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These don't bite, though... 😁
Except you count frostbite...
Ice teeth on a rock near the summit of the Zugspitze, Germany's highest mountain.
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I'm home for the weekend, but took this New Year day when I stopped by the house to grab a few things. The parking lot is where I stop when I have a trailer and only staying for a few hours. It's only a couple of miles from the house. Kmart was here, but closed a few months ago. Anyway, I was leaving but wanted to get a picture of the mountains and clouds, I noticed a father with his kids playing with a radio controlled car, this being one of the few places nearby with a little dry pavement, and competently empty... well, except for the big semi and trailer.
This morning , i wake up about 45 minutes before sunrise and walked up to the sea near my home , no one is out yet , except a few neighbors walking their pets and two exerciser on their way to a morning work out ...
I wish you a pleasant Sunday and stay safe always my Flickr friends...........
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Gros-bec casse-noyaux (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), Neuchâtel, Suisse.
Le Gros-bec casse noyaux à un corps trapu et massif, une grosse tête, une queue courte et comme son nom l’indique un énorme bec de forme triangulaire. Il est le plus gros oiseau de la famille des Fringillidés. Le mâle adulte a la tête et les joues rousses, une bavette noire, la nuque grise et le dos brun. Ses ailes sont larges en partie bleu, en partie noire et sont traversées par une grande bande blanche roussâtre, que l'on retrouve normalement sous son ventre. Sa queue est brune et noir avec le bout blanc. Son ventre brun rose plutôt pâle et son bas-ventre blanc cassé. La femelle ressemble beaucoup au mâle excepté que sa tête est moins rousse et que ses ailes secondaires sont grises.
Cet oiseau se rencontre surtout dans les forêts à longues futées de feuillus et de conifères, mais il vit aussi dans les jardins. En campagne il demeure dans les vergers, dans les bosquets et dans les haies naturelles. Le Gros-bec casse-noyaux se rencontre dans toute l'Europe, presque tout l'Asie (sauf le Sud-est), le Maghreb, l'Égypte, la Libye, et en Alaska.
Osprey - Pandion haliaetus
The osprey or more specifically the western osprey (Pandion haliaetus) — also called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk — is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than 60 cm (24 in) in length and 180 cm (71 in) across the wings. It is brown on the upperparts and predominantly greyish on the head and underparts.
The osprey tolerates a wide variety of habitats, nesting in any location near a body of water providing an adequate food supply. It is found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica, although in South America it occurs only as a non-breeding migrant.
As its other common names suggest, the osprey's diet consists almost exclusively of fish. It possesses specialised physical characteristics and exhibits unique behaviour to assist in hunting and catching prey. As a result of these unique characteristics, it has been given its own taxonomic genus, Pandion and family, Pandionidae. Three subspecies are usually recognized; one of the former subspecies, cristatus, has recently been given full species status and is referred to as the eastern osprey.
During a recent visit to the San Diego Zoo, I found this colorful fellow vocalizing complaints about another of his clan snatching away a bit of food. Brought a smile as I reminisced about similar mealtime altercations that occurred during my days at the Fire Station.
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The Red-tailed Monkey:
Red-tailed monkeys are found in East and Central Africa. These monkeys live in tropical moist forests, swamp forest, riverine and gallery forest.
Red-tailed monkeys eat leaves, flowers, or insects in times where fruit is scarce. As they forage, these monkeys gather their findings in the expandable cheeks of their mouths. The pouches will hold a large amount of food where they can forage in one area and then carry their food away to another location where it is safe to consume without the threat of another stealing from them.
Red-tailed monkeys are social primates that form groups that can range in size from 7 to 30 individuals. The groups consist of one dominant male and females and their offspring. Groups generally stay together through all periods of the day and through life, except for males who reach maturity. These males will leave the group they were born into and go on to form all male groups with other red-tailed monkey males or survive alone until they can replace the dominant male of a different social group. Females in a group will help take care of their own young as well as the young of other females in the group.
