Waxwing in the Botanic gardens Glasgow

Reddish Egret

Luftangriff im Mohnfeld

Lila blühendes Mohnfeld bei Laupheim

Greater Yellowlegs

I captured this frame with wide open aperture - creating a soft bokeh that helps to eliminate the background by totally blurring it.

500mm f4G +1.4X @ f5.6

(Taken on Sept., Interpretive Trail, Big Lake, Sturgeon County, Edmonton, Canada))

Thank you all very much for your visits and comments.

A Great Egret looks downstream as it rests on a branch near sundown on a recent evening at McHenry Dam State Park, Illinois.

Happy Wing Wednesday

Monsoon Lightning 2014 Arizona

From the Spring archives, a Great Egret in breeding plumage

HSS

A Kingfisher searches the water in hope that his tea is waiting!

Late in the year for these guys to be making an appearance, but the warmer than average weather and absence of snow allows them a bit longer to forage. His expression suggests he finds it all a bit quizzical but a fine opportunity to stock up.

A Tri-colored Heron recoils after a missed opportunity for a quick meal.

Thanks for your views and comments and have a great weekend!

Great Egret fishing in Waycross, GA.

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Egret/id

Saturday, several of us are gathered at Commonwealth Lake (at safe distancing), waiting for the osprey. Finally, one showed up, and did take the strike position a few times, but never took a dive.

Striated Fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus)

Images today are from a visit to Truganina Park on this day in 2019.

As I wandered along the southern bank of Laverton I met Flickr mate and fellow birder Rodger www.flickr.com/photos/62434662@N05 with a couple of other birders who were on a Birdlife walk in the area. They told me they had heard a Fieldwren further along. Sure enough as walked I heard the call and was happy to see it pop up unto this branch and stay long enough for a couple of shots.

White Ibis, Alligator Breeding Marsh and Wading Bird Rookery, Gatorland, Orlando, Florida

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for Macro Mondays: single use

Grey Heron, Linlithgow Loch.

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Rabbit

Seen in Yorktown, VA

Buy me poses- Dancing on my own

For RIO 2016 Olympic Games

I think the trick is to hit them hard enough!

#20/52, Motion blur, 52 weeks, the 2023 edition

Get the Hell off my lawn.

Style Guide/Link to Salvage Station: Check it out here!

Just wanna go right over to Salvage Station? Click here!

My special Chisholm Creek Park food channel edition comes to an abrupt end when the great egret fails to come up with a fish....

Xylophone

Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Coyote Creek Lagoon

I watched this Snowy Egret make a dozen successful strikes. Each produced a tiny fish, no more than 2-3 inches in length. Lots of nibbles, never a full meal!

Wading out to glue him on the post was the hard bit

Sometimes the fish wins.

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Fui ali . Vamos???

Nao cortei nao fiz nada. Nen reduzi. Ta tudo em alta...

Off I go.

No cuts no signature no nada.

Just a cool picture

Lightning and Strikes over Manila

Strike a pose..

Portrait of a stunning Beaded Gecko (Lucasium damaeum) encountered active on an arid sandplain within the spectacular mallee country straddling the Vic/SA border in southern oz.

Gotta be careful when hot hail strikes in the studio.

I moved overseas a couple of times with work - sometimes you strike lucky, and sometimes you strike very lucky.

We managed to bag the rental of this just-refurbished 100 year old apartment in the Champel district of Geneva which came with original parquet floors, French-style doors, and what I seem to remember as a 12 foot curtain drop. The lift too was in the old open French style. We were lucky because plenty of Swiss were hankering after it, but the owner clearly decided the company I worked for had deeper pockets and would be a better credit risk.

This was taken in 2005 - not too long before we would up sticks again and move to the US Deep South. So out went the smart suits and ties, and in came the short sleeves and khaki slacks - much more my style.

Inevitably you adapt your lifestyle to a new environment and I did miss a lot of things about Switzerland, yet oddly the most enduring one was my daily commute on the number 3 trolley bus.

All credit to Mrs H for dressing the room.

Sorry, no trains in this one.

Taken with a borrowed Canon EOS 350D

8th May 2005

Zeiss 100/2 Makro Planar

Looks like our reservoir is now frozen over. However, it is still a place that delivers marvellous opportunities for terrific compositions. This time in black & white.