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More from the archives. These were taken in Slovakia, a while back now. Ive only had one sighting in the UK since taking these shots and that was a surprisingly, right place right time moment when one flew over my garden whilst taking my tools out of the van. A superb addition to my garden list of birds. It was the call that alerted me, then a confirmation as the bird literally circled overhead due to the direction of the wind.
They are fairly common in Slovakia, I would see them everyday when I went for a walk in the area where we lived. I even had them feeding on our balcony in the winter months.
I set up a feeding area in the forest through the winter months, along with some other quality birds these would often turn up, not all the time though. I was still in my early days of photography back then using a Canon 30D/40D and a 300mm lens. I tended to fill the frame with the bird rather than allowing a bit more space in the images. Ive used the help of photoshop in some of these to extend the image around the bird especially the second image....the dodgy looking twig its sat on.
I would hope I would get another opportunity to see and photograph these possibly here in the UK, but chances are very slim. In the summer months in SK if we visit for holidays. Its a different story altogether to get close they are always way up high and very active in flight. An almost impossible target, a bit different in winter with the aid of some yummy sunflower seeds.
If I could revisit this site and set up again now.... with my better equipment and a little more knowledge, oh my what a joy that would be :)
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Surprising habitat.
First winter Little Gull staying around in a field of sheep with turnips and manure. Collins says Little Gulls are seen at coasts and inland waterways. The smallest of the gull family.
Surprisingly, this was the only Spotted Owlet seen on my recent trip to northeast India. This bird was located in a tree at our lodge near Manas National Park in Assam. Usually, these birds are quite common.
The Spotted Owlet is a small owl which breeds in tropical Asia from mainland India to Southeast Asia. A common resident of open habitats including farmland and human habitation, it has adapted to living in cities. It is a relative of the Little Owl (Athene noctua).
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As fuel costs have risen dramatically over the last year; I like many others have taken to turning the heating down or off.
Its surprising how many extra layers of clothing you need when sitting in front of the computer and not moving much.
At least here in the UK its just cold as opposed to parts of the USA and Canada that are currently in the "deep freeze".
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I''ve seen pigeons and crows on the neighbor's roof, but the heron was a real surprise! I watched him for about 15 minutes before he flew away.
What's amazing about nature is how it's always surprising me. This year didn't afford very many snow opportunities in Yosemite, and with these somewhat rare events the most important thing is to just get out there and enjoy the moment. This moment came with a long ride, a few hours sleep in the car before heading out in bitter cold with my crampons and gaitors to try and capture mist falls. Well, not misty really, but what I did end up with is first light reflecting off the granite and illuminating the fresh snow in the foreground. Usually this is an alpineglow effect, something only caught on the peaks of the mountains, so I was pretty surprised out there alone when my feet starting lighting up this strange pale orange color that was almost eerie. It was COLD up there. Ironically I had just come back from Iceland and was completely unprepared. Within 2-3 hours of this shot the snow melted off the entire valley, that's how quick this changes... fleeting moments in life are sometimes all I get, but like a good friend Timothy Poulton said, "You can almost lose yourself in nature."
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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Wishing you all a fantastic weekend of photography - I'm looking forward to your captures. Enjoy!
A surprising start to the Train 925 season in the first week of daylight savings sees a decently madeup train running on time and the possibility of sun to the south.
A quick exit from the evening's planned appointment had me picking up Mr Jokertrekker for the first crack at 925 in six months. We immediately struck cloud but it cleared at Maheno and then took a chance on the Katiki to Shag Point coastline. We were pleasantly surprised to find clear skies and the train arrived promptly, just before sundown.
Might be a good season after all...
2 Oct 2019, Train 925, 925-7241-7226, Katiki, SIMT, NZ
A surprising event on my stream but then we are in winter. This is however not common East Yorkshire snow but proper Arctic stuff. Photographed last December near Thomso in Arctic Norway.
Itโs still a slight surprise for me that I ever agreed to go so far north in winter. This was one trip that was organised by Mary she strangely enjoys snow as long as she does not have to drive. Sorry for the absence of Reindeer
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Surprisingly, this is actually not a black and white image. Here in Alaska, in the winter time the landscape often looks like a monochromatic photo. When the blue skies are covered with gray clouds a photo can look kind of colorless.
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Always great and surprising.
Immer wieder groรartig und รผberraschend, Lisa. :)
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The trees look still like summer, thank the exceptionally warm september. Two days ago the thermometer dropped transiently to 4- 5ยฐC during a cold front, but now it raises again...
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Always great and surprising.