(Nikon, 100-400 @ 400 mm, 1/1250 @ f/8.0, ISO 2000, edited to taste)
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The photo was taken in the early February in 2019. It was very cold that year. Most of the Niagara Falls were frozen except horseshoe falls which flows forever. Got up early from the falls view hotel (missed that experience for the whole 2020), walking along the Niagara Pkwy in a freezing cold winter, I could feel the mist and the sprays from the horseshoe falls … The Niagara river was covered with the thick ice, I did not see like this in several years. But the power flow from the horseshoe falls was still on… it never stops! I wanted to shoot the sunrise, but the sun was blocked behind the clouds, very light morning colors. It was hard to take LE photos at -28C. The camera battery dropped quickly; the lens was covered with vapor… so difficult to capture the photos in that weather condition… Camera went on strike... My fingers hurt, no feeling, numb... itchy, then back to have feeling :))
Now stay-at-home order is still couple of days more in effect, plan to go there soon once the ban is lifted, hope to capture something new in the early morning!
Have a safe and wonderful Friday and weekend!
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What you see in this shot is water, except for one dry spot. I used a red peace of shiny paper and held it above the spot to create that one red spot. A shot for my minimalistic fans :-)
Aangezien het blijkbaar niet helemaal te volgen is wat hierboven staat omschreven in het Engels, hierbij ook even in het Nederlands. Op de foto zie je een klein stukje waar geen water is waardoor je een soort van gat ziet. Erboven heb ik (buiten beeld) een rood glinsterend stukje papier gehouden dat zorgt voor het rode kleurtje. Ik hoop dat het zo duidelijk is.
I arrived iin Copenhagen last Thursday and by chance avoided the bomb cyclone that inflicted damage on much of the US. The weather here in Denmark has been rainy for the most part, except when this photo was taken. Rosenborg Castle is in the center of Copenhagen next to King's Garden.
Wishing all of my Flickr friends a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Le Combattant varié présente un dimorphisme sexuel extrême et les ornements du mâle diffèrent d’un individu à l’autre au niveau de la couleur et des dessins.
En plumage nuptial, le mâle a le bas du dos et la queue barrés de noir. Le manteau et les scapulaires varient du noir au brun, en passant par chamois, châtain, ocre et blanc. Les parties inférieures sont plutôt sombres, excepté le bas de l’abdomen, le dessous des ailes et les sous-caudales qui sont blancs.
Sur la tête, les oreillons et la collerette varient beaucoup en couleur, allant du chamois ou châtain au violet noirâtre, noir ou blanc, souvent avec des dessins barrés ou mouchetés.
Le bec est brun ou orange terne. Les yeux sont brun foncé. Les pattes et les doigts sont jaune verdâtre ou orange foncé. Les petites caroncules verruqueuses de la face varient et peuvent être verdâtres, jaunâtres, orangées, rougeâtre ou brunes.
Au moment des parades, les mâles observent une hiérarchie dictée par les couleurs des plumes ornementales. Les mâles « résidents » ou « indépendants » ont le plumage plus foncé, en particulier les oreillons et la collerette, tandis que les mâles « satellites » sont légèrement plus petits et ont généralement la collerette et les oreillons clairs ou blancs.
Ces plumes ornementales sont visibles pendant une durée relativement courte, en général d’avril à juin. En dehors de cette période, le mâle ressemble à la femelle au niveau de la silhouette et de la couleur du plumage, mais il est nettement plus grand.
Le Combattant est une espèce dont la reproduction est atypique chez les limicoles, ne donnant pas lieu à la formation
de couples. Les mâles se rassemblent sur des places de parade (appelées leks) où ils se livrent à des simulacres de
combats afin d’attirer les femelles. Certains mâles présents sur ces arènes pourront se reproduire avec plusieurs
femelles, d’autres ne trouvant jamais de partenaire. Les femelles, quant à elles, pourront fréquenter plusieurs arènes
et s’accoupler avec plusieurs mâles.
