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Title: Waiting to eat.....
Category: Birds
Taken: 17 August 2017
Where: Patuxent Wildlife Refuge
by: Deb Felmey
Students from Jefferson Elementary School in North Park learn about local birds by playing a familiar game on the San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Lisa Cox/USFWS)
I really love birds at this time of year..They are all so fat and round..clearly they have overindulged themselves in order to survive hard winters here..I know they bulk up all the way from late August until the ground freezes...It is really important at this time of year to make sure some sort of protein is left outdoors for the birds..like suet..very inexpensive..so that they do survive to see another Spring..birds are very important to us in more ways than most think...
A quick watercolor, ink, and found paper collage. Just for play. I used an old National Geographic magazine, and selected graphics from the one issue that seemed to have similar color qualities. Then I sketched around them, adding color with the watercolors. Totally relaxing. Now off to cook some dinner! :)
I didn't hike into the vast wildness of the hinterland to catch a view of this beautiful bald eagle. I took the lazy way and just went to my local zoo in Toronto lol :P
I haven't gone back to visit the Toronto Zoo since my childhood days on school field trips. It was a great revisit and to see the animals up close. A far different experience from sitting at home watching a Discovery Channel documentary on wildlife and minus Morgan Freeman's narrating (who's got an amazing voice-I wouldn't mind him narrating me commuting to class everyday lol)
Ah yes a new semester has arrived. A lot of reading already so photography and flickr is limited :(
Meh, I'll just wing it, I don't want to put my camera down yet :P
I'll try and catch up here and there much as possible. Thanks guys for your time commenting and viewing my work, always appreciated :)
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Tweety Bird (also known as Tweety Pie or simply Tweety) is a fictional Yellow Canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons. The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being a typical English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds.In his early appearances in Bob Clampett cartoons, Tweety is a very aggressive character who tries anything to foil his foe, even kicking his enemy when he is down. Tweety was toned down when Friz Freleng started directing the series into a more cutesy bird, and even more when Granny was introduced, however sometimes Tweety still kept his malicious side. One of his most notable "malicious" moments is in the cartoon Birdy and the Beast; when a cat tries to chase Tweety by flying and falls after remembering that cats cannot fly, Tweety says sympathetically, "Awww, the poor kitty cat! He faw down and go (in a loud, tough, masculine voice) BOOM!!", after which he grins mischievously. A similar gag was used in A Tale Of Two Kitties when Tweety, wearing an air raid warden's helmet, suddenly yells out in that same voice: "Turn out those lights!"
Titti (Tweety Bird, Tweety Pie o, più semplicemente, Tweety) è un personaggio delle serie animate Looney Tunes e Merrie Melodies della Warner Bros. È un canarino costantemente inseguito, invano, dal Gatto Silvestro. In Italia è stato noto, fino alla fine degli anni ottanta, con il nome di Titì.
Titti è, il più delle volte, un personaggio pacifico che passa felicemente la vita nella sua gabbietta o sul trespolo. Però, se attaccato o provocato da un gatto o da un altro avversario che vuole cibarsi di lui, può diventare vendicativo e dispettoso, arrivando persino a prendere a calci il nemico quando è ormai a terra. In molte delle sue apparizioni, Titti viene mostrato in compagnia di quella che sembra essere la sua padroncina di sempre, nonna Granny.
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A portion of the Smith Oaks Sanctuary, High Island, Texas
The dead trees at the left were full of nesting egrets and spoonbills.
Scottish Birds - Pow Burn ( went out early before the golfers and dog walker and was rewarded with this lot)
This started off with a regular photo of the red-wing blackbird on my driveway, but I played with it a lot in Photoshop Lightroom until it looked drawing like. Increasing the exposure, shadows, highlights, and blacks a lot left the cement mostly white. Similar could be done by over exposing the shot in camera. From the near overexposed bird, I turned the Clarity slider to full power.
Well. Almost six. The last one fluttered around a bit and then went back to the treelimb above. He probably hasn't learned to land yet. Mom and Pop perched nearby, dutifly watching.
There are about 162 different species of owls alive today,
Owls are carnivores that hunt during the night (they are nocturnal). They use their keen sense of sight to find prey in the dark (owls see mostly in black and white). They have an acute sense of hearing which also helps in finding meals. Owls are stealth hunters, they can easily sneak up on their prey since their fluffy feathers give them almost silent flight
Owls cannot move their eyes within their sockets like we can. In order to look around, they have to move their entire head, which has a range of movement of about 270°.
Spent a great morning in the blind at Battiste Bed, Breakfast and Birds in Hereford, AZ, with Ned Harris. The weather was perfect. Although we were just slightly early in the season, we still had two species of Orioles and a good sampling of new arrivals and resident birds.
Battiste BB&B, Hereford, AZ
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