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while you go off and shape your own life :-)
Robert Brault
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nigella, denver botanic garden, colorado
A small (15-17 cms) blue colored bird that stands out in its environment and easy to spot. The birds are found in semi / evergreen forests and wooded areas and within them often sighted flying near streams catching the flies in the area. The blue is amazing and in the male is quite deep rich and wonderful. Its habitat is usually green or brown and this is so easy to spot, but very difficult to get close as it is a very shy bird.
The bird is a resident of the Indian subcontinent and found much of the country. The male in this picture sports this rich blue plumage while the female is pale blue in color and lacks the black nape on the head. We sighted a couple of them in our recent trip and almost all the photographers were trying to get a shot. The bird was smaller than many of the leaves in that forest, so it was tough to get a shot. I didn't realize I got some good shots till I saw them in the computer!
Thank you so much in advance for your views, feedback and faves.
Wood Duck
The Wood Duck or Carolina Duck (Aix sponsa) is a species of perching duck found in North America. It is one of the most colorful North American waterfowl.
The Wood Duck is a medium-sized perching duck. A typical adult is from 19 to 21 inches in length with a wingspan of between 26 to 29 inches. This is about three-quarters of the length of an adult Mallard. It shares its genus with the Asian Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata).
The adult male has distinctive multicolored iridescent plumage and red eyes, with a distinctive white flare down the neck. The female, less colorful, has a white eye-ring and a whitish throat. Both adults have crested heads.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_duck
Whimbrel
The Hudsonian Whimbrel (Numenius hudsonicus) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews, breeding across much of subarctic North America. This species and the Eurasian whimbrel have recently been split, although some taxonomic authorities still consider them to be conspecific.
The Whimbrel is a migratory bird, wintering on coasts in southern North America and South America. It is also a coastal bird during migration. It is fairly gregarious outside the breeding season.
In the mangroves of Colombia, whimbrel roost sites are located in close proximity to feeding territories and away from potential sources of mainland predators, but not away from areas of human disturbance.
Numenius, the genus assigned to Whimbrel, means “new moon” in Greek, a reference to the bird’s bill shape, which resembles a crescent moon.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudsonian_whimbrel
The Cornell Lab: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Whimbrel/id
The Common Babbler (next pic in the photostream), had a lucky escape. This Shikra made a sudden attack, but the Babbler saw the raptor and darted off. The Shikra clearly unhappy looked for another prey, but couldn't find one, so flew away.
These are resident raptors and by population the 2nd most common I think in our state / India after Black Kite. Shikra's are ferocious hunters and they attack birds foraging openly, in the bushes, at at times right in their nests during breeding time.
This bird was too close and I had to shoot from the gap between the driver's shoulder and the door from the back seat where I was seated - happy with the outcome though.
Thank you so much in advance for your views, feedback and faves.
My favorite subject: light on the dune environment. (and tracks, and wind ripples, and sand fences, and grasses, and shadows!)
At 8:55 am, on January 24, the day Environment Canada called for -30 or lower temperatures. It did not get that cold, but -29C still felt pretty darned cold! If you can zoom in, you can see just past the geese on the ice, there are loads of geese hidden by the fog.
Seems right to put this out early for Earth Day 2018, with the lime light very much on cutting down the amount of plastic waste spilling into our fragile environment.
HMM
Welcome to to the beach, a haven for dog walkers and coffee drinkers. A special congratulations on picking up your dog mess, only to lob it into the dunes and leave it in a bag for the next hundred years. Shame on you........
Many people associate lions with the grasslands of the Masai Mara or Serengeti. While those areas are great for seeing lions, there are also other environments where they can be seen. This image was captured in the Chobe National Park, Botswana during an extended drought in August 24.
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This is another shot of the egret I chased all over the place. I do think he enjoyed the "game" of playing tag with a human. And I was a sucker to go along with it. But little does he know, I got a pretty cool shot out of the deal. I just love this one of him perched and looking quite comfy in his natural environment.
Hope your week is going well. I am off work the rest of the week and plan to enjoy a nice long weekend in my natural environment......lol. Cheers :-)
This prairie in the Everglades National Park show startling foliage that contrasts with the barren environment giving it an other worldly feel.
Un fiore cresciuto spontaneo nell'aiuola sotto casa per festeggiare la Giornata internazionale dell'ambiente
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"A nestling Red-tailed Hawk in the environment."
Red-tailed Hawk
The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "Chickenhawk," though it rarely preys on standard sized chickens. It breeds throughout most of North America, from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common Buteos in North America. Red-tailed Hawks can acclimate to all the biomes within their range. There are fourteen recognized subspecies, which vary in appearance and range. It is one of the largest members of the genus Buteo in North America, typically weighing from 1.5 to 3.5 pounds, and measuring 18–26 inches in length, with a wingspan from 43–57 inches. The Red-tailed Hawk displays sexual dimorphism in size, with females averaging about 25% heavier than males. The bird is sometimes referred to as the red-tail for short, when the meaning is clear in context.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_hawk
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An urban scene from the streets of Glasgow, Scotland in September 2019.
This is our environment, our world, our home - and this is how we treat it.
Hand on heart, how many of us can say that we have never dropped litter?
How many have considered that little bits of plastic, including cigarette butts with plastic filters, wash away from our environment down rivers and into the seas? If you eat fish and sea food you are eating plastic.
Sadly our industries are, for the most part, more carefree with their waste than we are as individuals.
If we can't care for our immediate environment then we cannot care for our wider world.
I have been out voluntarily picking litter at least once a week for the past six months or so. Mostly on a cycle path nearby but sometimes along the shoreline too. I actually put my back out for a couple of weeks removing 26 empty vodka bottles from under a single bush! No I am not expecting everyone to go out and pick litter, just to think a bit more about the environment in which they live. What could be done to make it nicer, cleaner and a happier place to be. The inverse of the broken window theory has to be true.
Take care my Flickr friends.
ps. yes that pink bundle is a sleeping bag back there.