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One from last spring when I had a tiring but interesting day looking for these birds, tiring thanks to lugging the 500 f4 all the way up from the car park below the eastern tip of the Edge, instead of walking across level ground from the road at the top... This female was quite wary as I tried to stake out the birds, but the male she was with proved much more elusive.
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From a palm tree that produces small coconut like fruit. The trunk and fronds are covered with these thorns. They are up to six inches long and extremely sharp. The theme "tip" for today's Looking Close on Friday group inspired this photo.
I photographed this little Palm Warbler last week during Spring migration at Chicago's Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary.
Texture: The Daily Texture and Topaz Impression
HTT
Disgusting !!!!! - Fly tipping in Red Beck Valley
A lovely little valley and then some ********* come and dump this over a wall ......
Reported to our Local Council
Another slide restoration from the 1990s, this one showing the waste from slate mining in Wales.
Today of course, such waste is a valuable asset with many uses.
Das aus drei unterschiedlich großen Bürohäusern bestehende Ensemble bildet mit seiner markanten Spitze eine neue Adresse am südlichen Ende des Potsdamer Platzes.
The ensemble, consisting of three office buildings of different sizes, forms a new address at the southern end of Potsdamer Platz with its striking tip.
did try to put the Tears for Fears track here (tipping point) but for some reason I keep on getting a bad link - so I shall hum instead -----^^
I like this image so much because of the beautiful gradient of the sky and the great color of the lights...but it was ruined by the bright lights brought by that Halogen Lamps on the roof.. any tips on how to improve this kind of thing?
Aurorafalter / Orange tip / mariposa aurora / L’Aurore
Anthocharis cardamines
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Gannet - Morus Bassanus
Bempton Cliffs
The gannets are large white birds with yellowish heads; black-tipped wings; and long bills. Northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, having a wingspan of up to 2 metres (6.6 ft). The other two species occur in the temperate seas around southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand.
Gannets hunt fish by diving into the sea from a height and pursuing their prey underwater. Gannets have a number of adaptations which enable them to do this:
no external nostrils, they are located inside the mouth instead;
air sacs in the face and chest under the skin which act like bubble wrapping, cushioning the impact with the water;
positioning of the eyes far enough forward on the face for binocular vision, allowing them to judge distances accurately.
Gannets can dive from a height of 30 metres (98 ft), achieving speeds of 100 kilometres per hour (62 mph) as they strike the water, enabling them to catch fish much deeper than most airborne birds.
The gannet's supposed capacity for eating large quantities of fish has led to gannet becoming a description of somebody with a voracious appetite.
Gannets are colonial breeders on islands and coasts, normally laying one chalky, blue egg. Gannets lack brood patches and they use their webbed feet to warm the eggs. It takes five years for gannets to reach maturity. First-year birds are completely black, and subsequent sub-adult plumages show increasing amounts of white.
The most important nesting ground for northern gannets is the United Kingdom with about two thirds of the world's population. These live mainly in Scotland, including the Shetland Isles. The rest of the world's population is divided between Canada, Ireland, Faroe Islands and Iceland, with small numbers in France (they are often seen in the Bay of Biscay), the Channel Islands, Norway and a single colony in Germany on Heligoland. The biggest northern gannet colony is on Scotland's Bass Rock; in 2014, this colony contained some 75,000 pairs. Sulasgeir off the coast of the Isle of Lewis, St. Kilda, Grassholm in Pembrokeshire, Bempton Cliffs in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Sceilig Bheag, Ireland and Bonaventure Island, Quebec are also important northern gannet breeding sites.
Young gannets were historically used as a food source, a tradition still practised in Ness, Scotland, where they are called guga. Like examples of continued traditional whale harvesting, the modern day hunting of gannet chicks results in great controversies as to whether it should continue to be afforded exemption from the ordinary protection afforded to sea birds in UK and EU law". The Ness hunt is currently limited to 2,000 chicks per year, and dates back at least to the Iron Age. The hunt is considered to be sustainable, as between 1902 and 2003 Gannet numbers in Scotland increased dramatically from 30,000 to 180,000.
Population:
UK breeding:
220,000 nests
You can just see the orange edge of this male Orange Tip wing, the first one of the year for me. This was taken late yesterday afternoon, it was to cold for it to fly, and as the temperatures went down to -4 here last night it was still there this morning. It hasn't got much better through the day, and it is still there now on the end of this white lilac bud,
Rusty-tipped page (Siproeta epaphus) or brown siproeta, is a New World butterfly that lives all year in tropical habitats. Seen at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Butterfly Jungle
The Orange Tips have been around in my garden for a while now but this is the only one I've seen land, fortunately I had the camera at the ready, extender and all!!
Anthocharis cardamines (OrangeTip) is a small butterfly belonging to the Pieridae family. They emerge in early April. The males can be easily recognized by the orange tips of their wings which the females don't possess. They can be found throughout Europe and temperate Asia as far as China.
Kennesaw Mountain. 8/9/2017.
Notice the green tinged feather tips on the black crown. This wouldn't be so prominent in a fall adult male. Also in an adult male the black on the throat would reach the bottom of the lower beak, and this bird has some yellow feathering there. A minority of adult females have a rather full hood, and can look similar to males. Notice the beak is more brown in fall birds of this species as opposed to a black bill in spring birds. Many warbler species sport a lighter bill color in the fall.
This young bird is in fresh fall plumage. Adult birds replace all feathers prior to migration, which is a good thing since many are worn from frequent trips thru vegetation to feed young. First fall birds like the one above don't replace wing or tail feathers this first molt, which is not so crucial as the feathers are fairly new anyhow. This partial molt of first fall birds often allows one to see what is called a molt limit. This is perhaps easier to see in birds with wing bars, but the alula, and adjacent primary coverts can give a clue as well. If not sure where the alula and primary coverts are in the image above a quick google search, or a glance at a bird guide should help. You can see how dark the alula and primary coverts are in comparison to the fresh olive plumage directly adjacent and closer to the face.