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La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
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...
Back on black button on my new(ish) coat, must admit I tend to go for coats that have cool details like this!
I was going to go for a less obvious choice, but I like subjects like this too much! Bit of a challenge to get the highlights vs shadow balanced on this one.
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Rain pours down over a city
Night has fallen like a stone
Are you gone or are you with me?
In my heart I'll never know
If I close my eyes I'll see you
Hear your footsteps in the rain
In my dream I'll never find you
but I'll hear you call my name
As I tread through crowds of people
Trying to keep from looking back
Got your sense on something passing
And it sends me off my track
Do I find you will I follow
To forever and a day
I can feel you in the distance
But you seem so far away
What if I just can't find my way back home (ooh)
What about all the things I just don't don't know (ooh)
What if I just can't find my way back home (ooh)
Would you be there to show me where to go (ooh)
Well, not back as such, I never left! Do you take play shots waiting for the light? Well, this is mine. Can you imagine how excited I was? And then the clouds rolled in snuffing out any hint of dawn colour. As the sun rose behind the wall of cloud, the inversion dissipated leaving not scrap of mist 😆
Crap, noisy high ISO shot (to keep the definition in the cloud). How I wish I'd taken an LE and blended! Ah well, you live and learn. Still an absolutely brilliant day charging around the fells.
*** Edit: Swapped noisy for smeary. The noisy version is here (not like you care but for my own records 😁):
I went looking for salamanders on Wednesday and found a few Red-backed ones. They are the ones usually out first so it wasn't a surprise.
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D
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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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VENICE - Reminded me of the wonderful track by Curved Air - I went to a Festival at Cardiff Castle (Headliners: Status Quo) and was told that Curved Air were Danish - not true, though the lead singer Sonja Kristina was danish sounding. Nowadays I can re-live Sonja singing 'Back Street Luv' via the internet - Amazing? (Youtube is the obvious option)
Dovestone Reservoir lies at the convergence of the valleys of the Greenfield and Chew Brooks above the village of Greenfield, on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester, England. The reservoir is on the western edge of the Peak District National Park. It supplies drinking water to the surrounding area and is a tourist attraction, providing several walks amongst picturesque landscapes. Wiki..
Creí que, como el mar
una noche de verano, tu sonrisa
me invitaba a sumergirme
(únicamente
a mi)
en tus aguas
profundas.
Pero salió la luna
y vi la playa llena
de exhaustos nadadores
Poema " Ingenuo" de Karmelo Iribarren
There was something so familiar about this scene...
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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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Estornino Amatista, Violet-backed Starling, Cinnyricinclus leucogaster.
Especie # 1.395
Mahango Game Reserve
Bwabwata National Park
Namibia
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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