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Margeriten in unserem Garten.
Die Margerite ist ein Bienen- und Schmetterlingsmagnet.
Immer dann, wenn ich meine Kamera weggepackt hatte, waren die Bienen und Schmetterlinge da.
Daisies in your garden. The daisy is a bee and butterfly magnet. Whenever I put my camera away, the bees and butterflies were there.
Although common in much of its range, the American Bittern is usually well-hidden in bogs, marshes and wet meadows. Usually solitary, it walks stealthily among cattails or bullrushes. If it senses that it has been seen, the American Bittern becomes motionless, with its bill pointed upward, causing it to blend into the reeds. It is most active at dusk. More often heard than seen, this bittern has a call that resembles a congested pump.
This bittern winters in the southern United States and Central America. It summers throughout Canada and much of the United States. As a long-distance migrant, it is a very rare vagrant in Europe, including Great Britain and Ireland.
I found this one along Peavine Road in Osceola County, Florida.
Ruffs (Calidris pugnax) are medium-sized waders that belongs to the group of sandpipers which lives and breeds in wet meadows, grasslands and marshes. Although the population worldwide is stable, In Europe they are under threat due to loss of habitats, and they are protected species in the UK. They are typical migrants with over a handful breeding pairs.
The common English name of this species originates between analogy of a male’s brightly feathered or white head tufts and a ruff, a decorative neck-wear collar fashionable in mid-16th till mid17th century, as can be seen here. The scientific genus name ‘Calidris’ attributed to the Ancient Greek words ‘kalidris’ or ‘skalidris’ used to describe some grey-coloured waterbirds. The specific epithet ‘pugnax’ translates from the Latin as ‘fond of fight’ or ‘aggressive’ and refers to a male’s behaviour during mating period..
This mage was taken in the waterscape aviary, recreating a large marshy area under the net. It provides a unique opportunity to observe closely UK waders and waterfowl which are under threat due to reduced natural habitat. Slimbridge Wetland Centre near Dursley. Gloucestershire; England; UK.
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Tarryall Reservoir with Eagle Rock and the Mosquito Range. Eagle Rock has an active Golden Eagle eyrie.
Common Moorhen / gallinula chloropus. Salthouse, Norfolk. 12/03/22.
'GATE WALKER.'
I think this behaviour might have been an avoidance tactic. There were another two Moorhens on the grass below the gate and there had already been a few confrontational spats.
The colors on this bird point that he was in full plumage attracting a mate. This is a glossy Ibis in a display of full plumage colors.
The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a water bird in the order Pelecaniformes and the ibis and spoonbill family.
Glossy ibises feed in very shallow water and nest in freshwater or brackish wetlands with tall dense stands of emergent vegetation such as reeds, papyrus or rushes) and low trees or bushes. They show a preference for marshes at the margins of lakes and rivers but can also be found at lagoons, flood-plains, wet meadows, swamps, reservoirs, sewage ponds, paddies and irrigated farmland.
Northern Lapwing / vanellus vanellus. Titchwell, Norfolk. 23/10/21.
Part of a large scattered flock and for once, all remarkably grounded and relaxed! This image was made from some distance, but still the Lapwing's colours shone through.
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Barn Swallow / hirundo rustica. Bawdsey, Suffolk. 27/04/23.
'A WELL DESERVED REST.'
I had watched this Swallow (and others), busy gathering nesting materials from the ground. After collecting wet mud from puddle edges, plus dead grasses, it perched up and had a well deserved rest. I particularly like the eye in this image, it was barely able to stay open!
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Common Moorhen / gallinula chloropus. Derbyshire. 09/02/23.
Captured as it foraged along a hedge bottom.
This Moorhen was gripping thin green grass blades in its beak but had also gathered a tangle of dead material around its beak.
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Caltha palustris, commonly known as marsh marigold, is a small perennial plant, up to 50 centimetres tall, glabrous, with intense yellow flowers, belonging to the Ranunculaceae family and widespread throughout the northern hemisphere.
