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Green cay wetlands
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The Common Loon has become one of my favorites to photograph in the summer, when I am lucky enough to see them. I love when they have the droplets of water on their head. Best viewed large. Their song gives me shivers!
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Common gull.
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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 :)
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Long Island, NY
Common Tern - Sterna Hirundo
Juvenile
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 Redpoll (Carduelis flammea) in the aspen woods east of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
24 February, 2013.
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The common darter is a small, narrow-bodied dragonfly which is on the wing from the end of June right through to October, or even November in a warm autumn. This is a very common dragonfly, breeding in all sorts of waterbodies from ponds and ditches to rivers and lakes. As their name suggests, common darters dart forward suddenly from a hovering position to catch their insect-prey. They then take their catch to a favoured perch to eat it.
Male common darters are bright red while the females and immature adults are golden-brown. There are several similar-looking red darters which can be very difficult to tell apart.
Nikon Z 9, Sigma 60-600mm Sports lens, 260mm, f/6.3, 1/800, ISO 500. Breeding male waterbird. View Large.
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.
One of the best days birding we had. So many different shore birds in one small area. The chicks were no more then a day or two old. They were so cute from afar. The wings look like little sticks popping out. It was very tough getting both birds in focus. The chicks were so small.
Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge, DE
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.
Nikon Z 9, 800mm S PF, 1/1000, f/6.3, ISO 1250. As usual, downsized and degraded to 2048 pixels wide vice the 8000+ original but you still get the idea. View Large.
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
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.
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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.
Another image from several years ago taken in Haliburton Ontario, finally getting around to organizing them.
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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