females is 2.59 kg (5.7 lb). It is the heaviest, but not the longest, Asian hornbill. Females are smaller than males and have bluish-white instead of red eyes, although the orbital skin is pinkish. Like other hornbills, they have prominent "eyelashes".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_hornbill

Conservation status: Vulnerable

A pair of "Prickly Pear" blooms... :)

Have a wonderful new week, everyone...

Macro Mondays

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!" :)

I love the elegant old wooden barns of the midwest. They are fast disappearing.

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Adult Bald Eagles

(Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

This male (left) and female were sitting in this tree resting after catching fish at Peace Valley Park, New Britain Pa.

This pair of bald eagles shared sunset with us on this hike in the Kensington Metropark, near Milford, MI.

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.

Pair of Eastern Bluebirds.

Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.

Pair of purple 💜 pens with interesting clips acquired on a cross country trip....under 3 inches.