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Zomerklokje (Leucojum aestivum) Sideview of a Summer Snowflake. Picture taken on a flooded area in the river Vecht.
...in a nature reserve (floodplain) that is naturally flooded in winter which results in moist meadows in spring and summer.
Floodplains are so pretty and helpful for everyone who lives close to a river: www.nature.org/photos-and-video/video/what-is-floodplains...
Barn Swallow / hirundo rustica. Bawdsey, Suffolk. 27/04/23.
'HOMEMAKER.'
No prizes for guessing what this beauty had been doing!
By late April the first Swallows were back at their traditional nesting site on the Suffolk coast. When I visited, the area was charged with activity - agile flybys, rapid chases, mating attempts and exuberant chattering songs.
Some birds had wasted no time in preparing/repairing nests for the breeding season and this bird pictured was one of them. Here it is taking a little time out from gathering wet mud from the edges of puddles. I love the thin streaks of mud on its forehead and chin, not quite a mud pack, but getting there!
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🇫🇷 De la rosée en nappe
Une promenade au petit matin dans une🌳prairie humide🌳d'altitude permet de découvrir entre les herbes des toiles d'araignée couvertes par la rosée. C'est alors un monde rutilant de gouttelettes qui s'offre à notre regard, où la magnificence des reflets éclate lorsque les premiers rayons du soleil apparaissent.
Cette photographie a été prise au bord de la tourbière de l'Arselle (Isère), alors que je cherchais quelque libellule engourdie.
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🇺🇸 ️The dew as a tablecloth
A walk in the early morning in a humid🌳prairie🌳d'altitude allows to discover between the grasses spider webs covered by the dew. It is then a world gleaming with droplets which offers itself to our glance, where the magnificence of the reflections bursts when the first rays of the sun appear.
This photograph was taken at the edge of the Arselle peat bog (Isère), while I was looking for some numb dragonfly.
Milieu naturel, écosystème :🌳prairie humide, mégaphorbaie et roselière🌳(source : "A la découverte des fleurs des Alpes (Parc National des Ecrins)"
Natural environment, ecosystem:🌳wet meadow, megaphorbia and reedbed🌳
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This unusual scruffy looking flower is, in its own way quite pretty, and grows in damp soil, bog gardens, wet meadows or marshy ground and it flowers between May to July. This plant is not edible for humans and even rabbits and deer will not eat it, also the roots are toxic to fish but it is a favourite food for moths larva. The plant is clever in its own way that the stalks have fine downward pointed hairs which prevent small insect such as ants climbing up the stalk and attacking the flowers. These plants self seed in the wild but you can sow the seeds yourself in seed trays but you always need to keep the growing medium damp and then when the plants are large enough you can plant them out. An interesting fact I found out when looking up this plant was that the roots contains Saponins which is a soap substitute that can be used for washing clothes and hair etc and to extract this substance you need to boil the roots in water.
Meadow Buttercup / ranunculus acris. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 28/04/16.
In the absence of sunshine, warmth and butterflies of late, I had to embrace Spring for what it was.....frosty!
The first buttercup I have seen this year and found just after dawn at a local site. Whilst looking pretty in its coat of ice crystals I hope that the warmer temperatures promised this week will allow it to stand proud and tall again. Better still, with an Orange Tip perched atop it.
A small alpine tarn reflects diffuse afternoon light just below Mitchell Lake (10,730 ft.; 3,270 m) on the east side of the Continental Divide, as Parry's Primrose (Primula parryi), Marsh Marigold (Caltha leptosepala), and Alpine Laurel (Kalmia microphylla) crowd the boggy foreground, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado. This is a hand-held focus-stack of 3 images.
On this particular Monday the 3rd of July, truly an orphan among Mondays, falling as it did right before the 4th of July, I contented myself with the idea of skiving off work, and seeking the high-country with my family. If ever a day were made to engage in the most corporate of flex-time policies, this would be it. An orphan of opportunity.
