after the rain in the Nxai Pan NP, Botswana

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late afternoon in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa

Nikon D500 with Sigma 150-600mm f/5.0-6.3 Sport

this quite large raptor is often seen perched on dead trees or on telephone poles. It is a resident of dry open areas and feeds on a wide range of prey.

also called Southern Chanting Goshawk

( bleke ) zanghavik

autour chanteur

( Grosser ) Singhabicht

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Que jusque tout au bord

L'on remplisse nos verres,

Qu'on les remplisse encore

De la même manière,

Car nous sommes les plus forts

Buveurs de blonde bière,

Car nous restons, (tout nus)

De gais wallons, (à poils)

Dignes de nos aïeux nom de Dieu,

Car nous sommes comme eux nom de Dieu,

Disciples de Bacchus et du roi Gambrinus

Nous ne craignons pas ceux

Qui dans la nuit nous guettent,

Les Flamands et les gueux

À la taille d'athlètes,

Ni même que les cieux

Nous tombent sur la tête, ...

a male stonechat singing on the top of a tree

Photo done during a very hot day this summer (>40°C)

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Derborence, 17 octobre 2015

On the road between McCarthy island and Tendaba

The Gambia

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Song of Aromas

Rouge-gorge, baie de Saint-Maurice, Bretagne

est-ce un songe....

Il nous regarde en plein visage, le temps qui nous ignore et qui répand au plus secret de nous, hors des saisons et de l'immobile nuit, l'odeur puissante et féroce de l'oubli.

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Doe: Siren V1 - Candy B

Lelutka Head: Ryn

Maitreya Body

+ Draconis Tattoo + {aii & ego}

Taken Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Addo Elephant National Park is a diverse wildlife conservation park situated close to Port Elizabeth in South Africa and is one of the country's 20 national parks. It currently ranks third in size after Kruger National Park and the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. I spent four consecutive days within the park which provided an amazing variety of wildlife.

Photographer: Doutz: Hugs you tight! I had such a blast and made a new lifelong friend! A million thank you's for the opportunity ! XoX !

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The pale chanting goshawk is an opportunistic raptor and eats a wide variety of prey including small mammals, lizards, birds, large insects and carrion. It has also been recorded predating upon Tent tortoise and Leopard tortoise hatchlings which are swallowed whole while the shell is still soft. There is some evidence of social hunting in breeding groups but solitary hunting is the norm. Pale chanting goshawks commonly associate with foraging Honey badgers and feed on organisms that are flushed by the Honey badger's feeding activity. This association increases the hunting opportunities and prey capture success of the pale chanting goshawk while the honey badger does not suffer any loss of foraging efficiency. (Wikipedia)

Azor Lagartijero Claro, Pale Chanting-Goshawk, Melierax canorus.

Etosha National Park

Namibia

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Le chant de la gorgebleue à miroir comporte beaucoup de variantes parsemées d'imitations d'autres chants d'oiseaux

Hommage à Ella Fitzgerald au festival de Jazz de Verrières-le-Buisson.

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Rouge-gorge

Roméo a beau se fondre dans l'écorce de sa cavité, ça ne l'empêche pas de chanter haut et fort sa revendication territoriale et son affection pour la belle Juliette.

Au parc Angrignon au printemps dernier

(image revisitée)

Melierax canorus.

He`s looking quite fetching in his striped pantaloons. I spotted him sitting on a fence post, so I took a shot of him . But then to my surprise he jumped down & came a bit closer .Perhaps he was sizing me up for a meal .

Taken in the Okonjima Nature Reserve , Namibia.

A slide to digital conversion.

C’est un trou de verdure où chante une rivière,

Accrochant follement aux herbes des haillons

D’argent ; où le soleil, de la montagne fière,

Luit : c’est un petit val qui mousse de rayons.

Un soldat jeune, bouche ouverte, tête nue,

Et la nuque baignant dans le frais cresson bleu,

Dort ; il est étendu dans l’herbe, sous la nue,

Pâle dans son lit vert où la lumière pleut.

Les pieds dans les glaïeuls, il dort. Souriant comme

Sourirait un enfant malade, il fait un somme :

Nature, berce-le chaudement : il a froid.

Les parfums ne font pas frissonner sa narine ;

Il dort dans le soleil, la main sur sa poitrine,

Tranquille. Il a deux trous rouges au côté droit.

Arthur Rimbaud

Photography By: Magissa Denver

ma passion le chant ! merci ma cherie

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Conrail steel train WDBH chants west at Pinola, Indiana, on March 16, 1991, powered by a pair of EMD GP15-1s.

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Bientôt nous plongerons dans les froides ténèbres ;

Adieu,vive clarté de nos étés trop courts !

J' entends d"jas tomber avec des chocs funèbres

Le bois retentissant sur le pavé des cours.

Tout l'hiver va rentrer dans mon être: colère,

Haine,frissons,horreur,labeur dur et forcé,

Et , comme le soleil dans son enfer polaire,

Mon cœur ne sera plus qu'un bloc rouge et glacé .

extrait :Les fleurs du Mal ( BAUDELAIRE - 1821-1867 )

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