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Seagull with his/her landing gear down, approaching crisscrossed wire used as a detterent to keep birds away.
Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns (family Sternidae) and only distantly related to auks, skimmers and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, most gulls were placed in the genus Larus, but that arrangement is now considered polyphyletic, leading to the resurrection of several general.
An older name for gulls is mews, which is cognate with German Möwe, Danish måge, Swedish mås, Dutch meeuw, Norwegian måke/måse and French mouette, and can still be found in certain regional dialects.
Gulls are typically medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls; stout, longish bills; and webbed feet. Most gulls are ground-nesting carnivores which take live food or scavenge opportunistically, particularly the Larus species. Live food often includes crustaceans, molluscs, fish and small birds. Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. Gulls are typically coastal or inland species, rarely venturing far out to sea, except for the kittiwakes. The large species take up to four years to attain full adult plumage, but two years is typical for small gulls. Large white-headed gulls are typically long-lived birds, with a maximum age of 49 years recorded for the herring gull.
Gulls nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies. They lay two or three speckled eggs in nests composed of vegetation. The young are precocial, born with dark mottled down and mobile upon hatching. Gulls are resourceful, inquisitive, and intelligent, the larger species in particular demonstrating complex methods of communication and a highly developed social structure. For example, many gull colonies display mobbing behavior, attacking and harassing predators and other intruders.Certain species have exhibited tool-use behavior, such as the herring gull, using pieces of bread as bait with which to catch goldfish, for example.[ Many species of gulls have learned to coexist successfully with humans and have thrived in human habitats. Others rely on kleptoparasitism to get their food. Gulls have been observed preying on live whales, landing on the whale as it surfaces to peck out pieces of flesh.
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A rainy day with Photoshop instead of camera. For my album "Creativity, Close-up and Macro". Take a look !
Tap? Yeah, I've no idea. Hear more about my sucky brain and it's malfunctions on the blog. Plus! nice things too. readmeri.wordpress.com/2020/10/12/tap/
A sure sign of spring, the Maple Trees in Bronte Creek Provincial Park have been tapped! With more sunshine each day, and as the temperatures rise, so will the sap. Some of it will drip into the pail, be collected, and ultimately become Maple Syrup.
Young Green Heron siblings tap each other’s bill as a social greeting.
These juveniles are still displaying their immature plumage, including the downy fuzz on their heads. I love those green eyes!
Lawton Pond rookery, Sea Pines, Hilton Head Island, USA
This is the handle part of our outside garden tap.
'Handle' for 'Macro Mondays'
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HMM
Macro Mondays: Run
Photographed in morning window light, with a container of detergent reflecting its colour onto the water.
The wall mural and altar outside the entrance to a house in the heritage area of Melaka, Malaysia. Note the water tap and bucket there; water is considered wealth too. Don't know why there are minions there :-)
Handle of a chrome faucet. Very overcast (snowy) day, so the light in the room was pretty well all that was used, thus the brassy tone (which I rather like). At the top of the image the handle measures 1"/25mm, at the base it measures 1.5"/38mm. The small circular piece near the top is approximately 3/16"/4.5mm. The slight blue hue near the base and on the circle is a reflection from a blue glass candle holder on the vanity.
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self." Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
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Submitted for the Macro Mondays theme "Made of Metal".
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For weeks now this guy has been tapping on the kitchen window and singing its heart out on the windowsill. Maybe he has decided that it's not safe out there and wants to come in and self isolate.
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Today I put up a new prop at our woodland feeders and after waiting a while,this Nuthatch came down and posed perfectly!
He didn't land on the Tap but i'm sure he will in time!
Un des nombreux petits coins bien sympathique du parc saint pierre....
Vertorama HDR long exposure, 7RAW, dxo, photomatix 4, cs5
Parc Saint Pierre, amiens, somme, picardie, france
En grad sur fond noir, tapez "L"
Large on black, hit "L"
In search for shiny objects in my house I have found the tap, or faucet how you Americans name it, and when I saw myself through the lens, I thought..well let's take a selfie again. Have a wonderful day!
This out is created by S&P and is available at Uber. IT comes with the Top Hat and Cane, the Leotard, the tights The Tailcoat and the tap shoes! Love it so much.
Pequeña, pequeñita.... 8 cm de altura en total.
Poquito licor cabía....y lo siento, pero alguien se lo ha bebido.
10/2/2019 Big Bend Brewery Alpine, TX
Happened by their location driving in from Marfa. The evening was stormy and the business had been shuttered.
Nikon D610 Nikkor 24-120mm f/3.5-5.6
24mm f/14 0.8 ISO 200
Tap an app and take a nap. Woman texting while relaxing on a park bench near where I live in Esquimalt BC Canada (a Victoria suburb)