Brown Pelicans cruise low over the water, but dive into the water for food. They create quite a striking image, like the one in this picture, when diving for fish.

They are very large birds, with a 7'6" (2.3m) wingspan, and a length of 45-54 inches (1.1-1.4m). The picture looks best in large size.

Diving Gondola :: Tauchgondel - Seebrücke Sellin

Eine Tauchgondel besteht aus einer mit Fenstern ausgestatteten Besuchergondel, die Sitzplätze und einen Maschinentisch enthält, sowie einem zentralen Pfeiler, an dem sie ins Wasser und zurück fährt. Mehr in der Wikipedia - Tauchgondel.

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Coyote Hills Regional Park, Fremont. Hopefully, LEO will stay around after raining so hard for the last few days.

Listening to the warm voice of Meryem Aboulouafa - Welcome back to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb4Na5WqECY

“Do your homework. Find your voice. Be authentic. And then dive in with purpose.”

Julie Foudy

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Marseille - Calanque de Sugiton

Le plongeon du pin

Common Kingfisher, also called Eurasian Kingfisher

Alcedo atthis

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martin-pêcheur d'Europe

Eisvogel

Martín Pescador Común

Martin pescatore

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Hungry red fox diving for a meal on a bitterly cold day . No luck this time.

Chiesa di Dio Padre Misericordioso, Roma quartiere Tor Tre Teste. Architetto Richard Meier.

My Best on black - My Recent on black

Kingfisher about to enter the water after retracting his wings into a cigar shape bullet, catching his prey virtually undisturbed.

Watching Osprey at work is inspiring. They work hard, sometimes hovering in the wind for long periods of time, finding nothing. When they do dive, they usually submerge, sinking at least one set of talons into an unsuspected fish, shaking their head at the surface to clear their vision they fight to get airborne with the added weight of their prey if they were successful.

Sometimes pelicans attempt to steal the prey and on occasion, have been seen to attack the osprey to get them to drop their fish. If it's bald eagle territory, eagles will chase the osprey threatening them with an airborne attack and usually getting them to drop the fish. It can be a touch way to make a living! I chose this image to share because I like the eye contact, usually focused down during a dive.

Dive bombing the long grass

I suppose the ultimate would be to 'catch' the target in the photo at the same time

Never done it yet

But., as long as I can hold a camera I'll keep trying for that elusive shot

The aerial antics of the Chipping Sparrows are impressive!

Osprey executes a swift dive, talons extended!

Red kite (Milvus milvus) dives to the ground; municipality Adamuz in the community Andalusia (Spain), 24-11-2019.

The image was taken from a photo hide owned by a company "Alpasin" (alpasin.com/).

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Diving in Borneo, like a big aquarium.

Tiny tiny fish

Male Kingfisher - Norfolk

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Scientific name: Dives dives

Common name: Melodious blackbird

Nombre: Tordo cantor

Lugar de la captura: Costa Rica

Malta 2019

Calgary Alberta, Canada.

This Belted kingfisher was seen diving towards the lagoon at Berkeley Aquatic Park, Berkeley California.

I shamelessly stole the idea of April!

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Summer action continues in this photo of a Belted Kingfisher diving into the pond in search of small fish. It is 98% crop. Markham, Ontario.

Anoice - Forever Sadness

Botallack, Cornwall

My last upload of 2022 and another image from the Cornwall tour with Mark, Geoff and Shelly. 2022 has been mainly a series of many low points with very few highlights for me, but Cornwall was definitely the pinnacle and an opportunity to get away and do something for myself with good friends.

I’ve not posted a lot this year, in fact it’s been my second lowest output (a measly 57) since I joined Flickr way back in 2015. So, I’ll bypass all the fake New Year’s celebrations this weekend and dive head first into 2023 next week. As the song says… things can only get better!

See you all in 2023 and many thanks for all the support and comments throughout the year.

The first snow is just around the corner, so a few thoughts of a wonderful summer are good :-)

She paused for a moment!

To see more pics of this set of poses please see my blog

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LUSH POSES

Waterfall Poses @ The Mainstore

Set of 8 poses, poseballs, posestand and loose pose.

Shoot Location: Lake Delaria Resort.

Bonaventure Island, QC

Forest farm nature reserve Cardiff

Earlier on the river

Diving down from the Snow Covered Branches while hunting.

perhaps the world is better under the water