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A pretty rare bird in our country and the males are especially prized by birdwatchers. The Lesser Kestrel is migrant from Mediterranean, Afghanistan and Central Asia and winters in Africa / Pakistan. Few birds - literally a handful that can be counted with the fingers - winter in India.
The males are easier to distinguish from the Common Kestrel due to the easy to spot differences. But the female is hard to spot in the field. The behaviour and flying is similar to the Common Kestrel and in the are we visited, there were half a dozen Kestrels and couple of these males.
This was shot couple of years ago when I just started birding - the biggest lake on the outskirts of the city went dry and the lake bed become a magnet for raptors such as Peregrine Falcon, Bonelli's and Booted Eagle, many Common Kestrels and 1 of this are Lesser Kestrel. We had't had a situation like that again till date and the bird also wasn't sighted again.
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And who better can explain this than David Attenborough, we need to pay attention to what he says and learn how we can make a difference!
David Attenborough: A Life on Earth | Full Documentary
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You can't tell by looking, because male and female tufted titmice have identical plumage. There are differences, however. A male titmouse is more aggressive and more territorial than a female, and he's the breadwinner. Meaning, that after she lays eggs, the female does all the incubating, relying upon the male to provide her with food whether she is on or off the nest. Once the eggs hatch, the female broods the nestlings and the male provides most of the food to the female and their family of young ones. So, if you see a tufted titmouse delivering food to a nest this spring, you can bet it is a male.
(This information comes from the online site, Birdfact.)
Explored March 7, 2025
So many times I see these small woodpeckers and I try to remember which is the Downy Woodpecker and which is the Hairy Woodpecker. They are so similar at first glance. So I bought a really good bird book to help me identify the birds that will be returning to our area soon. The book is beautiful to browse through and it has me excited for the new birding season. I found out that this guy is the Downy Woodpecker. I will concentrate on trying to spot the two main differences to tell them apart. This guy has a shorter beak than the Hairy. Plus, the Downy has these black spots on the white tail feathers which you can just tell on the one image.
This brings me to my next goal in photography. I just deleted about 500 images from my photo stream this week. I will get rid of more. My work has changed and it has even improved over the years I have been on Flickr so there are images I do not need to keep online anymore. There are many I can even improve with better editing techniques I have learned and then I can replace those old images with newly edited images. My bird album is one of the first albums I will reorganize, I do not want to just collect bird images. I want to try for better bird images. I admire all the wildlife photographers on Flickr. I am not as dedicated to capturing all the amazing images they take. This is a simple practice for me to get to know my camera better and to try to keep improving while learning more about the world around me. Happy Wing Wednesday!
The river was illuminated partly by a bright blue sky and partly by dark clouds, resulting in a brightness difference that is not often seen here.
Samut Songkhram, Thailand
... Between Night & Day :)
Captures taken about 12 hours apart. Both were at two seconds exposure time, one at ISO 100 and a 400ND Filter on, and the other at ISO 3200.
What a difference 30 minutes and 24 km makes, we arrived in Zutphen damp but drying out the sun actually tried to break through several times after leaving the car at a nearby parking lot exploring our way to the old town of this lovely historic Hanseatic town.
Zutphen has been inhabited for over 1700 years and was founded by the Franks during the time of the Roman Empire making it one of Holland’s oldest cities.
Being founders of the Hanseatic League the town has always been prosperous and despite its small size boasts over 450 national monuments thanks to its long wealthy history.
When you are slogging about dripping wet hunched over loaded down with camera gear in the pissing rain you just have to persevere and hope for a break in the weather or good spots that can shield you from the wet while shooting.
For most travel photographers its not like we will always have another opportunity to be back in the same direction so good wet weather gear and umbrellas are the order of the day when traveling in the fall most especially in the Netherlands.
Captured here is the pedestrian mall leading to the Tower of the Walburgis church which was at one time 113m tall but since 1600 reduced to a mere 76m though small in stature it is still a beauty and has been around since the 13th century ushering the locals to sermon.
I took this on September 19th, 2017 with my D750 and Nikon 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 Lens at 28mm 1/8s, f/11 ISO 100 processed in LR, PS +Lumenzia, Topaz , Luminar and DXO
Disclaimer: My style is a study of romantic realism as well as a work in progress.
Coimbra, Portugal / 2019
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Nice to see the trees getting away in the enclosure's .. 20yrs time there'll be quite a difference and improvement
Respect is earned,
Honesty is appreciated,
Trust is gained,
Loyalty is returned.
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Thomas Jefferson
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more,
Bill Clinton
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
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Nelson Mandela
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Happy New Year!
I'm continuing the focus on the seals for the next couple of weeks before they move away from the coast.
Here's a couple from sunrise, the day after Storm Deirdre - what a difference a day makes...
The difference between the morning temperature and the midday one is very huge!
When the sun is up it still looks like summer!
We were at the park here! With this usual abandoned and metallic thing! I think I’m the only one who find it useful!
The sky was beautiful and I needed to put it in my camera!
Lassie and I wish you all Happy Sunday from our blue sky (we’re sitting on a cloud just to be closer to the sky!!!!...yes, usual madness… :D )
PS
yes....it's better!
Much visited by performers from the nearby Empire Theatre over many decades.
I took this from the roof of the multi storey car park serving Lime Street Station.
I need to go back and take a new shot showing the differences post development.
Could you believe I could be different?
I'll be the difference, I'll lift you high
And I understand your hesitation
Our reputation, it's no surprise
So let me redefine you
And you can see the tide move
Just like tears in the eyes do
And when you're feeling alone
Oh, baby, I'll be right here
Between the sea and silence
So breathe easy right here
You can find sunshine in the rain
What a difference a day makes.
Thursday was like a Summers day yet I woke to blizzards on Friday morning
THURSDAY
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Benoît est un adulte que j'accompagne en tant qu'éducateur depuis plus dix ans..c'est un homme lumineux..Merci a lui et à sa mère de me permettre de poster ce portrait dont je suis particulièrement fiert...
Benoît is the man... I host him since more than ten years in the adult handicap center I worked..A bright man...
This is also a Viceroy Butterfly
The main visual difference between the viceroy and monarch butterfly is the black line drawn across the viceroy's hind wings, which monarch butterflies do not have.
Another characteristic of the Viceroy are larger but fewer spots oh the upperbody
Greek Cactus doing an X-over display
Archive capture of a cactus, Kefalonia, 2012.
I doubt it knew it would end up on flickr in another guise. At the time I made the shot I had no idea either :)
Mom flew in while I was focusing on the babies. You can see the size difference in this shot :)
Canon 1DXII, F8, 1/2000, ISO 800
What a difference two weeks make! This is the same place I took photos of Cranes two weeks ago and it was all green. My wife and I had to pick up a package in town today and we drove by Creamers Field. The entire field was yellow with flowers! After we picked up our package, we decided to pull in and see what kind of flowers they were. Thought they were dandelions but was wrong, it is some kind of wildflower. In the midst of the flowers, there were Sandhill Cranes mulling around. Took a few photos and really liked this one the most.
If anyone visits Fairbanks during the summer months, Creamers field is a definate place to stop.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Sun Tzu
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
Shel Silverstein
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson
If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez
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