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Common Snipe / gallinago gallinago. 21/08/19.
'A CASE OF FOOT & MOUTH.'
I‘m not sure what was going on here. The Snipe spent some considerable time grasping one of it’s toes in it’s beak repeatedly.
All suggestions welcomed! :-))
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
Series of nine! It turned out to be Seal Sunday at the local harbour. These two seals were enjoying their mud bath in the cold January sun.
The Common Piping Guan roams the same pavilion as the Blue-crowned motmot - itself first correctly identified the other day by beth_photop.
Close-up, dorsal view of a beautiful common buckeye butterfly, with wings spread while drinking water from a tiny pool on the ground.
Yet another common blue.
I would love to build up a portfolio of different species of butterfly images, but keep finding these. I suppose that's why they are called "common blues" and not "really rare blues".
Thanks for looking.
This common loon was swimming around the dock area of the marina in Robinhood Maine. I think this is a non-breeding adult. It does not have the green head, the nice band around the neck, or the stripped breast area. There are some patches of green on the head but not the beautiful green it will have later on during the breeding season.
The common gallinule is a bird in the family Rallidae. It was split from the common moorhen by the American Ornithologists' Union in July 2011. It lives around well-vegetated marshes, ponds, canals, and other wetlands in the Americas.
Common Snipe / gallinago gallinago. 21/08/19.
One of c9 Common Snipe that eventually flew in for a prolonged feeding fest mid-afternoon.
Once they got going, they probed their beaks into the mud at a rapid rate, reminiscent of a sewing machine's needle action. Snipe are able to detect food hidden deep in the mud using sensitive nerves inside the tips of their flexible beaks.
This bird was captured taking a brief rest to check the surrounding area. The position of it's beautifully large, dark eyes gives it excellent periphery vision.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
It's 10:30 am on 2 February 2016, and there are only two new photos from contacts showing on my Contacts' page. That seems very strange.
All three photos posted this morning were taken yesterday, 1 February 2016, when I spent the day east of the city with friends Sandy and Debbie. We were hoping to see a few owls and ended up seeing three species, which was quite a treat – a distant Snowy Owl that was perched on a round, white tank of some sort on the ground, an extremely well-hidden Short-eared Owl and an equally well-hidden Great Horned Owl. Pretty useless for photos, but lovely to see. We were also treated to a beautiful Rough-legged Hawk that was perched on a power pole along one of the backroads.
Not much in the way of other birds, other than endless Black-billed Magpies, a few Ravens and a large flock or two of dainty Common Redpolls. The latter are usually almost impossible to photograph, they are so fast and constantly on the move. The photo I've posted today is a messy shot and poor quality, but these little Redpolls, with the red spot on their forehead, do look rather cute hidden among a tangle of thin branches.
"As energetic as their electric zapping call notes would suggest, Common Redpolls are active foragers that travel in busy flocks. Look for them feeding on catkins in birch trees or visiting feeders in winter. These small finches of the arctic tundra and boreal forest migrate erratically, and they occasionally show up in large numbers as far south as the central U.S. During such irruption years, redpolls often congregate at bird feeders (particularly thistle or nyjer seed), allowing delightfully close looks."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Redpoll/id
The day was a mix of sun and lots of cloud, but very pleasant. It was interesting to see how some areas had quite a lot of snow on the ground, but others had the golden stubble showing in fairly bare fields. The odd barn or two offered a few photo opportunities, too, of course.
Many thanks for driving us on this outing, Sandy! Thank goodness that you love driving and that you have a vehicle in much, much newer and better shape than mine or Debbie's : )
A good day birding at Rondeau. Mixed flock of shorebirds, mourning warbler, another pileated, and a common nighthawk.
I spotted it flying after it had been disturbed from its roost and Anne saw it land.
That's about the only way to find one of these.
Chordeiles minor
On summer evenings, keep an eye and an ear out for the male Common Nighthawk’s dramatic “booming” display flight. Flying at a height slightly above the treetops, he abruptly dives for the ground. As he peels out of his dive (sometimes just a few meters from the ground) he flexes his wings downward, and the air rushing across his wingtips makes a deep booming or whooshing sound, as if a racecar has just passed by. The dives may be directed at females, territorial intruders, and even people.
Doing my walk around Orlando Wet Lands, I spotted this bird. So I took a photo of it, not knowing what specie of birds it was. I ran it through Merlin app and it recognized it as a European Starling, known in North America as Common Starling. I was surprised to see this one. It is the first time I spot this specie of birds.
The Сommon starling is a medium-sized bird. It has black plumage with a metallic sheen, which is speckled with white at some times of the year. The bill is black in winter and yellow in summer. Juveniles are grey-brown and by their first winter resemble adults though often retaining some brown juvenile feathering, especially on the head. They can usually be sexed by the color of the irises, rich brown in males, mouse-brown, or grey in females.
Common Iora,
Burung Kunyit Kecil, Common Iora, Aegithina tiphia
Early morning is the ideal time for birding since that is the time when numbers of bird species are active. Some perched in the branches drying their feathers and some of them are not really concerned about the presence of the photographer compare during midday. Usually in the early morning I give extra look to the open branches or low branches. That morning, this bird sit silently in the branch of the rambutan tree, became the yellow green subject for miss Canon.
Awal pagi adalah masa yang ideal untuk birding kerana waktu itu banyak spesis burung aktif mencari makan. Ada yang bertenggek di dahan mengeringkan bulu akibat embun malam dan ada yang tidak menghiraukan kehadiran jurugambar. Kebiasaannya di awal pagi saya akan meninjau dahan dahan terbuka atau dahan dahan yang rendah mencari burung. Pagi itu, burung ini senyap di celah dahan pokok rambutan menjadi subjek hijau untuk Cik Canon saya.
Exif: f /6.3, 1/320, ISO 800, focal length 400mm, Cik Canon EOS 50D, lens 400mm, handheld