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Red Glass Crystal
At one time, I was going to get a fursuit, and this was going to be a part of the costume. With the end of driving, the dream will be unfulfilled, and I will only have a few things like this.
Crossbills have specialized beaks evolved to open pine cones so they can remove the nuts with their tongues. The birds migrate around the pole depending on where the pine nuts are plentiful. Cool birds!
This is a picture of a Red Spotted Purple on the ground near the intersection of Telegraph Road and the Wildlife Loop on the North Tract of the Patuxent Research Refuge on the North Tract of the Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland.
Laurel Quad
I'm not usually a fan of changing established English names such as Knot to Red Knot, especially when there is only one Knot species on the planet so it doesn't need differentiating. But I added "red" to these Knot because they are in their breeding plumage, which is actually orange rather than red. But at the turn of the Nineteenth Century we had three Knots on the British list. These were Knot, Red Knot and Ash-coloured Sandpiper, which were juvenile, breeding and winter plumaged Knots respectively. If you look at Thomas Bewick's History of British Birds Vol II (1804) on the excellent Biodiversity Heritage Library you can see for yourself www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ . Although George Montagu, of Montagu's Harrier fame, had published his Ornithological Dictionary two years earlier in 1802, and he sorted all the confusion and reduced the British List considerably in doing so.
These breeding plumaged Knot are probably failed breeders from Greenland or Arctic Canada that had returned to Britain earlier than they would have done if they had nested successfully. I photographed them in flight heading for the Wash at Frampton Marsh RSPB reserve. I used a shutter speed on 1/1250 but that wasn't fast enough to freeze the wing tips.
111/365. Red Crossbill. ODC - Curved. I have never seen one of these before. They are not native to our area in the Summer. I find it very strange that nature would find this beak advantageous. He was very tame. I got within 2 feet of him.
Moment of recognition as he came over the hill...
Red Fox have been displaced by Coyotes in my area. I rarely see them. Dark and rainy day.
Large on black
My stocklist
The Reds seem to have had a very good year, we've never seen so many. This one is already prepared for winter with its ear tufts! Seen at Nairn caravan park.
Outside stairs in a part of building of the hospital of LAVAL.
Escalier extérieur d'une partie d'un bâtiment de l'hopital de Laval.
The red-legged honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyaneus) is a small songbird species in the tanager family (Thraupidae). It is found in the tropical New World from southern Mexico south to Peru, Bolivia and central Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago, and on Cuba, where possibly introduced.Description[edit]
A Red-Legged Honey Creeper spotted on the pacific coast of Chocó Department, Colombia, south of the town of Nuquí in October 2017.
Adult female (left) with male in right background
The red-legged honeycreeper is on average 12.2 cm (4.8 in) long, weighs 14 g (0.49 oz) and has a medium-long black, slightly decurved, bill. The male is violet-blue with black wings, tail and back, and bright red legs. The crown of its head is turquoise, and the underwing, visible only in flight, is lemon yellow. After the breeding season, the male moults into an eclipse plumage, mainly greenish with black wings.
Females and immatures are mainly green, with paler, faintly streaked underparts. The legs are red-brown in the female, and brown in young birds.
The call of red-legged honeycreeper is a thin, high-pitched tsip.
Several subspecies are known. Differences are generally slight, with the Tobago race C. c. tobagensis being slightly larger than the mainland forms for example.
The purplish honeycreeper (Chlorophanes purpurascens), a bird from Venezuela known only from the type specimen, is considered to be an intergeneric hybrid between the green honeycreeper and either the red-legged honeycreeper or the blue dacnis.