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Beautiful Wings! - Don't Look Back - Beautiful Bird!
Anhinga (adult) - In the Wild - wing-drying - red-eye
Autumn Wetlands - Palm Beach County, Florida USA
Green Cay Wetlands - Boynton Beach, Florida U.S.A.
Florida Wetlands - November 11th, 2025 - 1:59 PM
Autumn 2025 - Palm Beach County, Florida U.S.A.
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - swimming-bird - snake-bird!]
In Florida, people very often mistake the double-crested
cormorant for the anhinga, as they are both swimming birds.
A good way to differentiate; the anhinga has a 'straight-bill'
and the double-crested cormorant has a 'hooked-bill'.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Anhinga/id
---------------------- Happy New Year 2026! ------------------------
Back home to da countryside
Model : Miumiu
Location : Dist. 7
AF 85mm1.4D @ f1.8
Saigon, Vietnam 2010
This photo is one of My 20 Favs +++
Yup, she’s back again but this time she turned around and stared right into the lens. This is one of her favourite perches even in the wet.
We're very lucky that my wife has family on Vancouver Island and that we're able to stay with them whenever we visit Canada. It's also very lucky that they have a very nice garden that attracts some fantastic birds. This includes a few chestnut-backed chickadees which are lovely little birds to photograph
"Now I have to go back to school tomorrow and it will probably be a stressfull time for the both of us. I am going to leave my popper device with you. If you are feeling frustrated because of the sadness, push down on a bubble. Keep doing it until you feel better. If the sadness and worry are still hanging on, look out the window and stare at the clouds. Clouds are good listeners even if your words are hidden deep inside."
Due to a minor derailment in Boston on Wednesday DOBO didn't run overnight. Thursday's New Hampshire Northcoast gravel train ended up making a rare morning run out of Ossipee. Despite being delayed for track work in Rochester, the train made a very early arrival in Dover allowing for this view that is normally shadowed by the time the train arrives. The good news was the GP18 was back out on the road today, the bad news was the FURX unit was leading!
Dover, New Hampshire
September 29, 2016
Having taken centre stage leading the Drax 50 Years 1974 - 2024 Team Red railtour earlier in the day, 66050 Yorkshire Rose is seen later the same day back on freight duties approaching Joan Croft Junction with 4R55 Milford West Sidings to Immingham Biomass.
Last night, I posted a "portrait" of the Egyptian uromastyx, to show what it looks like, uninfluenced by light or camera angle. Now, a few shots showing its more dinosaur-like personality.
Name: Rufous-backed kingfisher
Scientific: Ceyx rufidorsa
Malay: Pekaka Api
Family: Alcedinidae
IUCN Red List (v3.1, 2016): Least Concern
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Muzeul Satului Sibiu/Sibiu Village Museum
This is a shot of Torre Agbar in Barcelona. It was taken back in 2015 on my way back from Valencia. Even in November the weather in Barcelona - just as it was in Valencia was warm with clear blue skies - not at all what I'd hoped for, but you have to shoot what you can - hence the large number of darker shots recently. This is probably the last of them for now. I did manage one day of overcast weather in Barcelona before I headed down to Valencia - but thats for another post.
The strange title has multiple meanings at the moment. My trip to Spain was successful, 1 day Barcelona, then 3 in Valencia and then another day in Barcelona on the way back, but I missed so much that I wanted to shoot - that I really want to head back at some point - the dilema being do I go back to somewhere I've already been or do I go somewhere new - I have a bucket list a mile long. I think new next - but we'll see.
The other meaning is a little more painful. I haven't taken a single photograph in the last 6 weeks - in fact since I came back from New York and I haven't processed anything in that time either. My back has gone again - and thius time its serious enough that I need surgery - next week in fact, and then there a 12 week recovery period - so it looks like its going to be summer before I'm able to get back out with my camera - its really annoying - we had snow yesterday - and allI could do was look at it from indoors. Still once Wednesday is over then its looking forward to recovery.
Anyway thank you all very much for your recent support with my shots, hopefully I'll post more soon.
Technical Details
Fuji XT-1
Fuji 18-135mm @ 26.6mm
F8
1/1000 second
ISO 200
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This Woodpecker was formerly called the Arctic Woodpecker or Black-backed Three-toed Woodpecker. It does have only three toes which is a characteristic it shares with the American Three-toed Woodpecker (Picoides dorsalis) which can also be found here. This one is a female. I added a recent shot of a male in the first comment box for comparison. Note the yellow crown.
This species eats mainly wood-boring insects which it obtains by scaling bark from trees to expose the holes created by those insects. If you look to the left of the bird, you can see the exposed boring holes in the area where the bark was removed. The Woodpecker inserts its long barbed tongue to extract a meal.
We usually find these ones by listening for the irregular tapping and tearing sounds created by the scaling activity. Falling bark chips are also a good tell.
This is how Lee and I found this one today.
Grey Nuns White Spruce Park. St. Albert, Alberta.
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A lot more rainbows are captured now we all have good cameras on phones on us! Two iPhone SE images stitched together (on phone with Autostitch) and processed in Snapseed (on phone). Colour saturation has not been boosted!