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First Common Yellow-throated Warbler of the Year for me.
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum
May 1, 2014
Common Medlar, Mespilus germanica. Barking Suffolk.
Two small trees seen in a mixed hedgerow.
The fruits are rather like small apples, but with tightly encased sepals. They are edible after bletting (a polite alternative to saying partly rotten). The taste is, apparently, somewhat similar to cooked apples. Formerly a popular fruit, grown in large gardens and hedgerows near habitation. They were introduced to the UK from south-east Europe and south-west Asia. The old country name for them is 'open-arses' - for fairly obvious reason.
Thanks to Martin Sanford at the Suffolk Biological Records Centre for helping me in finding these plants.
Three large murals photographed together during Rochdale's "Common Walls" open air gallery project. All murals were painted by world class mural artists, (23 in total).
For more information on these three murals, I have photographed them individually. "The Rochdale Hounds", "Bent Not Broken" and "Suriya Begum" follow on from this one on the next three photo's.....
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.
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.
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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Common Sandpiper.
Fast little blighters.
iso 1250. Cropped. A tad soft. A grabbed shot.
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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.
Hoopoe , common name for a shy, solitary, Old World woodland bird, Upupa epops. Its body color ranges from cinnamon to chestnut, with white-barred, black wings and tail, and a head topped by a prominent, erectile crest. Hoopoes measure from 10 1/2 to 12 in. (27-30 cm) bill to tail.
Phoca vitulina
common seal or sometimes called harbour seals seen at Mablethorpe seal sanctuary awaiting release back into the wild www.thesealsanctuary.com/
From my late-winter visiting hordes, this bird was sitting perfectly posed against the snow and the Spruce and right as I took the photograph it had some compelling reason to spin its head. Not sure what it was trying to do, but it is an unusual bird-in-motion picture.
Common Cranes - Habitat
Grus grus
Location: Little Rann of Kutch, Gujerat, India
6th. November 2006
Distribution: avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&id=AF222746FB...
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Always an highlight when the Common Terns arrive at St Aidan's great to watch and a nice challenge to photograph, usually distant though hence the generous crop.
On it's return journey to it's nest site with a Stickleback.