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Saw the back of this bird and it obligingly turned a bit so I could see its head.
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Common orange lichen (Xanthoria parietina) growing on a poplar tree trunk.
Złotorost ścienny (Xanthoria parietina) rosnący na pniu topoli.
The Common Tern is able to drink both salt and fresh water. Like many seabirds, it has nasal glands that excrete salt.
A life bird (X2) for me - these birds rest and nap on the ground in the daytime - quite openly. But their amazing camouflage usually protects them to a degree. This was one of two a short distance apart, just a couple feet from a main trail in the state park. Yes, we needed help to find them!
Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco, Texas
Jan. 8, 2022
This has been a good Spring for Common Cotton Grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) on the Derbyshire moors. This was on the lower reaches of White Edge on Big Moor.
One of many Common Darters perching on the fence near the visitor centre at RSPB Minsmere on our recent visit! (I love the way that darters always look so happy!)
Common buckeye butterfly, Junonia coenia Hubner
is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Its original ancestry has been traced to Africa, which then experiences divergence in Asia.
Caterpillars of these butterflies appear to prefer plants that produce iridoid glycosides, which are bitter compounds that release a hormone called gastrin that activates the digestive system (i.e. hunger); therefore, iridoid glycoside producing plants stimulate and attract their appetites particularly when found in plants like Plantago lanceolata.
A male Common Darter dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum) in our Staffordshire garden today. He obligingly landed on a stick that I have stuck into the lawn by our garden wildlife pond. The golden-yellow background is provided by lily leaves that were in full sunlight. Gives a quite pleasant effect I think.
This young Common Yellowthroat faced many challenges ahead but when I saw it was busy exploring its neighbourhood, probably not far from the nest where it was born. This is the same individual as in this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51435513024/in...
This bird was among Cattails at the north end of Weed Lake near Langdon in southern Alberta, Canada.
A female Common blue- Polyommatus icarus
The Common Blue is the most widespread blue butterfly in Britain and Ireland and is found in a variety of grassy habitats.
The brightly coloured males are conspicuous but females are more secretive. The colour of the upperwings of females varies from almost completely brown in southern England to predominantly blue in western Ireland and Scotland, but the colour is variable within local populations with some striking examples. Unlike Adonis and Chalkhill Blues, the dark veins do not extend into white fringes of wing margins.
The males usually have blue wings with a black-brown border and a white fringe at the edge. The females are usually brown with a little blue dusting and fewer orange spots on the lower parts of the wings
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The common waxbill (Estrilda astrild), also known as the St Helena waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa but has been introduced to many other regions of the world and now has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It is popular and easy to keep in captivity.
A male Common Blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus). Hartington Hay Meadows, Derbyshire Peak District.
In addition to the hooded mergansers, there were a few other species of waterfowl on the river. A common merganser swims by before diving under to catch some food.
Burnham Prairie
I haven't had even a half-decent shot of a buzzard for years but I've had two in a week. This one was on a kill in a frosty field this morning
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Having now spent a decade at the same university in the pursuit of two degrees, I find myself treading the same paths under continually changing circumstances. This, of course, is life, yet having such continuity of scenery, as though I were a player on a stage is always strange. Here is an image of the exterior of Ida Noyes Hall. As a freshman in college I came through here to watch movies at Doc Films, the student-run cinema and to eat ribs during the university’s Ribs and Blues festival. Later, when I turned 21, I would frequent the pub with my friends and future wife. Later still, I would bring dinner and homework to her as she would life guard in a now extinct swimming pool. My neighbor and very good friend was married on campus and he and his wife had their wedding reception in the very spot where this image was taken – I took the photographs. Later still, I was married nearby and my wife and I had our own wedding reception here and throughout graduate school I’ve returned to the Pub for each and every milestone. These constants of place provide us with a rare opportunity to eliminate the variable of time and view our previous selves, haunting a common path.
De kraanvogel is er één die tot de verbeelding spreekt. Deze grote grijze vogel van 1,30 meter lang herken je aan de rode vlek achter op de kop. Zijn trompetterende roep herken je uit duizenden. Vanaf 2001 broeden er Kraanvogels in ons land. Het aantal broedparen is nog klein maar groeit langzaam.
This was a nice day for a visit to Carburn Park. I had a very nice surprise seeing the loon. It had not been reported as being seen there.
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A Common black hawk (Buteogallus anthracinus), sitting on a tree branch, almost disappears among the vegetation, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
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