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This bee-eater succeeded in getting a nice afternoon snack.
Este abejaruco tuvo éxito al obtener una buena merienda.
leider war er wieder erfolgreich, aber das ist die Natur!
sparrowhawk with prey
unfortunately he was successful again, but that's nature!
it jumped around Mevagissey harbour collecting ants
sie hüpfte durch den Hafen von Mevagissey und pickte Ameisen auf.
I rarely get to capture butterflies successfully but was fortunate to have fast shutter speed already set up. And hand held for me is most unusual. This was taken on a lovely walk through Roddlesworth Nature Trail, Lancashire.
If you're out for a country walk and you see any of these thistle type flowers with the purple heads, stick around if you're after butterflies because they do seem to be drawn to them.
FC Barcelona (also known as Barça) is a Spanish football club based in Barcelona (Spain). The club is one of the most successful football clubs in Spain and in the world. The club's stadium is Spotify Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe.
Great White Egret - Ardea Alba
The great egret is generally a very successful species with a large and expanding range, occurring worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. It is ubiquitous across the Sun Belt of the United States and in the Neotropics. In North America, large numbers of great egrets were killed around the end of the 19th century so that their plumes could be used to decorate hats. Numbers have since recovered as a result of conservation measures. Its range has expanded as far north as southern Canada. However, in some parts of the southern United States, its numbers have declined due to habitat loss, particularly wetland degradation through drainage, grazing, clearing, burning, increased salinity, groundwater extraction and invasion by exotic plants. Nevertheless, the species adapts well to human habitation and can be readily seen near wetlands and bodies of water in urban and suburban areas.
The great egret is partially migratory, with northern hemisphere birds moving south from areas with colder winters. It is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.
In 1953, the great egret in flight was chosen as the symbol of the National Audubon Society, which was formed in part to prevent the killing of birds for their feathers.
On 22 May 2012, a pair of great egrets was announced to be nesting in the UK for the first time at the Shapwick Heath nature reserve in Somerset. The species is a rare visitor to the UK and Ben Aviss of the BBC stated that the news could mean the UK's first great egret colony is established. The following week, Kevin Anderson of Natural England confirmed a great egret chick had hatched, making it a new breeding bird record for the UK. In 2017, seven nests in Somerset fledged 17 young, and a second breeding site was announced at Holkham National Nature Reserve in Norfolk where a pair fledged three young.
In 2018, a pair of great egrets nested in Finland for the first time, raising four young in a grey heron colony in Porvoo.
I have now successfully completed the production of NEOJAPAN products and the installation of the booth, and at the same time, I am working on the new city.
The entire sim is owned by DJ CAMEL, who regularly hosts music events.
Please come visit us anytime. Also, please feel free to use our cyber photography anytime.
SEED CITY is a CITY with a night image, good environment with material setting.
The city includes exclusive near-future cyberpunk elements after the rain.>3
We are still working on it and will keep updating it, but you can already enter the city. Please come anytime.
SEED CITY
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ZEROICHI main store
Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The giant otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) is a South American carnivorous mammal. It is the longest member of the Mustelidae, or weasel family, a globally successful group of predators, reaching up to 1.7 m (5.6 ft). Atypical of mustelids, the giant otter is a social species, with family groups typically supporting three to eight members. The groups are centered on a dominant breeding pair and are extremely cohesive and cooperative. Although generally peaceful, the species is territorial, and aggression has been observed between groups. The giant otter is diurnal, being active exclusively during daylight hours. It is the noisiest otter species, and distinct vocalizations have been documented that indicate alarm, aggressiveness, and reassurance.
The giant otter ranges across north-central South America; it lives mostly in and along the Amazon River and in the Pantanal. - Wikipedia
"The “giant” Canada Goose, bred from central Manitoba to Kentucky but was nearly driven extinct in the early 1900s. Programs to reestablish the subspecies to its original range were in many places so successful that the geese have become a nuisance in many urban and suburban areas. At least 11 subspecies of Canada Goose have been recognized, although only a couple are distinctive. In general, the geese get smaller as you move northward, and darker as you go westward. The four smallest forms are now considered a different species: the Cackling Goose." Cornell Lab of Ornithology Photograhed in the wild, Rideau River, Ontario, Canada.
...the more Successful the Picture.
- Alfred Hitchcock
This Bad Boy is the Villain of my feeder. He seems to know exactly when I put out bird food of the type he likes. Within minutes, he’s marauding around the feeder throwing food-bits left and right until he discovers the treat he is looking for : )
American Crows are large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices. They are common sights in treetops, fields, and roadsides, and in habitats ranging from open woods and empty beaches to town centers. They usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything – typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit but also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests.
