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About the size of your fist, this tiny Elf Owl is the smallest owl in the desert southwest. It's on display live in an outdoor naturalized setting at the Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Somewhat uncommon and local.
Behind my house, into the next valley, to the south east.
This wee burn, (stream), has played host to many of my friends and family members over the years. A wonderful place for a picnic, wildlife exploration and/or an exhilarating wee dip/skiddle in the clear, chilly water.
I love this place!
Stinchar Valley,
SW Scotland
European Tree Creeper [Certhia Familiaris]
Thrilled to see this little guy at The Pixies...He’s been appearing, infrequently, over the past few weeks. I have lots (!) of very blurry shots of him in various poses and on various trees around the area. Today, his spouse appeared too! Beyond excited as this could mean little ones are on the way.
Here, he had been flitting around, among the other wee birdies - chaffinches, blue, great, and coal tits, and nuthatches, and I managed to grab this quick shot of him scooting up this moss-covered branch. Mrs TC appeared with a peanut in her beak, just after this.
At The Pixies
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
cropped
Young male chaffinch. [Fringilla coelebs]
He looks to be having some trouble with half a peanut...Should have stuck to the sunflower hearts which are on various other feeders around him!
There haven’t been very many songbirds visiting The Pixies, recently. There seems to be a sparrow hawk hanging around down here, most days, so perhaps the wee birdies are scared to come out of the trees.
At The Pixies
South Carrick Hills
SW Scotland
While we were photographing song birds, this tiny mouse popped up out of the snow to grab a few sunflower seeds.
Cute critters. He looked kind of bashful in this pose as he watched me approach for a photo. I didn't get too close.
I'll catch up with you all later. Have a good Saturday!
The Wee Jasper Bridge over the Goodradigee River, near Yass, NSW. Because of the Covid 19, the local store is closed, the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary is closed and Careys Caves is closed. The scenic countryside and roads are open. 😊
Flower Spider (?)
I spotted this wee spider in the garden this morning.
I think it is one of the Flower Spider varieties.
Little Grebe - Tachybaptus Ruficollis
Rodley Nature Reserve
Thanks as always to all those kind enough to stop by to view, fave and comment on my photos. It is as always most appreciated and welcome.
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Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie!
This is the first line from a poem written in 1785 by the Scottish poet Robbie Burns. Although the title of the poem is To a Mouse (apparently written in sorrow having accidentally destroyed the home of a mouse while ploughing in his field), much of the poem could be applied to a wee snail!
For Macro Mondays theme 'Book'. This wee book is a collection of poems by Robbie Burns, dating from 1913. You might wonder why I would put a snail on such an antique book, but the cover was easily wiped off and care was taken to not allow the snail to come into contact with the thin, delicate pages.
No snails were ploughed or otherwise harmed in the making of this photograph.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "Phobia". (Aichmophobia = Fear of needles or pointed objects or Algophobia = Fear of pain)
Shot with a Fuji "Fujinon-EFC 49.9 mm F 5.6" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
I suspect this little Piney knew I was there but couldn't quite work out where I was (Phil Hatcher's hide is so well set up). Anyway Pine Martens are not so cute. I've heard stories in these parts of Pine Martens destroying whole flocks of hens and eating squirrels too, and anything else they can get their teeth in to. Although I read red squirrels are at less risk than greys as reds have lived with the threat of pine martens for hundreds of thousands of years whereas the new invasive species of grey squirrels hasn't yet learnt how to detect and escape teh pine martens. Only last night down at Castle Tioram I was hearing about the risk to small dogs swimming out to get a ball, from seals. And the seals will take sea gulls and other birds off the sea loch surface too.
Tiny wombat joey on Maria Island, Tasmania - absolutely adorable little thing.
Happened about a second after the previous photo, when he tried to climb the little log and bellyflopped on it, because he wasn't adorable enough already.
A coupled pair of emerald damselflies that my mum kindly found for me when we met up last weekend at David Marshall Lodge in Aberfoyle. I think this is the first time I've seen these little beauties.
Asha's second account - Asha's first account
Just a wee picture of Ashala running free on the beach yesterday which I think shows she is at home being a beach babe... P.S...that is sand on her nose she still loves digging holes in the sand and sticking her snout in the hole to have a good sniff...I'm waiting for the day when she sniff out some treasure...lol.
Self explanatory really, except the drop is water not soap. I wanted a clear drop and try the reflection. Now I know how they do this and it's great fun! I even bought some glycerine, whatever next?
Wee Binnian if you can call something wee that is 459 meters tall and weghs god knows how many trillion trillion tonnes! www.glensumnerphotography.com
Photo from: Day of Life #12
How precious is this little one?
[SOOC, f/1.4, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/160]
The Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness at sunset.
From the Nevada BLM website: "The name Wee Thump, or “ancient ones” in the Paiute language, tells the story of these Joshua trees. Growing just half an inch per year on average, the stand is home to some of the oldest and largest Joshua trees on the planet. These ancient ones have grown tall in the silence of the desert, some rising to more than 30 feet over 900 years. "