Les femelles nichent solitairement jusqu’à plusieurs kilomètres des arènes. Les œufs sont déposés dans une cuvette
grattée dans le sol, garnie de quelques végétaux et bien dissimulée dans la végétation. La période de ponte s’étale de
début avril à fin juin . Les quatre œufs, brun-olive tachetés de noir, sont incubés par la femelle durant trois
semaines. Les poussins, nidifuges, peuvent être abandonnés par la femelle après seulement 10 à 15 jours. Ils sont
aptes au vol au bout de quatre semaines. La femelle n’élève pas plus d’une nichée par an. La maturité sexuelle est
atteinte parfois dès un an et plus généralement à deux ans chez les femelles, les mâles se reproduisant rarement avant
deux ans.
Le baguage des jeunes oiseaux a permis de montrer l’absence de philopatrie. Le « brassage » génétique qui en résulte
peut expliquer l’absence de sous-espèce et même de population biogéographique chez cette espèce dont l’aire de
reproduction est pourtant très vaste.
La longévité maximale observée grâce aux données de baguage est d’environ 13 ans
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Malé Žernoseky (CZ) 05-09-2014
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Les Tours de Chignin forment un ancien camp retranché dont les vestiges se dressent sur la commune de Chignin.
Leurs constructions remontent au XIIIe siècle. A l’origine il y avait 7 Tours. Aujourd’hui 4 en ruines et envahies par la végétation, subsistent à l’exception de celle de la photo qui a été restaurées.
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Sørvågen (N) 13-06-2014
Utsikt over Moskenes.
Uitzicht op Moskenes.
View of Moskenes.
Blick auf Moskenes.
Vue de Moskenes.
Vista de Moskenes.
Vista di Moskenes
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Le Papillon belle-dame est un papillon de taille moyenne, caractérisé par des ailes antérieures pointues de couleur orange/saumon marquées d’un réseau de taches noires et blanches. Le dessous de l’aile arrière porte cinq ocelles. C’est un des papillons les plus répandus au monde, et il est présent en tant que migrateur sur tout le territoire de la France métropolitaine. Il vole sur tous les continents à l’exception de l’Antarctique et de l’Amérique du sud.
Capuçon - Beethoven - Romance No.2.
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Cuiaba River
The Pantanal
Brazil
South America
The jabiru (Jabiru mycteria) is a large stork found in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, except west of the Andes. It is most common in the Pantanal region of Brazil and the Eastern Chaco region of Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus Jabiru. The name comes from a Tupi–Guaraní language and means "swollen neck".
except a succession of ordinary days. :-)
Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch
HMM!! nonetheless, stay safe my friends, take care :-)
day lily, our yard, cary, north carolina
Kingfisher - Alcedo Atthis
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The common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) also known as the Eurasian kingfisher, and river kingfisher, is a small kingfisher with seven subspecies recognized within its wide distribution across Eurasia and North Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but migrates from areas where rivers freeze in winter.
This sparrow-sized bird has the typical short-tailed, large-headed kingfisher profile; it has blue upperparts, orange underparts and a long bill. It feeds mainly on fish, caught by diving, and has special visual adaptations to enable it to see prey under water. The glossy white eggs are laid in a nest at the end of a burrow in a riverbank.
The female is identical in appearance to the male except that her lower mandible is orange-red with a black tip. The juvenile is similar to the adult, but with duller and greener upperparts and paler underparts. Its bill is black, and the legs are also initially black. Feathers are moulted gradually between July and November with the main flight feathers taking 90–100 days to moult and regrow. Some that moult late may suspend their moult during cold winter weather.
The flight of the kingfisher is fast, direct and usually low over water. The short rounded wings whirr rapidly, and a bird flying away shows an electric-blue "flash" down its back.
