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A dedicated birder, engulfed by a sudden flock of feeding swallows. You can imagine the roar they made.

He seemed reluctant to rush home at the end of the day. So was I.

This male Northern Cardinal played hide-and-seek with me for probably 20 minutes within some dense tree branches as I tried to get a clear shot. Just as I was about the give up and move on, he popped out and landed on this branch, and in great light too. :-)

 

Cliche Saturday, and Our Daily Challenge: "The Best Things In Life Are Free"

 

HCS

 

WAVES ARE BREAKING, on the rocky shore behind the Purple sandpiper, but it is standing firm, reluctant to advance any further towards me from the incoming tide. I must move away to let it carry on feeding!

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Reluctant to release winters grasp, low lying mist and ice feature in this early morning shot of Loch Leven in Fife.

Roseate Spoonbill - In a Tree

 

Very common in parts of the southeast until the 1860s, spoonbills were virtually eliminated from the United States as a side-effect of the destruction of wader colonies by plume hunters. Began to re-colonize Texas and Florida early in 20th century. Still uncommon and local, vulnerable to degradation of feeding and nesting habitats.

 

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This skittish little warbler, the common yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas, Parulidae), never perched for more than a few seconds at a time, but also didn't fly away giving me lots of clicks. Here, he's perched on the stem of common reed (Phragmites australis, Poaceae), perhaps the North American native form (P. australis ssp. americanus).

 

Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area

Leopold Wetland Management District

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Winnebago County, Wisconsin

 

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When it is only 2 degrees an hour after sunrise, you might be a little reluctant to expel the warm air between your layers of feathers to escape getting your photo taken. This Blue jay certainly was!

Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.

There can be unexpected surprises on the rural roads around where I live, cows taking advantage of shade trees among them. These ladies were reluctant to stand aside, clearly I was in their space and not they in mine.

As cold as it looks

The red squirrel has a typical head-and-body length of 19 to 23 cm (7+1⁄2 to 9 in), a tail length of 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8 in), and a mass of 250 to 340 g (9 to 12 oz). Males and females are the same size. The red squirrel is somewhat smaller than the eastern grey squirrel which has a head-and-body length of 25 to 30 cm (10 to 12 in) and weighs between 400 and 800 g (14 oz and 1 lb 12 oz).

 

The long tail helps the squirrel to balance and steer when jumping from tree to tree and running along branches and may keep the animal warm during sleep.

The red squirrel, like most tree squirrels, has sharp curved claws to help it to climb and descend broad tree trunks, thin branches, and even house walls. Its strong hind legs let it leap gaps between trees. The red squirrel also can swim.

The coat of the red squirrel varies in colour with time of year and location. There are several coat colour morphs ranging from black to red. Red coats are most common in Great Britain; in other parts of Europe and Asia different coat colours coexist within populations, much like hair colour in some human populations. The underside of the squirrel is always white-cream in colour. The red squirrel sheds its coat twice a year, switching from a thinner summer coat to a thicker, darker winter coat with noticeably larger ear-tufts (a prominent distinguishing feature of this species) between August and November. A lighter, redder overall coat colour, along with the ear-tufts (in adults) and smaller size, distinguish the Eurasian red squirrel from the American eastern grey squirrel. The red colour is for camouflage when seen against the bark of pine trees.

 

Red squirrels occupy boreal, coniferous woods in northern Europe and Siberia, preferring Scots pine, Norway spruce and Siberian pine. In western and southern Europe they are found in broad-leaved woods where the mixture of tree and shrub species provides a better year-round source of food. In most of the British Isles and in Italy, broad-leaved woodlands are now less suitable due to the better competitive feeding strategy of introduced grey squirrels.

The red squirrel is found in both coniferous forest and temperate broadleaf woodlands. The squirrel makes a drey (nest) out of twigs in a branch-fork, forming a domed structure about 25 to 30 cm in diameter. This is lined with moss, leaves, grass and bark. Tree hollows and woodpecker holes are also used. The red squirrel is a solitary animal and is shy and reluctant to share food with others. However, outside the breeding season and particularly in winter, several red squirrels may share a drey to keep warm. Social organization is based on dominance hierarchies within and between sexes; although males are not necessarily dominant to females, the dominant animals tend to be larger and older than subordinate animals, and dominant males tend to have larger home ranges than subordinate males or females.

 

When I was at Jackson Bottom last weekend, this California Groundsquirrel was on a path ahead of me. it was reluctant to leave the path, so I just settled lower and took shots.

Devils Dyke, Sussex. Joe trying to get my attention "take the bleeding shot will you"

18⅓ year old Flori wishes I'd point the camera elsewhere - HSoS!

...marina

 

she was not happy. take a look at the after below.

 

Happy New Year anyway.

 

We had gone to the beach to photograph patterns of blown sand in the snow but instead, found ourselves on a totally bare sandy beach. Lot's of ice still out on the lake but the snow had gone in less than 24 hrs on the warm sunny day. While waiting to see what the sunset would present, three riders and their horses came down the beach. One of them, a very reluctant pinto (I think that's the horse breed) being ridden bareback, would not cross the stream with any amount of encouragement. Finally, one of the other riders came back across and splashed through again to show how it's done. With some very loud snorts and whinnies the pinto finally went through.

 

Shooting directly into the sun, which is something I'm not fond of doing, there was no time for fine tuning the camera settings for fear of missing the moment. I just went with what I had.

This Song Thrush has been watching the feeders from a distance for a week, edging closer each day. You can only identify the males/females by their song. This one was giving nothing away... I suppose "Mum's The Word"

The Highland Cows always seem to be on the road to Huisinish and very reluctant to move off it.

