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aka Sphinx Moth came to visit this Summer. was pretty friendly. stayed for a cup of tea. really liked the butterfly and fuchsia bushes.
Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
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Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
AKA The harebell, Scottish bluebell, bluebell of Scotland, kissankello (fin).
Taken with Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 50mm F2.8 / APS-C Sensor / Natural Light / Lightroom.
AKA Brown Knapweed, Brown-rayed knapweed, Brown-ray knapweed, Brownray knapweed, Common knapweed, Hardheads, Ahdekaunokki (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 100mm F4 Macro / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Unedited (straight from camera).
Elephants are the main attraction at Tarangire National Park, with up to 3,000 in the park
They never stop moving from water hole to finding places to eat
Found this "Giant" AKA Top Cat walking the Thames Path.
Top Cat is an American animated television series made by the Hanna-Barbera studios that first ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network.
The central character, Top Cat (T.C.) is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats living in Hoagy's Alley: Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo Choo.
Happy Wall Wednesday ;-))
AKA Brown Knapweed, Brown-rayed knapweed, Brown-ray knapweed, Brownray knapweed, Common knapweed, Hardheads, Ahdekaunokki (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 100mm F4 Macro / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Lightroom.
AKA Common sundew, Round-leaved sundew, Pyöreälehtikihokki (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 35mm F2.8 Macro + 30-55mm helicoid (about 2:1 macro) / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Lightroom.
AKA Marsh Labrador tea, northern Labrador tea, wild rosemary, suopursu (FIN).
Taken with Canon FD 100mm F4 Macro / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Unedited (.jpg export from Lightroom).
AKA 'Life on Mars'. :-)
Bit of an abstract landscape this one! Just quite taken with the sense of scale and contrast really.
“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
Quote – Terry Pratchett
~~"I'm the last cat in this little mini-series. Thanks for looking at us. And enjoy this Tuesday. Meow! "~~
Model: origami Persian Cat
Design: Meng Weining aka 212moving
Diagrams in the book 'Origami Moments' by Meng Weining (212moving)
Folded from a 24x24cm piece of gold/silver paper.
Final size: height 9cm, width 11cm
AKA Jäkälä (FIN).
Taken with Canon nFD 50mm F1.4 / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Unedited (straight out of camera).
AKA ox-eye daisy, dog daisy, marguerite, päivänkakkara (fin), ahopäivänkakkara (fin).
Taken with Auto Reflecta 55mm F1.7.
aka Peacock Flower.
Caesalpinia pulcherrima is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to the tropics and subtropics of the Americas. It could be native to the West Indies, but its exact origin is unknown due to widespread cultivation. Wikipedia
Descending the Sir Sandford Fleming Memorial Tower aka 'The Dingle' in Halifax, NS. (Snapped on iPhone 6)
(I feel like there should be some back story of mystery and intrigue to this shot. Problem is, when I hear "Dingle" all I can think of is a funny rhyme my uncle taught us as kids, "Hey dingle-dangle, dingle-dangle-dee. Never let your dingle....dangle in your tea." Must've been a family thing - my dad frequently made up quite similar nonsense poems - and I have to admit, us 'kids' have continued the quirky legacy.)
Taken at Yamba, NSW.
A small white cockatoo native to Australia and southern New Guinea.
Similar in appearance to both the long-billed corella and the western corella, but smaller, and unlike either of those species, it has upper and lower mandibles of more similar length.
AKA Wood Anemone, Valkovuokko (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 200mm F4 / 50mm Extension Tube / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
Astilbe thunbergii (’Aka-shōma’ in Japanese) is a perennial flowering plant in the saxifrage family, native to Japan. Cultivars of garden astilbe were developed from this species and some other wild astilbe species. Taken by the trailside.
AKA Cantharellus tubaeformis (old name), yellowfoot, winter mushroom, funnel chanterelle, suppilovahvero (fin).
Taken with Canon FD 50mm F3.5 Macro / Full Frame Sensor / Natural Light / Lightroom.
AKA Pohjanmesisieni (fin).
Taken with Canon nFD 200mm F2.8 / APS-C Sensor / Unedited (Straight from camera).
Goosander / mergus merganser. Straws Bridge, Derbyshire. 02/12/2022.
A braver Goosander who frequented my local lake in early December, 2022. Here she had just popped up close to the bank after hunting for food underwater. She was one of seven birds present for a few days. The majority of these wary birds stayed in the centre of the lake, well away from passers-by.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.!
Dorsal view of a male Catonephele numilia, the Grecian shoemaker (aka the blue-frosted banner, blue-frosted Catone or stoplight Catone)
A very rare female Cotton Pygmy Goose aka Cotton Teal at Bishan Park.
Note: In Singapore, the Cotton Pygmy Goose is a very rare non-breeding visitor.
*Note: More pics of Birds in my Wild Avian Friends Album.
AKA The Quartz Queen.
2.25 inches top to bottom.
The queen from a small portable (foldable board doubling as container) quartz chess set. A low end-low cost market find in Quito.
Very rare female Cotton Pygmy Goose aka Cotton Teal at Bishan Park.
*Note: More pics of Birds in my Wild Avian Friends Album.