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I was out early morning in Japan near Mt. Fuji. The lake in front of the mountain was covered with fog. Everything looked very washed out. As I walked around the lake, the fog cleared for a moment and I took this handheld shot of one flower amongst the leaves. Just goest to show, there is always something to photograph. It seemed like the flower was showing off. Hence the title.
He entertained me by trying to be faster than my camera, going from feeder to tree to feeder...I missed shot after shot, so this is what you get! lol
Looks to me like a Japanese Maple at the end of this driveway, in tripartite coloring. Sometimes the subject is strong enough to compensate for the setting. HTmT!
Oooh, hopefully the final approach across the ancient ramparts of the Bronze/Iron Age hilltop fort of Caer Caradoc in the spectacular Shropshire Hills.
I kept hearing a Yellow-billed Cuckoo and finally located it perched on a branch nearby. It let me take quite a few photos, which surprised me. What I didn't realize initially was that it had a sizable katydid in its beak. It was almost like it was proud of itself and wanted to show off.
This Cormorant was sitting on the shore displaying his wings while letting them dry. He stood on a rock displaying while Pelicans, Snowy Egrets and Mallards watched and admired. It was so busy and involved in the display that it barely noticed our presence and let us get rather close to get some nice images of it.
A wet grizzly bear shows off the beautiful big salmon she just caught by the river bank. During the fall salmon run a big grizzly can catch and eat 2 dozen or more salmon a day, which helps them put on weight for their winter hibernation. Cariboo Chilcotin, BC.
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I came across these wild peacocks, during my walk, this morning. The male in all his resplendent glory, displaying to his harem ... truly one of nature's more beautiful & eye-catching wonders.
Although I was clumsy enough to accidentally put the camera on the wrong setting, I'm happy at how well it turned out. This guy didn't need to show off his wonderful wingspan quite that much, though...
Although the weather was cloudy with intermittent sun and shadows, I decided to do some birdwatching from the sunroom window for a different vantage point.
It wasn't long before this Ruby-throated Hummingbird flew up, almost in front of me, and perched on this rosebush branch. He was intent on preening, so I grabbed a few shots before he sped off to chase an intruder who'd come too close to his territory.
When looking at my photos later, with all that preening there was this single shot, this one perfect angle, where that tiny patch of feathers on his throat flashed that distinctive ruby red for the camera.
Too much beauty in one thing can cause trouble. (1/2)
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There once was a peacock
named Drool
who was a stunning but strident
young fool.
So given his call
the peahens won't fall
And Drool settles for being
just cool.
Taken at Paignton Zoo while having lunch and shielding our sandwiches from the constant onslaught of greedy gulls - unsucessfully in one instance...
This male Red-breasted Merganser was doing his best to impress a nearby female.
Image created at Point Pelee National Park, in southern Ontario on May 12, 2017
Image cropped for composition
The sun blazed over the desolate, twisted branches of the gnarled oak tree as the red squirrel emerged from the shadows, a furball with a devilish glint in his beady eyes. He was a maniacal maestro of munching, a lunatic acrobat of the canopy. The squirrel, aptly named Nutty Nibbler, swayed precariously from a branch, clinging to it with his hind feet like a booze-soaked trapeze artist teetering on the edge of sanity. He flaunted his circus act to a meager audience of bewildered birds, chittering with glee as he chomped on a pecan the size of his head. Each bite was a wild, primal display of squirrel bravado, and he seemed to revel in the gasps and applause from the other woodland critters. Nutty Nibbler had become the bizarre sensation of the forest, a daredevil of the nut-eating world. He knew his stunts were audacious, but he was a rebel squirrel with a zest for life – and for nuts – unlike any other. As the sun set on that fateful day, Nutty Nibbler remained perched upside-down, ready to face whatever insanity tomorrow would bring to his world of nuts and glory. The forest had never seen such a spectacle, and in that fleeting moment, it felt as if even the trees themselves were holding their breath, waiting to see what wild feat the red squirrel would attempt next.