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A Wall butterfly settled on the coast path between Filey and Scarborough! Happy Wing Wednesday everyone!
The Wall (Lasiommata megera) is named after its habit of basking on walls, rocks, and stony places. The patterned light brown undersides provide good camouflage against a stony or sandy surface.
The Wall favours short, open grassland, where turf is broken or stony. It is also found on dunes and other coastal habitats, as well as disused quarries, derelict land, farm tracks, railway embankments and cuttings, gardens and field edges. It is on the wing in two or three broods, between the middle of April and the end of October. It is widespread in England, Wales and Ireland, but increasingly scarce inland.
The caterpillars use various grasses, including Tor-grass (Brachypodium pinnatum), False Brome (B. sylvaticum), Cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata), bents (Agrostis spp.) Wavy Hair-grass (Deschampsia flexuosa) and Yorkshire-fog (Holcus lanatus).
This is photo from my book 'Winged Encounters' published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin.
The book is dedicated to bird photography and the local birds around Dublin parks and waterways..
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Often seen in rural pastures and even parks in my local area, a neighbours two story house also has them frequenting their roof, no doubt nesting somewhere! Noisy birds, especially at night! More information can be found here: www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz/species/spur-winged-plover
© Dominic Scott 2025
This little guy pitched up on a coconut palm just outside of our kitchen window, we have an upside down house for the views out to sea, luckily I had my camera to hand as I had just uploaded some photos!!! Wow what luck.
C506, 869 and BRM002 work their way up the grade through Wingello with 3242 grade to Maldon.
2021-05-03 SSR C506-869-BRM002 Wingello 3242
One of the most abundant birds across North America, and one of the most boldly colored, the Red-winged Blackbird is a familiar sight atop cattails, along soggy roadsides, and on telephone wires. Glossy-black males have scarlet-and-yellow shoulder patches they can puff up or hide depending on how confident they feel. Females are a subdued, streaky brown, almost like a large, dark sparrow. Their early and tumbling song are happy indications of the return of spring.
Is this a tourist item, or what? Wisconsin's Door County is full of tourist items. Personally, I prefer their cherry products to their imported kitsch although the kitsch is amusing in small doses.
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) male singing away in defence of his breeding territory in a small cattail marsh along the south end of Beaverhill Lake east of Tofield, Alberta, Canada.
4 June, 2017.
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Alsoknown as Blue-winged Siva (Siva Cyanouroptera) is a bird of the Indian Himalayas and Myanmar. Similar Sub-species can be found in Thailand and Southern parts of China, Malaysia and Vietnam. This pretty bird can be spotted inbroad'leaved forests and land bordering forests. Sattal, District Nainital, Uttarakhand, India
White-winged Chough, Corcorax melanorhamphos
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A Chough family is of to an early start on their communal nest. Each bird flys in with its material and then patiently waits on the branch for its turn to add its piece.
Then they all fly off, with much calling, to collect more.
They will all take turns sitting on the eggs and feeding the young.
Sometimes Santa finds an amazing Christmas present, and sometimes, just very rarely, an awesome present finds Santa.
From what I understand, Santa was all done with gathering suitable presents for the children of this house, but one boy was one present short. Searching for the perfect Lego present just came up blank, and shop after shop Santa's helpers searched before announcing that they needed to give up. Then almost as if the Force made its calling, this Star Wars model X-wing was found. Not just any X-wing, but this was Poe's X-wing ... yes this was the one.
So when Christmas came, this X-wing got to fly on many special missions. This is just a quick shot I captured while it was flying in the Outer Rim, yes the Milky Way is largely uncharted in Star Wars legend. It was a long time ago and it was in a Galaxy far far away afterall.
It was caught changing direction here - thus the unusual leg positioning.
These are still considered "rare" in this locality, but they have been numerous around my place for years now.
North Peak, Cuyamaca Mountains, California
October 20, 2025
The yellow-winged blackbird (Agelasticus thilius) is a species of bird in the family Icteridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Its natural habitats are swamps, intertidal marshes, and pastureland.
For The Weekly Alphabet Challenge - M for metal.
Taken on our way to Washington DC. I am tagging along on a business trip for my husband.
The white-winged chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) is one of only two surviving members of the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, and is the only member of the genus Corcorax. It is native to southern and eastern Australia and is an example of convergent evolution as it is only distantly related to the European choughs that it closely resembles in shape, and for which it was named.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-winged_chough
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Die Weißflügelkrähe (Corcorax melanorhamphos) ist eines von nur zwei überlebenden Mitgliedern der australischen Schlammnestbauerfamilie Corcoracidae und ist das einzige Mitglied der Gattung Corcorax.
Es stammt aus Süd- und Ostaustralien und ist ein Beispiel für konvergente Evolution, da es nur entfernt mit den europäischen Dohlen verwandt ist, denen es in seiner Form sehr ähnlich ist und nach denen es benannt wurde.
Mehr lesen: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-winged_chough
Some of us are old enough to remember when nearly every car had a wing window that could be opened for ventilation. They have disappeared thanks to air conditioning and the need for more streamlined cars. This one is on a 40's era Ford and the safety glass has deteriorated, resulting in embedded shapes and colors. HWW