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Gewöhnliche Mamba
Dendroaspis angusticeps
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Common Loon - Wilson Lake, Quebec, Canada
Loons are water birds like ducks. The Common Loon is the species best known to most of us, as its breeding range lies across most of Canada. The Common Loon in summer is very striking with its black-and-white checkered back, glossy black head, white belly and wing lining, and characteristic white necklace around the throat. All loons have greyish feathers in the winter, and immature birds tend to resemble adult birds in winter plumage. The white feathers of the belly and wing linings are present year-round.
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The previous image shows the Dusty Miller in bud stage. Once it opened, it was quite a lure for this Common Buckeye.
Common Emerald moth, Hemithea aestivaria. 29 June 2024. Ealing, London, England, UK.
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Till this year, I had never seen a redpoll. Now they are everywhere. There's a flock of at least thirty of them hanging around our feeders. My local friends are reporting that they are also seeing them. They are a real rarity in this part of Pennsylvania but about every ten years or so there seems to be a major influx of northern birds. This must be the year.
Female Common Newt taken today in our garden. We first noticed that we had newts three years ago when they took up residence in an old Belfast sink, which is part of water feature by the house. Every year they reappear, this year there are four, two males and two females.
Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata).
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Alamo, Texas.
Hidalgo County. August 16, 2021.
Nikon D500. Nikkor AF-S 300mm f/4E ED PF VR + TC-14e III teleconverter.
(420mm) f/8 @ 1/3200 sec. ISO 1400.
Newport, Oregon
06/24/2012
Today's image, while not technically proficient, shows a huge colony of Common Murres on a large rock outcropping just beyond the Yaquina Head Lighthouse in Newport, Oregon. There were tens of thousands of birds on this rock and a couple of adjacent rocks. In the background, you can see the fuzzy images of thousands more murres in the water. I have never seen such a large flock of birds before.
Murres can dive up to 100 feet for food and can fly up to 200 kilometers from their nest to bring back food for their chicks. A group of murres are collectively known as a "bazaar" and a "fragrance" of murres. I can tell you from personal experience that this scene was reminiscent of a middle eastern bazaar and there was a definite fragrance to these murres. I can't imagine what this rock is like when the chicks start to hatch. What a scene that must be!
The one odd looking bird with the blue neck is a Brandt's Cormorant. While this image only shows the one cormorant, there were others interspersed on the colony. The colony was so large that you would need a wide angle lens to get it all in the frame. But it was so far away that the birds would have been indistinguishable from the rocks. So I chose to take a close up of a small portion of the rock.
Can you find the egg in this image? At least I think it's an egg.
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