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(162/365) iPhone image of a Common Carder bee feeding on a pink Cosmos flower at The Secret Garden centre near Newmarket HBBBT! For some reason Flickr uploaded 10 duplicate images when I uploaded this one so I had to delete them all one by one. Flickrland sure is a frustrating place these days.
Schmetterlinge in Ungarn
Hauhechel-Bläuling (Polyommatus icarus) bei der Paarung,
könnte aber auch ein "Kleiner Esparsetten-Bläuling" (Polyommatus thersites) sein, sieht schon sehr ähnlich aus.
Butterfly in Hungary
Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) during mating,
but could also be an "Chapman's Blue" (Polyommatus thersites), already looks very similar.
Holidays in Hungary, image #459 of 581
H1505-(459)
SONY NEX-7 & SEL 18-200
200mm _ f/9 _ 1/1250s _ ISO200
20.05.2015 10:01
Cleeve Common.
The common puffball grows on the ground in woodlands and grasslands, often occurring in small clusters. When a fruiting body is mature, a hole opens at the top. When the puffball is bumped by a passing animal or even hit by raindrops, a cloud of spores is puffed out of the hole. The spores will drift away on the wind and help the fungus spread.
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Common Bronzewing (male)
Phaps chalcoptera
January 7th, 2024
Launching Place, Victoria, Australia
Canon EOS R5
Canon RF 100-500mm F4.5-7.1L IS USM lens
I am quite fortunate to have these wonderful Common Bronzewings as residents on my property. It can be quite easy to overlook the species seen regularly, however this is not the case for me with these birds as I just love the array of colours they exhibit. From the eye catching rainbow of colours of the iridescent feathers on the wings, to the understated pastel greys, browns & maroons of their plumage. And of course that fawn & white coloured forehead of the male.
This male was waiting out a decent Summer shower.
A return trip to WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire in mid November 2024.
The Common Pochard, known simply as Pochard in the United Kingdom, is a medium-sized diving duck.
In winter and spring, male Pochards are very distinctive. They have a bright reddish-brown head, a black breast and tail and a pale grey body. Females are more easily confused with other species – they are brown with a greyish body and pale cheeks.
The Pochard is similar in appearance to the Redhead, but they can be identified by their Red eye rather than the Yellow eye of the latter.
The teasel is probably best-known for its brown, prickly stems and conical seed heads, which persist long after the plants themselves have died back for the winter.
Between July and August, when teasels are in flower, the spiky flower heads are mostly green with rings of purple flowers.
Found in damp grassland and field edges, or on disturbed ground, such as roadside verges and waste grounds, they are visited by bees when in flower, and birds when seeding.
The teasel is a tall plant, often reaching the height of a person. They have thorns all the way up their stems and a cone-like flower head that gives the plant the impression of an oversized cottonbud.
The flowers are tiny and purple, clustering together and appearing in rings up and down the flower head; the familiar seed heads turn brown in winter.
They also make brilliant dried arrangements, specially if sprayed gold or silver for Christmas!
The Common teasel was used for carding wool prior to spinning, though I prefer to use my Ashford Drum Carder for that job!
The seeds of the teasel are very important for birds, such as the Goldfinch, which can often be seen alighting on the old, brown flower heads in autumn to 'tease' the seeds from them!
I tried to upload these at lunch time but Flickr jammed up. They were taken on the same visit as the ones I did upload at lunch time.
Very few butterflies een again at this reserve. Most years it is a good place. Apart from a few common blues I only saw one other butterfly.
The common merganser or goosander is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America. The common merganser eats mainly fish. It nests in holes in trees. The name "common merganser" is used in North America, while "goosander" is used in Eurasia. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Mergus merganser
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A trip to WWT Slimbridge mid October. Weather was sunny intervals.
Male and Female Common Mallards flying over the outer fields at Slimbridge.
The Mallard is a large and heavy-looking duck. It has a long body, and a long and broad bill. The male has a dark green head, a yellow bill, is mainly purple-brown on the breast and grey on the body. The female is mainly brown with an orange bill. Mallards breed in all parts of the UK in summer and winter, wherever there are suitable wetland habitats.
Part of a flock of ~60,000 estimated Common Eider off of South Monomoy.
Off of South Monomoy, Chatham, Barnstable, MA
A Common Dolphin bow-riding the whale watching boat off the coast of Port Stephens.
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This is a picture of an Common Eastern Bumblebee at Lake Waterford Park in Pasadena, Maryland.
Round Bay Quad
A Common Murre or Turr as it is known locally seen on the cliffs of Cape St. Mary's, Newfoundland. This particular bird exhibits the ringed colouring around the eyes that not all have. This seabird colony can have up to 70,000 birds during breeding season.
Ypthima huebneri (Common fourring) feeding on an unknown wildflower. On the wilderness surrounding the Machinchang Cable Car carpark, Machinchang Cambrian Geoforest Park, Langkawi, Malaysia.
Common Nighthawks are medium-sized, slender birds with very long, pointed wings and medium-long tails. Only the small tip of the bill is usually visible, and this combined with the large eye and short neck gives the bird a big-headed look.Common Nighthawks are easiest to see in flight at dawn and dusk as they forage for aerial insects.