To fulfill this vision of abdication of one's typical responsibilities, I packed a lunch, a light alcohol stove for making hot tea, a pot, a wee bit of milk, a couple of drinking vessels, quite a few pounds of camera equipment, and a small bushel of jackets and sweatshirts into my full size backpacking rucksack. I figured I might as well be the mule since it was my idea, and I typically enjoy the prospect of said labors.
At this point in the journey, we were returning hastily to the car as a mass of fast-moving grey clouds crossed the heights of the Divide to the west and began to darken ominously. We skipped over large patches of snow in the trail, and in the distance I saw the pink from this wet meadow drawing my eye. I slid down a shallow-sloped snowbank, carefully negotiated a few willows, and was greeted to this suddenly calm scene. The wind had unexpectedly died moments before, for no particular reason.
Frog Orchid / dactylorhiza viridis. Barnack Hills and Hollows, Cambridgeshire. 04/07/21.
'A SEARCH WELL REWARDED.'
To locate 5 x Frog Orchids last weekend involved a meticulous search, despite me having a map and directions to the general area they grew in!
This is one of the little beauties I saw, standing at the dizzy height of just 5cms! The FOs were growing in close proximity to each other, on a slope of calcareous grassland in a medieval quarry. All of them had beautiful reddish sepals which was particularly pleasing, as a previous Frog encounter was with an all green plant.
Barn Swallow / hirundo rustica. Bawdsey, Suffolk. 27/04/23.
A small number of Swallows were back at their traditional nesting site by late April. Courtship, mating and nest building were already in full swing when I visited. Several large puddles were well filled and offered soft, muddy edges.
This individual had a loaded beakful of mud and dry grasses and was about to fly to its nest close by in the World War II bunkers. What a gem of a bird and so industrious.
Watching all the activity was fascinating and addictive. As a result I spent most of the day on site, with rarely a dull moment!
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Common Moorhen / gallinula chloropus. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 10/09/21.
'THE PERFECT MODEL.'
There's something about a Moorhen's eye that, - for me anyway - makes photographing them obligatory! This confiding individual made the task easy as it perched on a rock in the shallow water margin.
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Barn Swallow / hirundo rustica. Bawsey, Suffolk. 27/04/23.
'THE RAW MATERIAL.'
This industrious homemaker had gathered a good beakful of wet mud from the edge of the puddle. It was nesting in a nearby World War II bunker, so was making use of this plentiful raw building material.
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Northern Lapwing / vanellus vanellus. Private marshes, Suffolk. 09/03/18.
A second confiding Lapwing photographed on the marshes and a welcome bonus to a day primarily devoted to Brown Hares.
Notoriously flighty and easily disturbed, it was a joy to be able to point the camera lens at such a beautiful plover. Unfortunately, by the time we met up with this individual, the clouds had rolled in and it was raining, thus it had temporarily lost its glossy, iridescent look.
There weren't great numbers of Lapwings around. Any encountered were loosely associating as pairs. I'm guessing this was a prelude to the breeding season which is late this year.
Wild Snake’s Head Fritillarie (Fritillaria meleagris) Among the cuckooflowers (Cardamine pratensis), bloom in the dewy grasslands near Zwartewaterland, Overijssel, the Netherlands. This rare and delicate species thrives in the moist, nutrient-poor meadows of the Zwarte Water floodplain — one of the few places in the Netherlands where it still occurs naturally. The area is known for its traditional hay meadows, which are managed in a way that supports these vulnerable spring bloomers.
Elephant heads (Pedicularis groenlandcia) grow in a wet meadow near Reflection Lake in Mount rainer National Park, Washington. It is a distinctive member of he lousewort family.
Barn Swallow / hirundo rustica. Bawdsey, Suffolk. 14/06/21.
The Swallow was nesting in a derelict World War II bunker close by. It had a hungry brood to care for, judging by the frequency of it's visits with a bulging crop.
Here it is captured taking a well earned rest between feeding forays. So confiding and a pleasure to share time with.