About 100 ft. high in the treetop. Photo in the wild taken along the St. Johns River. He has a diet of fish and is one of the best hunters on the river sometimes snatching 2-3 lb. prey from below the waterline. Osprey eyes are very penetrating and see below the water's surface.

early morning fog...Signal Hill, Cape Town

A Great Blue Heron delivers a small stick for the nest as its mate looks on in this reworked version of an image that I posted earlier this year. I was never crazy about the overcast white sky and the gritty look of the plumage in the original photo, so for this week's Sliders Sunday, I've added a blue sky with clouds and applied a painterly processing style. The original is in the first comments box, for those who are interested.

HSS

Captured in my local beech wood.

Sometimes things turn out differently than you think.

On this evening I made multiple exposures from 3 single images of the tree trunks. Before putting my images on flickr, I tend to ask my better half for his opinion. He clearly liked this single image best.

Bergisches Land, Germany

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Northern Pigmy Owl perched in the top of a Douglas fir.

A small bird of the deciduous forest treetops, the sky-blue Cerulean Warbler is hard to see. It nests and forages higher in the canopy than most other warblers.

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Egret in flight.

Ocho Rios, Jamaica

Great Egret settling into the top of a tree in Resoft County Park, Alvin, Texas.

Boat-tail Grackle gracing the treetops in the Everglades. When i saw this blackish bird land in a treetop near me I knew it had color. After a few minutes it spread its beautiful wings in the rising sun.

Following my brief foray into the exotic scenery of Cyprus, in the blink of an eye we're back in.... good old Felixstowe :)

More beach huts....I'd forgotten how much I enjoy photographing them. Normally the whole point is the bright colours of the huts but I preferred this one in black and white.

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Not Ansel Adams, but an image I'm proud of.

Great Egret high in a treetop busy preening itself.

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Created for the Kreative People Group contest Romance

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A scene looking across the Heron Pond at Bushy Park , saw the reflection and with a few sidesteps had the sun shining through the top of the tree !!

.... where THE BIRDS are.

The photo was taken two days ago. It was a rather grey day, just like most of the days this winter. The sun struggled to break through the clouds but most of the time didn't succeed. It was a day with a lot of bird activity, though, and they kept Linus busy. Today the weather is even more disppointing, no sun at all, even THE BIRDS are depressed and stay hidden.

... for Armin Fuchs.

Taken at the Otways Fly Treetop Adventures. Luckily we got in before the lockdown.

Autumn in Kelso Ontario Canada.

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It's not easy being a butterfly in love...

I followed this coupled pair around the field as they were bombarded by other green veined whites and even peacocks, red admirals and tortoiseshells ("oops sorry - wrong species!") all trying to get in on the act.

Finally they found a more secluded spot high in a tree, and if you look carefully you'll see they're not the only ones indulging in a little Spring romance 😉

Green Heron preening high in the tree.

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A young female Anhinga sunning at sunrise from the tree top in the marsh of the 10,000 Islands. A perfect environment for this girl.

European beech

Soundtrack // Bande-son: THE WHITE BIRCH ("The Weight Of Spring"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuxpSqUZr1U

"I did not hear... The shivering sound... Of TREETOPS PUSHING... Up through the ground..."

"The clouds talking with the tree!!! Incantevole !" / "Les nuages parlent à l'arbre. C'est ravissant !" (SASSIX2 / www.flickr.com/photos/91760921@N02/ )

"Addicted to your light I drove straight into this shot, too fast, but the lines of horizon and clouds kept me on track. Just behind the tree I took my exit with a 180..." / "Irrémédiablement attiré par la lumière, j'ai roulé tout droit dans ce paysage, bien trop vite, mais les lignes d'horizon et des nuages m'ont heureusement maintenu sur la route. Et juste derrière l'arbre j'ai effectué un virage à 180 degrés..."

(Massimo RELSIG / www.flickr.com/photos/99574551@N04/ )

Mockingbird perched upon an arborvitae. Male or female, hard to tell visually.

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Nikon Z5 +Samyang 14mm

Appropriate for the location!

From a walk in the woods. Everything is quite gray and wet this December, so I took a look up instead :-)

This is the view that you get when you leave the top of Pucks Glen and start heading downhill towards Benmore..

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In a couple of years time this view will be hidden when the young trees in the foreground will have grown enough to hide it.