Feather Addiction (No birds)
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"Macro Mondays" this week's theme "Summer Olympic Sports" HMM
Since 1992, badminton has been a Summer Olympic sport with five events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's doubles, and mixed doubles.
The shuttlecock cone is formed from 16 or so overlapping feathers, usually goose or duck, embedded into a rounded cork base. The cork is covered with thin leather. To ensure that shuttlecock rotate consistently, only feathers from the birds' left wings are used. Feather shuttles may come off the strings at speeds in excess of 320 km/h (200 mph).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttlecock
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The only editing I did was sharpening,cropping and a little color boost.Love the Nikon D2H and the Nikon 70-300mm vr.The orange color you see was a car.
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.
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 ... :-))
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
TMD
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
Often Herring Gulls can look pretty mucky because of their foraging but this glorious adult was immaculate.
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
LOVE YOURSELF
For smile on Saturday - feathers
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
Art - Dry brush and layers from photo image
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Mute Swan [Cygnus olor]
Cold, blustery and very windy day...lots of swans in the harbour doing just this!
They weren’t actually asleep - their legs and feet were still paddling. Every now and then one would stick his head up, have a look around and then snuggle back down.
Maidens Harbour
SW Scotland
Glass eyes and porcelain skin
Look to her and think of sin
Her touch is like a hazy dream
Her mind is in a world unseen...
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Early morning dew drops on a Collared Dove feather, magnifying those intricate details quite nicely too!