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The theme for "Looking Close on Friday" for the 26th of July is "sea shells and/or snail shells". Now, I would not classify myself as a seaside sort of person. I like visiting the seaside, but I would probably prefer to live a little further inland. I always enjoy a promenade along the corniche or a wander along the sand, and whilst I am doing the latter, I collect shells. This made my choice for the theme this week very easy. However, you may be wondering why these shells are so โsurprisingโ. The surprise is in their size. They may look large, but the largest of all these shells from my collection is only one and a half centimetres in diameter. I do occasionally use them in my miniature tableaus. Rather than sitting in golden sand, they are actually posed in a mound of very special Trรจs Or Sucre Or (golden sugar) imported from France which was a gift to me from a dear friend a few years ago, sprinkled in the middle of a white saucer. Too beautiful to stir into tea, I have used it numerous times for different photographic purposes. I hope you like my choice for this weekโs theme, and that it makes you smile!
I visited a local wildlife sanctuary and was surprised to see this rooster strutting through the grass there. He was not timid and even crowed a few times. : )
Surprisingly, there was no snow at Dorothea, to my great disappointment.
My heating is thankfully now fixed. :-)
Surprising what is possible when you go for it. The fishermen didn't mind me boarding their ships and taking photos with my camera. Imagine doing that in Hamburg harbour. You wouldn't get very far.
In a somewhat surprising move, Pan Am recently decided to repaint GP40-2LW 502 into the most recent iteration of their paint scheme (for EMDs anyway). It's seen here two days after release from the paint shop basking in the afternoon sun at Waterville, being used as a yard air plant for half of the night's WAPO. Given Pan Am's recent focus on GE power, it's surprising that they bothered repainting one of the old GP40s, but it does look pretty spiffy with fresh paint, and a PTC installation on the cab roof.
Every morning before going to school, Clotilde helped her mother by gathering the freshly laid eggs from the familyโs hen house. Still warm, the eggs she gathered from amidst the nests of straw and stray feathers made by their hens were white or brown, sometimes delicately speckled and sometimes not. Then, one morning, close to Easter Sunday, as she hunted around the hen house, Clotilde found a different egg nestled comfortably in the straw, surrounded by feathers of red, bronze and yellow. The egg was a delicate shade of blue, and rather than speckled, it was dimpled all over, like a dew covered leaf. Clotilde gasped as she admired it with reverence as it sparkled and shimmered in the morning sunlight. As she looked at it, she saw the egg move and heard a crack like glass splintering. Carefully Clotilde crouched down to wait and see what fantastic, magical bird would be forthcoming from within the surprising egg she discovered.
Easter represents hope, as do eggs, which also bring the promise of good things to come. Easter eggs symbolise hope, new life, resurrection, and fertility, aligning with both pagan and Christian interpretations of the holiday. We all need hope in the world today, and a reason to smile, find beauty and joy. My wish for you, is that you experience and find all these things!
This egg is actually a wonderful dimpled European glass ornament which I hang along with its pink counterpart every Easter. A friend sends me box of Haighโs chocolate Easter Eggs every year. One year when I went to throw out the box, I rediscovered that it was full of shredded paper packaging, which reminded me of a nest. Inspired, I fetched my blue glass egg and nestled it amongst the paper, but it needed something to make the nest more homely, so I sprinkled around a few of my feathers from my feather collection. I then took the box with nest outside and photographed it in the mid morning sun.
surprising what 2 days in work does to flowers, or is that the sunshine we've had?!
Disappointed that not all the flower detail is in focus, but specifically wanted to try (at least) to focus on the stamen
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Surprisingly, the Owyhee front is over 100% snowpak for the year. There's more up there in those deep canyons and crevices than meets the eye!
A surprising blue jay....I don't know why, but there are two blue jays in my yard who are practically bald. Can someone tell me why?
Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais il y a deux geais bleus dans ma cour qui sont pratiquement chauves. Quelqu'un peut me dire pourquoi ?
Surprisingly a lifer for me! The Silvereye is a common bird but until yesterday at Newport Lakes I had not seen one.
There were surprisingly few people there on July 4th. We almost had the Pond to ourselves. All of the landscaping on the Estate, including Bass Pond, a lagoon, formal gardens, the Conservatory, architectural features, pasturage, and thousands of (now) very old trees, was the brainchild of Frederick Law Olmstead, as well as a forestry program. Olnstead also designed New York City's Central Park. It's a delight to spend time on land that has been lovingly cared for for a very long time. Mother Nature at her abundant best.
Surprisingly we didn't have an overcast tonight which made for a unique picture of Seattle's skyline !
Settings: 32 sec ฦ/7.1 ISO 100 18 mm
Explored on July 12th
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For such large, almost ungainly-looking creatures, bison are surprisingly nimble and deceptively fast. In Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Surprisingly this butterfly which is called "murasakishijimi"(narathura japonica) was energetically flying about today. It was certainly warm. I soon noticed it flying and waited till it perched somewhere. This is the only shot I can upload. It flying away in a twinkle l lost sight of it to my great pity. Though I knew that this butterfly wintered and that it could been seen to bask in the sunshine in winter I was very glad to confirm this fact.