The common kingfisher is widely distributed over Europe, Asia, and North Africa, mainly south of 60°N. It is a common breeding species over much of its vast Eurasian range, but in North Africa it is mainly a winter visitor, although it is a scarce breeding resident in coastal Morocco and Tunisia. In temperate regions, this kingfisher inhabits clear, slow-flowing streams and rivers, and lakes with well-vegetated banks. It frequents scrubs and bushes with overhanging branches close to shallow open water in which it hunts. In winter it is more coastal, often feeding in estuaries or harbours and along rocky seashores. Tropical populations are found by slow-flowing rivers, in mangrove creeks and in swamps.
Like all kingfishers, the common kingfisher is highly territorial; since it must eat around 60% of its body weight each day, it is essential to have control of a suitable stretch of river. It is solitary for most of the year, roosting alone in heavy cover. If another kingfisher enters its territory, both birds display from perches, and fights may occur, in which a bird will grab the other's beak and try to hold it under water. Pairs form in the autumn but each bird retains a separate territory, generally at least 1 km (0.62 mi) long, but up to 3.5 km (2.2 mi) and territories are not merged until the spring.
Very few birds live longer than one breeding season. The oldest bird on record was 21 years.
They are also listed as a Schedule 1 species under the Wildlife and Countryside Act offering them additional protection.
Population:
UK breeding:
3,800-6,400 pairs
Dartford Warbler - Sylvia Undata
The Dartford warbler (Sylvia undata) iDs a typical warbler from the warmer parts of western Europe and northwestern Africa. It is a small warbler with a long thin tail and a thin pointed bill. The adult male has grey-brown upperparts and is dull reddish-brown below except for the centre of the belly which has a dirty white patch. It has light speckles on the throat and a red eye-ring. The sexes are similar but the adult female is usually less grey above and paler below.
Its breeding range lies west of a line from southern England to the heel of Italy (southern Apulia). The Dartford warbler is usually resident all year in its breeding range, but there is some limited migration.
The Dartford warbler was first described by the Welsh naturalist Thomas Pennant from two specimens that were shot in April 1773 on Bexley Heath near Dartford in Kent.
The species is naturally rare. The largest European populations of Sylvia undata are in the Iberian peninsula, others in much of France, in Italy and southern England and south Wales. In Africa it can be found only in small areas in the north, wintering in northern Morocco and northern Algeria.
In southern England the birds breed on heathlands, sometimes near the coast, and nest in either common gorse (Ulex europaeus) or common heather (Calluna
Dartford warblers are named for Dartford Heath in north west Kent, where the population became extinct in the early twentieth century. They almost died out in the United Kingdom in the severe winter of 1962/1963 when the national population dropped to just ten pairs. Sylvia undata is also sensitive to drought affecting breeding success or producing heath fires, as occurred during 1975 and 1976 in England when virtually all juveniles failed to survive their first year.
However, this species can recover well in good quality habitat with favourable temperatures and rainfall, thanks to repeated nesting and a high survival rate for the young. Indeed, they recovered in some areas of the UK, but numbers are once again on the decline in other regions of their natural range.
The range of the Dartford warbler is restricted to western and southern Europe. The total population in 2012 was estimated at 1.1–2.5 million breeding pairs. The largest numbers occur in Spain where there were believed to be 983,000–1,750,000 pairs. For reasons that probably include loss of suitable habitat, the Spanish population appears to be declining. The species is therefore classed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being Near threatened.
A period of climatic warming since 1963 has seen the UK population increase to "more than 2,500 pairs in 2006 (Wotton et al. 2009). Expansion into patches of structurally suitable habitat (up to an altitude of 400m), more northerly areas and away from the core of the range, from Dorset and Hampshire to Derbyshire and Suffolk, is likely to have been facilitated by milder winter weather (Wotton et al. 2009, Bradbury et al. 2011)... The Dartford warbler population in the UK is expected to continue to increase. However, future climate-based projections for the European range indicate that by 2080, more than 60% of the current European range may no longer be suitable (Huntley et al 2007). There is evidence that this is happening already, with severe declines in Spain and France (Green 2017). For this reason, the species is classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Global Red List. If the declines in southern Europe continue, the UK will become increasingly important for global conservation of this species".
