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What a wonderful experience to observe different waterfowl return to Minnesota and set about on the task of making a home for a few months. This frame with a Wood Duck was taken on a very wooded wetland pond a few miles west of Cambridge that last summer dried totally up due to the drought but is now replenished.
Laid back, but not very easy going.
During the mating season, male coots will act aggressively towards other males to establish and/or protect a breeding area. One behaviour I've seen lots is running and flapping aggressively towards a rival at high speed. On rare occasion, I've seen them engage in a classic coot fight. I had never seen it up close.
As shown in the photo, they lay back in the water with their wings stretched out behind them. They will then spar with the legs, trying to get an advantage over the other coot. If they can, they will push themselves upright with their wings while pushing the other combatant underwater. Injury or worse is not unheard of.
There must have been something in the water on this day, as the fighting seemed to be constant amongst many different pairs. This behaviour is no longer a rare event for me to witness.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live
Oscar wilde
I have been travelling back and forth from Calgary, AB to Sechelt, BC. Where the climates are without question, supremely different. This seascape in Sechelt delivered some wicked evening lighting even with the absence of clouds. Tomorrow will see a post from Calgary that illustrates the season of winter remains present. Seascape vs Prairie/Mountain and there is a huge difference. One this photographer is enjoying.
While visiting my daughter in Texas one of my Grandsons had a field trip to the Crocodile Encounter. My daughter and I decided to go and see what it was all about and try to catch a glimpse of my Grandson. We all had a fun time and the weather was fantastic. I even held a snake and a baby alligator! They had lots more animals then just Gators and Crocs!
Happy Fence Friday and hope you too have a laid back weekend!
Bar backed partridge, Vietnam.
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False Creek
Vancouver
Canada
After 3 years I was back in Vancouver (where my son lives) and the first thing I did was strolling along False Creek, the short inlet that seperates downtown from he rest of the city.
What you see here is the building of Science World , built on behalf of World Expo '86. Nowadays it is a science museum.
The architect for the Science World dome was Bruno Freschi.
In the foreground three of the many small ferry boats that operate continuously on False Creek. These tiny ferries have stolen my heart, especially the ones of the False Creek Ferries fleet. :-)
My husband and I saw this bobcat while we were driving today, and it disappeared into the wooded area. We decided to take a walk through a path in the woods to see if we could spot the bobcat again or our deer herd. As we were walking back on the path, we see the bobcat walking ahead of us in the distance. It would walk on the path and then see something in the woods and then appear on the path again. We kept our distance, and it didn't seem to care. At one point we caught up to it and the bobcat gave us an over the shoulder look and then continued on.
A medium-sized dark-backed albatross with pale underwings outlined by a narrow dark border and a dark notch in the armpit. The adult has a whitish head with grayish cheeks that give it a “white-capped” appearance. The gray-green bill has a yellowish tip to both mandibles. Juveniles are grayer on the head with gray bills. The species breeds on islands off Tasmania and New Zealand but disperses widely across the southern Oceans between 15 and 60°S, where it is a frequently encountered pelagic seabird. Similar albatrosses have a dark-tipped (not pale-tipped) lower half to the bill, and Salvin’s Albatross has a pale gray head and Chatham Albatross a slaty-gray head, further differentiating them from White-capped Albatross. Juveniles of these three are very difficult to separate. (eBird)
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By far the most frequently seen albatraoss of our trip. Usually seen gliding effortlessly over the ocean, this one decided to join the fun of our albatross hunt. He is one of the four species that we found that day.
Kaikoura, Canterbury, New Zealand. March 2024.
Roadrunner Birding Tours.
Albatross Encounter.
Since we still can't travel and I'm working quite a bit, thought I'd look back at some old photos to re-edit and re-organize them. This one was taken a few years ago at Zion National Park, just a easy walk from the campground where i stayed.
Zion National Park, Utah.
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back from a wonderful stay in the valley of the Little Dhron / Kleiner Dhron, Hunsrück, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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I took a series of photos of the back of buildings with store fronts on Water Street in Gardiner, Maine. This is a vertical panorama merge. I applied one of the new adaptive presets, cinema, that are in a recent update of Adobe Lightroom. HFF
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Good Morning Fellas, have a happy Thursday.
A patch of reeds.. glowing in the sunlight.. View On Black
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