I am not sure of many things like I used to be.

With the passing of Tom Petty who was very American to the passing of Gord Downie who was absolutely Canadian. It just already seems like a very sad year to me. I am a musician, and I take these deaths to heart. Influences for sure. And there is that fence. The other side.

(Mr. Downies lyrics were quite poetic if anyone likes that)

Happy Fence Friday (I think)

 

Please remember it is Garbage day somewhere.

I went in and asked the staff at Richie's If I could take a picture of their Cinnamon Rolls. The girls unanimously said NO. I said, I guess I'll have to talk to Dick, the owner! I chose to pick my battles. I bought one. Prop was not left uneaten : )

 

Just going over my Christmas pictures and thought I would try and find a snow Christmas picture and I came across this one of Asha with her little elf ears on and I thought she looked like a reluctant Santa's little elf wanting to come in from the cold. I might have uploaded this to my old account so I thought I'd use a frame of a window which I thought worked well for this picture of the reluctant little elf out in the cold and wanting to come in. This picture of Asha makes me smile because of her look, yet I remember taking these pictures and she was happy and looked happy in most of the ones I took but this suited the caption I had in my head. I hope it Asha's expression brings a smile to other people's faces as it did mine...

This fluff ball didn't seem to be taking his modelling career too seriously. Someone should tell him that he lives in the Land of Smiles...

More photos of the red roses near the porch of my mother's home.

 

Please pray I am able to find a lawyer to work with me in taking care of her estate. So far I have had one lawyer who became too busy and several who didn't have time... I am supposed to be seeing another attorney on Friday. Crossing my fingers. I am still having to find ways to pay the mortgage every month. At least I have a buyer already and he helped with the mortgage but is reluctant again until a lawyer is retained, but May is now due again....

Over the fence—

Strawberries—grow—

Over the fence—

I could climb—if I tried, I know—

Berries are nice!

 

But—if I stained my Apron—

God would certainly scold!

Oh, dear,—I guess if He were a Boy—

He'd—climb—if He could!

Emily Dickinson

 

Sometimes you want to say that you are sorry, but you don't get the chance. Then it is too late.

Happy Fence Friday.

IMG_0256 - Mouth of Murchison River - Kalbarri

I wanted Bella to look at the Easter tin on the table - so obviously she chose not to! I tried both persuasion & bribery, but she was very determined.

Happy Easter to those who are celebrating & I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Happy Caturday!

A foggy sunrise is the worst disappointment. So much effort for nothing... but in this case, managed to capture the 10 seconds as the fog lifted and the sun finally broke through. Not quite the reason for getting up at the crack of dawn and trekking up the Langattock escarpment, but at least I didn't come away entirely empty handed.

"She goes shopping and this was the free gift." - Fiona

On the road again, Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware.

I am reluctant to post images I've shot on film on Flickr because frankly they are for the most part very poorly received. That is far more to do with the quality of what I produce shooting on film than with the fickle tastes of the Flickr membership in general. But the truth is I probably shoot more on my film cameras these days than I do with my digital cameras. I just enjoy the slow and methodical process it requires and even if I come home with no more than half a roll of images, to me at least, it is always worthwhile. It feels like a different category of photography altogether, where the process of taking the image provides me with more pleasure than the image itself. I often disappear into London for a few hours with one camera, one roll of film, and one lens and then just walk and look for compositions until I jump on a train and come home again.

 

Anyway, this is shot on B&W film which expired 10 years ago and was taken on my newest analogue gear, a Mamiya 645 medium format camera. The lens is also a Mamiya, a 110/2.8 prime, that equates to something like 70mm in full frame equivalent terms. The camera is definitely old school, fully manual with a waist level viewfinder, no meter (you must use an external meter), and to advance the film and recock the shutter you have to crank a handle on the side of the camera. This model was produced in the mid to late 70s so it's getting on for 50 years old. It's a brute of a camera that you could drop out of an airplane and it would probably survive the fall. It was built to last and it's one of those old cameras that if you are anything like me you just look at it and admire the craftsmanship and the utter quality of the thing.

 

Mamiya 645 1000s

Mamiya Sekor C 110mm f/2.8

Ilford HP4 Plus 125

  

Another recent image taken during a visit to Dubbo Zoo (Dubbo, NSW; Australia) with long time friend and fellow flickr photographer Joe Micallef.

There were a couple of these Blue-faced Honeyeaters hanging around an eating area.

They were reluctant to pose in the same tree or on the same branch for long, but I managed to get this and a couple of others....

Hope you like this one!

Thanks for any comments, views or favorites - most appreciated!

Have a splendid day and week everyone!

One more shot from Rags' birthday party. Bastian prefers eating alone, so this shot needed a little coaxing from Lene... ;)

First posted 10.05.2024 as "Our current trio" for the "Happy Caturday" theme "10.000 Stars" - reposted 12.10.2024 for the theme "Contrary cats".

.Dushara Tatters and Rags, Dushara Cathal Caithlin, (Somali cats) & Bastian (mixed breed), 30.03.2024.

 

Olympus OMD EM5 Digital Camera

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Hundreds of Canada Geese are painfully and reluctantly forced to give up their lounging area for the Minnesota Commercial's Hiawatha District switch job coming up to 37th Street and displacing the birds. As soon as the locomotive passed by, the geese retreated back to their approximate lounging spots once again - a cycle that repeated itself while the train made switch moves up and down in the area around the ADM Atkinson Mill.

the reluctant model

“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”

 

– Dorothea Lange

 

There are times I am reluctant to see flowers begin to droop. Quick! To the freezer with you!

Sunday morning was mild and rainy, and the sun did not come out to play!

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