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An adult green heron’s side profile features a glossy greenish-black crown and shaggy crest contrasting sharply with deep chestnut-maroon sides of the neck. Its dagger-like bill is primarily blackish-brown, though the lower mandible often shows yellow-green at the base. The eye stands out with a bright yellow to orange iris, set behind dull yellow-green lores (which can turn blue-black during the breeding season). A distinct white vertical stripe runs down the chin and throat, often accented by a pale cream-colored line extending from the base of the bill.
Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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I took a fair few variations earlier in the week, this is the one that seems to work best after a lot of flipping between frames. Was originally meant to be a commentary on Glasgows COP26 but the timing is near perfect!
A vintage pocket watch shot through a looking glass.
Although, at first glance it does look like a lot of shots I have seen from there.
Just a bit of sunshine on an old fence rail in Alviso, California.
From my Wild and Weathered Wood collection.
Canon EOS 6D - f/8 - 1/80sec - 100 mm - ISO 1000
-for challenge Flickr group 'Smile on Saturday',
theme: 'Nothing in Focus
Another image taken last week during another birding session at Hunter Wetlands Center (Shortland, NSW; Australia) with long time friend and fellow flickr tog Joe Micallef.
Hope you like it!
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Have a terrific day and weekend everyone.
She came from the deepest, darkest depths of the sea,
Filled with hate and misery,
Wreaking havoc on the hapless males above,
Devouring their souls, devoid of love.
Taken from my backyard again. Fortunately, he was closer compared to my previous image. I managed to get some nice, close-up shots of him this time!
My metadata was reset by Photoshop. This was taken on a Canon R5 Mark II with a 1.4x extender at 500mm.
The Yellow Eyed Penguin is the rarest penguin in the world, found only on the south east coast of New Zealand. This photo was taken during a visit to the Penguin Place, located in the Otago Peninsula in South New Zealand.
Penguin Place is a private conservation effort to help save the world's most endangered penguin, the Yellow Eyed Penguin. Visitors are taken on guided walking tours through a unique system of trenches and hides to view the penguins undisturbed at close range. Penguin Place is funded 100% by the support of our visitors, this funding enables habitat restoration, predator control, a research program and on-site rehabilitation for sick, starving and wounded penguins. It is our hope that through our efforts, the future of this rare and wonderful penguin will be assured.