Population:
UK breeding:
3,200 pairs
#macromondays
#highkey
Late in the game again with a photo that is a pure act of desperation. Really. I didn't want to skip "High Key", because it is pretty much out of my comfort zone so I wanted to meet this challenge. But I wasn't sure what to photograph. At the end (which means today) a tiny, shiny miniature crown that once graced a pencil bought at the museum shop of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (I've already used this crown in another photo which you can find in the first comment) and another watch (a Casio which you might have already guessed) came to the rescue. But does this image make any sense? I don't think so. Except maybe for the fact that a tiny crown is reflected in the glass of a digital watch that doesn't have a crown, only pushers. Oh dear ;)
OK, so let's skip my unsuccessful attempt at trying to make sense of an image that doesn't make any sense and get to the technicalities: The glass of this watch is double-coated (on the outside and on the inside). Seen at the right angle (light from above aka sunshine works best) it lets the dial shimmer in lovely pastel rainbow colours. But the glass also works as a mirror. So I simply placed the crown in front of it, illuminated the glass with a single LED light so the rainbow colour coating would work its irresistible iridescent magic on the crown's reflection, and took a single handheld shot. Which had to do, because I was running out of time. The bokeh in the lower right corner is the golden crown itself. Processed in DXO PL6, Color Efex, and Viveza.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
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Olszówka (PL) 15-06-1980
PKP Ol49-39
Specjalny pociąg
Extra trein
Special train
Sonderzug
Train spécial
Tren especial
Treno speciale
Comboio especial
Toruń Główny - Sierpc
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Owyhigh Lakes and Governor's Ridge, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
I hiked to these lakes today and except for some haze due to wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada, it was a "picture perfect" day at Mount Rainier National Park.
This is one of my favorite early summer hikes because it melts out earlier than most higher elevation hikes. The first 3.3 miles climbs up through a lovely forest with huge trees, the sound of the river in the background, and the summer scent of a sun-warmed coniferous forest. Then abruptly the forest ends and suddenly, as if passing through a door to another world, you're in a beautiful and wondrous subalpine meadow full of mountains and flowers. Hiking a bit further takes you to the basin where a pair of lakes lies in front of the rocky rise of Governor's Ridge. I spent a long time in the meadow and basin today enjoying the beautiful weather and soaking in the views.
(On a side note, I'm posting the pano shot I took with my phone because it is a bit of a personal 'triumph' for me. I am notoriously terrible with taking phone pano shots - for some reason keeping the arrow on the line while moving the phone is quite challenging for me. Lol But I finally got one to turn out so I felt like I had to post it!)
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Anthocharis Cardamines.
Taken in dull conditions. A single frame handheld with no added light (except in pp). This female is sat on a dandelion seed head.
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This image is almost entirely out of focus except for the ear and a small part on Iolanda's hair. I'm not sure everyone will like this, but I have a thing for out-of-focus images. Maybe this doesn't succeed, but I want to provide just enough detail to allow the viewer to fill in the rest. I think it kinda works with the title, too. We don't always see people who pass by "in focus".
This image was taken at Chesapeake. Unfortunately, the sim is gone, now.
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Gaspoltshofen (A) 24-05-1987
StH ET 25 102
8325 Haag am Hausruck - Lambach Hu
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Walking down this track in morning fog alongside of the lake one can easily be lost in the moment of stillness and quiet except for the sounds of birds.
Lake Wyaralong district
except if it is on your head and folded down your collar.
The return of the silly series and i must say no money was harmed , wasted or spent in the making of this image . In fact it is a small part of my biannual home printing stash just needing to be cut up into separate notes : )
Nothing special here except the American icon looking regal. What more can I say?
