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Moccas Hill National Nature Reserve. Herefordshire. SO339424
Literally hundreds of butterflies on a 2 hr walk in this beautiful reserve.
Woodbury Common in East Devon, England is an area of common land that is predominantly heathland adjacent to the village of Woodbury, Devon. It is bordered to the south by the edge of the towns of Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton, the hamlet of Yettington to the east, and the A3052 to the north. It is part of the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodbury_Common,_Devon
This male Common Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum striolatum) was resting on the bird bath, patiently waiting while I fiddled with the camera. Later he got bored and decided to sit on my head. When I took this shot I didn't realise that the yellow stripes on the legs were the key to determine the species. There have been lots of these insects around this summer, though this is the first time one has settled for long enough for me to take a photo of it.
Common Starling / sturnus vulgaris. Nottinghamshire. 15/02/19.
'TIME TO GET SNAPPY.'
I liked the dramatic, rather menacing light that prevailed that particular afternoon. When a male Starling obligingly perched up with some of it's iridescent feathers aglow, it was the icing on the cake as well as the bird on the hedge ... time for me to get snappy with the shutter!
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus)
Meaning behind the name:
Cuculus = Latin for "Cuckoo" (named from it's song)
canorus = Latin meaning "Melodious"
The English name was formally "Cuckow" and first appeared in the 1240's. Like the Latin name, the name was formed after its two-toned classic song: "cu-khoo." Many variations had developed over the years, but its the oldest form that largely stuck. The current spelling emerged during the 18th century. The name was brought in by the Norman's and is Old French "cucu". At least One Old Folk name is still known as "Gouke" which existed from 1688.
You won't believe how long I have been waiting for an opportunity to photograph this bird. I've only managed a few distant shots previously, but this has taken me by surprise. This was taken by sat waiting, and it came nearby of its own accord.
Something a bit different today. I’m not normally one for editing too much but the lighting of the original version was awful, however I really liked the wing position and felt it would make a nice vertical crop with a high key style edit. I’m actually pleased with the result. Taken at Abberton Reservoir. Normal service will resume…
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) female having a good stretch along the ice edge of a small urban pond in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
5 May, 2018.
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Another very common endemic small bird in India seen quite a bit.
And yes, the perils of single point focus - I was focussing on a far off bird when this chat landed in front of me for a few seconds. And since this was so close and filling up the frame, I needed to adjust my single point focus to the top most point (not the center point) to the eyes, and by that time the bird flew away. I got a decent shot though, but the head is a bit blurry.
Common redshanks in breeding plumage are a marbled brown color, slightly lighter below. In winter plumage they become somewhat lighter-toned and less patterned, being rather plain greyish-brown above and whitish below. They have red legs and a black-tipped red bill, and show white up the back and on the wings in flight. The spotted redshank (T. erythropus), which breeds in the Arctic, has a longer bill and legs; it is almost entirely black in breeding plumage and very pale in winter. It is not a particularly close relative of the common redshank, but rather belongs to a high-latitude lineage of largish shanks. T. totanus on the other hand is closely related to the marsh sandpiper (T. stagnatilis), and closer still to the small wood sandpiper (T. glareola). The ancestors of the latter and the common redshank seem to have diverged around the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, about 5–6 million years ago. These three subarctic- to temperate-region species form a group of smallish shanks with have red or yellowish legs, and in breeding plumage are generally a subdued light brown above with some darker mottling, and have somewhat diffuse small brownish spots on the breast and neck.
Cliffside Lane, The Ridge, Fair Oaks / Sacramento County, California
Among the butterfly activity that was visiting the flowering plants on the south side of the swimming pool at my gated community was this Common Buckeye.
The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful and beautiful song. An Old World flycatcher, it belongs to a group of more terrestrial species, often called chats. Its range partly overlaps with that of the more northerly thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia), a closely related species with which hybrids have occurred
A common lizard seen basking on a stile along the Cotswold Way public footpath between Aggs Hill and Prestbury Hill nature reserve.