Backyard

A charming little Elegant Snake-eyed Skink basks on his home fence on the Ceduna foreshore in South Australia.

Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark 3 DSLR coupled to a vintage C/Y Yashica ML 55/2.8 macro lens with a third-party adapter. Hand-held with manual settings, manual focus and reflected side-lighting utilised.

Shot @ 2.8.

I love my Yashica..

At the fountain in my yard today.

Backyard

Backyard

jupiter-37a 135mm

Sherman and Zuzu

Lots of rain today

Two mallards have come to play

In my neighbor's yard

Sometimes you find in your backyard those wonderful things that make you remember old times. But you can also find some other things, unknown objects belonging to unknown people. How this thing ended up in my backyard? And then... the magic: you make up a story as an answer. You choose those amazing threads from your imagination and braid a legend, a door to old times that now, just like that, become yours.

Tiny backyard made for @newelementary competition “Construction Constructions”. Pleasure to get runner up prize. Construction parts used: 2x 18943 Technic Digger Bucket 5 x 7 x 4 1/2 Clamshell with Pin Hole and Axle Hole, 1x 43903 LegoTread with 20 Treads Small, 17x 4006 Minifigure, Utensil Tool Spanner Wrench / Screwdriver, 3x 64450 Windscreen 6 x 4 x 3 1/3 Roll Cage, 3873 LegoTechnic, Link Tread, 57518 Technic, Link Tread Wide with 2 Pin Holes. FIND THEM ALL 😃

One of two squirrels that show up every afternoon to antagonize Oscar. Oscar tries to climb the tree too.

We have now had well over 500mm rain in the last 5 weeks, and the fungi are loving it! Here are a few little mushrooms from the backyard.

A Northern Parula Warbler taking a bath in a friends backyard.

I'm still unpacking a zillion boxes trying to get situated after moving - a daunting chore to say the least, but I keep reminding myself "Rome wasn't built in a day". The new digs are located on the edge of a dense woods and this morning I had a visitor join me for breakfast just outside my back door. I still don't have internet access so I've had to use my phone as a mobile hotspot - I feel like I'm really roughing it 😄😁

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backyard old historic building and socialist bunker

For the flowers are great blessings.

For the flowers have their angels, even the words of God’s creation.

For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.

For there is a language of flowers.

For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

-Christopher Smart (from Benjamin Brittens' 'Rejoice Ine The Lamb'

A Black Skimmer navigates the twisty waters of our backyard.

Backyard visitor. Love hunting for anoles on top of the bushes

Wailea Maui Hawaii

Backyard

The woodpeckers have been here since last year. I think they like my feeders and suet cakes

My backyard friends came to visit me last month! Living on a bluff brings me a variety of wildlife throughout the year. As you can tell, the changing of the leaves had just started, still have a ways to go before more beautiful colors are seen, if the rain doesn’t damage them first! Photo images credited to Vickie Lynne Klinkhammer of Vickielynne Photography and Designs(VLP&Designs)

Backyard visitors. This is a pink and grey galah. very common in this area. The colourful bird in foreground (out of focus) is a rainbow lorikeet. A beautiful and feisty bird which unfortuantely is an introduced species and bit of a pest for the endemic species such as the galah and other parrots. The galahs are real characters and very intelligent (like most parrots).

I took these photos to try out my new telephoto zoom lense. A christmas present that I will use when winter comes again and the surf is up.

Barcelona, Spain

missed my focus point here, the eye, not so sharp.

Peeking through vine and passion into late afternoon sun ....

The grapevine has already little green grapes and the passion plant (Passiflora) flowers abundantly ....

Happy Monochrome Bokeh Thursday - HMBT!

While doing some backyard birdwatching the other day, it was just so hot there wasn't much going on, so I decided to close the window and put down my camera.

Moments later this hawk swooped down and got one of my doves. It happened so quickly it took a few moments to register what I'd just seen. While I watched, it started plucking the feathers so I grabbed my camera to get a few shots.

Just goes to show you never know who's going to show up next. Or when.

** Taken through the window so not as clear as I'd like.

A homey grassy little stage area surrounded by deckchairs in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre Backyard.

doe & two babies back in our Christmas trees

I was using my new zoom lens, but they let me get quite close for a long time

Birds are coming back from their winter vacation

For the flowers are great blessings.

For the flowers have their angels, even the words of God’s creation.

For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.

For there is a language of flowers.

For the flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

-Christopher Smart (from Benjamin Brittens' 'Rejoice In The Lamb'

from the isle Fyn

Corfu City / Corfu / Ionian Sea / Greece

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While sitting out on my backyard patio trying to figure out how some Ninja Squirrels were getting into my bird feeders, I noticed some fluttering between branches near my small pond. As took a closer look I couldn't believe my eyes...WARBLERS!!!! Not quite sure why they paid a visit as I am in the middle of a large metropolitan city...but thankful they did... I only managed to get limited snaps with my camera as I wasn't properly prepared...and spent the next several days attempting to get some some decent shots with these uncooperative little guys...Hopefully Ill have more to come as Ive seen 10 different species so far...

..I think I caught "Warbler Fever"! :>)