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Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) photographed at the LaPlatte Headwaters Town Forest in Hinesburg, Vermont.
The common babbler is a member of the Leiothrichidae family. They are found in dry open scrub country mainly in India.
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Common Redpoll - a brief view before the small flock flew off, taken through the sunroof! Columbia Co NY
Common Split Gill (Schizophyllum commune). The largest of these caps is only about 2 cm. This species has a densely hairy cap. It is not being cannibalized by another fungus. Windy Hill Open Space Preserve. Portola Valley, San Mateo Co., Calif.
Common Bronzewings are medium-sized, heavily built pigeons. The male has a yellow-white forehead and pink breast. Both sexes have a clear white line below and around the eye and patches of green, blue and red in the wing, characteristic of all bronzewings. The Common Bronzewing is a cautious pigeon, and rarely allows close approach. If startled, it flies away with a clatter, keeping low to the ground while moving in a steady, direct manner. Young Common Bronzewings are duller and browner than the adults. The metallic wing patch is absent or not easily seen.
Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) male.
Village Creek Drying Beds. Arlington, Texas.
Tarrant County. 29 July 2018.
Nikon D500. Nikkor AF-S 300mm f4E ED PF VR + TC-14e III teleconverter.
(420mm) f7.1 @ 1/1000 sec. ISO 800.
Common Sea-lavender, in the salt marshes just north of Brancaster, Norfolk (TF771450).
Limonium vulgare
Credit:© Natural England/Julian Dowse
10 July 2015
The Common Crane is a large, stately bird and a medium-sized crane. It is 100–130 cm long with a 180–240 cm wingspan. The body weight can range from 3 to 6.1 kg.
Males are slightly heavier and larger than females, with weight showing the largest sexual size dimorphism, followed by wing, central toe, and head length in adults and juveniles.
This species is slate-grey overall. The forehead and lores are blackish with a bare red crown and a white streak extending from behind the eyes to the upper back. The overall colour is darkest on the back and rump and palest on the breast and wings. The primaries, the tips of secondaries, the alula, the tip of the tail, and the edges of upper tail coverts are all black and the greater coverts droop into explosive plumes.
This species usually lays eggs in May, though seldom will do so earlier or later. Like most cranes, this species displays indefinite monogamous pair bonds. If one mate dies, a crane may attempt to court a new mate the following year. Although a pair may be together for several years, the courtship rituals of the species are enacted by every pair each spring. The dancing of common cranes has complex, social meanings and may occur at almost any time of year. Dancing may include bobs, bows, pirouettes, and stops, as in various crane species. Aggressive displays may include ruffled wing feathers, throwing vegetation in the air and pointing the bare red patch on their heads at each other. Courtship displays begin with a male following the female in a stately, march-like walk. The unison call, consists of the female holding her head up and gradually lowering down as she calls out. The female calls out a high note and then the male follows with a longer scream in a similar posture.
This common frog decided to sit in the garden and pose for me!!
Froglife.org:
www.froglife.org/amphibians-and-reptiles/common-frog-2/
Common Frog (Rana temporaria )
The Common Frog is easily our most recognisable amphibian. They’re found throughout Britain and Ireland, in almost any habitat where suitable breeding ponds are near by. Common Frogs have smooth skin and long legs for jumping away quickly. Garden ponds are extremely important for common frogs, particularly in urban areas.
Identification
Adults males grow up to 9 cm in length and females up to 13 cm in length. Usually a shade of olive-green or brown (although can be yellow, pink, red, lime-green, cream or black). Dark patches on the back, stripes on the hind legs, and a dark ‘mask’ behind the eye. Oval, horizontal pupil.Call: soft repetitive croak.
Distribution Native to the UK. Found throughout Britain and Ireland.Widespread and common across Europe but numbers thought to be declining.
Ecology
Breed in shallow water bodies such as puddles, ponds, lakes, and canals. Tend to be most active at night when they feed on a wide variety of invertebrates. During winter they hibernate under rocks, in compost heaps, or underwater buried in mud and vegetation.Deposit ‘rafts’ of spawn, often containing up to 2000 eggs. Each small black egg is surrounded by a clear jelly capsule around 1 cm across. Common Frog tadpoles are black when they hatch but develop light bronze speckles as they mature.
Predators and other threats Threatened by degradation of habitats and the introduction of disease.
Info:Duttaphrynus melanostictus is commonly called Asian Common Toad, Asian Toad, Black-spectacled Toad, Common Sunda Toad and Javanese Toad. It is probably a complex of more than one toad species that is widely distributed in South Asia.
The species grows to about 20 cm (8 in) long. The species breeds during the monsoons and the tadpoles are black. Young toads may be seen in large numbers after the monsoons.
Mary Anne Creek Road
taken with 30x fixed wide angle, Nikon 82 ED Spotting scope, and Nikon Coolpix P5000 camera
Common Spotted Orchid in a wildflower meadow
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This is a final gesture to the winter of Redpolls. A large flock have spent most of the time since January around my feeders, and to cope with overcrowding I started spreading seed on my windowsills. They seem to have left as of today, but for weeks they divided themselves between the feeders int he back and the sills in the front, which are shielded from the street by a large Spruce they launch from.