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A knight carries spears used in a joust at this year's Michigan Renaissance Festival, near Holly, Michigan. And he's walking beside a high wooden fence for Fence Friday too. :-)
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Male anhinga Everglades, Florida, USA.
No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
― Albert Camus
41:52 Found and foraged – You can go out looking for something to photograph, or it can be something you have already found. Use your imagination…
I always feel like it's a gift from nature when I find a leaf like this, and especially when two leaves are attached together like these two:)
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The Great Egret spears a tasty morsel with it's sharp beak, while hunting in the shallows.
Canatara Park, Sarnia, ON
This is the B&W version of an Anhinga with good sized fish in Shark Valley in the Everglades. The sharp beak of this species is used as a spear for catching fish. This bird swims like a much like a fish under water and has no problem feeding.
Some may be grossed out by the fish speared on the beak, but that is nature.
Perched on a rugged cliff at our continent's most easterly point lies Cape Spear Lighthouse – the oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland.
Cape Spear is a headland located on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland near St. John's in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. At a longitude of 52°37' W, it is the easternmost point in Canada and North America, excluding Greenland.
No Photoshopping or photographic jiggery-pokery going on here., this is a genuine shot
When it comes to conflict over territorial 'rights (especially this time of year when food is in shorter supply) things can quite literally become 'deadly serious'
Godwit's are not the first bird that comes to mind when thinking of life or death combat., but armed with that spear like beak., this picture reveals a very different side to their usually perceived placid nature
I liked the way this spearing branch formed a triangle with the top of the slope. Taken at The Hangings, Whiteleaf, Buckinghamshire.
This image works for Sliders Sunday because it’s a composite. I replaced the fish that was in the original image.
This Great Blue Heron did catch the catfish that you see here. But it kept tossing the fish back down into the muck and mud of the lagoon, and then spearing it again, over and over, despite the fact that the fish appeared to be dead. I watched the heron do this repeatedly for probably 30 to 40 minutes, and I snapped a large number of images while I was watching. On a couple of occasions, the heron appeared to be trying to swallow the fish, but couldn’t get it down.
Anyway, I liked this pose of the heron the best of all of the shots that I took. But by the time I captured this image, the dead fish was completely covered in mud, which detracted from the image, IMO. So I used Photoshop to replace the mud-caked fish with one from an earlier shot that I took when the fish was still relatively clean.
When I left, the heron was still continuing to drop the fish into the mud and re-spear it, so I don’t know how this scenario ended.
For any who are interested, I’m including a close-up of the mud-covered fish from the original image in the first comment.
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Australasian Darter
Anhinga novaehollandiae
Anhingidae
Darters forage by diving to depths of about 60 centimetres, and impaling fish with its sharp, spear-like beak. Small fish are swallowed underwater, but larger ones are brought to the surface, where they are flicked off the bill (sometimes into the air) and then swallowed head-first.
I was observing this big GB Heron fish at low tide. He/she was very successful at catching these large fish. It ate at least two of them in a 30 minute period and continued to fish. It caught a smaller fish too. I have to get a fish book to learn my fish.
This Egret spears a big one but with it stuck on his bill he has to take this one ashore, so it doesn't fall into the water and escape.