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The Osprey's are coming back and this is the first one that I have seen. It was on the nest box and lucky for me, it decided to hunt or gather nesting material and flew past me. Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Galloway, NJ.
Mara North Conservancy in the Greater Masai Mara ecosystem , Kenya
a large, noisy and social African Shrike with a black face mask. In the Eastern part of it range it is found in acacia savanna like here in this picture but also in fields and gardens
also called Grey-backed Fiscal Shrike
Lanius excubitoroides
grijsrugklapekster
Pie-grièche à dos gris
Graumantelwürger
Alcaudón Dorsigrís
Averla cenerina africana
picanço-de-dorso-cinzento
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Black-backed Puffback has one of the more distinctive of the bird calls heard when visiting subtropical or tropical dry forests and dry savanna areas of Southern-Africa. An interesting fact is that the scientific binomial for the Black-backed puffback is Dryoscopus cubla; Dryoscopus from the Greek for “a watcher from the trees” and cubla which derives from a Hottentot word of obscure meaning, but the word is pronounced with an initial click that is said to imitate the bird’s distinctive call.
They feed mainly on insects, but also on fruit, and do most of their feeding in the upper canopy where they glean insects from leaves and branches.
Size: ±18cm (Kruger National Park, RSA)
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Months after I've last been to the Cristei Meadow, many things have changed around.... including the appearance of many new birds. Yellowhammers, woodpeckers, greenfinches....but my eyes were locked on a specific bird; the Red-backed Shrike.
The Green-backed Heron (butorides striata) belongs to the family of birds classified as Ardeidae. The male and female Green-backed Heron have the same plumage and colours. Head is black. Eye is yellow. Bill is black. Throat is white. Back is black, grey. Legs are orange. The Green-backed Heron feeds on the ground mainly: invertebrates, aquatic life forms.
Kruger National Park is a South African National Park and one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,623 km2 in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 km from north to south and 65 km from east to west.
South Africa, Kruger National Park
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This is my first tentative of fine art . Not perfect but we need to start from something. Advise of fineart lovers is more than welcome ;)
Sailing ship on its way to Brest (Finistère, Brittany, France) for the 2016 Brest International Maritime Festival (13-19 July 2016)
See: www.brest2016.fr/
The rocks are part of the "Pointe de Pen Hir".
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This wonderful jaguar was the first one we found in our last expedition to Pantanal. The situation there is very sad, the forests are burnt and the the drought lasts for 3 years. I hope that soon the monsoon starts and bring life back to Pantanal. Luckily, the site where the jaguars are didn't suffer so much from the fires and we were lucky to find female jaguars with cubs, which I'll be posting in the coming days.
Facts: The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only extant Panthera species native to the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline species after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Americas. The jaguar is a near-threatened species and its numbers are declining. Threats include loss and fragmentation of habitat. While international trade in jaguars or their parts is prohibited, the cat is still frequently killed by humans, particularly in conflicts with ranchers and farmers in Brazil.
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the osprey are nesting in the same nest again now so I'm excited. I will go back periodically and check on them and take photos. And thankfully now, I won't be lugging a toddler size lens and a tripod. Yah!!! I love this much smaller size and lighter weight equipment!
I go see my ortho doc this morning and hopefully won't have to wear my cast anymore. Things are healing well. Let's hope that's what the ex-ray will show. I'll catch up with you all later! ❤️
This is J Mart in Pisek, ND. (Population 87). All the boxes are full of hand bagged chocolates and candy. Including a selection of sugar free. Hand written signs, hand written receipts, original tin ceiling, old school cash register. A row of white freezers, not commercial freezers. Every year they order tons of goodies; this year they have 9,500 pounds of candy - yes, you read that correctly. It’s a throw back to the 40’s or maybe earlier! We loved it. Nobody pushed, everyone was patient. No debit cards, no credit cards, just cash or cheques. And the chocolate was yummy!
A surprise encounter on a recent trip up to the Sierra’s. I was busy shooting some landscapes when I saw this guy leave this cavity. Grabbed my big lens and got some great shots of both the male and female. This guy completed my California woodpecker list.
The back entrance to the compartment of an old Benedictine monastery. Who has already come in and gone out here? Who wants to know that! Curiosity? The monastery dates from the 12th century. In the meantime, however, it has been destroyed, changed and rebuilt. The current abbey is said to date essentially from the 18th century.
Black-backed gull: Central Ontario, Canada
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Icterus chrysater
(Yellow-backed Oriole / Turpial Montañero)
The Yellow-backed Oriole is well-named, as it is one of the very few species of orioles with a yellow back. Indeed, this oriole shows only two colors, yellow and black: the wings are entirely black, the feathers lacking the white or yellow feather margins that are shown by most other species of oriole.
The Yellow-backed Oriole has an oddly discontinuous distribution: it occurs from southern Mexico south to northeastern Nicaragua, and again from Panama south to northern Colombia and Venezuela, but is absent from Costa Rica and from most of Nicaragua. This oriole has a very broad elevational range, ranging up to 2500 m in Central America and almost to 2700 m in Colombia.
neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p...
Taken in La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea
der himmel über berlin war öfters blau und manchmal grau... es war schön berlin wieder neu zu entdecken, es hat sich auch einiges seit meinen letzten besuch vor über 10 jahren geändert...
.. Berlin where I got a lot to discover since my last visit 10 years ago :)
A pair of Mallards battle it out in the sky. Another one from a sequence I took. Abberton reservoir.
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