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Alert and focused, the young lions fix their gaze on something in the distance, as if already practicing the watchfulness of adulthood.
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Musk Lorikeet
Glossopsitta concinna
Bird Overview: The Musk Lorikeet specialises in feeding on the nectar which is produced by flowering eucalypts, and sometimes also from the flowers of banksias and grevilleas. They collect nectar with their brush-shaped tongues. Musk Lorikeets are usually seen feeding in large noisy flocks in the canopy of eucalypts, often associating with other nectar-feeding birds, especially Rainbow Lorikeets and honeyeaters. The movements of Musk Lorikeets are often correlated with the flowering of trees, with birds appearing when the trees are in bloom, and leaving after the flowering has finished.
Identification: The Musk Lorikeet is a medium-sized, sturdy lorikeet, sometimes seen in large flocks when trees are flowering and often in mixed flocks with other parrots and other birds. They are active and noisy. This lorikeet is mostly green, with a yellow patch at the side of the breast. It has a bright red forehead and band through the eye to the ear coverts. The crown is blue, with females having less blue than males. In flight, brown flight feathers and the golden tail are revealed. Flight is fast and direct, with short angular wings and a medium-length, pointed to wedge-shaped tail.
Songs and Calls: The usual contact call is a shrill metallic screech, higher than the Rainbow Lorikeet, in flight and when perched. They constantly chatter when feeding.
Habitat: Musk Lorikeets are found in tall, open, dry forest and woodlands, dominated by eucalypts and are usually found in the canopy. They are also seen in suburban areas, parks and street trees. They roost or loaf in tall trees away from their feeding sites.
Behaviour: Musk Lorikeets are gregarious, often mixing with other parrots when feeding, including Scaly-breasted Lorikeets, Little Lorikeets and Swift Parrots.
Feeding: Musk Lorikeets feed in all levels of the canopy and are very active when foraging. They eat mainly pollen and nectar from eucalypts using their specialised brush-tipped tongues, but also eat seeds, fruits and insects and their larvae.
Breeding: Musk Lorikeets breed in hollow branches and holes in living eucalypts, often near watercourses. The entrance holes are usually very small, so they have to squeeze in. Eggs are laid on a base of chewed or decayed wood. The female incubate the eggs and both parents roost in the hollow at night.
(Source: birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/musk-lorikeet/?srsltid=AfmB...)
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Passionné par l'astronomie depuis ma tendre enfance, je n'ai jamais été attiré par l'astrophotographie. Ceci n'est qu'une timide tentative de faire une «belle» photo de la lune et rien d'autre.
Nikon D90+MB-D80
AF-S DX Nikkor 3.5 - 5.6 ED VR 18-300mm
300 mm
ISO 800
0 ev
f/8
1/800
Trépied Manfrotto
Déclencheur
Post Prod Aperture 3
Bark at the Moon.
Dies ist die VR Bank in Weißenhorn. Der Bau dieser Bank war für die Anwohner äußerst nervenaufreibend.
Mit diesem Foto gewann ich bei einem lokalen Fotowettbewerb einen Preis und dieses wird bei der Kulturnacht ausgestellt.
Program:Manual
Lens:18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 G VR
F:11.0
Speed:1/250
ISO:100
Focal Length:18.0 mm (35 mm equivalent 27.0 mm)
AF Fine Tune Adj:0
Focus Mode:AF-C
AF Area:Dynamic Area (3D-tracking)
Shooting Mode:Single-Frame
VR:On
EV:-1/3
Metering Mode:Multi-segment
WB:Auto1
Picture Control:Standard
Focus Distance:4.22 m
Dof:inf (1.09 m - inf)
HyperFocal:1.47 m
7/21/2023 Riverfront Park, Columbia, SC
Nikon D3100, Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom-Nikkor 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED
© 2023 R. D. Waters
On a misty morning timber train on its way from Seinäjoki to Kaskinen. Two Dv12 locos hauling 24 wagons full of timber.
VR-HKP - Boeing B-737-2L9A - Dragonair (leased from GPA Group)
at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (HKG)
c/n 22.071 - built in 1979 for Marsk Air -
operated by Dragonair between 1985 and 1993 -
final user was Lignes Aériennes Congolaises as 9Q-CLG -
retired and stored 2015
Long Anna, Heligoland, North Sea
Nikon D750, f/11.0, 1/1500sec, 80.0mm, ISO 400
AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
I don't know if it was just me, but I never felt comfortable trying to get into the Laira depot at Plymouth, any requests in person were frequently denied, or at best, given grudgingly. It was suggested to me that I write before going, but I was never in a position to say on the 12th of next month that I'd be in Plymouth, could I please take a few photos of buses in your depot, most trips being planned a day or two in advance. Hence many of my photos of this depot were from the outside or quickly snatched from the entrance, like this one. Not a lot on show this day apart from this unibus advert VR and an ex LT DMS with Cornish Fairways fleetname.
Woke up to the sound a bear being chased up a tree.
Grundy Lake Provincial Park, Ontario
1 Nikkor VR 10-30mm F3.5-5.6
Nikon 1 V1
zeigt das am Einfahrsignal Hanau Hbf stehende Vorsignal.
RE 54 von Lichtenfels nach Frankfurt (M) Hbf gebildet aus
445 066 ist dort aus Richtung Großauheim (Kr Hanau) unterwegs.
Having been at WWT Slimbridge all morning on the return home I stopped off in the Cotswolds hoping to see a Short Eared Owl
As the afternoon progressed a second Short Eared Owl showed up, quartering the fields.
Short Eared Owls are medium sized Owls with mottled brown bodies, pale under-wings and yellow eyes. They are often seen hunting during the day. In winter, there's an influx of continental birds from Scandinavia, Russia, Iceland to the UK.
Beautiful Henri has been in the garden quite a bit this week, and sometimes plays with Candy & Tiffin. On Thursday I was lucky enough to catch him upside down...
VR-HYO - Airbus A-320-321 - Dragonair (leased from ILFC)
at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (HKG)
c/n 393 - built in 1993 for ILFC/Dragonair -
re-reg. B-HYO in 1997 -
current user is Iran Airtour Airlines as EP-TTA
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Paro, Bhutan.
Taktsang or ‘Tiger’s Nest’ Monastery near Paro. Completed in 1692, the temple hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 metres (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley. The place is highly sacred to the Bhutanese in that they believe Guru Rinpoche, the father of Bhutanese Buddhism landed here on the back of tigress.
Nikon D300; Nikkor AF-S DX 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G VR.
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VR-HOD - Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar - Dragonair (leased from Cathay Pacific)
at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (HKG)
c/n 1043 - built in 1973 for Eastern Air Lines -
to Cathay Pacific in 1987 -
leased to Dragonair between 1990 and 1993 -
final operator was Kampuchea Airlines as XU-600/HS-TLA -
stored at Tucson (TUS) 05/2001 in full Kampuchea colors, minus engines and parts,
b/u TUS 10/03
scanned from Kodachrome-slide