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Common Lungwort in the grounds of Pontefract castle,This plant would have been grown in the castle grounds for century's and was said to treat diseases of the Lungs. It would have been used in medieval medicine. The leaves apparently contain Silicic acid which is known to improve elasticity of the lungs and it seems the plant does have proven medical properties.
It also did very well to keep flowering through the last couple of weeks under the ice and snow.
The resident Common Bronzewing Pigeons in my street are a little flighty and I have never managed a decent shot so I was pleasantly surprised when I stalked in close enough to this male on the weekend.
Location: Callala Bay
Date:23/09/2012
Settings: D4, 700mm, 1/200 sec, f/6.3 ISO 400
PS: Crop, sharpen, curves.
Pontia protodice. As long as we have January butterflies I think I'll keep uploading photos of them . (At the beginning of December I had assumed, incorrectly, that I was through with butterfly shots until March, like last year.)
In my yard in Austin.
A Common Redpoll in my front yard. Now that I have a bird feeder out there I get to spend a bit more time shooting these quick little guys which is good "Reflex Photography." I call it Reflex Photography because its fast paced and I think more reflex than anything.
In North America, the distinct white chin patch helps to tell this female merganser from the similar Red-breasted Merganser female.
Mating season....July 2020
joining up together to lay eggs just under the surface of the water of suitable plants, where they will develop into nymphs and damselfies next year.
Lakeside at Clumber Park, UK .....July 2020
This is Melissa's block for June (month 2) of the Common Thread's Virtual Quilting Bee. Blogged at www.tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com
Common Plume, Emmelina monodactyla, TQ 40100 68716
I don't run a moth trap very often (not at all this year) so I don't see lots of moths.
This one I see every year though
Close-up of an emerging leaf of a Common Staghorn Fern (Platycerium bifurcatum).
An epiphytic fern native to Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea and Indonesia.
www.anbg.gov.au/gnp/interns-2004/platycerium-bifurcatum.html
Common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) performing for ecologists working on Burgess Island, Mokohinau Islands, New Zealand.
ID# 16525
Common Name: Common Hawk-cuckoo
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Cuculiformes
Family: Cuculidae
Genus: Cuculus
Species: C. varius
Common blue butterfly on a grass stalk in my garden.
Focus stacked using Zerene from a handheld burst of 12 shots.
I cloned out a distracting background stalk.
This Common Opossum, Didelphis marsupialis, was photographed in Panama, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.