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Common Ravens look black, but when seen up close, which doesn't usually happen, you can see the variety of colours in those beautiful feathers. This was a slightly scruffy Raven that was hanging around one of the parking lots along the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River (North Rim?), no doubt hoping to find some easy food. Taken on 14 September 2012, during my week's holiday down as far as Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons.
"Common Ravens will eat almost anything they can get hold of. They eat carrion; small animals from the size of mice and baby tortoises up to adult Rock Pigeons and nestling Great Blue Herons; eggs; grasshoppers, beetles, scorpions, and other arthropods; fish; wolf and sled-dog dung; grains, buds, and berries; pet food; and many types of human food including unattended picnic items and garbage."
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Burnham Beeches
One of the finest unspoiled woodland tracts anywhere in Britain and famous for its beech and oak pollards – many of which are more than 400 years old.
It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, a National Nature Reserve and a Special Area of Conservation.
Owned and managed by the City of London Corporation who bought the ancient woodland in 1880 to save it from prospective developers.
Note
There are two natural lakes at Burnham Beeches – Upper Pond and Middle Pond. These pics were all taken at Upper Pond.
Photographer
Sony Alpha A7, Full Frame, Mirrorless, Compact System Camera
First Common Yellow-throated Warbler of the Year for me.
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
May 1, 2014
Common gull (Larus canus) is a medium-sized gull which breeds in northern Asia, northern Europe and northwestern North America. It migrates further south in winter. Its name does not indicate that it is an abundant species. Its conservation status in Norway is "near threatened" (NT).
MFA Exhibit - I worked with another student to create a recruitment campaign for the Fort Hays State University Alumni Association. Included are magazine ads, a brochure and postcards.
A common part of this butterfly's flight signature is wings-out gliding, looking very much like an aeroplane.
Common Terns are usually distinguished by their pillarbox red bill with a black tip. However the longipennis race has an all dark bill that is a touch shorter too, darker legs, darker grey upperparts, and longer wings. In fact, so many differences it looks like a different species. Longipennis occurs from central Siberia eastwards including China and the Aleutians. I photographed this individual on the Zhupanova River estuary in Kamchatka.
Common Sandpiper.
Fast little blighters.
iso 1250. Cropped. A tad soft. A grabbed shot.
Copyright Steve Waterhouse .©
A lizard in the hand is worth two birds in the bush, or something like that.
As every schoolboy knows, the common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) and slow worm (Anguis fragilis) are the only lizard species occurring naturally in Scotland.
This common lizard - likely a pregnant female - just climbed on to my hand and sat there, basking away, before I released it again.
"Mortar Load: A Leatherneck of the 3d Marines carriers a box of mortar rounds up a steep mountain near An Hoa, south of Da Nang, during Operation Taylor Common (official USMC photo by Corporal Mike Dethrage)."
From the Jonathan Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections.
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Imature male Common Eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri) - Barnegat Inlet, Barnegat Lighthouse State Park, New Jersey
This juvie male Common Eider was sitting off the end of the jetty in a hard spot to get good light, and I must have made a hundred or more captures of him as he bobbed about in the waves. I crouched next to the seaward side of the horn tower to keep from being silhouetted while I made these captures, and stayed there for about an hour where I was sheltered from the 30 knot winds. I decided it was probably a good idea to head for home after the Coast Guard send out a boat to check on me. It seems they must have become concerned during the time I was hidden from view behind the horn tower foundation, and came out to make sure I was OK.
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The Nikkor 35mm/1.8 lens probably has one of the best bokeh-for-money relations! Common polypody (polypodium vulgare) is a very common plant in Finnish forests.
This common redpoll is another late winter backyard visitor. The weather has been warming up and this female arrived in a small flock. Post processing with Topaz Studio (AI Clear, Precision Detail) and a bit of Photoshop.
Common Darter - RHS Hyde Hall, Essex. Still trying these new extn rings! This time I had the 36mm+13mm on the macro lens. I'm quite pleased with the results unfortunately the Darter had enough of me getting ever closer and moved away before I could try other permutations.
A Wombat doing his best to look cute. These guys are fabulously indecisive beasts, which makes getting close to them very much easier! Whenever they make to go and hide in their burrow, if you freeze, then they also freeze which allows you to approach a bit closer until they make to go and hide in their burrow and then you freeze and so on it goes...
Photographing them wasn't all easy though, because there was a fair bit of cover and debris at ground level and these guys aren't exactly small! This image is full-frame with just the 300.