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I love volunteering at Bempton Cliffs in East Yorkshire, and Inever tire of both watching and photographing Gannets. They may look a little clumsy and comical on the ground but once airborne thay are graceful and elegant.
Even swans have their moments...
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#26 - Comical
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A metallic frog rides a bicycle through the ice plant. Two houseboats are visible in the background, located between the island of Alameda and Oakland, California.
This comical Male Grackle must have paraded up and down this small stretch of land at Ensenada lodge for about 20 minutes. Whether there was a Female about that he was trying to impress I'm not sure but it was a great visual and vocal display regardless. Grackles have a very varied repertoire and we certainly heard most of it whilst watching him. Although black looking initially he has a beautiful midnight blue sheen to his feathers, which was apparent even in the shade of the trees. Grackles are not related to crows or any or the Corvid family but are known to be able to problem solve and use tools around them.
I was camped between this van on the right and a trash can full of smelly kitchen refuse on my left side. I saw these great reflections and was determined to get someone walking through to complete my street frame. Much to my surprise, this lady came and stopped (!) at exactly the right spot to rummage through her handbag. I simply couldn't believe it and snapped a series of shots of which I picked this one to edit and post. Thank you for looking, faving and commenting, friends! Happy Sunday!
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We've been to a Christmas Carol Service in a barn on a working farm, and these wonderful Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs were some of the animals whose home we had all invaded.
They were very friendly and enjoyed their backs being scratched.
There's nothing more comical then when a common grackle fills his chest with air and lets out an enormous sound. It's almost like a wind bag of the human variety.
The Comical Seabird AKA Tammie Norie is probably the most photographed Seabird on Fair Isle. There has been many of times that I have come back with my memory card completely full after spending only a hour with them.
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Slightly comical pigeon with a hairdo just like Alfalfa in "Our Gang"! (Google it, kids).
Where have I seen that sky before? Sky replacement with Luminar 4.
I can’t help it (I know it’s anthropomorphizing) but I laugh when I look at this since to me the bird looks like it is doing calisthenics. In truth it was balancing on a slippery overturned canoe.
They were so comical - but would not stand still for a photograph!!
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This was one of may trees marked for removal along a local road. It looks like the road crew was having a bit of fun.
Meridian Township, MI
False Garden Mantis in an attitude which inspired me this comical expression, often used in theater plays :)
Royal Terns are often seen on the beaches of Sanibel Island during the winter months. Their shaggy black crowns sometimes give them a comical appearance.
Neither graceful nor beautiful, warthogs are, however, remarkable animals. They are the only pigs able to live in areas without water for several months of the year. Warthogs are found in most of Africa south of the Sahara and are widely distributed in East Africa. They are the only pigs able to live in areas without water for several months of the year. By tolerating a higher-than-normal body temperature, the warthog is perhaps able to conserve moisture inside its body that might otherwise be used for cooling. The face is fairly flat and the snout elongated. Eyes set high on the head enables the warthog to keep a lookout for predators even when it lowers its head to feed on short grass. The warthog's large tusks are unusual: The two upper ones emerge from the sides of the snout to form a semicircle; the lower tusks at the base of the uppers are worn to a sharp cutting edge.
A comical-looking Snowy Egret stretches its wings along the shore of Lake Jackson. In its defense, it was very windy.
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It was comical as it just stared at us as it allowed the river current to slowly drift on by us just off shore.
American goldfinch males are beginning to grow in more of their golden summer plumage feathers now. They look quite comical at this strange-looking change stage and I'm sure the girls give these guys some good-natured kidding.
Black Swans are graceful as they glide on smooth waters, and comically ungainly when they waddle on land but I particularly like watching them preen. There is something gentle and peaceful about the way they curve their necks to nudge their bills amongst their feathers. I like the way the image above shows the different feathers of the head, neck and body as well as a hint of the downy feathers that help insulate the swan.
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Taken on a gloomy wintery day beside a farm field in Oxdrift, Ontario.
