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Spending a few hours watching the antics of these Burrowing Owlets in Cape Coral was most definitely one of the highlights of our recent trip to Florida. Here two of them seem to be forming an orderly queue waiting for Mum (or is it Dad?) to serve breakfast!
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Avec sa démarche sautillante, son corps mince et sa queue extraordinaire, la bergeronnette des ruisseaux est l'un des oiseaux les plus élégants et les plus beaux. Elle a le dessus gris acier et le dessous jaune brillant, surtout pendant la période de reproduction. Au printemps le mâle a la gorge noire et le pourtour des yeux rayé de blanc. La femelle a une gorge pâle. En hiver, la bergeronnette perd presque complètement les tons jaunes de son plumage à l'exception du croupion. Elle reste néanmoins plus gracieuse que la bergeronnette grise, notamment à cause de sa longue queue. Peut facilement être confondue au printemps et en été avec sa proche cousine, la bergeronnette printanière, qui a le dessus vert olive, une tête et un dessous jaune et une queue plus courte.
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With its bouncy gait, slender body and extraordinary tail, the Brook Wagtail is one of the most elegant and beautiful birds. It has a steel gray upper and shiny yellow underside, especially during the breeding season. In the spring the male has black throat and the edge of the eyes striped with white. The female has a pale throat. In winter, the wagtail almost completely loses the yellow tones of its plumage except for the rump. She is still more graceful than the gray wagtail, especially because of its long tail. Can easily be confused in spring and summer with its close cousin, the wagtail spring, which has the olive green top, a yellow head and bottom and a shorter tail.
I decided to try something totally different, once again...
Using about 15 of my images from Paris, I created this composite in PhotoShop that is supposed to show the craziness of tourists trying to get into the iconic places, in this case, of course, the Eiffel Tower.
HSS!
5:52 - Abstract
Pied Wagtail [Motacilla alba]
This little beauty arrived at a recently filled puddle with one thought - to have a bath. Unfortunately, several seagulls, huge big monsters to this wee guy, and a veritable horde of noisy starlings also had the same idea. The wagtail was disturbed, quite a few times, before he eventually had the puddle to himself. Very rarely, do I see these wee birdies standing still like this. He was checking the periphery for any other in-comers before committing to his ablutions.
A delightful wee birdie!
Girvan Harbour
Sw Scotland
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Daily Photo:13 Jul 2022 (Wed)
Located: Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottingham, England
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
RKO_2409.
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Lampides boeticus
Un papillon que je ne connaissais pas dont la couleur passe inaperçue sur un fond de hautes herbes sèches.J'aime bien les deux petites "queues" au bout de ses ailes.
A butterfly that I didn't know and whose colours don't show against the background of high dry grass. Love the two little "tails" on its wings.
Le guêpier est un oiseau très coloré : son dos est de couleur brune et jaune et son ventre ainsi que sa queue tirent sur le vert et le bleu. Sa gorge est jaune vif et se décolore en blanc jusqu'à ses joues et son front. Un masque noir entoure ses deux yeux rouges et prolonge son bec noir légèrement incurvé. Sa taille est à peu près celle d'un merle, soit 28 centimètres environ. C'est en général au mâle d'arborer les couleurs les plus vives, surtout en plumage nuptial, contrairement à la femelle et aux juvéniles. Cet oiseau, assez craintif, vient nicher en France en été où il se reproduit avant de repartir pour l'Afrique vers la fin août / début septembre. Grâce à l'augmentation des températures, sa niche tend à non plus se limiter au sud de la France, mais à remonter vers le nord. Grégaire, les colonies atteignent le plus souvent la vingtaine ou trentaine d'individus et les familles restent solidaires et se préviennent mutuellement en cas de danger. En France, le guêpier s'installe à proximité des cours d'eau dans des milieux assez ouverts mais contrairement à nombre d'oiseaux, il niche au sol, dans des talus de terre meuble ou artificielle. Il y creuse alors son nid avec son bec, progressivement usé, de sorte à offrir une cavité de 1 à 2 mètres de long. Près de 10kg de terre sont évacués du nid pour sa construction !
