Punning in Covent Garden

N7306 : Grumman G.73 Mallard : Chalk's International

Chalk's operated scheduled flights from Watson Island, downtown Miami, to the Bahamas.

This Mallard has its original engines.

Chalk Fragrant Orchid, Miller's Dale, Derbyshire Peak District.

Chalk Coast in Jasmund national park on the island of Rügen

(Mimus saturninus)

Sitio do Espinheiro Negro

Brasil

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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.

So, you may find:

- All the photos for this trip Brasil // Atlantic Forest (2019) (271)

- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)

- All the photos for this family Mimidae (Mimídeos) (11)

- All the photos for this species Mimus saturninus (3)

- All the photos taken this day 2019/08/17 (15)

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On a trip to Rough Bank a couple of weeks back I encountered only a few Chalk-hill Blues. This one was on a lovely perch which when backlit had this great background of light and dark. I'm not sure this is perfectly composed with the plan being to get a relatively sharp subject with the rich and varied background.

sometimes you just find a rainbow

buy at redbubble

N117FB - Grumman G-111 Albatros (HU-16D) - Chalk"s International Airlines

at Miami Watson Island SPB (MPB)

c/n G-461 - built in 1961 for the US Navy - taken over by the Japanese Marine Self Defence Force -

to Chalk's in 1982 - retired in 1996

reg, canx. 2014

Chalk's operated scheduled seaplane services mostly to the Bahamas from their main base Miami Seaplane Base (MPB) until 2001. In Sept, 2007, the US Department of Transportation revoked the flying charter license for the airline and later that year, the airline ceased operations.

Two of the grandkids decorated our sidewalk.

Santa has made his deliveries and finished with a smile. It seems the birds must have thought his nose was a cherry. The Santa is a vintage one and the years and moves have taken a toll.

Red and white chalk cliffs at Hunstanton

Jasmund National Park

A herd of black Angus cattle graze near the Chalk Cliffs and badlands near Square Butte, Montana.

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Chalk Fragrant-orchid on limestone grassland, Derbyshire Peak District.

A male photographed early morning.

Beautiful skies above the beach this evening with some rain out to sea

I loved the cliff with the waves crashing on to the beach below.

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Isle of Wight, Compton Coastal Path onlooking the Tennyson Trail and the Needles Battery.

A male Chalk Hill Blue from Tuesday's session at Barnack Hills & Hollows

Playing with chalk

Chalk board inside Bel Fiore Wood Fired Pizza restaurant. Bel Fiore means Beautiful Flower in Italian.

[low quality phone camera image]

Dural, Sydney

Lost in chalk world.

From Wikipedia: "The Jasmund National Park is a nature reserve in the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for the largest chalk cliffs of Germany, the so called Königsstuhl (German = "king's chair"). These cliffs are up to 161 m high above the Baltic Sea. The undisturbed beech forests behind the cliffs are also part of the national park." see more on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmund_National_Park or de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalpark_Jasmund

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I found a bunch of chalk around the house and I thought I would take a shot at it. Let me know what you think, constructive criticism always welcomed!

Powdered Chalk Macro Mondays - theme powder

A male Chalk-Hill Blue on a Harebell. Photographed at Aston Rowant NNR a few years ago.

A male Chalk-Hill Blue warming up this morning. at a site in Bedfordshire.

The Chalk Cliffs are an iconic historic landmark in Colorado's southern Sawatch Range. The cliffs are at the entrance to Chalk Creek Canyon (left) on the southeast flank of Mount Princeton. These striking white cliffs are made not of chalk but of kaolinite, a soft rock produced by hot springs percolating through cracks in the rock.

Cleveland Museum of Art, Chalk Festival

A male Chalk Hill Blue (Polyommatus coridon), taken early doors yesterday (Wednesday) @ Barnack Hills & Hollows NR

Broody skies and Norfolk's only rocks this evening

Sand Pond Interpretive Trail / Sierra County, California

Unfortunately, this male Chalk-fronted Corporal wouldn't perch any closer than one of two snags that were about the same distance apart. This is a lifer for me.

Taken along Chalk Creek near St. Elmo, CO. Used a DJI Air 2S to capture the panoramic of the mountains and creek.

Going through some old hard drives and finding images that I've not posted before. This male Chalk-Hill Blue was photographed back in 2014 in glorious early morning light at Aston Rowant NNR in Oxfordshire.