Photographed at Circle B Bar Reserve, Lakeland, Florida, USA.
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If you'd like to see more of my images, go to www.schockenphotography.com. I have many images of eagles and other raptors as well as owls, woodpeckers, hummingbirds, songbirds and mammals and I have a full section on birds in flight which is my specialty.
After I captured the previous photo and was about to leave, I heard a magic word. Next to me stood two photographers, speaking in Hindi except for the words "Milky Way".
I asked "What about the Milky Way?" and was told it would be rising over the lake starting about 9pm.
Ahhhhh, we should stay, but yike, we were not dressed for the cold nor we ate dinner yet!
No matter, Milky Way rules!
Good thing I still have the note for Night Sky Photography on my phone (no cell signal) so I knew what settings to use.
PS: The photogs were brother and sister, their parents were sitting on the bench patiently waiting for them to finish their Milky Way photoshoot. They were visiting Canada from Australia for two weeks.
Our free-styling road trip is still going strong, we left Jasper/Banff and are heading west.
Wishing everyone a great day ahead, thanks for your visit!
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Eys (NL) 14-06-1989
NS 2530
69141 Maastricht - Simpelveld
In de jaren tachtig was de NS 2530 de vaste trekkracht voor de sproeitrein, hier onderweg op de lijn van Schin op Geul naar Simpelveld. Tegenwoordig is dat de museumlijn van de ZLSM.
In the 1980s, the NS 2530 was the permanent pulling force for the weed control train, en route here on the line from Schin op Geul to Simpelveld. Today this is the museum line of the ZLSM.
In den achziger Jahren war die NS 2530 die ständige Zugkraft für den Unkrautbekämpfungszug, der hier auf der Strecke von Schin op Geul nach Simpelveld unterwegs war. Heute ist diese Strecke die Museumsbahn der ZLSM.
Dans les années '80, le NS 2530 était la force de traction permanente du train de désherbage, en route ici sur la ligne de Schin op Geul à Simpelveld. C'est aujourd'hui la ligne muséale de la ZLSM.
En la década de 1980, el NS 2530 era la fuerza de tracción permanente del tren de deshierbe, en ruta aquí en la línea de Schin op Geul a Simpelveld. Hoy es la línea de museo de la ZLSM.
Negli anni '80, la NS 2530 era la forza trainante permanente del treno diserbo, in viaggio qui sulla linea da Schin op Geul a Simpelveld. Oggi è la linea museale dello ZLSM.
Na década de 1980, o NS 2530 era a força de tração permanente do comboio da remoção de ervas daninhas, a caminho aqui na linha de Schin op Geul para Simpelveld. Hoje é a linha de museus da ZLSM.
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Un hôtel d’exception dans une région où il fait bon vivre et venir se relaxer !
@hotelducastellet est situé en plein coeur de la nature sur la commune du #castellet (@lecastellettourisme) dans le #var (@visit_var) en #provence à proximité du circuit Paul Ricard @circuitpaulricard.
Vous pourrez profiter de son Spa (@spaducastellet) de son golf, et déguster les plats du chef triplement étoilé et meilleur ouvrier de France @christophe_bacquie, un pur moment de bonheur où les papilles et les pupilles sont à l’honneur avec une cuisine moderne, inventive et concentrée sur l’essentiel.
Pour résumer y venir c’est vouloir y retourner pour profiter de l’art de vivre à la provençale !
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Squabbling Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)
Smaller than blackbirds, with a short tail, pointed head, triangular wings, starlings look black at a distance but when seen closer they are very glossy with a sheen of purples and greens.
Their flight is fast and direct and they walk and run confidently on the ground. Noisy and gregarious, starlings spend a lot of the year in flocks.
Still one of the commonest of garden birds, its decline elsewhere makes it a Red List species. What they eat: Invertebrates and fruit. Starlings are conspicuous and widespread in the UK, occurring everywhere except for the highest parts of the Scottish Highlands. They are most abundant in southern England and are more thinly distributed in upland areas with moorland. Still one of the UK's commonest garden birds. In winter, huge roosts can be found in plantations, reedbeds and city centres (Courtesy RSPB).