Image prise en milieu naturel et depuis la portière de la voiture équipée du filet de camouflage .
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The bee-eater is a very colorful bird: its back is brown and yellow in color and its belly and tail are green and blue. Her throat is bright yellow and fades white down to her cheeks and forehead. A black mask surrounds its two red eyes and extends its slightly curved black beak. Its size is about that of a blackbird, about 28 centimeters. It is generally the male to display the brightest colors, especially in breeding plumage, unlike the female and juveniles. This rather fearful bird comes to nest in France in summer where it reproduces before leaving for Africa towards the end of August / beginning of September. Thanks to the increase in temperatures, its niche tends not to be limited to the south of France, but to move up towards the north. Gregarious, the colonies usually reach about twenty or thirty individuals and families remain united and warn each other in case of danger. In France, the bee-eater settles near watercourses in fairly open environments, but unlike many birds, it nests on the ground, in banks of loose or artificial soil. It then digs its nest there with its beak, gradually worn out, so as to offer a cavity 1 to 2 meters long. Almost 10kg of soil are evacuated from the nest for its construction!
Image taken in a natural environment and from the car door fitted with the camouflage net.
"Wait until it is your turn!" Or perhaps, "The last will be first, and the first last". Anyway, here we have a well-organised succession of beautiful flowers.
Since we have had no snow so far here on the Olympic Peninsula (some is expected today), this photo is from last February. While on a snowy winter walk with my dog Emmy, I noticed a group of sheep waiting patiently for supper in the waning light of late afternoon.
"You usually have to wait for that which is worth waiting for."
~ Craig Bruce
"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." ~ Joyce Meyer
If any of you have ever visited Cape Point you'll recognise this scene of tourists queuing up to have their photos taken at the Cape of Good Hope sign to show they have reached the most South Western point of the African continent...as you might know as well, the Southernmost tip of the African continent is at Cape Agulhas ....looking at this photo, on the left, where you see someone ascending the hill in a white t-shirt, there are steps and on the other side you reach Diaz beach and a bit further on it ends at the car park and the funicular..
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Daily Photo: 19 Jul 2022 (Tue)
Located: Located: Highfields Park Boating Lake, Nottingham, England
Filmed and edited by Kelvin Ho
Took this shot of the floor while waiting for a coffee in a Cafe Nero in Brighton, Sussex. This got me thinking about 2 Tone Records and The Specials and The Selecter......Then I had the song "Gangsters" in my head for hours. Funny what triggers the memory. Heck that was more than 40 years ago!!!
“Too much too young” kicked in when I managed to shake off “Gangsters”......
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The Goetheturm has been reopened to the public some months ago. The view from up there is amazing, but rains and camera don't always work well together...
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Seen on a Fotowalk with a Flickr Friend in Munich.
Shot with the Sony A7 Mark 2 and the Leitz/Leica Elmarit 2.8/135mm.
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Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Previously unpublished shot from September 2018. Enjoy!
La mésange Orite à longue queue (Aegithalos caudatus)
Identification :
La Mésange à longue queue ne fait pas partie de la même famille que les autres Mésanges, elle appartient à la famille des Aegithalidés alors que les « vraies » Mésanges (Mésange bleue, Mésange charbonnière, Mésange huppée, Mésange boréale, Mésange nonnette et Mésange noire) sont de la famille des Paridés. Le nom de « Mésange » attribué à la Mésange à longue queue est purement vernaculaire et non scientifique.
De ce fait la Mésange à longue queue a des mœurs singulièrement différentes des « vraies » Mésanges.
La Mésange à longue queue ne peut pas être confondue avec un autre oiseau tant sa queue est longue par rapport à son minuscule corps (La queue est aussi longue que le reste du corps de l’oiseau). Cet attribut permet une identification immédiate. Concernant les couleurs du plumage, la Mésange à longue queue arbore une livrée noire/rose sur les parties supérieures et blanc/rose sur les parties inférieures.
C’est un oiseau très social qui évolue la plupart du temps en petite troupe de 4 à 15 individus dans les
J'au un tronc d'arbre sur la queue ! comment je fais pour partir ?
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