A displaying male of southern red bishop (euplectes orix) try to attract a female .

these birds are very anonymous during the year but in the breeding season

they completely change the plumage and become very beautiful.

kruger national park ,SA

original HD file here:

www.flickr.com/photos/187458160@N06/51089220947/sizes/o/

I wanted to wish everyone a happy Easter!!!

Part of my Christmas decorations this year. I hope everyone has a safe & Happy Christmas & thank you all for your favs & comments ✨

Something opens our wings.

Something makes boredom and hurt disappear.

Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Rumi

Of Various Colourful Flowers .

A Wild Turkey or Gobbler displaying and strutting in a group of hens and other males.

Thank you for viewing

Hoopoe (Upopa Epops) The hoopoe with its impressive head feathers always reminds me of a Native American Chief in full headdress. (Minus the bug of course)!

The largest/heaviest flying bird native to Africa, the Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) is a ground dwelling bird and an opportunistic omnivore. The males can get up to 42 lbs and stand nearly 5 feet tall; they may be twice as heavy as the females.

This is a male in breeding display striding about with his neck puffed out, his tail fanned and wings planed and pointed downward. If he was looking to court a lady, we saw none in the vicinity - perhaps he was just practicing his routine.

Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya

Conservation Status: Near Threatened

Baltsende bruine kiekendieven

bst_soft

Unlike many other lazy males, it is the male Great Blue Heron that builds and takes primary responsibility for maintaining the nest. Once built, to attract a mate he begins a display where he squats down, raises up calling lifting his beak to the sky. It’s sad to see a male go through a season, building a nest, displaying over and over again to no avail. Maybe it’s his first or possibly last season or there is a shortage of females. Unknown. Maybe he just built a lousy nest and no female would approve. Anyway, one he has successfully attracted a mate he will continue to bring nesting material and pass the sticks to the female who will work to intertwine them with the existing sticks to further solidify the nest. Quite a show. This guy is shown at the apex of the display on, what looks like to me, a fine nest and I liked his display too. (OK, hold those comments wise guys). (Great Blue Heron - Ardea herodias). (Sony a1ii, 400mm lens, f/2.8, 1/2500 second, ISO 4000).

"The Loveliest Castle in the World" is just along the road from where i live had their firework display this evening I was lucky to have some press passes to go and watch and take pictures

西湖　いやしの里　根場

炬燵でおばあさんがお茶をいれてくれるくつろぎ屋です。

女の子が熱心にお雛様を見ていました。

This vintage Catapiller sits on display at the Guy Goodwin Education Center in Carrizo Plain National Monument, San Luis Obispo County, California. Cattle were brought to the grasslands of the Carrizo Plain by the early 1850s. The next big change came when dryland grain farmers started homesteading in the valley. Eventually vast amounts of the grassland was put to the plow. The farm work was orignally all done with horse drawn euipment but eventually tractors like this one did the heavy work. The Carrizo Plain gets only 8 to 10 inches of rainfall a year on average but the amount during any given year can be highly unpredictable. The risk of crop failure due to insufficient moisture became to great and most of the farming efforts were abandoned. In the last few decades many of the homesteads were bought and became part of the National Monument which is administered by the BLM.

Various types of succulents carefully planted in a magnificent display in a large container. A large moreton bay fig tree is in the background.

Agelaius phoeniceus,

Estero Bluffs State Park,

San Luis Obispo Co., California

If one display is good, two must be better.

I'm still rubbish at identifying these flowers but these ones seem fairly common in Krabi

At Pashley Manor Gardens you will discover 11 acres of beautiful borders and vistas – the culmination of a lifetime of passion for gardening, an appetite for beauty and an admiration of the tradition of the English Country garden. These graceful gardens, on the border of Sussex and Kent, are family owned and maintained – visitors often express delight at the attention to detail displayed throughout and the intimate, peaceful atmosphere.

All the ingredients of the English Country Garden are present – sweeping herbaceous borders, ha-ha, well maintained lawns, box hedges, espaliered rose walk, historic walled garden, inspiring kitchen garden, venerable trees and the Grade I listed house as a backdrop. The gardens are a haven for wildlife – bees, butterflies and small birds as well as moor hens, ducks and a black swan. Then, of course, the plants! Borders overflowing with perennials and annuals – the look changing through the seasons, but always abundantly filled, and each garden ‘room’ planted in a different colour theme.

Pashley is also renowned for fantastic displays of tulips, roses and dahlias. Our annual Tulip Festival features more than 48,000 tulips this year! During Special Rose Week over a hundred varieties of rose swathe the walls, climb obelisks and bloom in flower beds. Then in late summer our Dahlia Days event transforms the gardens once more with bountiful, brightly coloured dahlias in every border and pot.