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L’Étourneau sansonnet est une espèce de passereaux de la famille des sturnidés, originaire de la plus grande partie de l'Eurasie, mais qui a été introduit dans tous les continents excepté l’Antarctique. Wikipédia
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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prunus mume, pink japanese flowering apricot, 'Rose Bud', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Nobody was around yet except this lone surfer. After a clear night, it was incredibly cold (that means 43 F/6 C in my world) with a biting wind - but what a gorgeous morning it was! Tidda ran all over the place and the ravens came to greet us. (One just right of center in picture.)
I've never in my life been an early morning person, but since Tidda has difficulty with the sounds and sights of human activity in town, I've started taking her out very early, just before first light, and I'm experiencing the miracle of dawn like never before!
The point of light on the horizon is a crab fishing boat, I think.
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Honopū Valley is located along the northwest shore of Kauai on the Na Pali coast. It is isolated and not easily accessible except by water. Best POV are from the air, as in this shot.
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Just because it's Halloween and make you smile !
I change the small photo and instead of my beloved Puffins I put a photo of me and another one of an Arctic Tern. Both apparently have nothing to do with each other. Except that it is ! On my face the blood is real blood, most had been wiped off by the friend who took the photo. This one was taken on the Isle of May in July 2019. You should know that these Terns nest along the footpath that starts at the pier. These birds, to protect their nests, attack with their beaks the top of the visitor's heads who pass in the path.
They first target the tallest people in a group. This is the reason why it is recommended to wear a hat. For my Scottish and English Flickr's friends who know these Isles (not only on the May), I precise that I did wear a hat. It was my third visit to the Isle of May and since the first time I wore a hat !
It was time to join the boat to return to Anstruther but I noticed two or three visitors behind me so I told to myself I had enough time for a few more shots. Being alone in front of this bird I was the tallest and the other Terns had a great time on my head. As the head was busy, one of them attacked me UNDER the hat !! So, if I have an advice : next time go with a full face helmet 😉
For my readers from the U.K. please let me know if I wrote something wrong 😊
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Juste parce que c'est Halloween et pour vous faire sourire !
J'ai changé la photo du médaillon et, a la place de mes Macareux moine bien aimés, j'ai mis une photo de moi et une photo de Sterne Arctique dans mes images. Apparemment, ces deux photos n'ont rien a voir ensemble. Sauf que si ! Sur mon visage, c'est du vrai sang, la plus grande partie qui recouvrait ma joue ayant été essuyée par l'amie qui a pris la photo. Celle-çi a été prise sur l'Ile de May, en juillet 2019. Ces Sternes nichent en bordure du sentier piéton qui part de l'embarcadère. Ces oiseaux, pour protéger leur nids, piquent le sommet des têtes des visiteurs. Ces Sternes visent en premier les personnes les plus grandes du groupe. C'est la raison pour laquelle il est fortement recommandé de porter un couvre-chef. Pour mes amis Flickr Ecossais et Anglais qui connaisent ces iles (pas seulement sur l'Ile de May d'ailleurs), je précise que je portais un chapeau. C'était ma troisième visite sur cette île et depuis la première fois j'ai toujours porté un chapeau !
Le moment était venu de rejoindre le bateau mais comme j'avais remarqué deux ou trois personnes qui traînaient derrière moi, je me suis dit que j'avais suffisamment de temps pour quelques photos supplémentaires. Etant seule devant cet oiseau, je me suis retrouvée être la plus grande et les autres Sternes s'en sont donné à coeur joie sur ma tête ! Comme cette dernière était occupée, l'une d'elles m'a piqué SOUS mon chapeau ! Aussi, si j'ai un conseil : la prochaine fois, y aller avec un casque intégral 😉