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03.15.21 - Sweet Pea was bathed in soft window light - thus a photo was a must - but she became bashful and turned her head.
The mom and 3 ducklings were in an adjacent pond, the dad was hiding under some brush and would not come out. He had 7 or 8 mallards floating in front of him guarding his privacy.
There was tangle of trees and bushes in front of me along the trail I had to find holes to shoot through and to add to that the wood duck seemed to sense me trying to catch a shot and would not reveal himself. I was there half an hour patiently waiting - but this was as open as it got.
On a personal note: My wife carried on her walk unaware that I was not following. At some point she figured it out and trudged back half km to retrieve the car keys - I thought I was done for but surprisingly she was quiet - ok 2 hours of silence but I took that as a good thing.
I could happily gaze at these beautiful birds all day long (and have at times). The natural creations can teach us so much about beauty, grace, and intelligence if we only open our eyes, ears, and hearts to their instinctive wisdom.
"The snowy egret—and its slightly larger cousin, the great white egret—were imperiled by the late 1800s, when fashionable women began wearing hats adorned with feathers, wings and even entire taxidermied birds. The egrets’ brilliant white plumage, especially the gossamer wisps of feather that became more prominent during mating season, was in high demand among milliners.
The plume trade was a sordid business. Hunters killed and skinned the mature birds, leaving orphaned hatchlings to starve or be eaten by crows. “It was a common thing for a rookery of several hundred birds to be attacked by the plume hunters, and in two or three days utterly destroyed,” wrote William Hornaday, director of the New York Zoo-logical Society and formerly chief taxidermist at the Smithsonian.
The main drivers of the plume trade were millinery centers in New York and London. Hornaday, who described London as “the Mecca of the feather killers of the world,” calculated that in a single nine-month period the London market had consumed feathers from nearly 130,000 egrets. And egrets were not the only species under threat. In 1886, it was estimated, 50 North American species were being slaughtered for their feathers.
Egrets and other wading birds were being decimated until two crusading Boston socialites, Harriet Hemenway and her cousin, Minna Hall, set off a revolt. Their boycott of the trade would culminate in formation of the National Audubon Society and passage of the Weeks-McLean Law, also known as the Migratory Bird Act, by Congress on March 4, 1913. The law, a landmark in American conservation history, outlawed market hunting and forbade interstate transport of birds."
More of the article can be found here: www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-two-women-ended...
Gator Week - day 2
For the second installment, I’m going with another first-time capture of another alligator that has never wanted to pose for me in the past. This is not one of the big boys, and always launches into to the water long before I get close enough for a capture. This 9-footer can usually be seen for brief moments on the south bank of Horsepen Bayou just as it completes it’s fairly straight run that parallels Middlebrook Drive and then splits into the horseshoe bends where we find most of the wildlife activity on the bayou. Not certain why it stuck around on this occasion, but I was happy to get an opportunity to photo of this one.
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I love the coneflowers. These are by the pond, they planted themselves!!! Hope everyone is staying
cool and enjoys the weekend! Below is some of my new jewelry. The first one is a ring of pearls! The second one is a copper necklace with Lapis Lazuli the third is a necklace of different pearls in copper. All hand made and ready to wear!!! check my profile for a link to my ETSY site! Hope you like them!!
This is definately one of my new favorites!
Made Explore - #210 at the moment
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Taken at Bernheim Forest last year...we had rain, ice and snow yesterday...so I needed a summery picture..
Actually I think this Barred Owl may be Ollie's mate, Olive. She was not out in the open and was very flighty. Once she saw me approach she took off. When I went up on the hill Ollie was looking down at me. Wish there was a better way to tell male from female Barred Owls besides the obvious.
Couple day old fawn hiding in the grass.
Photo taken from within car.
They are born with the instinct to lay down as flat as possible to hide from Predators (like my Chevy Truck!). In slightly higher thicker grass, they are very tough to spot.
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Peony symbolizes many thing In the language of flowers,
a happy marriage and virility in Japan,
prosperity in China,
to the French hardiness or heaviness
for the British bashful shame
and in an American language of the flowers: anger or a frown
also his meaning has found like an aphrodisiac
Paeonia officinalis or European peony,is accepted in my country as a symbol of happy marriage and prosperity, and it's called a Božur.
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10th century.The Chinese name for the peony is "sho yu'"; meaning, most beautiful.
and represents prosperity. A legend says it was created by the moon goddess to reflect the moon’s beams during the night.
A similar belief about the peony lighting up the night comes from a Greek writer Aelianus (3rd century) who writes of one kind of peony that grows by the sea, opens at Summer solstice and shines like fire, while another kind, hidden away among the herbs during the day, at night shines like a star.
During the Middle Ages, "lunatics" were covered with peony leaves and petals, to cure them.
It was also believed that keeping peony seeds under your pillow, could prevent nightmares.
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reluctant to draw attention to themselves.
So sweet, so tender, so beautiful.
Pale pink thick buds slowly opening.
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Bashful is one of approximately 300 dahlia varieties planted and cared for by volunteers at Dahlia Hill in Midland, Michigan. The Dahlia Hill Society's Facebook page reported that "the process for prepping the tubers for a winter's rest will begin this Thursday."
This image was captured with a monopod-mounted Pentax K-S2 and an older Pentax 100mm macro lens.