Add to all this a Café and Terrace with excellent garden views, serving delicious homemade lunches, scones and cakes; Sculpture and Art Exhibitions; a Gift Shop with Plant Sales; and a friendly, knowledgeable team waiting to welcome you, and the recipe for a wonderful day out is complete.

For more information please visit www.pashleymanorgardens.com/

This display is part of the male great egret's courtship behavior. A nearby female watched him perform his ritual. It worked:)

Smith Oaks Rookery at High Island, Texas - 3/2021.

Artefacts on display for sale at Mahabalipuram

Lorna, The Bear Den, and I headed out to Stephannson House Provincial Historic Site on Sunday for their quilt show. Lovely day, and so many beautiful quilts on display!

© All Rights Reserved

Local Ho, Ho, Ho house dressed as a festive, holiday light display.

The home owners set up a basket accepting food donations for the local food bank/hamper.

Very thoughtful and considerate!

I invite you to view my Night and Twilight album:

www.flickr.com/photos/120552517@N03/albums/72157649684655761

Thanks for visiting

~Christie

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”

-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Mark this one down to identifiable Sandhill Crane behavior.

I had no end of delight showing this to others while at Creamer's Field during the autumn crane migration from Alaska to the lower 48. The behavior being exhibited by the crane to the left is "Intent to fly," that is, it is telling the others in its group that it wants to fly away and is pointing in the direction of flight. Note how the neck is more of a diagonal than the other two cranes. Less than two seconds after displaying this posture, the small group of cranes took to the air. There were a few times where the small group - sometimes just two - decided not to fly off. When the group agrees, they all assume this "leaning" posture and then fly off. When one in the group doesn't want to fly they don't change their posture, essentially saying, "Yeah, not right now."

Taken 21 August 2021 at Creamer's Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.

When we first laid eyes on our puppy (a little over a year before this image of her was taken), the color told us immediately that her name must be Sedona. So, when we had a chance to take her there, of course she had to have multiple photo shoots in the region. This is one of the images from along the Oak Creek, after enduring a long 4x4 adventure that she didn't particularly enjoy, she was pleased to relax and take in the view from a stable seated position.

Congrats on Explore!

#399 ⭐ April 13, 2022

Recognition:

Accepted for Display - MAR 2022 Darkroomers Photographic Club, and can be found in the Photographic Arts Building in Balboa Park, San Diego.

For personal display only !

All other uses, including copying or reproduction of this photograph or its image, in whole or in part, or storage of the image in any medium are expressly forbidden.

Written permission for use of this photograph must be obtained from the copyright holder !

Series: Walks through Berlin from Potsdamer Platz up to somewhere

dav

Koga Fireworks Festival

古河花火大会

The blue tone had felt cool in the summer night,

although it was 38℃ in the daytime.

Now, it's too hot in Japan.

夏の夜空を涼しく演出するブルートーン。

日中はとてつもない猛暑が続いていますね。

Koga city, Ibaraki pref, Japan

.

.

"At sunset, the reflection on the waves displays a lovely shine."

~ martian cat

hugs, Chris

I just happened upon this egret all by itself. I shot through an opening in trees to get the display.

Display of kayaks outside a sporting goods store in Cleveland,Tn.

A Malaysian pied fantail (rhipidura javanica) seeking to attract a mate by displaying its fan, Photographed near Phetchaburi, Thailand.

Display of Doris longwing butterflies.

Butterfly -

All rights reserved ©Pix.by.PegiSue

Goldeneye have a little mating dance ritual and as part of the choreography they throw their heads back like in the photo. The courtship display is very entertaining to watch it if you can catch them in the middle of it. The Bufflehead and the Hooded Merganser have similar rituals too. The following Cornell Lab of Ornithology web page provides a nice snapshot of the Duck Courtship Displays www.allaboutbirds.org/what-to-watch-for-duck-courtship-vi...

This shot is from a recent visit to China in Disney's Epcot in Orlando, Florida. When I left the location, I realized I could spends entire days in any of the various countries on display here experiencing the varying light conditions. Unfortunately, the expense of visiting multiple times is prohibitive beyond belief. I found the architecture on display to be amazing. This is just one sample from one 'country'.

A day or two later I came back for another shot. It is a bit less mysterious in the day.

Happy Truck tHuRsDay

your girl is in the locker room what can you do ... maybe take some pictures

Captured in Jacksonville, Florida, this male Brown Anole (Anolis sagrei) displays its vibrant, orange-red dewlap. While common throughout the Sunshine State, these hardy lizards are actually an invasive species from the Caribbean.

Here are two FUN FACTS about these small lizards:

1. Brown Anoles can detach their tails to escape predators, leaving the wiggling tail behind as a distraction.

2. These lizards are known to eat their own shed skin to recycle nutrients like calcium and protein.