I find the legs of Great Greys look almost comical when visible in flight - they look like the legs of a house cat or a rabbit got added on last minute...
Rockport, Texas
The Brown Pelican is a comically elegant bird with an oversized bill, sinuous neck, and big, dark body. Squadrons glide above the surf along southern and western coasts, rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves. They feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up. They are fairly common today—an excellent example of a species’ recovery from pesticide pollution that once placed them at the brink of extinction.
Sitting and waiting for owls and raptors this pheasant wandered straight out in front of me - they do look rather comical from tis angle.
Helen, Robert and Jamie came up with the idea for this comic cake for my, slightly belated, 50th party and it really made us all laugh. Based on a picture that Rob took at Melton Mowbray several years ago it also features my favourite First Gen unit, a Bubble Car.
The Comical Sea Clown is probably the most photographed Seabird in Shetland. There has been many of times that I have come back with my memory card completely full after spending only a hour with them.
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I'm only an amateur so if anyone can give me any tips and advice on any of my pictures, It will be very much appreciated.
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This is with all of my photographs.
Never the less, I hope you enjoy viewing it.
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I find these birds so adorable. They look like little penguins when the are walking around. So comical to watch. Makes me smile. :)
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I have searched for years for a short-eared owl. These comical-looking birds are scarce at best in Ireland, and every time I've checked out a regular site, I've never seen one. So when a report came of a SEO at a small headland near Bangor, I got the earliest train to Bangor I could this morning. I cycled to the headland and connected with the bird very quickly. It was one of the most superb birds in flight I have seen for a while - graceful, buoyant flight, almost floating over the grass. Later on, the sun came out and I got a shock as the owl landed on the ground - beside a second SEO! I spent the golden evening photographing them, and watching them hunt and interact.
Life is good!!
A noisy, head-bobbing, slightly comical bird captured in Rio Pescado, Region de los Lagos, Chile.
Known locally as a Queltehue or a Treile, it is known in other countries as a Tero, Leque, Quero Quero, Pellar or Alcaraván. It's English name is the Southern Lapwing, and in latin it is Vanellus Chilensis. It is the symbol of the Uruguayan Rugby Team.
There are multiple things going on when we start talking about the weather. We might be in the bush. It could be a slow day. Or perhaps there's an East Coast Low parked nearby, a packet of air that left Antarctica just three days ago has blasted in from the South, and the remnants of Cyclone Narelle who formed in the Coral Sea, took a jaunt over Cape York, through the Gulf, the Top End, then out into the Indian Ocean before re-forming, deciding she'd never been to Perth so will, and is feeding warm moist air into that East Coast Low and that Antarctic air mass. It might even be that out where my mother was born, it snowed last night, in March. Someone will have to make a good case to get me outside today!
Meanwhile, it's warm just south of the Equator; always. Weeks before this picture was taken, away south near Rio de Janeiro when I spotted my first frigate bird, I joked that maybe the seeming impossibility of getting to the Galapagos Archipelago didn't matter. What a day this has turned out to be: day1. There's an epic trip just to get from downtown Quito to the special gate at the airport that feeds the quarantine inspection for flights to Baltra. Land in Baltra, go through quarantine inspection, again, and immigration control even though you're still, technically, in Ecuador… Now I've done the road trip to the dock, then the inflatable skip to a 100ft vessel and headed out to sea…to sea, and to see this!
I can't decide if I'm gawking at these frigate birds, or they are gawking at the next batch of gringos — as the more ill-mannered Ecuadorians call their prey visitors. Oh, I should tell you, yes, that is a radar scanner, yes it is spinning, and no, not one frigate bird both landed and hung on. But they did try!
Fort Pierce Inlet
The Brown Pelican –
“comically elegant bird” - oversized bill, sinuous neck, and big, dark body.
Squadrons glide above the surf …. Rising and falling in a graceful echo of the waves.
They feed by plunge-diving from high up, using the force of impact to stun small fish before scooping them up.
They are fairly common today—an excellent example of a species’ recovery from pesticide pollution that once placed them at the brink of extinction.