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Working hard to get the last of their home ready for the winter.

The Beara Peninsula, Ireland

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A bee pollinating flowers at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond, Virginia

With just the garden for photo opportunities at the moment it's amazing what you can find. This bee was very industrious working his way around the bluebells in the garden.

No PHOTOSHOP , No LIGHTROOM

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B+W 77mm ND 3.0(1000X) MRC 110M Neutral Density Glass Filter

Nisi 100x150mm Reverse Graduated Neutral Density Filter(0.9)

Our garden

25th September 2021

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

Albert Einstein

For Smile on Saturday - Bee-autiful

Guess I'm not the only one that likes Rose of Sharon's

Di fiore in fiore

Visiting a dahlia at the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden, Fort Bragg.

Hope you have a great week ahead! Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for your kind comments, awards and faves -- I appreciate them all.

© Melissa Post 2021

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Stavemill Park

Madison, Alabama

This female woodpecker was very busy creating the hole in the tree for a nest.

Bumblebee at work

A very busy honey bee on a cone flower taken at the Melbourne Botanical Gardens.

Hope you like listening to Bobby McFerrin singing "Don't Worry Be Happy"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

Many thanks for your visit, comments , invites and faves...it is always appreciated...

HMBT

Happy Friday!

... nach einiger Zeit in der Natur entdeckt man immer mehr Motive und überall summt und zwitschert es ....an den elektonischen Sucher muss ich mich noch gewöhnen.

Robin red breast

Anemone japonica

Doing what a Bee does best ..

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Australia 2008

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJ12fKVcLw

I have 3 feeders and feed a 40 LB sack of sunflower seed a month I keep fresh water out for them too.

Have a great day and stay safe in this heat. .

#1 of Tokyo Street Photography Week

(I try to make theme weeks now)

at a blackberry blossom in the garden

youtu.be/IZIlM8QVbG8

Art - Texture to photo image

Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags. Several different classifications of the family have been proposed, but in 2021 the IOU adopted a consensus taxonomy of seven genera. Wikipedia

Clutch size: Flightless cormorant: 3, Imperial shag: 2 – 5, Kerguelen shag: 2 – 4

Wingspan: Kerguelen shag: 3.6 ft.

The great egret, also known as the common egret, large egret, or great white egret or great white heron is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Recently it is also spreading to more northern areas of Europe. Wikipedia

Conservation status: Least Concern Encyclopedia of Life

Wingspan: 4.3 – 5.6 ft. (Adult)

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