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I photographed this pair on an open storm water lake in a park in the city. Many of the storm water lakes and ponds are open much earlier than the outlying bodies of water and they provide suitable habitat and foraging opportunities for many species as they wait for their breeding grounds to open up.

 

Many of the species we see on this particular lake at this time of year are here for only a brief time before they move on. It gives us the opportunity to see species that breed farther north.

 

This lake and others like it also provide a breeding area for many waterfowl species such as Canada Geese, Mallards, Wigeons, Lesser scaups, and other common waterfowl, as well as Herons and some shorebirds.

 

Hermitage Park. Edmonton, Alberta.

  

It is always with great hesitation that I post flight shots. There are so many of you who are so outstandingly good at freezing these guys in flight... here is my more "lukewarm" and humble contribution to the flight category :)

Common gull.

No post-processing done to photo, only cropped. Nikon NEF (RAW) files available. NPP Straight Photography at noPhotoShopping.com

Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia

January 5, 2021

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Common Crossbill (male), Spain

Common Buzzard seen at Cley Marshes (2203)

Common Redstart, Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Sterna hirundo

 

Photographed at Reculver (Kent).

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A Common Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) in the aspen woods east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

 

24 February, 2013.

 

Slide # GWB_20130224_2427.CR2

 

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RKO_6391. Common Buzzard in a protective pose!

 

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Fasan (Phasianus colchicus)

Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 260mm, f/6.3, 1/800, ISO 500. Breeding male waterbird. View Large.

カワセミ  Common Kingfisher

学名 Alcedo atthis

 

A stunning, fresh male on the seed head of Hare's Foot Clover on a local nature strip (Nottingham, UK) (1283)

I liked this one of the gallinules and did a photoshop treatment of mainly the water. I tried to maintain the integrity of the original and add something to spice up one of the most common species in my area.

Scuffed the shutter speed dial by mistake, which shoved the ISO high, but turned out reasonable, because it was close. Now present in numbers 30-40. Low light this morning at Lodmoor, Dorset.

Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo

 

It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white to very light grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill. Depending on the subspecies, the bill may be mostly red with a black tip or all black. There are a number of similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.

 

Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the common tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts. The nest may be a bare scrape in sand or gravel, but it is often lined or edged with whatever debris is available. Up to three eggs may be laid, their dull colours and blotchy patterns providing camouflage on the open beach.

 

Population:

 

UK breeding:

12,000 pairs

   

Common Mormon butterfly

 

Papilio polytes, the common Mormon, is a common species of swallowtail butterfly widely distributed across Asia. This butterfly is known for the mimicry displayed by the numerous forms of its females which mimic inedible red-bodied swallowtails, such as the common rose and the crimson rose. (source : Wikipedia)

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Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo

  

It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white to very light grey underparts, a black cap, orange-red legs, and a narrow pointed bill. Depending on the subspecies, the bill may be mostly red with a black tip or all black. There are a number of similar species, including the partly sympatric Arctic tern, which can be separated on plumage details, leg and bill colour, or vocalisations.

 

Breeding in a wider range of habitats than any of its relatives, the common tern nests on any flat, poorly vegetated surface close to water, including beaches and islands, and it readily adapts to artificial substrates such as floating rafts. The nest may be a bare scrape in sand or gravel, but it is often lined or edged with whatever debris is available. Up to three eggs may be laid, their dull colours and blotchy patterns providing camouflage on the open beach.

 

Population:

 

UK breeding:

12,000 pairs

   

A Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) male going through its spring display in the hopes of attracting a mate on an urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

 

19 April, 2016.

 

Slide # GWB_20160419_8869.CR2

 

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Papilio polytes, the common Mormon, is a common species of swallowtail butterfly widely distributed across Asia. This butterfly is known for the mimicry displayed by the numerous forms of its females which mimic inedible red-bodied swallowtails, such as the common rose and the crimson rose

The secretive Gray Catbird, with its distinctive cat-like

mewing note, is a common winter resident in Florida.

Many pass through the state during migration.

 

Gray Catbirds are one of the most common species that non-birders in their range are likely to have never seen nor identified. The catbird’s rather bland coloration – slate gray with a black cap and chestnut under the tail – doesn’t attract attention, and unlike their cousins, the mockingbirds, that often sing from exposed perches, catbirds prefer to sing their jumbled songs from cover. And it is the sounds that catbirds make that give them their name and makes it at all likely that their presence will be noted.

 

Gray Catbirds, to put it simply, have a call note that sounds like a cat with a scratchy and short meow. This sound emanating from a tangle of brush can easily fool those not in the know. The song of the Gray Catbird, however, is nothing like a cat meowing: like the mockingbird and thrasher the catbird often mimics other birds and sounds but it tends not to repeat itself. The rule of thumb is that if a phrase is repeated three times in a row it is a mockingbird, it it is repeated twice a thrasher is singing, and if each phrase of the song is sang just once one is dealing with a catbird.

 

I found this one in my backyard in Lake Wales, Polk County, Florida.

Taken Blashford Lakes, Ringwood, Hampshire

J'ai pu avoir une belle proximité avec ce mâle car son nid était près du sentier et il y faisait des allers-retours avec de la nourriture.

 

What a nice looking Warbler

Taken at Prees Common, Shropshire, UK.

Phylloscopus collybita

 

Photographed at Reculver (Kent).

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The Grackles have retuned to their favorite location on Beaumaris Lake.

 

Edmonton, Alberta.

Reyezuelo listado​ (Regulus ignicapilla)

Common firecrest also known as firecrest

Reyín en la lengua madre.

Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) male perched on a branch.

 

Samiec pleszki (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) siedzący na gałęzi.

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