Great Wall at Mutianyu at the bottom of a steep incline

Pallastunturi, Finland

it was a bit cold in the morning and this calf was feeling it a lot.

Max thanks for the camera :)

The plumage of most kingfishers is bright, with green and blue being the most common colours. The brightness of the colours is neither the product of iridescence or pigments, but is instead caused by the structure of the feathers, which causes scattering of blue light (the Tyndall effect).

The kingfishers have long, dagger-like bills. The bill is usually longer and more compressed in species that hunt fish, and shorter and more broad in species that hunt prey off the ground. The largest and most atypical bill is that of the shovel-billed kookaburra, which is used to dig through the forest floor in search of prey. They generally have short legs, although species that feed on the ground have longer tarsi. Most species have four toes, three of which are forward-pointing.

The irises of most species are dark brown. The kingfishers have excellent vision; they are capable of binocular vision and are thought in particular to have good colour vision. They have restricted movement of their eyes within the eye sockets, instead using head movements to track prey. In addition, they are capable of compensating for the refraction of water and reflection when hunting prey underwater, and are able to judge depth under water accurately. They also have nictitating membranes that cover the eyes to protect them when they hit the water; the pied kingfisher has a bony plate which slides across the eye when it hits the water.

With Cricket Palianta

Ungheria -Budapest_

5 in 1 here. The Kaibab Plateau, House Rock Valley, Vermilion Cliffs, Echo Cliffs, and Marble Canyon

Koh Samui island ,Thailand .

Buildings in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Taken from the coastal village of Ogmore by sea, Shot at 380mm to enlarge the Sun and compress Porthcawl and the Hills of Swansea

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a fujifilm xf35mm f/1.4 lens

Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Oceanville, NJ, USA

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231111_120541_iphoneSE_Den Haag

Museum Voorlinden

Buurtweg

Wassenaar

Zuid-Holland

Nederland

B l a c k M a g i c

Petrified sand dunes along Kanab Creek. Kane County, Utah.