American Crows congregate in large numbers in winter to sleep in communal roosts. These roosts can be of a few hundred up to two million crows. Some roosts have been forming in the same general area for well over 100 years. In the last few decades some of these roosts have moved into urban areas where the noise and mess cause conflicts with people.
Young American Crows do not breed until they are at least two years old, and most do not breed until they are four or more. In most populations the young help their parents raise young for a few years. Families may include up to 15 individuals and contain young from five different years.
Crows sometimes make and use tools. Examples include a captive crow using a cup to carry water over to a bowl of dry mash; shaping a piece of wood and then sticking it into a hole in a fence post in search of food; and breaking off pieces of pine cone to drop on tree climbers near a nest.
The oldest recorded wild American Crow was at least 16 years 4 months old when it was recaptured and rereleased during a banding operation in New York. A captive crow in New York lived to be 59 years old.
(Nikon, 500mm + TC 1.4, 1/800 @ f/5.6, ISO 2500)
Sasha and I found this scared and hungry fellow in the dumpster by North Point Marina. The dumpster was very big and he couldn't get out without help.
To find long piece of wood around the marina was almost impossible, so we ran to the woods next to the marina and found old big branch on the ground.
It was very heavy but my 9 year old didn't complain so I didn't :-).
The second we put the branch into the dumpster he came out. I didn't have a chance get my camera.
He looked at us for couple seconds and ran away.
An osprey going home with a good-sized fish. Photographed at John Chesnut Senior Park, Palm Harbor, Florida.
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If you'd like to see more of my osprey images, go to schockenphotography.com. I have many images of eagles and other raptors as well as owls, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, songbirds and mammals and I have a full section on birds in flight which is my specialty.
Every photograph in order to be successful should convey a message to its viewer ... A message sometimes subtle and vague, while others strong and profound.
A frame with a latent underlying message is what we have here ... A photo that consists of two mutually contradictory both physically and symbolically elements that are nevertheless "condemned" by an act of fate to a harmonic, pleasant to the eye and not likely to easily come across elsewhere symbiosis ...
A stony, tiny in size underground blockhouse still stands in one piece against all odds .. A second world war remnant that still holds its "proud" figure intact ... This symbol that reminds us of man's insatiable, hostile and aggressive nature is being "attacked" this time by a fully blossomed almond tree that "decided" to become its long-term partner in life ...
A scene that bears a strong anti-war message, a truly optimistic scene .... Devoted to all of you who are fed up with the unbelievable ugliness that lurks around our lives lately ...
NIKON D90 DSLR with Nikon Nikkor 18 - 55 lens, Manual Mode, shutter speed 1/160 s, ISO 100, f 8, focal length 20 mm, use of HOYA ND X 2 filter, cloudy weather white balance, center weighted average metering mode, HDR processing derived from only one RAW file, no flash, use of tripod ...
Fiery dahlias and prickly Eryngium giganteum as seen at Erddig, Wales.
I think the colour combination is quite successful.
A successful hunt for the Pied Kingfisher - - but the fish is almost as big as him - - he carried this around from one side of the pond to the other; trying to hammer it on a number of different shaped rocks in the hopes of killing it - in hindsight video would have been really good for this but its never where my mind is
After a successful debut issue, I'm proud to present the second issue of XXTRA Magazine - 'The Sophomore Issue'!
You can see all 200+ pages of exclusive editorial content by 15 hand-picked photographers right here! Due to the graphic nature of this issue, you will have to log in/create an account to view this issue.
Cover by Chase Parthicus.
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Thank you to each and every person who participated in this issue and made it even larger and more elaborate than the first! I'm excited to see where the next issue is going to lead. Much love, GV.
Xini Lagoon, Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
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An Osprey successful in catching a fish flies to a tree branch to feed.
The Osprey is a unique bird that is unmistakable when seen at close range. It is the only species in its family, and is found worldwide.
The talons of an Osprey are uniquely adapted for catching and carrying fish. The talon's surface is rough and their toes can be held back, an arrangement seen in owls but not in other dirurnal raptors.
In flight Ospreys are often confused with gulls because of their long wings, which are bent at the wrist. Ospreys however have a bounce to their flight that gulls lack.
Successful Fishing
Eagle with a nice catch on the Susquehanna River in Maryland
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after so many dull, grey, rainy and cold days, we finally get some sunny, cold days. Perfect weather for the peregrine falcon to hunt. In this case a feral pigeon, the main food source for peregrines at this site at the river Rhine in Cologne. I wonder if I can ever witness a peregrine's parakeet-hunt.