Avocet and her chick

Smile on saturday theme "FEATHERS"

Tri-colored Heron

Found this Great Egret getting breakfast at a local pond. Made My Day !!

The feather was eventually lost to the wind and water... not a Ladies Hat : )

The elegant Great Egret is a dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. Slightly smaller and more svelte than a Great Blue Heron, these are still large birds with impressive wingspans.

They hunt in classic heron fashion, standing immobile or wading through wetlands to capture fish with a deadly jab of their yellow bill. Great Egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for their plumes in the late nineteenth century, sparking conservation movements and some of the first laws to protect birds.

Great Egrets fly slowly but powerfully: with just two wing-beats per second their cruising speed is around 25 miles an hour.

Though it mainly hunts while wading, the Great Egret occasionally swims to capture prey or hovers (somewhat laboriously) over the water and dips for fish.

The oldest known Great Egret was 22 years, 10 months old and was banded in Ohio.

(Nikon, 500mm, 1/2000 @ f/5.6, ISO 220)

Earring from the south of Bahia

A Great Blue Heron stood motionlessly on a railing about three feet above the marsh. Suddenly, his feathers seemed to explode from his body in an unexpected gust of wind. That created a much more interesting image than the 25 or 30 pictures I took of the motionless heron.

Trumpeter Swan

Parque natural El Hondo, Alicante, España (Spain)

Canon EOS 7D Mark II

TAMRON SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 AO22

ƒ/6.3, 600.0 mm, 1/1600, ISO250

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Macro Monday's theme is "low key".

These are three macaw feathers (two down feathers from our Green Wing and one small feather from our Hahns-mini macaw). The total frame measures about 1 1/2 inches. I placed a measurement photo in the first comment box.

I found these little feathers on the grass that were plucked out together during a fight between two house sparrows while I was visiting my friend. The screeching of them called our attention but luckily they stopped fighting then went their own way.

I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.

John Ruskin

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For smile on Saturday - feathers

This blue jay's cool feather colors capture the flavor of today's cold weather conditions at Lake Meyer Park.

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Gigaset GS290

ƒ/2.0

3.5 mm

1/33 Sec

ISO 487

Great Horned Owl

Ontario, Canada

(captive setting)

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Feeding birds are forever retreating suddenly to their hideyholes when spooked on our patio. But there is no need to call in Scotland Yard's Flying Squad... A tiny telltale feather clinging to the leaf of our Clematis montana has given away one of their haunts ... :-))

Carribbean Flamingo, aka American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) in the Urban Jungle habitat of the San Diego Zoo. Conservation status: Least Concern

Smile on Saturday~~~~FEATHERS

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Finer threads - Santiago skin

Finer threads - Body skin

Sintiklia - Storm Hair

LANEVO - SCOPEDOG GOGGLE

Hotdog - Feathered coat

Badwolf - Ragnarok rings

NIKOTIN - Cigarette bento

Leven Ink Tattoo - Cysinia Tattoo

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all...................... Emily Dickinson

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My friend Tom and I were sitting in this rowboat watching a colony of egrets go about their business of building nests and sitting on eggs, when we notice this very active bird flying around with a feather stuck to its toe. He would go pick up a stick and deliver it to his mate and then repeat this with the feather fluttering behind. Because they all looked alike from our vantage point, this one we could keep track of. Here it has dropped off the stick and was heading back for another.

stick carrier

dropping one off

getting another

Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer

Close up of a feather duster.

For Looking Close on Friday the theme is 'Feathers in B&W'

Feathers are light, but when they come together they become heavy (Mehmet Murat iLdan) !!

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multiple exposure (3) in camera

"Macro Mondays" - Feather

Listen: like a feather - Nikka Costa

I'm coming out of my wishing well where only echoes lonely hear my prayers

I'm coming around to bend cause my resistance been to persistent

I've come to far to force it so I'll watch it slide and land

I could come on strong and willful but

I'd rather watch it fall to the palm of my hand

who you are

Thanks Tomis :-)

With the feathers you are found, you can build yourself something beautiful. I was lucky to get some pale lens flares too.

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Taken with Helios 44 M, posted for this weeks HSoS theme,

"smile on saturday" "feathers".

~HSoS~ , nice weekend all!

For this week's MacroMondays challenge "Feather" .

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on a parrot feather (Crimson Rosella I think).

Macro Mondays: Feather

Brought Grandchildren home with us for a few days of the school holidays so catch up as soon as I can.