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Rainbow Bee-eater
Scientific Name: Merops ornatus
The Rainbow Bee-Eater is a spectacular bird. With its green, blue, chestnut and yellow plumage, its slim build, slender curved bill and distinctive streamers that extend from the end of its tail, it is simply beautiful. Bee-Eaters are a familiar sight in many lightly-timbered parts of mainland Australia, where they often perch on fence-posts or overhead wires, then launch after flying insects, flying swiftly, sometimes with rapid twists and turns, before snapping the insect in its bill, and returning to the perch to eat it. Research featured in the 'State of Australia's Birds 2015' headline and regional reports shows a marked decline for the Rainbow Bee-eater (and some other aerial insectivories) in the East Coast region, where reporting rates for this species have dropped by over 50% in the since 2001.
Description: A striking, colourful bird, the Rainbow Bee-eater is medium sized, with a long slim curved bill and a long tail with distinctive tail-streamers. It has a golden crown and a red eye set in a wide black stripe from the base of the bill to the ears, which is edged with a thin blue line. The throat is orange-yellow, with a broad black band separating it from a green breast. The upperparts are green, with the flight feathers coppery and black tipped. The underwings are bright orange, with a black edge. The lower abdomen is blue. The tail is black, including the long tail streamers, with a blue tinge. Females have shorter, thicker tail streamers than males, but are otherwise similar. Young birds are duller and greener, lacking the black band on the chest and the long tail streamers.
Similar Species: The Rainbow Bee-eater may resemble some kingfishers, however these are plumper, with strong straight beaks, and never catch prey in flight.
Distribution: The Rainbow Bee-eater is found throughout mainland Australia, as well as eastern Indonesia, New Guinea and, rarely, the Solomon Islands. In Australia it is widespread, except in desert areas, and breeds throughout most of its range, although southern birds move north to winter over.
Habitat: The Rainbow Bee-eater is most often found in open forests, woodlands and shrublands, and cleared areas, usually near water. It will be found on farmland with remnant vegetation and in orchards and vineyards. It will use disturbed sites such as quarries, cuttings and mines to build its nesting tunnels.
Feeding: Rainbow Bee-eaters eat insects, mainly catching bees and wasps, as well as dragonflies, beetles, butterflies and moths. They catch flying insects on the wing and carry them back to a perch to beat them against it before swallowing them. Bees and wasps are rubbed against the perch to remove the stings and venom glands.
Breeding: Rainbow Bee-eaters gather in small flocks before returning to summer breeding areas after over-wintering in the north (apart from the resident northern populations). Both males and females select a suitable nesting site in a sandy bank and dig a long tunnel (average length: 89.4 cm) leading to a nesting chamber, which is often lined with grasses. Both parents incubate the eggs and both feed the young, sometimes with the assistance of auxiliaries (helpers).
(Source: www.birdlife.org.au)
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Comment distiller un peu de magie en ces temps de Fêtes ?
Étape 1: vous avez besoin d'une froide journée d'hiver
Étape 2: préparation d'une bonne tasse de thé, de chocolat chaud ou de café
Étape 3: choisissez un beau roman de Noël, installez-vous confortablement sous un bon plaid chaud...et voilà, cocooning assuré !!! :-)
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How to add a little holiday magic ?
Step 1 : you need a cold winter day
Step 2 : a good cup of tea or cocoa
Step 3 : finally, choose a great Christmas book !!!
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After all the Joker stuff coming out recently including the Gotham posters, the movie trailer and my love for the animated version I decided I wanted to remake my figure.
The legs are very simple. Some simple shoes are painted and some red was dry brushed to simulate blood.
The belt is e-tape and the buckle is dry sculpted and painted silver.
The torso is the exact same as the last version so go check that photo for details.
The coat is paper and e-tape and painted purple. The arms are painted purple to match the coat but are blank.
The head is inspired by the Gotham version and was hard to do. The base was a regular Joker head from the regular superheroes line. The mouth was erased and repainted. The eyes were modified as were the eyebrows. The other details were painted and then quickly dry brushed off leaving a weird texture behind.
The hair was modified slightly and a side burn was removed, the hairline was sanded back a little and painted green.
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Our local Shell garage in Morley, Leeds 27. Decorated with blue Selective colour.
Please follow me if you like my B&W photos, I am not the best photographer as I take most of my shots from my wheelchair so I cannot get into the best places/positions to take a picture but I try my best. Lee.
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Is it not ironic that I had not utilized a great photographic resource that was available right before my house? It is indeed ironic that it took me so long to really 'see' the drumstick tree infront of my house. I have observed and complained a lot of times about the amount of caterpillars that the tree was throwing up. Never did my mind make the connection that caterpillars meant only one thing... A whole lot of butterflies!!!
It is indeed a treasure trove of various activities and I spent quite a while shooting pictures from this tree and hopefully I will be able to harness more from this 'great' tree.
(P.S: I also realized only now what my photography sir used to keep saying. Our photographic subjects are all around us. It is just a matter of us opening our eyes to see them!)
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Here are the upper falls in BW as suggested in the comments for the previous color version. Same 5 shot pano. In the PSE 11 BW conversion I increased the contrast and blue filter to pop the white of the ice. Also, some vertical distortion correction and a closer vertical crop to emphasize the falls.
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He leans toward her, she leans over him in comfort. For many decades they have struggled together and have weathered many storms, yet they continue to stand together in solidarity. ~dr
I have photographed this scene many years ago, but wanted to reshoot it with a hi-rez camera. I processed this one a bit different from my norm...
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Please follow me if you like my B&W photos, I am not the best photographer as I take most of my shots from my wheelchair so I cannot get into the best places/positions to take a photo but I try my best. Lee.
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Here's my album for this year: flic.kr/s/aHskzGbt4P
Last year's is here: flic.kr/s/aHskPxovML
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Saturday we went to the Feguson Fawsitt pub in Walkington for dinner. WE both went for the chicken and bacon pie. Wow, what a choice - that may well be the best pie I have ever tasted!
Than on the evening we went out on Prince's Avenue for a few drinks.
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Cette ancienne maison de style Second Empire inscrite dans un ensemble de constructions plus récentes fut construite vers 1875. Suivant la tendance du "Façadisme" on en a vidé l'intérieur, seules les façades fermant le coin de rue ont été conservées. Toutefois, une restauration soignée contribue a redonner aux vénérables façades leur fraîcheur d'antan. Le bâtiment abrite maintenant un McCafé.
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Saturday night in Lincoln was one of our best nights out there ever. We had such a great time, lots of interaction with other people.
We started out at the Skylight Bar in the Doubletree hotel on Brayford Wharf then went on to Popworld, which was a Fever Boutique last time we were there.
At Popworld we met the wonderful Ashliegh who was just great company all night! And we had a dance on the light-up dance floor too. A brill night all round!
At the Sylight Bar in the Doubletree. These seats had a wonderful view out over Lincoln.
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I just can't leave this dress alone! I love it so much. My photostream is becoming a little predictable. Ha ha.