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The common toad is one of the most misunderstood animals of the European fauna. Its stubby appearance, clumsy movements and slimy skin generate an irrational rejection in many people. However, it is one of our most valuable allies in the fight against the annoying nocturnal insects that it hunts and eats anxiously during its long nocturnal runs. This origami model emerged from the search for heads with bulging eyes in the frenzy that follows an AEP Convention. It is simple and at the same time it is a perfect model to fold with a 15x15cm Kami.
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El sapo común es uno de los animales más incomprendidos de la fauna europea. Su aspecto rechoncho, movimientos torpes y piel viscosa generan un rechazo irracional en muchas personas. Sin embargo es uno de nuestros más valiosos aliados en la lucha contra los molestos insectos nocturnos que caza y come con fruición durante sus largas correrÃas nocturnas. Este modelo de origami surgió de la búsqueda de cabezas con ojos saltones en el frenesà que sigue a una Convención de la AEP. Es sencillo y a la vez resultón, un modelo perfecto para doblar con un Kami de 15x15cm.
Melanitta nigra. This is a male Common Scoter. They breed on freshwater lakes in northern Europe including a small and declining population in northern Scotland. Birds from Scandinavia and Russia winter at sea on the coasts of western Europe. There is a large wintering population in the Irish Sea and some of these birds are seen at inland lakes in northern Britain during late March and early April on their migration back to their breeding grounds. This is one of those migrants photographed on the lake at York Universities’ Heslington East campus. It’s heavily cropped to less than a quarter of the sensor area, so the quality isn’t great but I was pleased to be able to photograph one locally.
This was a fairly common butterfly on the trip. I have uploaded another photo of one because I am very happy with the photo.
These kingfisher's are indeed very common this year in Belgium. It has to do with the very soft winter we had. Some winters, almost all the staying birds may wipe out due to the lack of food (frozen ponds).
This is a very easy shot, taken in Testelt, where many people come to take pictures of these beautiful birds, because it is very easy there to see them from no more than 3 meters (10ft) distance. I prefer to take pictures from somewhat more challanging places, just for the fun of it...
This bird was looking up, because a buzzard was flying over...
Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis)
Estero Llano Grande State Park, Texas
Canon EOS 5D Mark II and Canon 300mm f/4L IS
I had some fantastic finds on my 3 days in South Texas, including this roosting pauraque and her two nestlings. I didn't even see the two chicks at first...so camouflaged. DOF was difficult even at f/16 (here). I have other images I could merge to get the tail sharper, but I didn't mind this single exposure.
Comical formation of Common Terns at Titchfield Haven
Scientific name: Sterna hirundo
Bird family: Gulls and terns
UK conservation status: Amber
These delightful silvery-grey and white birds have long tails which have earned them the nickname 'sea-swallow'. They have a buoyant, graceful flight and frequently hover over water before plunging down for a fish. They are often noisy in company and breed in colonies. The common tern is the tern species most likely to be found inland.
What they eat: Fish.
Measurements:
Length: 31-35cm
Wingspan: 77-98cm
Weight: 90-150g
Population:
UK breeding: 12,000 pairs
Read more at www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
As is quite evident, their name is derived from their golden-yellow eye. They are found in lakes and rivers of boreal forests across Canada and the northern United States, Scandinavia and northern Russia. They are migratory and most winter in protected coastal waters or open inland waters at more temperate latitudes. Naturally, they nest in cavities in large trees. They will readily use nestboxes, and this has enabled a healthy breeding population to establish in Scotland where they are increasing and slowly spreading with the help of nestboxes. They are usually quite common in winter around lakes of Britain and some are being encouraged to nest in nestboxes which are put up to try to have them there all year round.
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Common Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus communis) male. Found nectaring on sunflowers beside my driveway. Arvada, Jefferson Co., Colo.
Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia; Hodges#4582) - Lamoine State Park, Lamoine, Maine
This guy was a first for me, and it reminded me so much so of the Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) butterflies I had seen in Ireland that it make it more difficult to find an ID since here in the U.S. "Heath" is not in any part of their name
(though they are indeed related).
Americans!
I guess it must be in our DNA to be different.
Note: This guy appears to be subspecies Coenonympha tullia inornata (a.k.a. the Inornate Ringlet)
For the first time I was able to get a decent shot of this gorgeous duck, so beautiful!
The eerie calls of Common Loons echo across clear lakes of the northern wilderness. Summer adults are regally patterned in black and white. In winter, they are plain gray above and white below, and you’ll find them close to shore on most seacoasts and a good many inland reservoirs and lakes. Common Loons are powerful, agile divers that catch small fish in fast underwater chases.
Rather difficult to shoot, as they were blowing in the wind. They were at my eye level, though, so that made it somewhat easier.
Shot at "Garden of Memories Cemetery" in Salinas, California, which is where John Steinbeck and some of his family are buried.
Gallinula chloropus
Ormond Beach Wetlands at Arnold Road
Oxnard, California
Not really common 'round these parts.
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A Common Ground-Dove perches on a fence post along a rural road in Lorida, Florida.
Press "z" to enlarge.
Nikon D500, 200-500mm f/5.6 lens
f/5.6, 500mm
1/1600, ISO 360
Hand held through car window.
There is something quite relaxing photography the frogs spawning, love the constant background croaking and the fights which break out with the males when a female arrives.
It does also amaze me the number of people who walk past feet away and don't hear the noise or see the commotion going on. It's been quite an education for quite a few of the walkers who asked what I was up to with my camera, always good to make people aware of what's literally at their feet